Pre-Match. Magpies v. Bombers

[piedys]

[Take_a_Screamer]

Oscar Steene took a screamer, so I updated my avatar.
He's doing OK but still has a long way to go in the rucking dept.

[piedys]

Reckon we are one more KPP injury from him getting selected.

[Piesnchess]

Great to see the Bluescum lose badly, always great when we are still yet to play. Their fans going ballistic on Bigfooty, " Voss is shit, hes useless, we should have got Lyon, our gameplan is crap, blah blah" makes great entertainment reading. Thank heavens we appointed Fly and not Voss, we dodged a bullet there for sure. Back to our game, im bit more confident now, I cant see Dons backs holding the terrible trio, Jamie, Bobby, and Jumpin Jack, plus Ash of course, with Checker causing some mayhem. We can and will win this, our Anzac day record is excellent. if we all play at our intensity unrelenting pressure, we should get home comfortably.

[Magpietothemax]

Don't think we were ever in danger of selecting Voss.
I think the only other possible contendors were Kingsley and Yze.
But yeah, we got the gem.

[Rd10.1998_11.1#36]

[Jezza]

[Prexm68]

[the fuzz]

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

I know we are Collingwood but what style are we employing under Craig McRae.



I see alot of the way Brisbane Lions 2001-2003 play.



Kind of a good mix of control and manic plus that hard edge.



I would like to think we have that McRae Brisbane lions influence about us circa 2001-2003.



Im not fussed if we dont play like richmond 2017,19 and 20.



I feel Lions brand of footy was way better then both cats,hawks and lions.



By the way i liked hawks 2012-2015 footy tho.



But for the Pies under Fly we are more like the Lions of early 00s.



Pressure and always got that harder edge to us and that run and gun of the tigers say 2017,2019.



So what do we think we are like.



By the way i think we are developing our very own style of play and brand of footy and like its hard to compare us to other teams brand of footy.

[Take_a_Screamer]

Sidebottom provides update on Collingwood’s ongoing illness issues.
He doesn’t seem overly concerned about the overall health of the club.

* McRae has confirmed Kreuger's fitness, confident that he will play against Essendon.
* De Goey is good to go

* And Darcy Moore not mentioned?
(I assume he's OK too, as per Darcy's statement on Ch9)

Sidebottom also addressed Collingwood’s current ruck situation, placing confidence in the pairing of Billy Frampton and Nathan Kreuger...“They’re both two guys that will have a crack for us, they’ll just play a role like everyone else.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/04/23/sidebottom-provides-update-on-collingwoods-ongoing-illness-issues/

[What'sinaname]

Ins: Jordan De Goey, Nathan Kreuger, Trey Ruscoe

Ruscoe comes in for Murph.

[Take_a_Screamer]

FB: Isaac Quaynor, Darcy Moore, Trey Ruscoe
HB: Brayden Maynard, Billy Frampton, John Noble
C: Steele Sidebottom, Nick Daicos, Josh Daicos
HF: Bobby Hill, Brody Mihocek, Jamie Elliott
FF: Beau McCreery, Jordan De Goey, Jack Ginnivan
FOL: Ash Johnson, Scott Pendlebury, Jack Crisp

IC: Tom Mitchell, Nathan Kreuger, Will Hoskin-Elliott, Oleg Markov
EMG: Trent Bianco, Finlay Macrae, Will Kelly, Reef McInnes

IN: Jordan De Goey, Nathan Kreuger, Trey Ruscoe
OUT: Daniel McStay (Inj), Nathan Murphy (Inj), Taylor Adams (Susp), Tom Wilson (Sub)

[Born to Pie]

Listing McStay as an "out" seems strange, it's like it's been a bit longer than our last game.

Nine days between games and he was subbed out in the first quarter against the Saints makes it seems a long time ago.

[inxs88]

You sense Macrae (the Finlay kind) shall be our sub.