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    17 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    who cares?! he needed to be sent off. other teams get the advantage of him not playing and we lose a key player 5 minutes into the game. ridiculously unfair

    Now ..the send off rule might indeed need to be revisited.

    If they had rightly been required to play play one short for 10 minutes then they would have had to change their gameplan and the previously disadvantaged team, having lost a key player  may have been able to restructure somewhat and get the game back on even terms. 

    It has always made sense   but agreeing on the terms is difficult 

    27 minutes ago, pitmaster said:

    Noticed the same thing. It puzzled me at the time.

    Thete was plenty of goal kicking practice early on 

    They all  nailed it from 40 to 50 out.

    Fritsch stayed out in the first rain to get the feel of the ball.

    They lost their Zen under pressure  when the game started and no one was leading the way until Max stepped up just before half time. 

    By then it was  just their old chaotic scramble to keep in touch; hardly the way to unsettle a team playing with their noses in front from the first minute of a Prelim..( actually the whole season)

     

    Just now, Dee Zephyr said:

    9.6!!! They kicked 9.6 and held on... FMD.

    I thought the winning team from last night would have one hand on the cup, I don't think so now. 

    Problem with Thursday night games is the little sleep you get and you're still wired lol. Missed opportunity for sure and it hurts. Might get another 90k next week if it's Caaaarlton.

    Brisbane just became flag favourites for mine.

    Melbourne should chase Ratogalea 

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    1 hour ago, dee-tox said:

    This is a huge issue. But if we moved it quick we had nothing to kick to. So the forwards pushed up too far too clog the corridor and couldn't get back quickly enough to be an option.

    Yep  both correct but it's true we propped and missed opportunities. 

    How many times did they have manage to have one player running down into  the fat side to keep the attack going. 

    Playing with " dare" our Daisy calls it.

     

    7 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    I’ll just leave this here:

    Goodwin: “In finals, your vulnerabilities are exposed”

    Our vulnerability is our ability to score. It’s been our vulnerability for 2 years, and we thought we could fix it with an old forward who hasn’t played AFL footy in months

    What choice did he have?

    Better set up around marking contests perhaps might have helped.

    That's coaching and discipline from the smalls.

    6 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

    Pleased with the fightback. 

    Bad kicking loses games every time

    Tmac wasn't a good selection 

    But we can still do this

    Pies looked bog ordinary when the heat is applied Cox and Mayonnaise are sniping dogs

    Who's next?

    TMac was no surprise but really they had to pick him .

    I would have gone with Grundy but then that's not going to  happen is it

    1 minute ago, David-Demon said:

    Shree. Smith and McDonald should never get another game. But there again who do we replace them with. ?

    They didn't dominate at all until the end.

    They hung on and scrambled to keep in the game at best

    We're you there ?

     

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    Just now, darkhorse72 said:

    all settled to watch the kayo broadcast.

     

    Gee, lighting and all. Good thing we're lighting specialists  :) 

     

     

    They're bring out the blankets in the committee room as we speak.

    I can't see if they are going down to the interchange bench.

    I guess not

    2 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

    Carnage tonight.

    Expect T Mac to play like it is his last game and he has to go back to Edenhope tomorrow... 😍

    He looked good on the walk around of the ground

    Bigger than 80% of the team and a better hair cut than Fritta who, at least ,is out on the ground getting  used to a wet ball.

    First lightning and thunder and it aint the Pies

    14 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    For the past 6 weeks, Melbourne is 3 for scoring and 3 for points against. We’re in the top right hand corner of the Premiership window metrics.

    Collingwood is 5th for points for and 14th for points against.

    Just for reference, Geelong was 1 and 1 the last 6 weeks in 2022 before finals.

    We might not win tomorrow night, but the Pies aren’t winning the flag.

    Well I hope not myself,but you have no idea ..you're looking backwards 

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    7 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    He’s been our number 1 supporter all year from the media fraternity.

    His mate King jumps on and off us depending on the weekends result.

    King watches NRL until the Champion Data stats come out then he goes on SEN and talks absolute rubbish

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    3 hours ago, Bimbo said:

    On a stats level too basic to be mentioned in the Stats thread:

    Since round 10 (21 May) Collingwood have played 4 games only against teams in the finals.  They had a good 2 point win against Port in Adelaide and have lost to Melbourne, Carlton and the Lions.

    Over the same time frame, Melbourne have played seven games against each of the fnalists (excepting Port) including Carlton twice and have only lost to GWS (somehow) and the conttroversial loss to Carlton.

    I reckon that is pretty good form coming into the finals.

     

    The Pies were loading 

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    7 minutes ago, binman said:

    My guess:

    Tmac in.

    Smith in the starting 22.

    Laurie on the bench

     

    The other possibility i can see is hibberd comes in for turner.

    Or perhaps Salem given he had not found his best form.

    That said I really can't see salo not being selected.

    After his first quarter in 2021 I decree that Salem should never be dropped. 

    The full back was a walking cripple if I remember correctly .

    They would likely have confronted a mountain too high to climb without Salo.

    He stays

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    1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

    yeah, yeah ... and whoever loses, the fans will blame the weather (and the umpiring). the meja will just go with whatever is the most controversial and click bait worthy. i'm looking forward to a filth meltdown.

    Are you saying that "Land isn't the only place that it's always the umpires fault?

    Struth I better do a rethink and cut you guys some slack

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    14 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    De Goey worries me.

    He has that X factor like Petracca

    We must kick straight.... 10 goals 3 or similar ratio

    And hit that sweet spot of form at the back end of the game not the first quarter

    After half time at the very least..but 4 quarters would be good

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