spirit of norm smith

HOW DID WE LOSE TO THE SAINTS ?? Oh yeah … 7.21 !!!

Excellent work again this week 👏👏👏 @binman I think the discussion on the stats this week was really good. You talked about the game and what your observed, then backed it up with stats and the impact. And it showed that Goody got the game on our terms. Yes the umpiring ☠️discussion again triggered deep emotional scares but was therapeutic to know we have the passion to get angry about the umps incompetence and bias. Hard not to have a rant. I’ve had several about the poor umpiring in the last few days Loved the kozzzzy 💙❤️⭐️ contract talk. He is box office. He’s worth every $$. We all love him and know he can be even better. And like Robbie Flower, we wish we had two kozzzzy’s, one in midfield and one in the forward-50. Go Dees

Sam Flanders signed a four-year contract extension tying him to the Suns until the end of 2027. But the Suns have three more young mids coming through their academy and I’m sure the Suns will be squeezed in the salary cap with Rowell wanting $1m+ per year. He’s a good ball user and would be welcomed with open arms. But not sure we have the cap, the draft capital or players to trade to make it work.

💙❤️💙❤️ We love ya Kozzzzzy 💙❤️💙❤️

So the cats have deals with corporate sponsors The AFL response? Let’s change the rule to copy what the Cats are doing!!! So now it’s legal FFS. Cats. Hawks. Pies. Blues. The AFL are soft as butter. What the …

If I’m Goodwin 5 May 4 jdaicos 3 Langdon 2 Howe 1 Oliver

@Demonland Yes we LOST it. We are grabbing defeat and losing it ourselves. Four games now. Giants, Hawks, Saints, Pies. We were better. We should have won it. Question. What are the coaches doing ? 3 years and we are still the same at poor scoreboard impact. Really frustrating… ahhhhhhhh! But deep breath … THE POSITIVES Steven May. The commander. Forget about the Gawn “discussion”. May is back. He intercepted and controlled the last line. Disco Turner. He’s arrived as a permanent player now and he should settle down back to cement his role. Great attitude. Ed Langdon. Played his role. His endurance and run rattled Daicos (who sooked it up and asked for free kicks). Max Gawn. Forget the mongrel clanger at the end. He beat Cameron in my view and he’s an All Australian pick alongside Xerri as the premium rucks. Now the stinkers UMPIRES. wow we have a billion dollar industry and part time umpires. Ridiculous. @binman let the AFL have it with two smoking barrels. A rant is warranted. The umps were so bad, so biased towards the pies. The 50/50 calls went their way. OUR FORWARD CONNECTION. Again we dump the footy inside 50. Composure? Pendles and Sidebottom showed their class and the gap to our mids. I love Trac and Clarry but they both are the continuous major offenders. If only they could lower their eyes or execute better. It hurts us. Fritsch. Omg. @george_on_the_outer he is so frustrating. Marks 20 metre out and plays on and misses!!! Faaaark I shouted out in frustration. Just knew it would be costly and it was.

Coaches votes Collingwood won by 1 point Dees dominated most metrics but … Again as he does most weeks, McRae gives most votes to his players Probable votes Goodwin 5. JD 4. Howe 3. Gawn 2. Sidebottom 1. May McRae 5. JD 4. Howe 3. May 2. Pendlebury 1. Gawn Melbourne v Collingwood10 Josh Daicos (COLL) 8 Jeremy Howe (COLL) 4 Max Gawn (MELB) 4 Steven May (MELB) 2 Scott Pendlebury (COLL) 2 Steele Sidebottom (COLL)

@Demonland sorry all Demonlanders. I can’t give Fritsch a vote or kudos. He needed to go back and nail that goal in the last quarter. 20 metres out slight angle. Crucial mistake. We had the momentum. I know he kicked one from the pocket but his simple errors are costing us.

