Pre Match - Pies v. Port. All comments please

Donny · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:26 pm

Saturday at Etihad.

2.10 start.

Last meeting: Collingwood 23.21 (159) d Port Adelaide 3.3 (21), round 20, 2011, at AAMI Stadium

Selected team.

B: Harry O�Brien, Lachlan Keeffe, Ben Johnson
HB: Simon Buckley, Nick Maxwell, Tyson Goldsack
C: Dane Swan, Tom Young, Sharrod Wellingham
HF: Jackson Paine, Chris Dawes, Ben Sinclair
F: Dayne Beams, Travis Cloke, Alex Fasolo
Foll: Darren Jolly, Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom
Int: Martin Clarke, Jarryd Blair, Alan Toovey, Paul Seedsman

Emg: Nathan Brown, Cameron Wood, Kirk Ugle

In: Ben Johnson, Simon Buckley, Jackson Paine, Paul Seedsman, Tom Young
Out: Luke Ball (knee), Ben Reid (quad), Dale Thomas (hamstring), Heath Shaw (hamstring), Cameron Wood (omitted)

Let's hear ya!!

Collingwood 4 eternity · Joined: 23 Nov 2007

Collingwood by 59 points

think better · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Adelaide

Port are vastly improved this year so this won't be as easy as everyone may think.

Having said that I reckon this is the best test of the players to get up after a week of 'outside' distractions.

Pies by 24

eddiesmith · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:22 pm

Can the side make it 4/4 failures, after a 130 point win last year expectations would be high of another smashing, but then again that was an extremely different Collingwood side...

Leggie · Bucks for PM. Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Perth

This game is big for both clubs. Port are a hell of a lot better than last year and they would love to beat us especially with all of the negativity about the Pies going round the traps. For us we need to bounce back and bounce back hard. Not only to prove we are better than the last few rounds but to prove we are still united both from a supporters perspective and from a club perspective.

Cmmorrrnn Pies.

Smash em.

Pies by shit loads.

Captain_MyCaptain · Joined: 25 May 2006 Location: home

Jolly to dominate.....pleeease.

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

I'll be disappointed if we don't smash Port. I hope Jolly is rested, so that he's fresh for ANZAC day.

Pies by 72 points.

1eyedpie · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Location: Melbourne

Hiss · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: Geelong

I predict after all the drama of this week we will beat PP by 10-13 goals. The problem is we cannot beat anyone in the top 4 and will struggle to beat others in the top 8. The joke of this competition is the bottom 8 is a joke and we can beat all these. That is the way the season will map out. Snoozing time. How dull.

Beast · Joined: 26 Oct 2011

Port will feel they're a chance after the week we've had but they'll be wrong.
Recent events will only galvanise our playing group.

Maggies by 40, easing up.

Skids · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:53 pm

Cuthbert Collingwood · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:55 pm

Just win! I really don't care by how much. Quite a few youngsters are going to have a chance to prove themselves this weekend, and we have to keep fresh enough for Anzac day to smash the Bombturds.

ANNODAM · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:20 pm

Must win.

That is all, for now,

If we lose, we're shit!

Doc63 · Joined: 06 May 2004 Location: Newport

We are going to give them a thorough pumping.

Pendles, Swan & Thomas wont play like that again this week.

10-12 goal win coming up.

Cuthbert Collingwood · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:25 pm

Would be nice to get the percentage back to at least 100%