Post Match. Pies wallop Dees - All comments please.

[Donny]

Collingwood 20.13.133
Melbourne 14.7.91

Goals: Cox 5, H-E, Stevo 4, Thomas 3, Treloar, Adams, Mihocek, Pendles 1,

Disposals: Sidey, Treloar 32, De Goey 30, Pendles 23, Adams 24, Crisp 21, Phillips, Mayne 19, Daics, Cox 16, Thomas, Langdon 18, Maynard 16, Shaz 12, H-E 10, Howe 15, Grundy 13, Stevo 11,

Tackles: Treloar, Grundy 7, Stevo, Mayne, Crisp, De Goey 6

D/E: Langdon 85%, Crisp 82.6. Dunn, H-E 81.8, Maynard 81.3

AF Points: Sidey 121, De Goey 117, Cox 114, Treloar 110, Grundy 101.

Crowd: 83, 518

[Nuss]

[David]

He doesn’t get a lot of adulation, so I just want to say well done to Crisp. His work was absolutely outstanding today – one of our absolute guns.

[Magpietothemax]

[Magpietothemax]

[RudeBoy]

More than any other player, De Goey has transformed our team. Our weakness this year imo has been our failure to win centre clearances, even when Grundy wins the hitouts. Today we saw the value of the raging bull we've always known Jordy could become. His powerful inside work and running thru packs out of the centre was simply superb. If we can keep winning that battle, we can win the phucking flag.

[Nearly]

Just watched that over 8 beers in Phuket.

Some observations:

* four quarters effort. Yes! Thank you Lordy.
* we actually thrashed them. Scoring shots tell the stats tale but we moved the ball fluently at all times, theirs was stop start and their goals were often due to silly, unusual mistakes on our part
* we got the better of the umpiring. Not by much, but there were some 50-50 calls we were on the right side of. No impact on the game.
* De Goey was clearly best on ground but I have absolutely no issue with Coxy getting it. He was a star. Every touch showed something different, especially and including clean ground ball pickups and deft handballs. Look out!!
* Chris Mayne is a very smart, VERY GOOD footballer.
* Love Crispy
* How ironic that Tom Phillips now gets assigned one of their best and hence that player has no influence
* Love it when the ball is in Pendles hands. Allows one to take a breath from the frenetic play
* Derek Hine salivating at Grundy at pick 18, couldn’t get his name out fast enough, love it
* WHE. Certainty, capability, and precision. Thanks GWS.
* Jeremy Howe, would have loved this day more than anyone. Perhaps bar Lynden.

I could go on but I’m a happy Pie.

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

[AN_Inkling]

Our number of capable full forwards grows by the week.

Everyone is raving about JDG as a goal kicker after his couple of fives. Then it was WHE with 6 straight last week (he has been amazinig this year. 7th in the Coleman with 27 goals, one behind Darling who everyone is raving about).

Today though we start with Stephenson as our deepest forward and he towels up the supposed AA in Jetta. 7 shots at goal and kicked 4.

Then Cox steps up and dominates around goal with 5.

The key to us winning games is our mids getting on top and that's why JDG was the clear best afield. It was easier for our forwards because we smashed the Dees in clearances, especially winning in the centre 18-10. But, the sheer number of options we have up forward is making it very tough for the opposition to cover us once our mids get into space. And it's getting tougher the more our confidence grows.

[Mugwump]

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

[AN_Inkling]

Adams was very good today (I gave him 2 votes) as well as last week.

My main comment on Adams is that we need him in at the contest. The last two weeks he has been and has done well.

[HAL]

Who was that?

[Mugwump]

[Cam]

This consistent win shows a polish and consistency that we haven't had since '12.

I only wish Krak Magic was here to share the joy with us.