Game Day. Pies v. Eagles. Late changes, comments.

[Pies4shaw]

Optus Stadium, WA. 8.10

Collingwood v. West Coast.

B: Jack Crisp, Jordan Roughead, Jack Madgen
HB: Brayden Maynard, Darcy Moore, Isaac Quaynor
C: Chris Mayne, Adam Treloar, Josh Daicos
HF: Will Hoskin-Elliott, Brody Mihocek, Jaidyn Stephenson
F: Jamie Elliott, Mason Cox, Jordan De Goey
Foll: Brodie Grundy, Taylor Adams, Scott Pendlebury
Int: Levi Greenwood, John Noble, Josh Thomas, Darcy Cameron

In: Chris Mayne, Darcy Cameron
Out: Tyler Brown, Travis Varcoe (omitted)

Emerg: Tyler Brown, Callum Brown, Travis Varcoe, Mark Keane

Milestones:

The magnificent Brodie Grundy, star ruckman of his generation, will play his 150th game. He is over a year younger than Nathan Buckley was when he played his 150th AFL game.

Taylor Adams, our All-Australian sensation, also plays his 150th game of AFL (including his GWS games).

Let's hear ya !!

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

WCE by plenty - hopefully me and the bookies are totally wrong.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

We’re still capable of winning. That backline looks very strong to me and Mayne is back to his natural position on the wing. It’s our forward line that worries me. Everyone has to play above themselves and not allow McGovern and Barrass to mark everything. Also I reckon we’re one mid too short and risk being ran off our feet on the big Perth oval. Tim Kelly in particular is a worry because he’s running into form at the right time. You can forget putting a tag on him because whoever it is won’t be able to run with him.

[masoncox]

Will we get an honorable loss?
From the vanilla squad picked.

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

Don't agree with the changes, thought Tyler deserved to stay in, can see the reasoning behind Mayne (in a way), but why Cameron? I just dont get it

[Haff]

We couldn’t be any more underdogs. Recent smashing and mental scaring this team has caused us. On their home deck. In form (at least at home) against our barely going season. BS quarantine situation.

It’s absolutely prime for the biggest upset in recent memory.

Eagles by 70.

[derkd]

Good luck tonight Collingwood, and congrats to Grundy. I too hope I am wrong and the boys can pull a victory out of the blue.


Heart says maybe somehow....but my head and the stats say we will be a 15 - 30 point loss. Too much has to go right and we have too many players who are either injured or just really out of form. As i have stated before it really won't shock me if Grundy has been carrying an injury all season...he copped a cork or a leg injury very early in the season as I recall...Richmond game??? Has not looked right since.

[magpieazza]

Do you think Jeremy Howe and Steele Sidebottom would make a big difference to this team ?
I was thinking we are always cursed with some sort of injury crisis but we are not far away from full strength!!

Its a good team on paper but maybe we arent gelling as a team this year...too much in eachothers face ?? idk

Would love to have seen Bianco Wilson Rantall Keane Tohill played to get a gauge on them.

[Magpietothemax]

[derkd]

[Haff]

Coaches box mate. 2018 we got hit with injuries and Bucks finally showed his worth as a coach and let them play on instinct and much more attacking. For some reason he’s gone back to this uber defensive game that I feel the team is just unsure with.

That said the whole comp is uber defensive. The game is really in a poor state.

[Raw Hammer]

[magpieazza]

[Pies4shaw]

Collingwood's defensive running might be a bit less hopeless against them this time, because Scharenberg and Wills aren't selected. The lack of pace of those two players was responsible, directly, for 10 of the first 12 West Coast goals the last time we played them.

[Jezza]

Not expecting much. I think West Coast will win comfortably.

In saying that, football is a strange game and I hope we can pull it off somehow.