Post Match. Saints punish Pies . All comments.

[Donny]

Collingwood 12.7.79
St Kilda 14.10.94

Goals: Elliott 3, Lipinski, Reef, Bobby 2, Checkers, Cameron, Shultz 1,

Disposals: Josh 29, Maynard 24, Lipinski, Crisp 22, Pendles 21, Nick 19, Mitch18, Moore 17. Framps, Elliott, Jordy, Sidey 15, Cameron 13, Checkers, Reef, IQ, Bobby, Howe 12.

AFs: Josh 103, Lipinski 91, Cameron 84, Pendles 79, Crisp 75 Elliott 78,

Let's hear ya !!

[Jezza]

Our season is almost over before it started. If we do anything of note in 2024, we’ll be playing catch up for the rest of the year.
The playing group looks cooked for the most part. Maybe our older age profile is finally catching up with us and last year was the ‘last hurrah’ so to speak.
I don’t like to go on about umpiring too much, but that was a disgusting what we witnessed this evening.

[What'sinaname]

Naicos at the Grand Prix today. Not focused and played like it
Time to retire Pendles and Sidey.
McCreery can find a way to get meaningful touches in the VFL
Time for a full reset. Don’t play anyone over 30

[stoliboy]

What a waste of a game.
Poor decision making, turnovers galore, allowing St Kilda to walk it up the ground into our goals.
And of courseFree Kicks 30-15. How is an ex-St Kilda player allowed to umpire a Collingwood game! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Fisher

[Jezza]

First time since 1999 we start the season 0-3.

[doriswilgus]

What a waste of a game.

Poor decision making, turnovers galore, allowing St Kilda to walk it up the ground into our goals.

And of courseFree Kicks 30-15. How is an ex-St Kilda player allowed to umpire a Collingwood game! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Fisher

I’m not blaming the umpires for the loss because we were woeful,but that was just about the worst umpiring display I’ve ever seen.Every 50/50 decision went their way,and every time we looked like gaining a bit of momentum the umpires intervened to give them a bit of breathing space.It was so obvious.

[Deja Vu]

Deep breaths.Season is long.

[What'sinaname]

Can we undo the Schultz deal

[LaurieHolden]

Well one thing is for certain, it'll ensure that we'll be forced to make starting changes. And those won't be changes for the next few weeks.
That's a physical and mental wall we've run into.
Some of the best years of footy I've watched, but the competition has caught us.
The output of our +30's will be scrutinised to death over the next few weeks. Over to you Fly & co.

[Damien]

Positives: Reef
Negatives: too many to mention

Get Macrae into the starting 18 for godsake

[Raw Hammer]

We gave away a Top 5 pick this year for Schultz

[shawthing]

The umpiring was sheer theft by the AFL who wanted to reward the Danny Frawley game. Totally scripted as the NFL is now. WWE here we come.

The less said about this sorry team now the better. Two of our best players were ins (Reef and Frampton). And why was Finn brought on far too late to impact the game?

The whole competition has left us behind. Someone summed it up perfectly. We are like the horse Chautauqua left in the starting gate three weeks in a row. These players appear to have admitted - we are done.

Fly is all Mr Positive and players were still high fiving with minutes to go when we'd lost. But now the question he faces is simple: Can he rebuild a team? Remember that Tasmania enters the AFL draft in 2026 with concessions that make the Suns and Giants concessions look like the teddy bears picnic. Any team that doesn't have the nucleus of their next premiershhip team together by that point will be in the wilderness for a very long time.

This is a rerun of 1991 and it took us 30 years to climb to the mountain top again.

Just what exactly has this club been doing in the off season?

[What'sinaname]

With Fly we Rust

[Seth]

What’s to say? Absolutely putrid. Hope the bath water tastes good.

[Big T]

Watch the AFL go into full protection mode on the umpiring