@Deeko2 good comments and agree though I had to give big Maxy a vote. May Landgon Oliver Pickett Turner Gawn Apologies to Riv, Bowsa, Lever and McVee Brownlow votes to 3- Collingwood. N.Daicos 2- Collingwood A.Stephens (umpire #12) 1- Collingwood. J.Howorth (umpire #17)

It’s the hurt. It hearing that putrid song. That putrid side by side song. It’s sitting on the train and heating their arrogant POS supporters all laughing. It’s turning up to work today and getting the [censored] banter about May & Gawn and the taunts about the Dees off to the snow. It’s not a cocoon. We live in the real world. We just want to beat them. We should have won it. I’m getting sick of saying it. It’s frustrating. That’s why the posters are venting. It’s frustrating. It’s anger. It’s passion. We don’t accept honourable losses. @Demonland

Three words To Collingwood supporters - go get f&@$/d To Collingwood- go get fu&@$d To the 4 umpires from yesterday- as per above

@binman agree with your comments about the umpiring and the blatant apathy of the AFL to invest in better standard by making them full time professionals and accountable. Let it rip in the pod this week. Just give it two smoking barrels.

Van Rooyen - really getting worried Tholstrup - just nearly nearly

Too soon

[censored] heartbroken again [censored] If … if … we win if … any of these happen Kozzzzy gives the ball back and no fifty and no goal to [censored] n daicos The umps are fair and unbiased Gawn, Fritta, Oliver could kick a clutch goal Trac and Clarry could lower than eyes and hit a target inside forward 50 If a lot of things … but we lost it … yes we lost it… we dominate and we still lost it [censored] the filth and [censored] the umps !!!

Frees 14-24. Pies getting the umps favour again Sure it doesn’t have to be even, IT JUST HAS TO BE FAIR !!! @Demonland

the Good Trac, Gawn, Clarry, May, kozzzy The Bad ☠️the umps ☠️Dees goalkicking ☠️Dees dysfunctional forwards JVR FRITTA MILKSHAKE 💔💔💔💔pickup Josh Daicos. Ffs !!

☠️Geelong have plenty of salary cap room. Ffs. Should add either Reid and Rowell to their list next year. Paying Bowes $800,000 a year in forward contract too. AFL will look the other way.

@binman selections? Kolt. Has been very uninspiring at Casey but maybe he’s the type that lifts for the big ones and motivated by the occasion. Hope so (but it’s a punt!!) JVR. yes only because he plays 2nd ruck. He looked ok up the ground v Swans VFL but we need him to play key forward and kick goals. Prefer Jeffo as a forward right now (even though he’s goals over the past 2 VFL games were against poor opposition). Howes. Deserves a go. Maybe he’s plays half forward this week. He’s versatile so we will wait and see I’m worried about our pace. Pies run the footy through Quaynor & Daicos through the back half and corridor. I thought they might use Sharp to tag Daicos like ANB did. You need a player with a tank to stop N Daicos. Not sure we have such a player now. Pies have McCreery, Hill and Elliott as small forwards. Mcvee gets Hill. Rivers perhaps on mccreery. Elliott will be a challenge. Howes? Question. Have we gone in too tall. Given it’s likely to be wet, pies went full Sullivan and Hayes as their 22/23 player. Wise if it’s wet and low ball required. odds favour the filth… Pies at $1.25 dees at $3.90

No. But double the free kicks and the Pies were DEFINITELY favoured without question.

Key stats Dees 7.15. Oh boy. Goalkicking problems across the whole squad Free kicks. Pies 33. Dees 17. Umps were poor again and clearly biased. It’s exasperating!!!

AFL website Mason Cox's second goal with just minutes remaining helped seal a nine-point win for the Magpies over Casey. The 211cm big man, who was dropped for last week's AFL win over Hawthorn, also had nine disposals, three clearances and 22 hitouts rotating through the ruck.

I do agree but as AJ is out, probably I thought JVR in as forward and 2nd ruck will be the inclusion. Laurie goes out. Have to consider Casey players form over past 2 games was played v Bullants & Swans in last 2 weeks as 20th and 21st places teams in VFL !!