Post Match. Pies pip Lions - All comments please.

[inxs88]

[Donny]

Collingwood 19.7.121
Brisbane 18.6.114

12 goalkickers: de Goey 5, Thomas 3, Stevo 2, H-E, Varcoe, Cox, Phillips, Howe, Mayne, Moore, Treloar, Pendles 1

Disposals: Sidey 34, Phillips 28, Treloar, Murray 24, Thomas 22, Stevo 21, de Goey, Pendles 20, Varcoe, Crisp 19, Mayne 18, Howe 17, Grundy, Blair 16, Adams, Shaz 14, Appleby, H-E 13,

D/E: Mayne 90%, Phillips 85.7, Howe 82.4, Thomas 82, Cox 90% 10 disposals, so 9 to advantage.

Tackles: Grundy 11, Treloar 7.

AF Points: Phillips 114, de Goey 113, Grundy 111, Sidey 110, Thomas 103, Murray 101, Treloar 100

[Pies4shaw]

What happened to our defensive structure.? It was non existent as far as I could see on TV. We appeared easy to play against.

Langdon missed, again. We are useless down back without the Future Captain.

[AN_Inkling]

A relief that we held on. Now strongly in the camp that we can give up the Anzac Day game (winding back the whole round would be even better).

Very pleased to see de Goey bounce back so well after a terrible performance last week. He was excellent.

Adams, very disappointing. One of our players who should be fresh, but gave us little. Performed below Brown's standard.

Moore also had a poor game. Need more from him, as above performed poorer than the player he replaced, Reid.

Crocker and Mayne. Playing these two too similar players was a mistake for me. On the day, Mayne was much better. Hope to only see one of them play next week, Mayne would get the nod on form.

Overall, our team defence across the field was lacking. Put it down to tiredness I guess, but we need to be better than that. Offensively we were fine, but simply allowed too many easy goals.

[doriswilgus]

I haven't got Foxtel, thought I'd download the game later confident in victory and decided to use the time instead to give my unit a much needed clean.

Fired up the computer, went to the AFL site and FMD we're only 8pts ahead half way through the last quarter.

Critical that we hung on for the win but boy oh boy some spots in the team must surely have opened up on the back of that performance.

I look forward to watching it.

Swoop, you may have to turn off the commentary like I did. Dwayne Russell was so pro-Brisbane it was infuriating. I sent an email of complaint into Fox Footy. I go without fundamental necessities to get their telecasts and I don't expect to put up with such rubbish from them. Channel 7 commentators maybe, but I expect unbiased commentary from Fox Footy, because I bloody well pay heavily for it.

Dwayne Russell: "in the house, abracadabra, those watching around the planet, shall the Pies run out of legs, Zorko!!". Dwayne is a fuc...g disgrace

And he sounded very flat when Stephenson kicked the winning goal.Suffer in your jocks,Dwayno!

[bally12]

Gutsy effort in the end, but also lucky that last centre clearance went our way.
Had it gone the other way David King would still be doing victory laps of the Gabba, like he was doing when GWS beat us at the death last year.

[PyreneesPie]

Exactly Doris!!!!!

[AN_Inkling]

Odd that the commentators at the end were suggesting we got up "against all odds" Not sure what odds they were referring to. Maybe just being one man down and having 3 games in 11 days?

[slangman]

[slangman]

[HAL]

If short breaks affect some more than others did, then I will be surprised.

[Pep]

Yeah we looked tired during the second half, had players coming back from injury, but we did kick our highest score of the year, we looked much better going forward i thought, but as melliot wrote, the defensive structure was lacking and they did seem to be able to score more freely against us than previous weeks. I reckon bucks backed the players to out score the lions and although we got a scare, this is a massive step forward in the right direction this season.

[Dave The Man]

I also don't think there were any problems with selection tonight. I'm surprised to be saying it, but Mayne and Blair both played their role. Moore probably wasn't ready to be playing in the 1's, but we really had no other option with Reid out..

Play McLarty

[PyreneesPie]

Just watched the last few minutes again.
What a great passage of play that epitomizes how far we have come since last season. The big Cox actually marked the ball cleanly defensively in a pack, kicked it in the direction of Philipps, who kept it alive, who rolled it towards JDG, who fed it onto to Stephenson.
All that's good about this season - players coming of age, TEAM WORK and a great recruit adding X-factor!!!

[HAL]

I also don't think there were any problems with selection tonight. I'm surprised to be saying it, but Mayne and Blair both played their role. Moore probably wasn't ready to be playing in the 1's, but we really had no other option with Reid out..

Play McLarty

[quoteJpies]

he or she don't think there were a problems with selection but Mayne and Blair played their role?