5 Things you want to happen at Collingwood next Season

[Bay Pie]

1. Ben Reid to show the potential we know he has

2. Danny Stanley to get a run in the midfield at AFL so we can see, one way or the other, if he has a future at our club.

3. Daisy to be a little more consistent with the odd match winning game

4. Benjamin in the PSD

5. Flag obviously.

 

[popathon]

You have all listed things you WANT to happen as the thread title says .. With the chance of gettin my head ripped off I will now list 5 things that if they happen Collingwood will be premiers in 2009

1. Get Cousins relatively easily in PSD

2. Ben Reid to have the year Collingwood has been waiting for injury free and shows why he is rated so highly down there.

3. Draft Sidebottom or one of the really good first round mids that could easily fill a place in the team occupied by a weaker link (cook toovey whoever else)

4. Clear all the deadwood (Holland Lonie Wakelin Iles Egan Johnson etc) blokes that are no longer in the best 22 and trade aggressively for a thomson or a young midfielder in the same age bracket as the young stars of the club (21 - 22)

5. Keep Didak and Heath Shaw, unless you can get something really good from Adelaide for Didak like one or two of the young Vic Midfielders in Chris Knights or Brent Reilly as they fit Collingwoods needs.

I'm open for criticism but If Cousins Shaw Didak Reid and Sidebottom are all in Collingwood's best 22 players (not coz of injury) come finals next year they will be the signs of a premiership.

We have enough midfielders who can't kick thanks.

1. We draft a talented mid (Blease or Sidebottom) and an inside mid with our second.
2. We get Ben Cousins.
3. Ben Reid to play with some confidence.
4. Rusling & Rocca to play injury free.
5. Pendles & Thomas to play with more consistancy and play down the guts.

 

[RRRooocccaaa]

This is more aimed at the fan base and working back some of the GOCF spirit back into the community.

1) Require reserved members seats candidates to sit an entrance test. If they can manage to watch a quarter of football without screaming to kick it down the guts, bag out on Maxwell and Rhyce and not knock over their neighbors' beer then they pass.

2) "Kick it to me" - a new segment on CTV. Every week one player demonstrates their kicking ability on a moving target. A hit/miss ratio of 4:6 or worse means they automatically lose their spot in the side that week.

3) The Shane Wakelin memorial home-game conga line. Every home match, the team WALK from the Lexus Centre with their gear on their backs surrounded by the cheer squad. Forget motivational talks by old players, the team would be pumped halfway across the bridge over the train lines.

4) "Harden the F**K Up" - an initiative by CFC for fans at every open training session. Volunteers get to hold the tackle bags whilst Pies players charge at them full tilt. A wonderful practical demonstration to dispel the notion that players are 'soft'.

5) New promotional Magpie Megaphones, free for all members. You thought the chant was loud this year? Wait 'til you get a crowd of 60,000 singing through THOSE puppies. Spine-tingling stuff.

(P.S. And a flag too, please)

 

[Pennypacker]

1. Delist Toovey immediately
2. Trade Egan
3. Tell Fraser to start delivering to expectation
4. Malthouse to learn how to deal with the flood
5. Try everything to go after Mundy from Freo. I have a feeling he could be another J.Clement.
6. Retain Didak
7. Get Cousins
8. Lock Ben Ried in the weights room over summer. Fix his run up
9. Play Didak and Thomas on the ball
10. Get Presti super fit

 

[skeetz]

1/ Consistency on where players are positioned. Let the guys learn a specific role ffs.

2/ Play BOOT on the ball.

3/ DO NOT LOSE TO S H I T TEAMS. I don't care if we lose to teams that are better than us. I just want consitency. Beat the crapola teams, and push the teams above us. I would trade the win against the Cats for a win in any of the crap games that we lost (ie Carltank, Norf, Freo).

4/ Injury free year for RUZZA

5/ Co-captains. Pendles/Daisy/Cloke/Maxy.

 

[Pennypacker]

Rocca to shave that stupid goatee off his chin
Malthouse to move H.Shaw onto the ball when he is being tagged on the HBF
Slap a restraining order on Toovey from going anywhere near the Lexus centre again

 

[3066]

(1) 2009 Flag
(2) To play 4 quarters each and every match. Apply the same amount pressure and keep the tackles up like in the Geelong game.
(3) Cousins signed.
(4) Didak stays
(5) Rucks to dominate with Wood finding his feet. Josh no 2 ruck and dominating around the ground .... even ruck rove (worth a try) or second tall up around the boundaries.

