Chook

Geelong are stuffed. If they weren't playing Collingwood I'd be dancing.

Terrible coaching performance from Scott by the way. What's he done to arrest the momentum?

BT saying it was a metre out says it all. Maybe out on the full. I'd have called a throw in because he touched it on the line and didn't quite control it before it was over.

Geelong has stuffed this badly. Season over for them.

Well done to Collingwood. This is more like the effort they brought for the past 22 rounds. You hate to see it.

Jeez the cats are running out of gas big-time. Collingwood doing well to be a point behind.

Strongly disagree.

The best outcome is Collingwood winning because they're 6-8th quality and any side would want to play them in September.

Clearly a mark to Cameron by the way.

Collingwood's defensive work is so bad.

Isaac Quaynor's work as a small defender and Howe playing forward is about the only thing going right for Collingwood at the moment.

We play footy the right way. Collingwood don't. No comparison.

The pies are in serious trouble. At this point you wonder if they'll win another game this season.

You'd hate to be a pies defender. Mids do not win a contest, and they don't run defensively so you're always out of position with no support.

Collingwood are…what's the phrase? All duck no dinner? Eventually the ducks come home to roost.

Love fritsch. Just reckon Howe is a natural forward.

Geelong being killed in the clearance game. That's bad news for them, since Collingwood's major weakness is their contest game.

Good to see Howe starting forward. He's nearly as good as fritsch as a forward imo.

Surely that's holding the ball paid to Ratugolea, as the pies player was trying to kick the ball and missed his boot?

No way that's a mark to Mihochek. Smith held that for longer and wasn't paid.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/1400918/gus-and-gawny-jacob-van-rooyen

Wow. This might be the most uninformed sentence I've ever read.

I think it's the right call. By default, we're better with a taller backline. If things go pear-shaped we can sub Grundy or Smith out and go smaller, overrunning them in the last quarter. Hibberd is no spring chicken as well, and although his best is still good enough his body is fragile and there's still 2 months left. He's best 22, but not for a full game anymore just due to age.

I hate that I'd love Tom Hawkins, which makes me hate him more funnily enough!

Skip the first 2 minutes of this clip and the last 30. One minute of good analysis of the difference with and without Oliver. Essentially, him coming back into the side (same as Grundy) should be to complement what we're already doing well without them, not to just go back to the way things were when we were 4th with them both in the side earlier in the year.