binman

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Seriously? All of those players meet your definition of elite kicks? And you don't rate Salem, bowey, hunter, fritter and mcvee as elite kicks? Not even one of them? No, I mean seriously, are you serious?

MELB 63 from expected 86.9 (+3 rushed) COLL 62 from expected 59.1 (+0 rushed) 89.9 to 59.1.

Joey knows his stuff. Appears he does his own research - or at least, much more than king. And doesn’t flip flop. I suspect king just a series of PowerPoints slides in his laptop.

Big time player.

Would have cleaned up backing us at half time then

Just finished it. Great stuff. Footy mana.

The only recent similar vibe was the cats final in 2018 I reckon. The dees army was in full voice. Felt like a 1980s game the way it was played. Contest to contest. Just how we like it. BT keeps banging on about control versus chaos. Us being the control weirdly. Leaving aside the fact that our finals footy is equally ballistic, fast transition footy as theirs, a better phrase comparing the two teams would be power versus pace. We have more power athletes than them, whereas they have more runners. Lots of them bloody tall too. And good overhead.

Pre game analysis David King, brown and montagns rabbiting on about the 'mcrae sandwich' (high scoring first and last q) and their elite fitness Montagna weakly notes at the end rhe dees are pretty good in the last q. We're bloody number one in the afl for winning last quarters Half time in the replay. David King confident the pies will blow us away. Elite analysis.

He looked gone. I was watching him come off and it looked all the world he had dislocated his shoulder. Maybe he did! He is a serious unit when he plays like he did today. Which is how he plays every big game. Bugger being his opponent.

Overs and unders on expected scores anyone. I'm going 90 - 64.

He looked gone. I was watching him come off and it looked all the world he had dislocated his shoulder. Maybe he did! He is a serious unit when he plays like he did today. Which is how he plays every big game. Bugger being his opponent.

Replay time.

Who then are the AFL players you consider to be elite kicks. By the by, I'm not sure how, but I forgot fritter. In my book, he absolutely is an elite kick. Can't think of many other AFL players, maybe two or three tops, I'd pick ahead of fritter to nail a set shot from anywhere inside 50 to win a game after the siren. That's five elite kicks, by my defintion.

Can't innovate either apparently. Fritter playing on Moore and dragging him deep must have really confused Mcrae then. On that match up, on the way home one of the sen pundits, I think Gerard heally, who by the by gave us a big wrap, said he had that battle as even. Moore, who is a gun, had six intercepts and played well. But fritter kicked 3 of our 8 goals, so surely he gets the points.

Has been a real issue for us for as long as I can remember. I'm trying to think when it wasn't. Even one more truly elite kick would make a huge difference. I reckon we only have four elite kicks - in order, hunter, bowey, salo and mcvee. In that context, it's worth noting bowey's absence. Missed him today.

Has played something lime 60 of our last 62 odd games. Any suggestion he is getting dropped anytime soon is completely laugable.

Viney was clear best on ground. But how good was salo? And Tomlinson was just fantastic.

Yep. And all three goals were as a result of poor skill errors by us and resulting turnovers. More nervy errors than pies pressure I reckon. I think they scored 5 goals from turnovers - three in the first q. So we sorted that issue well.

Then he'll get dropped then won't he. Not. Coz a premiership coach understands footy and knows just how hard he works and the incredible amount of ground he covers. Were you at the game? if you were you would have seen a player push himself to the limit and beyond. He is almost always completely spent. But sure let's knock his skilll errors under intense fatigue. How many other dees players would have had the aerobic capacity and speed late in the game to mark that high kick from kozzie. Not one. He won us the game and you want him droppe. I edited my comment because it was unnecessarily snarky. Snarky, maybe. Accurate, absolutely.

Right. You are going to be really disappointed for the rest of the season then. I mean really. Clueless comment.

I'm pretty sure the lions were favourites, just, against the lions in round 2. But you'd probably have to go back to the 2021 season for the next example (maybe the dogs round 17 loss?).

Where we started: 'Lot of Collingwood supporters here but all I see are gate receipts' Nek minnit: 'I pay good money so I don’t have to rub shoulders with filth.'

Is that a question? Or are you making another statement telling me what I think.

I agree with all points here. And 100% agree that posters have the right to reserve their judgement on team performance and shouldn't have to be told what and how they should feel on current team performance. I don't think I do so, but acknowledge that I probably get close to the line. I really don't mind where people land on assessing us. Where i get frustrated is when all of the factors are not properly factored I and/or considered. Particularly when it involves parroting media contender or pretender talking points.