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Sorry if already mentioned, but did anyone see McVee chucking up several times out on the ground, immediately after they came out for the 3rd quarter? What were they doing down in the rooms?! Poor fella was down on his haunches looking very unwell, but then just casually rejoined the huddle and got on with it

Collingwood supporters are like vermin and are everywhere. How do you manage with other non-football game activities where they would also be present?

They possibly mean players on that team sheet who didn't play vs Brisbane? So... Howes Tomlinson Schache JVR ANB Bilings Laurie Replaced by... Melksham Pickett Turner Petty Lindsay Langford Sharp

They should. There was another earlier too. Lloyd possibly?

Is there anywhere that records the number of rushed behinds vs actual missed shots on goal? Our accuracy is poor, but I feel it's made to look a lot worse when all the rush behinds are added to the total. (Which to me are a direct result of bombing it to a pack at the top of the square over and over and over, but that's another story...)

@Ghostwriter No #22 & none of the others 2's either (2, 12, 32). Two of them are in the showdown, so if there are going to be howlers, that's where it'll be. #HappyDays

What do we reckon the crowd will be? Home game, Saturday arvo, no issues with the weather... etc. It's also a replacement game for Hawthorn home game members so that lot should be there too. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't at least 60k

I know some will say "they're all the same" but they 100% are not. In my view the worst umpires in the comp (in this order) are 12, 22, 2 & 32. All the 2's which is weird but makes it easy to remember. Getting one of them is bad enough, but ANY game (not just ours) that has two or more of the 2's will be a poorly officiated [censored] show. Eg Free kick Collingwood game vs Bulldogs had 2 & 22

I am glad those of you who were on the "why arent we playing Fullarton?!" bandwagon for most of last year can now see that just because someone's name isn't Petty, it doesn't automatically mean they are better. Maybe you'll even acknowledge that the coaches actually know what they have to work with, VFL stat sheets mean squat and there isn't a wild Goodwin conspiracy behind every non selection? 🤔

100% agree, and that was my underlying point. I just don't understand how after all the outrage about certain players getting a game, there is now even more discontent about who replaces them when they are dropped We have to field 22 players. If we are going to drop guys like Fritsch, JVR, Petty, Viney, Sparrow, Rivers or Spargo it shouldn't be a surprise that inexperienced players from the 2's will be coming in.

For who? If this thread is anything to go by, imagine the outrage if Viney/Rivers/Sparrow were dropped for the likes of Woewodin//Laurie/Brown/Culley. People keep saying Goodwin plays favourites and demand he drops certain players, while simultaneously giving zero thought to who we actually have at Casey to replace them.

Peak Demonland right here

Yep, sure.... 🙄 Lindsay - 18yo Langford - 19yo Tholstrup - 19yo Windsor - 19yo Jefferson - 21yo Moniz-Wakefield - 21yo McVee - 21yo van Rooyen - 22yo Howes - 22yo Woewodin - 22yo Sharp - 22yo Bowey - 22yo Laurie - 23yo Turner - 23yo Rivers - 23yo Pickett - 23yo There are only 5 players on our list who haven't had a game yet.

How many of those frothing at mouth about Fullartons non selection have seen anything of him at all other than the stats sheet?

So was Ben Brown's run up when he was at Norf.... but then you loved it 😉

Maybe the same reason we didn't re-sign guys like Bedford or Jordan? Good players, but we saw them as depth and lower priority signings to young guns and bigger name players coming off contract. Worpel is much better than most of our depth and in a year where we don't have a first round pick (and I assume would be packaging up any early picks for the Father Son/NGA guys anyway), then good quality free agents is what we should be after. Imo...

How can we have threads like "Recruiting - where did it all go wrong", while at the same have people looking for reasons to not look at someone like Worpel, who we'd get for free, would make a demonstrable improvement to our list and is exactly the sort of guy Hawthorn would be chasing, if they didn't already have him?

I swear some people just sit around, waiting for the next thing to be outraged about.

Yeah there was a punch on near where I was, which for memory made the news. Cut it out this time @The Jackson FIX 😉 Edit - yep https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/wild-brawl-erupts-after-geelong-sinks-melbourne-after-the-siren-at-gmhba-stadium/news-story/d2e642ecc3f6a1a811a7667afb9b2751

Yeah they've didn't seem too fond of us either, though there was one very lippy Melbourne supporter who was trying to wind them up all game, and that didn't help our cause. Was that you? 😛

Against better judgement I'll be heading down the highway, hoping for an improved performance. Last time I was there was 2018 when Tuohy got the a goal after the siren for the win. Time before that was 186 😭

The thing is - and this is what I don't get - most of the henny penny hand wringers are also over the top happy clappers when we are going well. They just patiently wait for the first sign of trouble so they can revert back to the extreme negativity that they are more comfortable with, then criticise the "apologists" who choose to take a more rational/balanced view rather than flip-flopping from extreme to extreme. They know who they are too.

Of all the Melbourne fan mindsets, this is the one that [censored] me the most. And to be clear, I'm talking about the flaky hand wringers, not the "apologists"

Fourteen years on and next week has an ominous 186 feel about it.... 😫