AFL Round 15 - COLLINGWOOD V CARLTON - Friday 7.50 MCG - Changes and Prematch Discussion

[migz]

I'd much rather pendles was left out of the team and played when he was absolutely 100% ready. We need him for geelong and hawthorn.. we need to remember our biggest problem last year was the amount of under done players in the team... I think buckleys approach with injured players this year has been great...

 

[Mame]

Good decision. We can beat Carlscum without him and he'll be back against Geelong. He'll go on a post-injury Swannie-esque rampage dominating all the way to the norm smith

 

[Mame]

I'd much rather pendles was left out of the team and played when he was absolutely 100% ready. We need him for geelong and hawthorn.. we need to remember our biggest problem last year was the amount of under done players in the team... I think buckleys approach with injured players this year has been great...

Absolutely this

 

[jonbe54]

Don't care what the club says about injuries so long as the players returning from injuries are managed properly would rather have Penders eased back in than have him go down in the run up to the finals.

Sinkers and Clarkey back in for me.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

F**k that sucks.

Looks like it might be an unchanged line up for the Blues then?

I'm loving Buckley's balls at sticking ot his guns when it comes to giving injured players all the time they need to make sure they're 100% upon return.

I mean, Tarrant was the only excpetion, but still, I like his balls.

Spoiler

Team America reference

 

[danielnajdek]

Good decision. We can beat Carlscum without him and he'll be back against Geelong. He'll go on a post-injury Swannie-esque rampage dominating all the way to the norm smith

We said the same thing last week that he'd be back against the Scum yet he isn't playing....

 

[TheClokes]

B: Toovey - Brown - Maxwell​

HB: Shaw - Reid - O'Brien​

C: Sidebottom - Swan - Buckley​

HF: Wellingham - Cloke - D. Thomas​

F: Elliott - Dawes - Goldsack​

FL: Jolly - Beams - Blair​

INT: Clarke - Fasolo - Paine​

SUB: Mooney​

 

[jonbe54]

We said the same thing last week that he'd be back against the Scum yet he isn't playing....

Easy D, Bux refuses to rush players back if not ready. I'd rather this than having him rushed back and going down in the run to the finals.

 

[Mame]

Easy D, Bux refuses to rush players back if not ready. I'd rather this than having him rushed back and going down in the run to the finals.

As Heater said when interviewed recently. This was on the AFL site today: http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/140491/default.aspx

COLLINGWOOD is in a better place to contend for this year's premiership than it was last year.

That's the view of dashing defender Heath Shaw, who said the Magpies are reaping the benefit of a more considered build-up for the finals under first-year coach Nathan Buckley.

"Last year for the whole year we pretty much dominated the whole competition bar one team (Geelong) but this year we are better placed to win a premiership," Shaw told SEN.

"We probably peaked too early. Throughout the year we didn’t have as many players play. We dominated a lot of teams but towards the end if the year we got tired, some injuries didn't go our way.

"By the time we got to the big day, we were nearly spent mentally and physically," he said.

I agree with the player management this year.

 

[Cory]

Good move by not playing Pendles I'd say he isn't 100% ready to return but will most likely play against the Cats.

 

[Cory]

So the Ins would be Sinclair and Clarke.

 

[danielnajdek]

Easy D, Bux refuses to rush players back if not ready. I'd rather this than having him rushed back and going down in the run to the finals.

Prefer if he only played when 100%. Annoys me that the club doesn't tell us the truth about injuries and that he hasn't played for so long.

 

[jonbe54]

Prefer if he only played when 100%. Annoys me that the club doesn't tell us the truth about injuries and that he hasn't played for so long.

The club has always been this way about injury news D and its not going to change.

Better to shrug your shoulders philosophically than give yourself ulcers with frustration

 

[morgues]

I mean, Tarrant was the only excpetion, but still, I like his balls.

Spoiler

Team America reference

Absolutely tops post mate that is classic

 

[Suspense]

good decision by the club not to rush pendles back, but geez i'm having withdrawals not being able to watch him play...

 

[beez]

good decision by the club not to rush pendles back, but geez i'm having withdrawals not being able to watch him play...

 

[istillbelieve]

In: None Out: None Simple

 

[Suspense]

 

[HARKER]

The excitement for this match is at fever pitch, it seems.
We can't even rack up 400 posts between the two boards.
Don't know how this game could possibly be deemed a sell-out as suggested.

 

[Antz]

The excitement for this match is at fever pitch, it seems.
We can't even rack up 400 posts between the two boards.
Don't know how this game could possibly be deemed a sell-out as suggested.

So is the game a sell out? I have home game membership so will I be able to get in?

 

[HARKER]

So is the game a sell out? I have home game membership so will I be able to get in?

Heard that there were only a couple of thousand tickets left.
That should have about 72K going then...????????????
Who knows.

 

[Brad Goodman]

The excitement for this match is at fever pitch, it seems.
We can't even rack up 400 posts between the two boards.
Don't know how this game could possibly be deemed a sell-out as suggested.

How many of each teams' supporter bases frequent Bigfooty do you reckon?

 

[Breakthelines]

In: Sinclair & Clarke
Out: Paine & Williams

 

[HARKER]

How many of each teams' supporter bases frequent Bigfooty do you reckon?

No idea but it is a gauge of general interest.
I guess supporters of both teams have filed this under, "forgone conclusion"
I'd like to think it won't be, but it may be a hard sell pushing otherwise.

 

[Frankie23]

Regarding the club and Pendles injury, a quick google search will reveal it is a 6 week injury, there is no such thing as 'special' healing' powers etc. A fractured tibia is a fractured tibia, glad the club is taking its time with the injury, do not want stress fractures developing!