Review Round 7 = Essendon 85-85 Collingwood

[ottoman]

Am I the only one that feels Collingwood can’t mark s**t in the air? Every game I watch our players get outmarked constantly. Or when they chase and cause the opposition to fumble or drop the ball somehow the opposition consistently manages to get it out and onwards anyways.

The skill has just dropped wayyyy off from 2023.

The highlighted bit was doing my head in. I'm glad someone else also noticed because I was thinking it must be just me because no one else is talking about it.

 

[MagpieJo]

my pics from the game! cheers

full album:

2024.04.25 ANZAC day draw!

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special parade for me this year, our good friend Peter was honoured









Howe gets beheaded...




looks for sympathy....



didnt get any!




















SPENT





how we all watched the goal kicking in the last minutes!





well done kid!















Darcy checks he's ok

















cheers!

 

[Chameleon75]

my pics from the game! cheers

full album:

2024.04.25 ANZAC day draw!

Explore this photo album by joanne carol on Flickr!

www.flickr.com

special parade for me this year, our good friend Peter was honoured









Howe gets beheaded...




looks for sympathy....



didnt get any!




















SPENT





how we all watched the goal kicking in the last minutes!





well done kid!















Darcy checks he's ok

















cheers!

great shots as always, shame you didn’t get the Elliott mark, it would’ve been exquisite timing

 

[manicpie]

I'd put Hill in the centre bounce before Noble. Bloody hell.

I didn't even think of that bro, it's a yes from me

 

[NMBB]

Who wears orange pants?

 

[Rooosterboy]

The highlighted bit was doing my head in. I'm glad someone else also noticed because I was thinking it must be just me because no one else is talking about it.

I mentioned this countless times during the game, it was frustrating

 

[MagpieJo]

great shots as always, shame you didn’t get the Elliott mark, it would’ve been exquisite timing

Truth!
I was too busy cheering and going nuts! Very nerve wracking game! And thanks, cheers

 

[MagpieJo]

The highlighted bit was doing my head in. I'm glad someone else also noticed because I was thinking it must be just me because no one else is talking about it.

I agree with both of you. I was screaming stop bombing it in, for one thing we are really down an experienced tall each end and it’s killing us. For me the team look exhausted physically and mentally. 2 tough seasons, a huge rush, a lot straight back in the gym, early season start, travelling and three games in 12 days, now 2 in 6. I noticed in my pics the usual run with safety net team has dropped off, lagging, or even watching, they look buggered to me. Q is huge, but he still has to sprint.

 

[ThePhantom777]

True, but they always seem to play above themselves on Anzac Day. Fully expect them to be hot garbage by the end of the year just like they always are.

Yep. Kingy said it was their 3rd best clearance game in last 5 years

In the first minute here

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

Sort of, I just realised that I'm getting old and life is too short. I'm enjoying trying to see all sides of things

Nothing like trying to cram new words into your brain at a time of life when you are least likely to remember them.

 

[NMBB]

As part of my vocabulary improvement mission, I'm going to pinch the word unhinged but I also think it's unwarranted

At times on this very site word use is unnecessarily unfathomable and almost unstable

 

[manicpie]

At times on this very site word use is unnecessarily unfathomable and almost unstable

Thank you, both in the book

 

[Chameleon75]

At times on this very site word use is unnecessarily unfathomable and almost unstable

 

[magpienato]

Fingers crossed this is true but last year was plenty without him and still won. Including the GF. I think the biggest loss to our team and structure is Murphy.

Agree, both of them coming back in the leadup to Finals would make us play 2-rungs higher than we are on the ladder. To give McStay his credit though he played in both the QF and PF and I'm pretty confident in hindsight that we wouldn't have won those games without his impact or at least presence. And for that reason I think he is arguably the key to us going back-to-back come September. As Fly says, just need to qualify and let everything else fall into place.

 

[Pie eyed]

Merret?? Martin, Langford & Stringer were all much better than he was to me.

Langford clearly I thought.


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[loki04]

So I tend to watch for team actions and players that impact rather than look at stats.

So do I as well as add stats in for context.

Hence I rate Beau Mc's work highly.

I also think sometimes people can be too wrapped up in a player just harassing or running lines and not actually impacting with it (great effort not impact).

Also some people have too much stock and focus on defensive acts and under rate the impact a clean player who has score board actually provides.

A timely goal can settle the team, break opposition momentum, start your run, etc
Sure defensive parts of the game are important but equally if you can't score it's no good.

 

[adammania9]

They aren’t

They're going to play finals. They're playing good footy and are building.

 

[Chilli Con Incarnate]

It was a fantastic game. The pressure was enormous most of the game and the players felt that heat. If you were there and still think that was a fumbly, mistake riddled game I don't have much faith in your judgement. Pressure leads to mistakes. Why did Beau fumble that gimme in the goal square? Referred pressure and an anxiety to kick the goal before he had the pill.

When some of our best are fumbling and turning the pill over there is usually a good reason.

If you enjoy fumble ball I question your judgement. These players are paid to deliver at the highest level. There's nothing better in sport than watching champions clutch moments under pressure. It's how we won the flag last year. Skills wise it was an average game on ANZAC day.