 

[GameOver]

1) Pick up Cousins in draft
2) Get some more pace in the midfield - Cousins, Pendles starting midfielders along with Daisy, Leon and whoever else has a big pre-season and steps up
3) Sign a tap ruckman - allows Fraser to be used in other roles and focus more on his fitness and work around the ground
4) Get Didak's head checked - ultimately keep him at the club
5) Sign a key position backman - Brown will be good, Presti needs to stay fit, Harry O will be fine. Need another decent sized key position.

 

[Pies_10]

1: Pendlebury Named either Vice or Captain
2: Didak to Stay
3: Get Cousins in PSD
4: Brown at FB and Reid at CHB Pendlebury at C, Cloke at CHF and Rocca at FF good spine there.
5: A PREMIRESHIP

 

[MightyQuinn]

In a perfect world.

1. Get Ben Cousins in PSD. Eddie immediately says 2009 premiership in the bag. Pies supporters start to celebrate early.

2. Finish on top of ladder after H & A without a loss. Eddie says side unbeatable, bets the house on the Pies and declares new front teeth for everyone when Pies win the GF.

3. Win through to GF and play mighty Eagles after returning from our drug induced coma of 2008

4. Ben Cousins hits post 10m out directly in front after the siren to lose by a point.

5. Feral mob from Collingwood invade the ground and lynch Cousins from the 3rd tier. No free teeth for the feral mob.

SUCH IS LIFE.

hahahahaha i love it

 

[Pie eyed]

1) Pick up Cousins in draft
2) Get some more pace in the midfield - Cousins, Pendles starting midfielders along with Daisy, Leon and whoever else has a big pre-season and steps up
3) Sign a tap ruckman - allows Fraser to be used in other roles and focus more on his fitness and work around the ground
4) Get Didak's head checked - ultimately keep him at the club
5) Sign a key position backman - Brown will be good, Presti needs to stay fit, Harry O will be fine. Need another decent sized key position.

Not a personal snipe, but everyone seems to always forget Jack Anthony when discussing "big" backs.
Does he just look small? He is a similar height and weight as Presti and looks pretty damned mobile to me.

 

[MightyQuinn]

1. Cuz. (big year in b&w)
2. Ruz. (big year in b&w)
3. Wood proving he was worth our 14th pick.
4. CONSISTENCY
5. Pendles, Clarke and Thomas to improve again....

 

[shawthing09]

Assuming that premiership is a given as something a supporter hopes for what I'd like to see next year is.

1) Wood step improving his tank, strength and aggression and playing every game next year.

2) Thomas improving his tank and playing in the midfield.

3) A hard midfielder drafted.

4) O'Bree been slowly pushed out of the side by guys like J-Mac, Stanley or our new super hard midfielder

5) One of Dawes, Reid, Ruz, Ja to get a full year playing as a third tall foward next to Cloke and Rocca.

6) One of Reid or JA to get some decent AFL time as a KPB. On potential Reid is the better foward and JA is probably more AFL ready as a defender. That said JA is working as a foward for now and Reid's kicking at goal is not good enough for an AFL foward at current.

 

[M-Train]

1. A Premiership
2. Making the top 4
3. Lots of BEEF to be added to Dick, Thomas, Reid, Cook, Egan, Wellingham, Dawes, McCarthy
4. Pendlebury, H Shaw, Thomas, Cloke, Didak to be all vying for All Australian Honors
5. Win the games we are expected to WIN!!!!

 

[checker]

we need one thing then all others will follow.

1. foot skills.

 

[Axl the great]

1) Pies get Kerr and or Cousins
2) Dane Swan misses AA selection then comes out and wins the brownlow
3) Sean Rusling fit and on fire proving all baggers wrong
4) Didak having a career best year
5) Beating the crap out of Carlton in the GF.

 

[Lethal06]

1. Burns remains
2. Fraser fit for entire season
3. Rocca fit for entire season
4. Rusling fit for entire season
5. Cousins recruited to teach mids how to train, run and consistently win the ball.

In reality, I'd be happy with any four of that five.

 

[MarkT]

1. Buckley to coach;
2. Keep the top of the list in tact – Burns, Presti, Didak & Shaw to all be there;
3. Trade for Kerr and Lade;
4. Draft a straight Ben Cousins in the PSD;
5. Have a good run with injuries.

