Correct. Had we played the Pies in the latter part of the season, we would have a match-winning lead and they would have overcome that to the tune Winner Takes It All from the movie Over the Top.
Preview QF1 Geelong v Collingwood Sat Sept 3 2022, 435pm @ MCG
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I love the Collingwood delusion that they're the only ones who have changed...
Have they forgotten how mediocre we looked in the first 10 weeks? Pretty much up until the Tigers game it was scintillating football followed by rubbish, and that's okay, it comes with tweaking a new gameplan and I'm more than glad we did so.
The notion however that they're significantly better and we're exactly the same is moronic...but you've got to cope somehow I guess.
Have they forgotten how mediocre we looked in the first 10 weeks? Pretty much up until the Tigers game it was scintillating football followed by rubbish, and that's okay, it comes with tweaking a new gameplan and I'm more than glad we did so.
The notion however that they're significantly better and we're exactly the same is moronic...but you've got to cope somehow I guess.
Not only are we much much much better.
We have had longer to grasp, train, and become fully confident with the obvious new game plan.
+ the big one... Our squad is better rested/less beat up than any team.
We are primed and on another level... The Pies (whilst playing with heart) are in big trouble.
I'd put my life savings (which ain't much) on the Pies having the lowest % of any top 4 side in AFL history.
300 more total points for us.
300 less total points against for us.
Pies are in strife.
Apparently 3rd lowest in history of top 4 teams. I'd stay away from gambling if I was you.
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In the pies 11 wins in a row, something like 8 were from the bottom 10 sides, combined total margin was 36 points.
Same teams, Geelongs combined margin was 350 points.
Same teams, Geelongs combined margin was 350 points.
Am filled with trepidation based on Geelong's history with finals week 1. What is it, 2015 we have to go back to when we last one first week?
Over the past couple of months I've certainly felt a different feeling about our fortunes but I don't think these jitters will disappear until the final siren. As we know with the Pies of late, even if we're up by 5 goals at 3QT we are not across the line.
I also had the same nerves the last final we played against Collingwood too, though...
Over the past couple of months I've certainly felt a different feeling about our fortunes but I don't think these jitters will disappear until the final siren. As we know with the Pies of late, even if we're up by 5 goals at 3QT we are not across the line.
I also had the same nerves the last final we played against Collingwood too, though...
I'm also wary of the pies.
We're a better team than them this year. But we come up against them in a match that, like you say, we typically struggle to hit top form in if history is a guide.
The strategy of resting key players in the latter rounds only confirms for me that we're playing a longer game. So I'm not expecting us to suddenly come out all guns blazing in this match.
I still think we'll win, but let's not treat a loss as doom and gloom either. It's very likely we make the prelim by whichever route. The question is really whether we come up against Melbourne sooner or later and which would we prefer.
It's that fear of seeing a QT score line of 5.1 to 0.2 in favour of the Pies that gets me... Then we'll win the next 3 quarters but fall short of the final score.
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I assume you're referring to Brodie Grundy playing for Geelong next year while the Pies cover his cost of living?
Surprised a Pies fan could spell 2 words in a row correctly.
Second half of season Geelong beats 1st half of season Geelong by 10 goals.
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They are significantly improved too, in the first half of the season they were soundly beaten by Bulldogs and Richmond and if the Pies were playing either of those teams next week I'd expect Collingwood to win.
My biggest worry about next week is that Collingwood can score really quickly when they have momentum - we saw that first hand in round 3 and it was only an incredible performance by Jez (and super sub Dahlhaus!) that got us over the line. We have also seen it in countless final quarters like last week when Carlton appeared home with 15 mins to play.
We've been so good this year but I still feel like we can be scored against quickly. Only a month or so the Dogs were 4.2 to 0.0 against us. Richmond erased a 5-6 goal lead fairly quickly. The first time we played the Dogs, we had a 40+ lead and they got within a goal in the last quarter. Port Adelaide kicked 8 goals to one in the third quarter to turn a 5 goal HT deficit into a 3/4 time lead
In each of these games we've been good enough to steady, wrestle back momentum and win - which is great! I have no doubt that in previous seasons we would have let a number of those matches slip.
But it still makes me really nervous that it will happen again over the next month.
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Literally the only reason we're talking about Collingwood is because we play them next. The week after you'll be forgotten
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Logically, and referencing all the key indicators, we should win against the Pies and win well.
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My big fear about this game is playing underdone or injured players, id hate for us to bring Jezza in and then for him to ping a hammy and us lose, having to backup the week later, our systems are good but a lot of our systems revolve around him.
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I'm still triggered by people pretending Grundy was dominant when neither coach had him in the votes and that selection is the reason we lost.
Scott's (very questionable) decision is blamed when the truth is we just played like utter shit.
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This is objectively true. My critique of the selection has always been that it revealed weakness, mainly mentally, and showed the opposition we didn’t believe in ourselves.
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Stanley missed a bunch of games in the lead up to finals that year and only returned in round 23. I can't remember if that was injury or he was dropped but we played a couple of games while he was out with Zac Smith and a couple with Blicavs and Ratugolea as rucks.
The ones with Blics and Sav were round 21 and 22 against North with Goldstein and Brisbane with Martin and McInerney. So we were playing that ruck combo 2 of the last 3 games of the year against other good ruck combos. We killed North (they kicked one goal) in their only loss for the last 4 matches. And we should've beaten Brisbane away in a top of the table clash except for choking in the last 10 minutes. Given our poor form late in the year they were 2 of our best performances.
I think making a big deal out of the change is pretty absurd. It clearly didn't have a major impact in itself since Grundy didn't have a huge game and we won the clearances and contested possessions. And we were just going back to the ruck combo we used for 2 games recently that had worked fine.
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