Post match. Dogs down Pies - All comments.

doriswilgus · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Location: the great southern land

Remember this team lost to the hapless Brisbane Lions last week,so that shows you have pathetic we were today.

stoliboy · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Sydney, NSW

Also top 4 was on the line today... Pies players played like Wayne Rooney in the England vs Italy game.

swoop42 · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 6:14 pm

We have been playing poor football for a month or more now.

Lose to Adelaide, lucky to beat West Coast, a training run against the saints, struggle to beat the demons and now lose to the dogs.

Hopefully is the wake up call some needed at the club and this board to realise we aren't top 4 material right now despite what the ladder suggested.

Once again today we struggled to get it inside 50 and despite Cloke kicking 6 and Elliott 4 still couldn't beat a bottom 6 side.

It's pretty clear to me that we lack genuine structure and fluency when we bring the ball forward and seem to rely to much on an individuals talents to make the right decision at the time rather than play to a strict playbook.

It might work out in the medium term but right now it's leading to haphazard passages of play and inconsistent performances.

Next week will make or break our year.

piedys · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 6:15 pm

ANNODAM · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 6:16 pm

M@®© · 1972 Joined: 13 Apr 2003 Location: Victoria - Rowville

With Cloke kicking 6 and Elliott 4, you'd think we win easily. How wrong!
The young and inexperienced backline was gonna get caught out eventually. Too many Collingwood supporters never give the opposition respect. They think every game the Pies should win by 10 goals plus! I must admit, I expected a victory, but a close one at that. Despite the backline holding up over the past, it is always been my concern going into games each week. Ive said it all year and I'll say it again, I don't see us as a top 4 side. We are around the 7-8 mark! Next week, I like to see us beat the Hawks! But I can't see that happening!! I'm expecting a 30-40 point loss at best! Some on here will talk the Pies up and say we'll win. On what basis? Some will even say I'm a troll, blah blah blah. Call it what you like, I just don't see us beating Hawthorn!

What'sinaname · Joined: 29 May 2010 Location: Living rent free

doriswilgus · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Location: the great southern land

MattyD · Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Location: Kew

You are all spot on.

Selection was wrong. Why drop faz and beams? Got ahead of themselves and paid the price.

Did the club put money on the bulldogs to win?

Because i cant explain it.

We played like a bottom of the ladder country league team.

Embarrassing. Shameful even.

And cloke only kicks a bag of goals against poor opposition. Maybe he is coming into form, maybe it was the opposition. I going with the latter.

Was being competitive against the hawks worth it?

GreekLunatic · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Location: doncaster vic australia

we lucky to make the 8 if bucks doesnt take ownership for this loss than he isnt a proper coach

melliot · Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Location: Bendigo

Adams needs to keep things very basic. Especially with kicking. I think Tooves may be a better kick. He'll be back to the VFL this week.

Would be wrong to blame him for the loss. Whole team was sloppy and undisciplined. What happened to our great team defense. Our young backline got exposed when one on one. Our mids and halfbacks cheated. So often I saw them run forward when ball was still in dispute or not secure.

Langdon had a shocker with the ball.

Ultimately lost it in the middle. Too many front runners.

Can someone explain why we have to play our home game at their home ground? The fixture is so compromised it's not funny.

Top 4 just disappeared for us I think. Really disappointed.

Guess it shows we are still a developing team. Need to continue in getting games into the young guys.

Broomhead (or Broomfield as chi called him) looked OK at times without being damaging.

Az · Joined: 25 Sep 2013

Well documented that Adams has been my whipping boy this year. But here I go again..

I don't care how much footy that kid can find, if he can't use it then why does he deserve a spot in the team? Bucks love affair with the kid is fair dinkum, and if we ever needed a reality check about his football ability (other than every other time he's played this season) it was tonight.

What gives Swanny? The man can't take a clean ball out of a stoppage anymore. The sure handling of the footy when it gets tapped down into his hands that we've come to know for the past 5-6 has well and truly disappeared this season. Has his wrist surgery limited his control of his hands?

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

jackcass · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Bendigo

Great game by the Doggies, smashed us at clearances, Minson very good.

Doubt Beams was rested, was doubtful most of the week apparently and given every chance to get up.

Despite all the doom and gloom predictions, umpiring was good.

Dwyer was poor, Langdon looked shaky but losing clearances didn't help the defender, White had little impact when forward. Can't remember a game when we fumbled as much.

Pies 08 · Joined: 01 Oct 2007

Only positive to come out of today is that we can stop torturing ourselves with delusions of grandeur. We now will not finish top 4 and therefore cannot win the flag. 2015/16/17 internally was always the aim. Poor supporters got sucked in to thinking otherwise. Now we know why!!