Game Day AFL Round 21 - Collingwood vs Western Bulldogs Matchday Discussion (Etihad - 7.50pm)

[mattys123]

The Dogs are an ugly team to watch, I know because I watched their past 3 games to see what they are like. Boring.

Having said that they'll probably take the game on and belt us tonight.

Seems that Beveridge has turned them in a defensive minded side first, in preparation for a premiership tilt in a year or two.

As for us, we are a mess, on field it's not a bad 22 but once again consistency of effort is the big concern. I'd expect us to put up a fight here and go down by 3-4 goals.

 

[iGNITER]

Interested to see where players like Goldsack and Oxley line up. I would like to see Oxley forward due to the VFL experiment and Goldsack in defence as he has pace and can play on small/medium sized forwards.
With Reid out, Howe needs to play in defence due to his ability to read the play and chop off kicks with intercept marks.
Dogs forward line is not that tall (I dont think) so Brown and Marsh should be ok as talls to cover.
Adams to play off half back and rotate through the middle.
Sidebottom to play as a high half forward.
Greenwood to run with Bontempelli.
I would start Wills or DeGoey in the middle.

How I hope to see us line up:

B - Goldsack Brown Maynard
HB - Adams Marsh Howe
C - Aish Pendlebury Treloar
HF - Varcoe White Sidebottom
F - Blair Moore Oxley
R - Grundy Wills Greenwood
INT - Crisp Phillips DeGoey Smith

 

[TradeDraft]

Sounds like the Dogs fans will easily out number Pies fans Tonight

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

Sounds like the Dogs fans will easily out number Pies fans Tonight

Don't really care if they do, but it wouldn't surprise me considering they're in the top 8 and winning and we're a bottom 10 side with little upside from now until the end of the season.

Whatever happens, I will be there and it would be glorious if we pulled off a memorable win. Expecting a loss, but I'd like to see more fight and effort in contrast to last week's ordinary display.

 

[TradeDraft]

Don't really care if they do, but it wouldn't surprise me considering they're in the top 8 and winning and we're a bottom 10 side with little upside from now until the end of the season.

Whatever happens, I will be there and it would be glorious if we pulled off a memorable win. Expecting a loss, but I'd like to see more fight and effort in contrast to last week's ordinary display.

Well going what I have Read. Majority of Pies fans think we be Lucky to get within 15 Goals of the Dogs.

I am heading along tonight to see what happens

 

[TheWoodsOf72]

You don't support Collingwood, you support You.
You are the people we should remove from our great club, if you stopped 'supporting' us, no one would even know you were gone

IMO An occasional win now only serves to prolong the torture and give people fuel to providing more time to a bad coaching team. They have had 5 years of learning on the job, which they should never of been given...signing off till after 2016.

 

[MagpieBat]

Well, that's a relief!

 

[Hardas]

Interested to see where players like Goldsack and Oxley line up. I would like to see Oxley forward due to the VFL experiment and Goldsack in defence as he has pace and can play on small/medium sized forwards.
With Reid out, Howe needs to play in defence due to his ability to read the play and chop off kicks with intercept marks.
Dogs forward line is not that tall (I dont think) so Brown and Marsh should be ok as talls to cover.
Adams to play off half back and rotate through the middle.
Sidebottom to play as a high half forward.
Greenwood to run with Bontempelli.
I would start Wills or DeGoey in the middle.

How I hope to see us line up:

B - Goldsack Brown Maynard
HB - Adams Marsh Howe
C - Aish Pendlebury Treloar
HF - Varcoe White Sidebottom
F - Blair Moore Oxley
R - Grundy Wills Greenwood
INT - Crisp Phillips DeGoey Smith

Yep - on board with all of that, iGNITER.

 

[CFC2010]

Well, that's a relief!

Or a JINX!

 

[Hardas]

IMO An occasional win now only serves to prolong the torture and give people fuel to providing more time to a bad coaching team. They have had 5 years of learning on the job, which they should never of been given...signing off till after 2016.

See ya.

 

[Baltimore Jack]

IMO An occasional win now only serves to prolong the torture and give people fuel to providing more time to a bad coaching team. They have had 5 years of learning on the job, which they should never of been given...signing off till after 2016.

Sorry, but you dot get a say in supporting this club, you are here for only one reason...you
Actually I don't think you ever supported us, you are a fraud

 

[MagpieBat]

Or a JINX!

 

[mattys123]

Well, that's a relief!

He's one of those who would have been in the hyperbaric chamber, then icing his injury at 2, 4, and 6 am just to get it right.

Very few players would have got up in 6 days, but for Pendles to recover in that time is no shock.

 

[MagpieBat]

He's one of those who would have been in the hyperbaric chamber, then icing his injury at 2, 4, and 6 am just to get it right.

Very few players would have got up in 6 days, but for Pendles to recover in that time is no shock.

That's how you do it, Dale...

 

[Rusty22]

dont expect pendles to have a good game.., watch picken get stuck into him.

 

[mattys123]

That's how you do it, Dale...

Yeah, no midweek surfing trip while you've got a dodgy ankle.

Pendles to replace Daveron as head of fitness next year too I reckon.

 

[Rusty22]

we wouldve beaten them in round 10 if it wasnt for 5 injuries ...
Will be closer than what people think.
Grundy will dominate ruck.
Im worried there defence will be too good though.
Midfield will break even.
Darcy to give us some excitement for next season and have another big one.
Bontempelli to run a mok .

 

[MagpieBat]

Yeah, no midweek surfing trip while you've got a dodgy ankle.

Pendles to replace Daveron as head of fitness next year too I reckon.

I like it. Saves money in the footy department cap, sets Pendles up for life after Collingwood and removes Davoren from the club.

Get it done, Collingwood.

 

[Soaring Magpie]

Going in without the expectation of a win for the rest of the year, just going to sit back and enjoy watching the final 3 games as the Preseason is a long time to to wait for footy to start again.
Couple of quiet beers and cheer the team on tonight

 

[jmac70]

dont expect pendles to have a good game.., watch picken get stuck into him.

Picken is not fit to clean his boots!

 

[Hardas]

dont expect pendles to have a good game.., watch picken get stuck into him.

He might go to Sidey.

 

[DrDavoren]

I'm normally quite optimistic, but I think it is too risky bringing in Moore should of taken rest of year off, make sure hammy is ok.
Dogs by a lot.

Can you imagine the meltdown if he or Pendles do more damage by playing tonight....

 

[Rusty22]

Can you imagine the meltdown if he or Pendles do more damage by playing tonight....

your fault doc

 

[jmac70]

Can you imagine the meltdown if he or Pendles do more damage by playing tonight....

Pendles has earns the right to judge his own fitness to play. The club is right to back him.

 

[Temploar]

Sounds like the Dogs fans will easily out number Pies fans Tonight

It's their home game, isn't it?