 

[Pendles!]

In a perfect world.

1. Get Ben Cousins in PSD. Eddie immediately says 2009 premiership in the bag. Pies supporters start to celebrate early.

2. Finish on top of ladder after H & A without a loss. Eddie says side unbeatable, bets the house on the Pies and declares new front teeth for everyone when Pies win the GF.

3. Win through to GF and play mighty Eagles after returning from our drug induced coma of 2008

4. Ben Cousins hits post 10m out directly in front after the siren to lose by a point.

5. Feral mob from Collingwood invade the ground and lynch Cousins from the 3rd tier. No free teeth for the feral mob.

SUCH IS LIFE.

haha that is pretty funny

 

[scruffydog]

1. Get Cousins, and have him return to form but not to habit
2. Beat Carlton twice, and North Melbourne as many times as we play them. By a lot.
3. Bryan to prove us all wrong, dominating the ruck and kicking 3 goals a game (lol...)
4. Swan for brownlow!
5. Win the premiership

 

[Snag Breac]

This is more aimed at the fan base and working back some of the GOCF spirit back into the community.

1) Require reserved members seats candidates to sit an entrance test. If they can manage to watch a quarter of football without screaming to kick it down the guts, bag out on Maxwell and Rhyce and not knock over their neighbors' beer then they pass.

2) "Kick it to me" - a new segment on CTV. Every week one player demonstrates their kicking ability on a moving target. A hit/miss ratio of 4:6 or worse means they automatically lose their spot in the side that week.

3) The Shane Wakelin memorial home-game conga line. Every home match, the team WALK from the Lexus Centre with their gear on their backs surrounded by the cheer squad. Forget motivational talks by old players, the team would be pumped halfway across the bridge over the train lines.

4) "Harden the F**K Up" - an initiative by CFC for fans at every open training session. Volunteers get to hold the tackle bags whilst Pies players charge at them full tilt. A wonderful practical demonstration to dispel the notion that players are 'soft'.

5) New promotional Magpie Megaphones, free for all members. You thought the chant was loud this year? Wait 'til you get a crowd of 60,000 singing through THOSE puppies. Spine-tingling stuff.

(P.S. And a flag too, please)

Brilliant! Why has no one ever thought of these practical ploys until now?

 

[GETSOMENUTS]

1. Delist obree, Toovey and burn their lockers to the ground and any evidence that these two played for the magpies.Trade Johnson, r. shaw
2. MUSt get D. Kerr if dids has to go to land him, sorry but so be it.
3. Cousins on the cheap in the PSD
4. Buckley to be named assistant and replace MM in 2010
5. Draft some mids with clean skills

 

[RRRooocccaaa]

Brilliant! Why has no one ever thought of these practical ploys until now?

Because everyone's been so damn serious round here lately!

 

[Stakerz]

Why so much talk about Fraser?

In all honesty, what good is he too us?

He is no better then Bryan (maybe a little bit harsh) but seriously, he is crap whether he is our No.1 ruckmen or not.

 

[Godfrey Jones]

This is more aimed at the fan base and working back some of the GOCF spirit back into the community.

1) Require reserved members seats candidates to sit an entrance test. If they can manage to watch a quarter of football without screaming to kick it down the guts, bag out on Maxwell and Rhyce and not knock over their neighbors' beer then they pass.

2) "Kick it to me" - a new segment on CTV. Every week one player demonstrates their kicking ability on a moving target. A hit/miss ratio of 4:6 or worse means they automatically lose their spot in the side that week.

3) The Shane Wakelin memorial home-game conga line. Every home match, the team WALK from the Lexus Centre with their gear on their backs surrounded by the cheer squad. Forget motivational talks by old players, the team would be pumped halfway across the bridge over the train lines.

4) "Harden the F**K Up" - an initiative by CFC for fans at every open training session. Volunteers get to hold the tackle bags whilst Pies players charge at them full tilt. A wonderful practical demonstration to dispel the notion that players are 'soft'.

5) New promotional Magpie Megaphones, free for all members. You thought the chant was loud this year? Wait 'til you get a crowd of 60,000 singing through THOSE puppies. Spine-tingling stuff.

(P.S. And a flag too, please)

I WANT TO SEE THESE HAPPEN!!!

great suggestions.