Pre Match. Pies v. Saints. - all comments please.

[Donny]

Saturday. April 9.

Collingwood v. St Kilda

MCG. 1.45

Team:
B: Ben Sinclair, Nathan Brown, Tom Langdon
HB: Brayden Maynard, Ben Reid, Marley Williams
C: James Aish, Adam Treloar, Levi Greenwood
HF: Jarryd Blair, Darcy Moore, Jordan De Goey
F: Alex Fasolo, Travis Cloke, Jeremy Howe
Foll: Brodie Grundy, Scott Pendlebury, Taylor Adams
Int: Tyson Goldsack, Jack Crisp, Matthew Goodyear, Adam Oxley
Emg: Brent Macaffer, Jesse White, Alan Toovey

IN: Tyson Goldsack, Matthew Goodyear, Jeremy Howe, Brayden Maynard
OUT: Jackson Ramsay (knee), Jack Frost, Corey Gault, Brent Macaffer (omitted)
NEW: Matthew Goodyear (19, Calder U18), Jeremy Howe (25, Melbourne)

Let's hear ya !!

[Rick]

Three changes for now.

Gault out/ Howe in. Use Moore as back up ruckman.

Frost out/ Marsh in.

Macaffer out. Not sure who comes in, what position was Caff playing last night? Barely sighted him. Perhaps Sier or Wills if they play well today.

[Culprit]

Richo V Buckley. I will enjoy this clash. I have to barrack for the Pies and Richo. My feelings are we will start like we finished last night. This will be a tight contest as well.

[MightyMagpie]

I'm normally a (relative) ray of sunshine on this forum, but that win has to be reviewed hard like a loss.

Gault and Macaffer need to be dropped. Howe and Toovey to return. Toovey goes back freeing Williams to the midfield where his inefficient disposal is less costly, but his hard in and under work is valuable.

[swoop42]

The next two weeks are going to be interesting against two improving young sides.

Really nothing less than two wins against two teams we should be further advanced than in terms of our rebuild.

Important 2 weeks for the coach.

[September Zeros]

[simon tonna]

bring out the tackling bags this week. some of those don't argues from dusty were embarrassing.

[Born to Pie]

Reminded me of how we need a Jarrod Molloy/Dusty Martin type in this team

[RudeBoy]

I think we actually laid more tackles than the Tigers, though I agree many of them did not stick. Where we need to improve dramatically, is in contested ball, something which was a strength of ours last season. For two weeks in a row we've been badly beaten in contested ball.

[Clifton Hill-Billy]

Gault for Jessica
Howe for Caff
Tempted to drop Marley for Tooves, but can't see it happening
Must beat the 'Aints and beat them well!
Agree about the tackling bags, it was woeful how easily tigger players slipped through our tackles!

[Monco Matt]

One thing we will know for sure is that it will be another ugly game of mistake fueled slaughterhouse offal. The team that can put 10 minutes of footy together will probably run away with it. If we can just clean up our act a little bit it should be enough to scrape home by a few goals.

[RudeBoy]

Two changes must be made for next week.

Out: McAffer and Gault

In: Howe and Witts

I thought Aish was a passenger last night, but he deserves another week or two to settle in. I'm assuming Varcoe will not be available, but certainly his inclusion would improve our side considerably.

[MightyMagpie]

Howe reported in VFL. I don't think he wants to play seniors, just VFL and frisbee in the park.

[jackcass]

[perthmagpie]

Apparently Howe's striking report in VFL was an open handed slap to the belly and likely to be thrown out. The live chat in the VFL praccy match today said he was ok. From what I read there I would perhaps bring in Goldsack. Langdon may go back to VFL to remember how to defend. Hopefully Varcoe is back this week. Caff seem slow when you see him which is not often.