Post Match. Pies pip Lions - All comments please.

[Donny]

Collingwood 19.7.121
Brisbane 18.6.114

12 goalkickers: de Goey 5, Thomas 3, Stevo 2, H-E, Varcoe, Cox, Phillips, Howe, Mayne, Moore, Treloar, Pendles 1

Disposals: Sidey 34, Phillips 28, Treloar, Murray 24, Thomas 22, Stevo 21, de Goey, Pendles 20, Varcoe, Crisp 19, Mayne 18, Howe 17, Grundy, Blair 16, Adams, Shaz 14, Appleby, H-E 13,

D/E: Mayne 90%, Phillips 85.7, Howe 82.4, Thomas 82, Cox 90% 10 disposals, so 9 to advantage.

Tackles: Grundy 11, Treloar 7.

AF Points: Phillips 114, de Goey 113, Thomas 103, Sidey 110, Grundy 111, Murray 101, Treloar 100

[K]

[think positive]

Thanks Jezza, really appreciate it,

Good answers from the coach.

Like I said last night, I’d rather get a nea4 miss wake up call from the lowly lions than next week from the cats. Cheers

[ronrat]

The solution to the mid week ANZAC fixtures is too obvious for the 2000 dickheads working for the AFL. Port and the Suns get a bye for the China game the week after, Give the 4 Melbourne based clubs a bye the week after and those 4 plus Port and Suns play on the bye weekend. You could have a game friday, Saturday, and Sunday and one of those will be interstate, Say Collingwood- Richmond Friday. Gold Coast and Melbourne Sunday and Essendon-Port Saturday night. or some other mixture. The China can be scheduled anytime so have it say the Thursday after ANZAC day or even as the a monday night game before it. The timing of the bye is not that important. Pllayers have been training for 4 or 5 months. A 10 day break or 14 is hardly a difference. They can still piss off Bali for a week or whatever. The AFLPA mandate that all players get say 8 days off. They will still run and use weights etc, Just not have the body contact.

So what if only 7 games are on the weekend after. 2 or 3 are clashes anyway.

[BazBoy]

.03 and we are in eighth so not only the tight game against Lions but the Tigers flurry of red time goals puts us nineth

We were really fatigued and still got win but must start getting big wins soon

Let’s start with the Puddy Tats

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

It was ugly but to hold on after Brisbane's relentless pressure, bizarrely unusual straight kicking for goal and some dodgy home crowd umpiring, for me, that was just as impressive as our win in Adelaide. Only two players to mention, both for very different reasons.. Jordan DeGoey - beast, star and match winner. Mayne - if I see his name in the 22 again, I'll throw up!

[BazBoy]

Mayne was serviceable—-just and does not jell with our style or brand or whatever you like to call it

Our two standouts In Grundy and Steel played well but a little below what we have had from them—-no discredit as these two have worked tirelessly but fatigue hits all comers

There has to be a game where we can rest one or both

On the Mayne thing does Moore with game time fill the key CHF role ?

[Skids]

[Raw Hammer]

I get the impression Bucks either doesn’t like JDG or he doesn’t want to pump his tyres up.

He was a match winner, could’ve had 7 goals, and his response after being asked about his game was something along the lines of “He was poor last week...” Seriously, give him some credit FFS. I’m sure there’s a few defensive breakdowns he’s not happy about, the same reason he won’t pick Fasolo. But you put up with that when a player can kick 5.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

[Pies2016]

[think positive]

[foreigner]

Whatever is said, it was a riveting game and we won. I was there to witness it and it was great, never expected so many pies supporters but they turned out in numbers. Yes, it wasn't MCGesque, but they were singing good old Collingwood forever in the streets after the game.

Both teams made mistakes, but the goal kicking was superb. Any time we score 19.7 I'll take it (18.6 for the Lions). There were a lot of momentum swings and yet we persisted. It wasn't the Collingwood of last year, who would have faded away in the 3rd or 4th quarter.

We are a team on the rise, and this type of games will hold us in good stead and improve self-belief. We shouldn't expect the team to bulldoze everyone in front of them, that is to have unrealistic expectations with many teams being capable of toppling any other team. Only exception maybe the tigers at the moment with momentum and being extraordinarily luck on the injury front - surely it can't last and in a way it seems they are peaking at the wrong time - September is more than 3 months away.

It's promising to be an exciting season, after many disappointing ones, and I for one am going to enjoy the ride. There's lot of things the Pies do that we can look forward to watching.

[BBHS]

This game reminded me of the time Clinton Young made me kick my TV screen in. Foreigner is right, we have lost a lot of these games over the past 4 years. Another step in the right direction I believe.