Pre Match. Magpies v. Demons - All comments please.

Donny · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:07 am

Saturday.

Collingwood v. Melbourne

MCG. 1.45

Our team.

B: Brayden Maynard, Lynden Dunn, Tyson Goldsack
HB: Jeremy Howe, Tom Langdon, Jack Crisp
C: Steele Sidebottom, Taylor Adams, Tom Phillips
HF: Josh Daicos, Darcy Moore, Callum Brown
F: Jamie Elliott, Kayle Kirby, Will Hoskin-Elliott

Foll: Brodie Grundy, Josh Thomas, Adam Treloar

Int: Matthew Scharenberg, James Aish, Tim Broomhead, Mason Cox

Emg: Jarryd Blair, Josh Smith

IN: Tyson Goldsack, Brodie Grundy, Kayle Kirby,
OUT: Jarryd Blair, Josh Smith (omitted), Ben Reid (sore)

Let's hear ya !!

simon tonna · Joined: 24 Oct 2013 Location: carindale

When do sydney and Adelaide play again. I really enjoyed watching that game.

Member 7167 · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:10 am

I hope we knock them out of the finals. On an equal playing field we would have beaten them on Queens Birthday earlier this year. They are pretenders at best.

That said we have a very young and experienced team so it will be take a great deal of effort and grit to beat them. Play like we did in the 1st quarter against the Cats for the vast majority of the game and we will win for sure.

MatthewBoydFanClub · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: Elwood

If Adams is injured and can't play we are going to be in a lot of trouble against Melbourne. Without Adams I would envisage we will offer little resistance to Melbourne who have a deep midfield and a FF who will kick goals against us.

What I would like to see is the club talk White out of retiring. Play him at CHB against Melbourne. Drop Smith, Blair and Phillips. Bring both Keeffe and Grundy into the side. Play Moore in a ruck roving role all over the field which he did anyway against Geelong.

Our spine would therefore be Grundy in the ruck and Dunn at FB, White at CHB, Reid at CHF and Keeffe at FF. Alternate Grundy and Cox off the interchange bench. Build the rest of the team around mids who know how to hit a target. That means keep playing Daicos and Brown in the team. I would also keep playing Broomhead who I think copped some unfair criticism last week. Ramsay is the other one who should come into the team.

OK I'm dreaming. None of the above will happen this week, or next year, but we need to accept it's going to be a long time before we develop a young CHF or CHB. That's the price we pay for going for the quick fix under the free agency rules in recruiting types like Quentin Lynch.

WhyPhilWhy? · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:55 am

Win and knock the Dees out of the finals - should be motivation enough...

3rd degree · Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Location: John Wren's tote

BBHS · bbhs Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Location: Bellarine

I hope we win by 108 points and they miss the finals by 0.1 %

Raw Hammer · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Location: The Gutter

Melbourne will only miss the finals if we beat them and WC defeat Adelaide in Perth. They are 4 points and 2% above WC already. So essentially, our stirring comeback vs WC at Etihad is likely to keep both Essendon and Melbourne in the finals. Oh, the irony!

regan is true fullback · Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: Granville. nsw

By about 4.30pm on Saturday this sad miserable season will be over. For that we can be thankful...

Did it do enough to assure everybody that a bright future was just around the corner just like 1987? Sadly no.

Did it do enough to convince the kings of wishful thinking that finally the coach we put so much faith in 6 years ago is not the one to take us forward? Also sadly no.

The past 5 years is not enough to convince everybody that momentum has left the building, because we have had worse seasons in the past. This is not a Tony Shaw/Murray Weidemann shocker, but neither is it anything to keep faith in either. It's a nothing sort of season.

ANNODAM · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:48 pm

They'll be hungry to stay in the hunt, we on the other hand will lay down & take everything they throw at us graciously like the useless twats that we are.

Thanks for coming...

Lazza · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

regan is true fullback · Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: Granville. nsw

I'd agree with you except for one thing - last round last year. From memory we lost to Hawthorn by 1 point, which was evidence enough of the bright future...

Made a change I guess from getting done by Hawthorn by 10 goals, our usual farewell to the season...

I put this one here rather than the Buckley pile because I came to bury 2017 not to praise it.

Piesnchess · piesnchess Joined: 09 Jun 2008

The QB game was a total joke, Umps reamed us royally. If we get Varcoe and a few others back, we will worry the life outa these Toffy bastards.

MatthewBoydFanClub · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: Elwood

regan is true fullback · Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: Granville. nsw

It is from Julius Caesar, and appropriate as there is something Shakespearean about the pickle we constantly find ourselves in...

However, Julius is a byword for greatness, whereas Collingwood 2017 must surely be a byword for mediocrity - a Polonius, an Andrew Aguecheek, perhaps...