Toast Round 14 = North Melbourne 118-119 Collingwood

[mumblingpie]

?? Had a great game
I admire him staying. Busts his arse for them. And signed his peak career phase to them Could you imagine him at Sydney or Carlton?

Was referring to his on field actions and his sooking to the umps

 

[Go Woods]

You talk as if our best 22, were almost beaten - we have huge upside with players returning.

Yes, fully loaded and without being biased, still believe we will be the team to beat come finals.

 

[Mollythedolly]

Very happy to get the 4 points, fantastic effort to come back from 54 points down.

Look forward now to getting some much-needed quality back post bye.

 

[Hazz]

I wouldn't disagree with that sentiment, but close checking hasn't been Moore's forte for a while now (if ever) and Larkey is one of the few KPF's going around now who has the burst speed to maintain separation on anyone if he gets the jump on his opponent.

We need another Roughead, whether Frampton can do that to the same level I don't know, but we need to find someone who can stick to and limit the impact of the opposition's big key forward and have them taking their shots from further out / closer to the boundary as much as possible where the percentages are more against them.

Or, the captain of the club puts in a hard shift and keeps one of the oppositions only chances of being in the game quiet.

Disgrace that Moore still gets beaten this badly.

Really need to put Billy back just to cover for Moore. As others have said, he’s been out of form all season. Perplexing.

 

[anshell]

Did anyone think that last shot of North’s with about 8 seconds to go was going to go right through?I did and I nearly shat myself.Luckily it went wide at the last moment.

 

[MooreTreloar]

One of the more bizarre games in the history of, well, bizarre games.

Against my better judgement I read the Game Day thread, and now I'd like to complain about it.

Sure, I could ignore it, but where else can I find such delightfully vile and hate-filled posts about my team, written by fans of my team? Its to be treasured for the abomination that it is.

And its not a competition between those who thought we'd win comfortably and those who warned it was a 'danger game'. There's no moral victory to be had. We all carry mountains of Collingwood baggage - we just find different ways to deal with it in our pre-game anxiety.

Reigning premiers versus bottom of the ladder - so what? Let's just rejoice in this amazing team and club, and the fight we have in us.

Such a brilliantly worded post. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

At the end of the day we’re all Collingwood supporters.

 

[Run n Spread]

Did anyone think that last shot of North’s with about 8 seconds to go was going to go right through?I did and I nearly shat myself.Luckily it went wide at the last moment.

Yep was sitting right behind it. Actually thought it went through. Couldn't believe they didn't call a review at least. My eyes are going. Actually asked my brother live what happened but apparently just missed

 

[Greenaicos]

A bit like me marrying Megan Gale
A nice dream but ultimately ain't going to happen.

Wet

 

[SprooseMoose]

My 60 year-old next door neighbor is a Pies fan, and has been in hospital with a heart condition. We're gonna kill him, aren't we?

 

[entourage]

Just a side note, if the shoe was on the other foot for that non-50 decision we would all be furious, and rightly so. So let's not kid ourselves that we weren't very lucky there.

We did perhaps get a bit lucky but we’ve also been on the ass-end of some horrific late umpiring decisions. It’s all swings and roundabouts.

Speaking of swings and round abouts the umpires missed an even more egregious 50 with 7:25 left in the third. It would have been an easy Bobby hill goal, but you won’t hear the non-Collingwood folk mention that one.

 

[Chrispiesssss]

 

[SuperSub17]

Just a shout out to Riewoldt and his special comments today.
Really poor effort. Do some research before the game and at least try and disguise your bias.

His groaning with every near miss for North in the last minute is a thing of beauty

 

[VinnieB]

I thought McInness gave us another option up forward.
He should have played from the beginning.

May be time for Howe to also start forward and let Frampton stay back.

At least until we get some players back.

 

[barrackers]

The meltdowns on Twitter are absolutely hilarious. No mention they blew a 9 goal lead and even with the 50 the goal had to be kicked from 40 under pressure but sure.

It’s so hilarious.

The missed out of bounds in the second quarter where the ball was 1m over the line, which lead to a frustrated Maynard giving away a dangerous tackle and a north goal cancels out the non-50.

 

[Seedsman_]

I haven’t seen the game today but winning from 9 goals down is some sort of effort. You could say, an effort befitting widespread adulation from the football community. I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet? I’m sure it’ll come anytime now

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Big Billy should have been on him.

Coaching staff too adamant that the second ruck needs to play forward. They need to get inventive and either run Frampton as second ruck from defence, or alternatively just let Kreugs do it all.

By the same token the coaches won us the game today, switching Howe and frampton, giving mccreery a run with role, playing Sidey in the guts, managing the Nick tag and bringing Reef on early.

 

[Kes1984]

 

[barrackers]

that was a shocker

Especially being straight after a worse push wasn’t paid to McCreery down the other end.

 

[Kes1984]

Just home from the game and about to settle in for a replay of the 2nd half.

I’m doing exactly that now

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Would a pig need to fly for the pies to land LDU. Very good

I mentioned the other day in the Trade/Draft thread that I’d rather we go for LDU than Bailey Smith

 

[Scritchyscroony]

Or, the captain of the club puts in a hard shift and keeps one of the oppositions only chances of being in the game quiet.

Disgrace that Moore still gets beaten this badly.

Really need to put Billy back just to cover for Moore. As others have said, he’s been out of form all season. Perplexing.

Moore was beyond bad in that first half. I find his "defending" really infuriating at times.
I never want to see him matched up on Larkey again.

And what's happened to Quaynor this year? Absolutely fallen off a cliff!

 

[Apex36]

Fin looks gone. Also think promote Maynard to captain next year he is inspiring. Moore leading the league for spoils after 9 again today. Is that the only thing he can do. Larkey said after the match that he was very loose on him.

I see you took the first opportunity you could to lay the boots in to Moore again.
Did he shit in your weeties or something years ago and you still haven’t gotten over it? I hope he did.

 

[Roverjg]

if Shoota had kicked that goal in the 3rd, I reckon we would have run over them earlier than we did.

And yet nobody has mentioned the 4 he kicked when the team couldn't buy a goal which without we wouldn't have won

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[3rdMan]

Really doesn't matter who you're playing against, a win like that is full of merit.

There are reasons to be down. With injuries we've been relying on too few for a while. To get so far down and still recover is extraordinary.

 

[Apex36]

Amazing comeback after one of the worst halves of football we have played in recent memory.
That's a real boost leading into the bye, and then hopefully we can start getting a few players back.
Pendles, Jordy and Checkers hopefully straight back in in 2 weeks. Then, Mitchell, Elliot, Cox and McStay, leading into finals.

Just a side note, if the shoe was on the other foot for that non-50 decision we would all be furious, and rightly so. So let's not kid ourselves that we weren't very lucky there.

We were lucky indeed. There were a few decisions like that towards the end of the game though where players were given extra leeway. It did look like the Norf player was playing on initially so can understand why the umpire just called them all back, but you’re right we would have all been spewing if it was the other way around.