Game Day Collingwood vs Richmond - Sunday 28th July 2024 - 1:10pm

[The Phantom]

I doubt it. Richmond are usually competitive for 2 or 3 quarters and then fall away.

We usually do nothing for 2 or 3 quarters and then try to win.
Should be a good game

 

[Captivating]

when Bytel receives the ball, he isn’t treacle slow, HE IS ABSOLUTELY STATIONARY.
I haven’t seen a player stop and prop so consistently badly for us since peak Chris Mayne.
You can play think music for Bytel.

He is a clogger.
And I am very happy with the recruiting of Smit mid season, but we should have taken Teakle over Bytel as an SSP.

Bytel, Long and Pendles in the same team is a disaster in terms of leg speed.

 

[unplugged]

Gotta be Cox, Harrison, Schultz and Mccreery for Kreuger, Sullivan, Long and finally Markov.

A big no to "playing the kids" because our kids aren't that good aside from the ones that are already playing. We need to maintain selection integrity.

What irks me the most is that we were clinging to some form and into the top 4 at the bye before the injuries just became too much. Injuries were a big reason we lost the last few, but now that the cavalry has returned (aside from Mihocek)... I'd like to think we still have some good footy left in us but even if we hit form there's no way we go 5-0 or 4-1 from here.

 

[The Phantom]

Bytel, Long and Pendles in the same team is a disaster in terms of leg speed.

Don’t play Bytel. Ever.
Give Long a chance, he has size and brute force.
Pendles makes up for pace with smarts.

 

[thommo_legend]

 

[Harry O]

Pathetic by Jon Ralph that. How to muck rake without people thinking you are

 

[Bianconeri]

We are very likely to lose or if we win it’ll be our last win of the season.

Out: Kreuger, Markov, Long, Sullivan, Reef

In: Cox, Frampton, Schultz, TJ & HDM

Play the kids

??????

 

[BuildEmUp]

Every time I watch Teakle I gnash my teeth. A good, ordinary player but just what we have needed these past few weeks. He's competitive in the ruck and a good target up front.

Even as depth he is clearly a better quality player than Long and I just don't understand how they could choose Ned ahead of Teakle.

I would love to be informed about the thinking behind their selection.

looking to the future perhaps? Seeing at the time we had two good rucks ...

 

[Harry O]

??????

Thought Reef was terrible as a forward against Hawthorn. Caught behind too often and out bodied too easily
I would keep him in against the Richmond kids though and see if he can play a role higher up the ground

 

[Bianconeri]

Every time I watch Teakle I gnash my teeth. A good, ordinary player but just what we have needed these past few weeks. He's competitive in the ruck and a good target up front.

Even as depth he is clearly a better quality player than Long and I just don't understand how they could choose Ned ahead of Teakle.

I would love to be informed about the thinking behind their selection.

Teakle was already gone by the Ned Long pick.

The better question is why did why pick Bytel over him in the SSP?

 

[Heater39]

Given how pathetic both our AFL and VFL teams were on the weekend is there a chance it was one of those weeks where the club was struck down by illness?

We know Howe and Kreuger missed training with illness + Harrison/ Allan/ Johnson all absent without explanation (or in Harrison's case a vague explanation of 'managed')

 

[Stronzatello]

Why would we not rest JDG? He’s clearly injured, can’t train fully, yet we are putting him out there every week. Let him rest and get right for next year if we’re not trading him. Are we trying to finish as high as possible to not make the Schultz trade look like a catastrophic disaster rather than just a major disaster? Let go and move on!!

 

[Chrispiesssss]

??????

Reef is not up to AFL standard as a forward, and we are not going to play him anywhere else in the AFL.

 

[BuildEmUp]

JDG should be rested the rest of the year.

Play all the kids.

At least if we lose our 2nd rounder might be low 20s

umm how many kids haven't we played ... 45 on list we have played 40 ..... on Harry DM not yet got a run and he has been struggling, but improving of late

 

[BuildEmUp]

I doubt it. Richmond are usually competitive for 2 or 3 quarters and then fall away.

and we have been competitive for about 1 ...

 

[Bianconeri]

Reef is not up to AFL standard as a forward, and we are not going to play him anywhere else in the AFL.

Well we’re not going to go full play the kids mode either.

 

[BuildEmUp]

Thought Reef was terrible as a forward against Hawthorn. Caught behind too often and out bodied too easily
I would keep him in against the Richmond kids though and see if he can play a role higher up the ground

I think they are playing him out of position, much lik ethey did with Ginni ( as he shwoed on the weekend)

 

[Harry O]

and we have been competitive for about 1 ...

If Richmond play like they have the last 2 weeks and we play like we have the last few weeks, Richmond should be favourites for this one. Especially with Tarranto Martin Vlaustin and Pickett to return

 

[sideswipe]

Why would we not rest JDG? He’s clearly injured, can’t train fully, yet we are putting him out there every week. Let him rest and get right for next year if we’re not trading him. Are we trying to finish as high as possible to not make the Schultz trade look like a catastrophic disaster rather than just a major disaster? Let go and move on!!

Because our season is still alive - barely. Once/if it isn't, things might change.

 

[Lunchtime]

and we have been competitive for about 1 ...

Over the course of the season so far, Tige's have struggled.

 

[cakewalk_1]

Pathetic by Jon Ralph that. How to muck rake without people thinking you are

He along with all those similar toilet trained football reporters need to justify their jobs and thier ego's.
They should have an award on BL night for the biggest Ego in the media a 3, 2 and 1 vote each week.

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

No guarantees we're winning this. Expecting this to be a close encounter.

Good chance Cox, McCreery and Schultz will all be returning. Wouldn't mind rewarding Bytel for his good VFL performance yesterday.

 

[unplugged]

The fit to play, fit to perform comments from McRae are ringing in my ears after Saturday evening's performance.

Surely that's the closest a coach has come to blaming players having to play with injury and coming up short. Unless I've read that comment completely wrong.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

I think Fly needs to drop the positive platitudes which everyone has now realised are ultimately hollow and meaningless and actually get to the crux of why nearly 90% of a Premiership team/list has dropped off in form between seasons

I'm not sure I've ever seen in my time watching football, any team have such a large majority of first choice players down on form, let alone a Premiership team.

You can literally name on one hand the number of players who have genuinely improved on last year or at least maintained their standard:

• Nick Daicos
• Hoskin-Elliott
• Darcy Cameron
• John Noble
• Jeremy Howe

 

[JoinDate]

I don't see anything wrong with what Ralphy wrote.
Sure, he's a massive flog but nothing in that imo.