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Imagine the build up during finals?
It would be a living nightmare listening to their supporters for weeks.
It's bad enough when they win their June premiership.
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It would be a living nightmare listening to their supporters for weeks.
It's bad enough when they win their June premiership.
Fair, I would have attended.... but, it was tricky that year for me. I wasnt born yet.
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Got a friend who hates carlton more than most because he is the only collingwood fan in a family of carlton supporters, and he was like.. (in 2023) I would love to get carlton in the GF..
I'm like.. wtf. no way. Not only would this city not survive, but imagine if we were off and they beat us. AGAIN. Its not like we were the most dominant side, so I didn't trust that that possibility
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They don't deserve any success or joy. That's the type of retribution I prefer for them beating us in GF's.
I want them to be the laughing stock of the comp. For decades & decades.
60-0 during the EF against Lions this year brought me to tears with happiness.
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Well done.
Definitely hard work getting out of Ed's shadow.
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Especially now - Ed's chubbed up a bit.
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One day people will realise a "true" key forward doesn't appear to be something we're overly interested in and clearly don't really need?
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The way we play obviously doesn't require one
What our forward line does have in 2025 is 6 players you can't really leave alone?
McStay, Mihocek, Membrey, Hill, Elliott and (even) Schultz are all players you sort of have to worry about. Any one of them on any given day could kick 4 or 5 on you. We also have genuine goal kicking mids as well.
Our issue has never really been scoring or efficiency when going forward.
Our issue in the forward has been more keeping the ball in the forward line, which is partly what Schultz was brought in to help address. We also have a problem getting out of our backline cleanly, which is what Houston was brought in for and we also have a problem getting smashed in the middle. Which is what Perryman was brought in to try and help alleviate alongside hopefully Mitchell being injury free next year.
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The way we play obviously doesn't require one
What our forward line does have in 2025 is 6 players you can't really leave alone?
McStay, Mihocek, Membrey, Hill, Elliott and (even) Schultz are all players you sort of have to worry about. Any one of them on any given day could kick 4 or 5 on you. We also have genuine goal kicking mids as well.
Our issue has never really been scoring or efficiency when going forward.
Our issue in the forward has been more keeping the ball in the forward line, which is partly what Schultz was brought in to help address. We also have a problem getting out of our backline cleanly, which is what Houston was brought in for and we also have a problem getting smashed in the middle. Which is what Perryman was brought in to try and help alleviate alongside hopefully Mitchell being injury free next year.
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Behind Schultz and McCreery, Tim Membrey would've been 3rd on our team with the number of I50 tackles he had last year. It's part of the plan for him.
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Good to know
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I'm beginning to envisage him as more than depth and pushing Elliott higher up the ground in a role where he doesn't have to pretend he's 6 foot 3.
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Same - quietly confident he'll play a fair bit
if IF if all of Cox (5 f/time on bench), Checkers, McStay, and Membrey stay fit, it does take the onus off guys like WHE and Elliott having to play 2nd /3rd tall in the forward line. Allows them to move further up the ground and play more transition roles whilst still using their obvious weapon in the air to advantage.
Also means there'll be more competition for Lippa's role as a forward, amongst others ..but i always find the discussion about best 23 a bit fraught, cos the best & available (at any point in time) is a far different proposition ..
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Yep. Availability makes best 22 and ideal role conversations a bit pointless, but also emphasises why depth and flexibility is so important.
Great stuff Dave. The legend is there (Bob Rose) firing off handballs, Pricey running the outer steps and I reckon that might have been Peter Patterson in the marking duals. Funniest thing was Wayne Richardson (a beautiful kick on either side of the body and a seriously talented footballer all up) being "shown" how to do a drop punt!!! Richardson could perform dropkicks on both legs so a simple drop punt was a soda for him!
One day people will realise a "true" key forward doesn't appear to be something we're overly interested in and clearly don't really need?
Will they improve? Will they regress? The big questions facing Collingwood in 2025
How things may shape up for the Magpies in 2025.
The way we play obviously doesn't require one
What our forward line does have in 2025 is 6 players you can't really leave alone?
McStay, Mihocek, Membrey, Hill, Elliott and (even) Schultz are all players you sort of have to worry about. Any one of them on any given day could kick 4 or 5 on you. We also have genuine goal kicking mids as well.
Our issue has never really been scoring or efficiency when going forward.
Our issue in the forward has been more keeping the ball in the forward line, which is partly what Schultz was brought in to help address. We also have a problem getting out of our backline cleanly, which is what Houston was brought in for and we also have a problem getting smashed in the middle. Which is what Perryman was brought in to try and help alleviate alongside hopefully Mitchell being injury free next year.
Geez with all those problems, I wonder how we ever won a flag 14 months ago....let alone won 12 games this year??
You don't reckon a few "well placed injuries" might have assisted those key problems do ya?
BTW I concur that Houston and Perryman will assist us this year but since Shoota kicked 20+ goals in a down year I reckon potting him is a bit ordinary. There's probably stats to say I'm mistaken here but I would have thought a forward line that has McCreery, Schultz, Hill and Elliot or WHE in it is pretty hard to rush out of....the problem this year was that for much of it WHE was our KEY forward...we simply had no talls for oppo sides to worry about. This year we will....look out.
To my mind having a fit Mitchell, JDG, and an emerging Allan will help the mids situation (as too will Perryman) whilst Houston will solve the kick in dilemma and give more general grunt to the backs AND assist our ball movement from defence also (he's a BIG IN for us).
We've hardly ever seen a forward set up with McStay and Checkers in together, though they did alright the last few weeks of 2023 till the PF.
We do have key forwards, they just haven't been on the park much in the last year.
https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/10...lion-why-cornes-turned-down-boxing-bout-with/
Kaneo doesn't wanna go head to head with Swanny like he used to out on the footy field.
Probably realises that Swanny is a Port boy too...(or maybe just a proper Port boy)
Kaneo doesn't wanna go head to head with Swanny like he used to out on the footy field.
Probably realises that Swanny is a Port boy too...(or maybe just a proper Port boy)
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I was under the impression that drop punts tended to be just used for stab passes in that era? Might have been trying to transition them away from drop kicks and torps?
Drop punts back then were advised for the "unskilled" players but someone of Wayne Richardson's ilk was totally adept at stab passes, drop kicks, torps, flat punts and drop punts as well. Most blokes were I mean even Thommo was a beautiful kick of a footy and he was a ruckman!!
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Remember this?https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/10...lion-why-cornes-turned-down-boxing-bout-with/
Kaneo doesn't wanna go head to head with Swanny like he used to out on the footy field.
Probably realises that Swanny is a Port boy too...(or maybe just a proper Port boy)
