buck_nekkid

I feel dirty looking at the Collingwood twitter feed. Will wait for a club report...

So, this will be Collingwood’s ‘get smashed’ game. I Reckon they will manage 2.5 With plenty of umpire assistance. We will kick >60 points, meaning we are looking at 35-40 point win. They are rushing back a number of players and are missing some really important others. If we can take our belief from the last few games, and play all four quarters, we can take this. Our setup behind the ball has to be impeccable, and we will run over the top of them in the last (or earlier if they just give up the ghost). Preuss has so much to prove, and if Viney rotates with Gus and Oliver through the half forward role, this should work a treat. TMAC to be the contested marking target, Weid the leading marking target. Go Dees, beers are in the fridge ready to go!

Except when it is being done upon them...

It’s a crazy season. Each week one team looks like champions and another like chumps...then it all changes about the following week!

He’s not the messiah, he’s just a very naughty boy (for getting injured!). He has really adapted well to the big time, and has a long future. If it is a hammy, must have been done in training because he seemed to run the game out well ???? Leaves room for TMac in the side. Preuss in if Max doesnt get up.. or pull out a Bradtke to set the cat amongst the pigeons!

I think this is a good approach - it allows a sense of in game performance on these metrics as well as the abstraction to the season average.

If I had no teeth and time-share on a brain cell (from Collingwood), I would rest Grundy if Gawn didn't play. They have a real problem with talls, and you would see Cox or Cameron in the middle. Maybe even Dunn in the ruck!

Headline should read “Wallace stunts own development by listening to what comes out of his own mouth.”

Nope to all of that. Sparrow is emerging, Viney is VC and a rock (he would have to want to walk). We are probably going to have to reduce lists before we even get started, so we should look to keep the core and emerging talent. Also I think you undervalue the talent that others want to hang onto. Perryman, Williams, laird will all be big coin gets. Be lucky to land one of.

Interesting there is little love for Harley to be shoehorned back in to the team....

TMac laid 7 tackles, but it looked like the message was that if you were his opponent, to immediately run and carry. It showed up his decided lack of pace. TMac at CHF, max dropping back behind the ball and Weid/Jacko forward could work, depending upon conditions. Who do we drop to try it? You would think that Jack Viney and Max are automatic ins if available. Then it comes down to who goes out/gets rested. Hard to pick at this stage.

I think the title will be ‘Dunn and Dunner’

Don’t we have a second round pick ties to the Dorks? Long may they plummet down the ladder....

Rewatching the game, a few additional thoughts. North were terrible. We could have smashed them off the park with accurate goal kicking. It is lucky it didnt matter. Tommo and Spargo really played their roles. Tommo served as a cutout target, connected well and was solid defensively on the wing. Best not playing as a permanent back, though. Spargo worked hard and delivered the ball i50 with quality kicks. He worked hard, got into good positions and I thought did a good job. AVB - again, he was tough at the contest and got into good positions, his turnovers and brain fades are worrying. Jones. Spread really well. Created width going forward on a number of occasions to good effect. Got in the way in the middle a few times, but the spread was good. has slowed down half a cog. Kozzi =pencil him in for rising star nomination, That was an impressive game. Jason Taylor - take a bow, Rivers, Kozzi and Jacko were outstanding for first year player Good signs. Nice to have two training runs in Adelaide before we face the Pies and get on with the rest of the season. Umpires. First quarter was a disgrace. After that, they essentially put the Whistle away. Hope they stay in Adelaide and away from us.

My hope is that the umps have copped a heap in the press about how they didnt look after max. MAybe it tickles a little unconscious bias and we get the rub of the green tonight ?? (cue wishful thinking music...)

Not having Max and Jack gives them an ‘excuse’, but the game will certainly tell us a fair bit about the team for 2019. Drop this and we are the rabble most here suggest we are. Win it and we are anything from middle of the road to late bloomers. Glad we are not playing in Hobart, we seem to suck the big ones down there. At least we have shown a liking for Adelaide oval. Reckon we will be in a tough game for 2 1/2 quarters, then ease away to 36 point win.

I reckon his chances are pretty good now they have announced it.

4 matches.

It was not intentional, but it was a really bad outcome for the kid. Whipped into the ground at force, unable to protect his head. Concussed and out for the game. If it was my kid playing the game I would seek a strong penalty for that. 4 weeks sets a benchmark. The outcome definitely impacted the decision. Notice that Pickett whips players to the turf - he needs to be careful that the ‘dangerous tackle’ free kicks dont escalate if he bangs the head. It’s great to be tough, but not so great to be agricultural in how you do it.

Not much apart from the fact that Nibber is not a ‘superstar’ so is expendable for their value-signalling. Not a bog player at a big club so his ticket is already punched.

Needy or what? 28 minutes after not getting an answer you add a follow up? (LOL). If he catches the eye of the judges for his game this week and no ‘favourite’ has a good game, then he could win a nomination. He had a very impressive game, so I think his chances are good. No crows players would be in front of him, anyway..... I think regardless of a nomination, he has shown that there are many years of great games in front of him...

I think the crows came out to be ‘tough guys’. We responded in kind (and got in the umpires bad books). Some of their he-man efforts were poor. I loved May looking out for Lockhart - shows what a leader and a champ he is. So many of their off the ball shenanigans not penalised until the last. When Oliver wasn’t being held, he just cut them apart. I think the crows ran out of angry-juice and that was essentially all they had. They are an absolute rabble. Pulled us down to their level for the first three quarters (not all that hard to do) but we had enough to break it open and turn the last into a training drill.

Echoing Goody: In: proper protection for Max. Out: cheap shots on Max stopping him getting to the contests. I thought they gave Max a lot more forward/bench time in the last. He finished the game on the pine. Might be part of the management strategy?

ANB - agricultural all round

Nibbler is agricultural. We are panicking all over the ground. Skills are awful. Umpiring is abysmal. If you didnt see the score, you would think we were being flogged