Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board

Breadcrawl wrote:In Feb 2011, Jack Spain was still butthurt about our premiership and frustrated that his trolling wasn't getting a lot of reaction at the time.

Funny how posters like this burton and the dog signed up during this period, disappeared for years and are now around, hating on collingwood...

It's interesting to me anyway.

It's interesting to me too, Mr.Crawl.

Burton seems like the sort of bloke who tries to run over magpies in his car. Of course he never gets one because they're far too quick and awesome for him, but the point is he still tries.

Seriously I just asked about his shoulders!
If someone asked about Swans wrists.
I would answer - operations last year and
he can't bend them back which seems to hamper a little his marking, hand balling and sometimes ball handling.

Is it just me, or am l the only one here who is happy that we got Varcoe?
We need outside run.
The fastest players on out oust are as follows:
Toovey - lost his pace since the knee injury
Sinclair - played 3 games
Freeman - did his hamstring 3 times in his first year
Williams - cannot hit a target
Harry O - gone to Melbourne
Broomhead - only played the last 6/7 games
So based on all that, we need the pace that Varcoe will provide.
Play him on the wing and let him run.
RUN VARCOE RUN

mavs5 wrote:Is it just me, or am l the only one here who is happy that we got Varcoe?
We need outside run.
The fastest players on out oust are as follows:
Toovey - lost his pace since the knee injury
Sinclair - played 3 games
Freeman - did his hamstring 3 times in his first year
Williams - cannot hit a target
Harry O - gone to Melbourne
Broomhead - only played the last 6/7 games
So based on all that, we need the pace that Varcoe will provide.
Play him on the wing and let him run.
RUN VARCOE RUN

Agree Mavs, If he rediscovers his form he would be gold.

mavs5 wrote:Is it just me, or am l the only one here who is happy that we got Varcoe?
We need outside run.
The fastest players on out oust are as follows:
Toovey - lost his pace since the knee injury
Sinclair - played 3 games
Freeman - did his hamstring 3 times in his first year
Williams - cannot hit a target
Harry O - gone to Melbourne
Broomhead - only played the last 6/7 games
So based on all that, we need the pace that Varcoe will provide.
Play him on the wing and let him run.
RUN VARCOE RUN

Yep, very pleased

thompsoc wrote:Seriously I just asked about his shoulders!
If someone asked about Swans wrists.
I would answer - operations last year and
he can't bend them back which seems to hamper a little his marking, hand balling and sometimes ball handling.

Sorry, thought someone made the observation that he'd gotten through 20 odd games last season so I'd assumed that to imply the shoulder issue is managable. Hopefully it turns out to be as much of an issue as Stevie J's ankle.

mavs5 wrote:Is it just me, or am l the only one here who is happy that we got Varcoe?
We need outside run.
The fastest players on out oust are as follows:
Toovey - lost his pace since the knee injury
Sinclair - played 3 games
Freeman - did his hamstring 3 times in his first year
Williams - cannot hit a target
Harry O - gone to Melbourne
Broomhead - only played the last 6/7 games
So based on all that, we need the pace that Varcoe will provide.
Play him on the wing and let him run.
RUN VARCOE RUN

Hopefully those of us that were not supportive of the proposed trading of Varcoe all end up with egg on our faces.

He's here now, has my full support. Hope he turns out to be an inspired pick up.

jackcass wrote:

thompsoc wrote:Seriously I just asked about his shoulders!
If someone asked about Swans wrists.
I would answer - operations last year and
he can't bend them back which seems to hamper a little his marking, hand balling and sometimes ball handling.

Sorry, thought someone made the observation that he'd gotten through 20 odd games last season so I'd assumed that to imply the shoulder issue is managable. Hopefully it turns out to be as much of an issue as Stevie J's ankle.

23 games this year suggests his shoulders are ok.

John Wren wrote:

jackcass wrote:

thompsoc wrote:Seriously I just asked about his shoulders!
If someone asked about Swans wrists.
I would answer - operations last year and
he can't bend them back which seems to hamper a little his marking, hand balling and sometimes ball handling.

Sorry, thought someone made the observation that he'd gotten through 20 odd games last season so I'd assumed that to imply the shoulder issue is managable. Hopefully it turns out to be as much of an issue as Stevie J's ankle.

23 games this year suggests his shoulders are ok.

Wish I'd said that!

He'll kick the first goal of our season.

jackcass wrote:

John Wren wrote:

jackcass wrote: Sorry, thought someone made the observation that he'd gotten through 20 odd games last season so I'd assumed that to imply the shoulder issue is managable. Hopefully it turns out to be as much of an issue as Stevie J's ankle.

23 games this year suggests his shoulders are ok.

Wish I'd said that!

... or that he was very lucky. And that they are both about to fall off.

Pies4shaw wrote:

jackcass wrote:

John Wren wrote: 23 games this year suggests his shoulders are ok.

Wish I'd said that!

... or that he was very lucky. And that they are both about to fall off.

just a flesh wound!

jackcass wrote:

Pies4shaw wrote:

jackcass wrote: Wish I'd said that!

... or that he was very lucky. And that they are both about to fall off.

just a flesh wound!

Alright, let's call it a draw.

Interesting to read that Varcoe has an 83% win rate over his career. To put that into perspective, he has played 138 games but only has 3 fewer career wins than Buckley did as a player (from 280 games).

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-10-23/v ... ng-feeling

We replaced a running ball carrier that has played 199 games, with a running ball carrier that has played 143 games.

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