Jaded No More

There is no doubt that Daicos playing poorly severely reduces the overall quality of the Pies midfield. But Daicos is not an inside mid nor a contested winning bull. This is the main weakness of Collingwood. It’s why they went and got Mitchell. But he’s bog ordinary at using the footy and he’s slow as a wet rag. They keep subbing him off to try and get some more run in last quarters. De Goey is the only inside mid they have who can really hurt you on the outside. But he’s inconsistent and mentally soft. Their midfield is one dimensional. If you stop them winning the footy then by extension you limit Daicos as he needs the ball fed out to him. Butters on the other hand can win his own ball and destroy you with it. He is far more damaging and hard to stop than Daicos IMO. The key to beating Pies is to shut down De Goey and Adams. De Goey only had 17 today and Adams 13. Combined they had 7 clearances. Nash had 6 by himself.

What is your point? Are Pies still winning the flag?

I think Daicos had 27 mostly ineffective touches against us. We worked him out of the game. Only Butters absolutely destroyed us this year and won the game for his side. I reckon if Clarry doesn’t tear his hamstring in the third we win that game anyway.

We are not barracking for a Geelong win. We are barracking for a Port loss.

The frees to Geelong in this game are wild.

I rather not carry them in the side and just back our midfield to beat anyone we play one on one. That doesn’t mean I don’t think we should try to limit the opposition’s best player. But I wouldn’t play a player in a purely negative role in a final. We don’t need to do that.

Goodwin has a slightly better midfield than Mitchell tho….

Not watching the battle of the least cared about club in NSW, but GWS just quietly killing sides is not ok

Geelong are SO cooked and I can’t even be happy about it

Every game is dangerous. Essendon nearly [censored] the bed against West Coast today. You have to be switched on. To not be switched on on the eve of the finals is a major worry.

All the nuffies who told me Collingwood already won the flag

Yep. Geelong with a few key outs too. My heart breaks.

Butters destroying Geelong already I hope when/if we play them again that we take better care of him.

The lack of defending from both sides is negative ten stars.

The one time I’m not barracking for a Geelong loss and they come out playing like the nursing home they are

It’s not like Port can win finals… 😂

They were and we won’t take them lightly like the Pies obviously did

Our backline can and has defended under pressure much much better than the Pies ever have.

When I said a few weeks ago that Collingwood’s defense is suspect, I got howled down.

Commentators reckon every contender has serious queries on them. We could win every game now by 900 points and they still won’t rate us.

At least Maynard doesn’t go around touching women inappropriately 🙄

But Binman, we haven’t come back 17 times in the last quarter to win because we haven’t been down 17 times in the last quarter and that makes us not as good as Collingwood

Let’s see what happens to Collingwood now that they’ve run out of luck

You forgot criminal De Goey