Herald Scum Reporting

[Carro]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/collingwoods-kicking-problems-wont-be-helped-by-recruits-says-david-king/story-fndv8g1a-1227261229695

Happy for everyone to write us off, let us prove them wrong like 2002.

Andrew Rule writing an article on the future of Bucks? This is not Underbelly.

[doriswilgus]

Wow,the Herald Sun is really on our case this year,aren't they?

It was also an odd thing for David King to say about our kicking not improving this pre-season.As far as i know,we've only played one game so far,and we won that by 44 points.So on what basis does he make that claim?

[think positive]

Against the premiers!

Hahaha let em keep going, can't wait to rub their noses in it!

[Carro]

he doesn't have much to go on to say our kicking has not improved. Based on one game, it had improved as well.

He should stick to groping women at the precinct hotel.

[Stupied]

I love it that everyone is writing us off before the season starts. The radar is high and we're flying around under it

[HAL]

You love it that everyone is writing us off the season starts. What do you like about it that everyone is writing us off the season starts so much?

[The Prototype]

Collingwood have been working on the kicking problems according to some players at training, so it seems they're addressing things.

[swoop42]

Given an AFL average run with injuries then I expect to play finals.

Keep Pendlebury, Swan, Sidebottom, Elliott, Cloke, Reid and Brown on the park for most of the season and it's still a very good foundation to build on, throw in Varcoe and Greenwood to help lessen the loss of Beams and Lumumba, Adams to step up and replace Ball, the natural improvement of second year + players in Grundy, Witts, Broomhead, Kennedy, Langdon, Seedsman etc and some promising new recruits like De Goey then there is a lot to like and look forward to.

Stop the flow of injuries to key players, see some genuine improvement from our young players and implement a more effective game plan that is executed with a better level of efficiency then I believe we are going to surprise a few of these so called media experts.

P.S-While it would be unwise to think they will provide any significant improvement to the side this season it's still exciting to know we head into the year with 4 top 10 draft selections yet to make there senior debut.

Throw in Maynard and Marsh to the mix as well.

[watt price tully]

I don't see a problem with David Kings comments. He's used some data to back what we know: we were a poor kicking team last year, in fact appalling.

Greenwood & Crisp are not known for their elite kicking skills. We all know that. Varcoe I thought is a better kick. Nothing wrong with that.

However, our recruiting extends beyond those players mentioned.

We need to earn our place in the top 8 this year, nobody is going to gift it to us. I reckon we are outside top 8 without a game being played.

Having said that, I'll be barracking like hell & hoping we do really well this year including a top 8 position.

Without injuries & a reasonable draw who knows?

[perthmagpie]

Weird how short peoples' memories are. Before our injuries hit us so badly we looked like the fifth or sixth best team. You'd think Port won ten more games than us and finished on top with twenty wins. Fact is they won only fourteen games. The gap between how good we are capable of being when we actually have most of our team on the field and these other top teams is not that much. If we can just have one year of stable team selection then these experts will look stupid.

[partypie]

Herald Sun trying to sell papers

[Darkstranger]

[quote="watt price tully"]I don't see a problem with David Kings comments. He's used some data to back what we know: we were a poor kicking team last year, in fact appalling.

Greenwood & Crisp are not known for their elite kicking skills. We all know that. Varcoe I thought is a better kick. Nothing wrong with that.

However, our recruiting extends beyond those players mentioned.

We need to earn our place in the top 8 this year, nobody is going to gift it to us. I reckon we are outside top 8 without a game being played.

Having said that, I'll be barracking like hell & hoping we do really well this year including a top 8 position.




Good on you mate.

Without injuries & a reasonable draw who knows?[/quote]

[Dave The Man]

David King is a Know all who Knows F**K All.


He is so far up himself

[Brenny]

^ Yet David King is actually pretty spot on with most of what he says... Like years he has predicted us to do well.

He's not anti Collingwood by any stretch, he's just giving an informed opinion based on stats from 2014.

There is nothing wrong with that!

You didn't have to be a rocket scientist to work out our effective kicking in 2014 was pathetic. You didn't even have to look at the stats.

To be honest, I don't rate any games in the NAB cup. We won in 2009 we won the flag in 2010. Carlton win, as do Brisbane and finish down the bottom. It tells us nothing.

[Dave The Man]