Laughing Stock

[perthmagpie]

Hi the wall in Mid July (the Geelong game).

[Babylove]

The thing I don't like about losing more than anything else is the negativity of the supporters that comes out afterwards. We have a young side, at some point we were going to fall over. It's sad that it happened against the tigers, not just because of the season they've had but because it's the tigers.

However how about looking at the positivity of the season. At the start of the year most people were tipping us to finish bottom four. This year we have debuted 9 debutants and I think there's only one that hasn't shown promise. There is talk that of another couple playing at Williamstown that will either debut this year or early next year. The likes of Pendles, Daisy, Cloke and Heater are playing well beyond their years of experience (all are in their second or third year). We are building a team that have the potential to do a lot of good in the years to come. There are a lot of positives to come out of the season, but because we have such a young side, you have to expect some hiccups along the way.

[Kingswood]

top post babylove. whats makes these losses even worse is seeing the fickleness of some of the supporters.

the kids have shown heart all year. now they're having a down patch...which all teams are expected to have....we turn on them instead of backing them

[kickit2me]

No-one got over 20 possessions...We just couldn't get the ball...Tigers had 120 more stats, 116 marks to 64, 121 to 90 in contested possessions. We were flogged by a team that was pumped up....sort of like all teams against us.

I was all for giving Clarke a rest, and who could've tipped Toov's having a shocker? To be a coach you need telepathy. Mick didn't have it tonight.

We still can end up 14-8....finals are still possible, from there we can go anywhere.

Like Heater said after the ANZAC match "Look out, we're going places"...............and we are.

Luv ya Pies, love the recruiters,..........but Josh needs a mate, and the forward line needs a strong running leading option. It's all grabs and crumbs.

[Zakal]

My god, where to start...
...words keep popping into my head "joke", "pretenders", "pathetic", "lazy", "weak", "soft", "choke"...stop me when i hit on one that doesn't describe today's effort.


Our defense was woeful and our midfield was worse. Thank god they didnt send it in all that often, because we barely repelled a solid attack all night.

Heater was down, Presti was hurt, Bull did nothing, Goldy did nothing, Maxwell isnt a defende, and Clement, the best defender in the comp, was hopeless. Lead to marking contests, couldnt seem to lay a spoil, even his marking seemed unsafe.


Sooooo many passengers it was just ridiculous. First really POOR game ive seen from Josh too. Normally he is just quiet when he has a bad game, today he was...well....a bit useless.


We are really feeling the loss of Pendlebury in the midfield i reckon, its 20 classy possessions a game that are ripped off our tally and replaced with dinky, ineffective bullshit.


I feel we had a chance to bury them in the third, but errant kicking, once again, cost us. Should have been 4 goals up after that passage of play by my count....that alone would have won us the game by 4pts, let alone the effect it would have had on Richmond. But true to form we did all the hard work, and pissed it away in front of goal.

bahhhh, i feel physically ill.

[Tanks1966]

Totally usless tonight. Players should be ashamed of themselves.
How on earth can Toovey get a game again I dont know and although Im a Lika fan he surley must apply for the pension immediatley.
We looked lazy, slow and non commited. It really was shameful.
I seriously cant see us winning another game the way we are playing now. There is absolutley no excuses for performances like that!

[Zakal]

[Kingswood]

good call zakal,

i listened to the game on radio so dont have a great review of it yet (ill be watching it on the net tonight)

but yeh to have your seniors letting you down is inexcusable and a terrible feeling.

[Zakal]

[Collingwould]

[choppa]

yep i agree with how we have gone well seeing they tipped us for bottom of the ladder..

it jus sucks wen u have the OPPORTUNITY to finish 2nd with a good draw and to stuff it up is dissapointing

half our backline is OLD and half is too young...

our midfield is pretty slow
our fowards are Awesome but dont fire sometimes...

Hopefully 2008 will be a great year for us tho.

and kingswood jus cos some supporters are negative including me doesnt mean we dont love collingwood and arent real supporters its jus we are different. every one is different and we see things differently please no personal attacks.

i joined this board the other month cos all my mates go for essendon and i have no one to talk about collingwood with.
so i like to display my views.
when we win i love saying how good we r.
wen we lose i usually say how crap we were.

well anyway most ppl hate me by nowz anyway ill probaly jus leave the board or barely post anymorez
catcha guys

[swooper]

I would be very suprised if there is anyone here tonight (or at the club) who would accept or tolerate an appalling loss like tonight.

[SteveH67]

[Collingwould]

[nomadjack]

FFS get a dose of reality. Presti was injured, Clement, Harry, Rheece and O'Bree have either only recently come back and/or lack match fitness, Heath is a bloody kid, Swan missed most of the pre-season and Josh is far from 100%. Welcome to the real world. It's round 19. The kids are tiring as anyone with half a bloody brain would expect, and unfortunately many of our key experienced players either have recently got over or are still carrying niggles. Every week it's the same friggin knockers. Do you honestly think the players out there are not trying? As for being embarassed about being a magpie supporter. I'd be more embarassed about the bullshit posts you make evertime we lose.