76woodenspooners
Brownlow Medallist
This Friday night a very young team of Collingwood players will go out to attempt to do what generations of Collingwood's finest have done before them - to qualify for finals footy.
It's not going to be easy for them. Many of their team-mates who have done it all before - many times over - won't be there on the field to support them.
Yeah, there is a pallor of doom and gloom around the club at the moment. This season has fallen well behind previous years' performances. The high expectations of 'Premiership or bust' by many the Collingwood faithful haven't been met. We've got Ed's 'please explain' forum coming up. Injuries have already dealt a crushing blow to our 2015 season...
... Stuff 2015!
It's 2014, and we're still in it!
Let's have our lads answer the 'please explain' when they take to the field Friday evening. We ain't bust yet.
Sure, finals qualification isn't entirely in our hands. We need to climb a spot on the ladder. But heck, the team in our way have been the biggest chokers over the last 30 years and they're playing the ladder leaders away.
This weekend Collingwood will be fighting to finish eighth and Richmond will be fighting to finish ninth.
The team we have to beat Friday night are the reigning Premiers and have been our bogey team for years. But if you're looking for inspiration for us beating Hawthorn, go watch the last match we defeated them - 2011 Preliminary Final.
This weekend Collingwood's nine year unbroken finals record will be in the hands of many players who have not been there before.
It will be a young Collingwood team who will need to find a way.
Tim Broomhead
Jarrod Witts
Tom Langdon
(Love this image of our pick 65 - only seven games then - dishing it out to Dale Thomas: "You're just a bogan from Douin")
Jack Frost
Jackson Ramsay
Ben Kennedy
Add to that players who have had the barest of taste of finals action before.
Brodie Grundy
Josh Thomas
Ben Sinclair
Sam Dwyer
Marley Williams
Lachlan Keeffe
Get behind your team this week and pump them up!
Get your Collingwood mates to the footy. Fill the MCG with a sea of Black and White. Be proud and shout loud - as all good barrackers should!
Don't leave anything behind in 2014
You can be promised this: If our young team do qualify for finals this year, Friday night will be a game for the ages. It'll be the night we close a chapter of our past, and begin a bright new chapter of our future.
Be there!
Post your support in this thread.
Killjoys will have their Bigfooty accounts microwaved.
#gopies
It's not going to be easy for them. Many of their team-mates who have done it all before - many times over - won't be there on the field to support them.
Yeah, there is a pallor of doom and gloom around the club at the moment. This season has fallen well behind previous years' performances. The high expectations of 'Premiership or bust' by many the Collingwood faithful haven't been met. We've got Ed's 'please explain' forum coming up. Injuries have already dealt a crushing blow to our 2015 season...
... Stuff 2015!
It's 2014, and we're still in it!
Let's have our lads answer the 'please explain' when they take to the field Friday evening. We ain't bust yet.
Sure, finals qualification isn't entirely in our hands. We need to climb a spot on the ladder. But heck, the team in our way have been the biggest chokers over the last 30 years and they're playing the ladder leaders away.
This weekend Collingwood will be fighting to finish eighth and Richmond will be fighting to finish ninth.
The team we have to beat Friday night are the reigning Premiers and have been our bogey team for years. But if you're looking for inspiration for us beating Hawthorn, go watch the last match we defeated them - 2011 Preliminary Final.
This weekend Collingwood's nine year unbroken finals record will be in the hands of many players who have not been there before.
It will be a young Collingwood team who will need to find a way.
Tim Broomhead
Jarrod Witts
Tom Langdon
(Love this image of our pick 65 - only seven games then - dishing it out to Dale Thomas: "You're just a bogan from Douin")
Jack Frost
Jackson Ramsay
Ben Kennedy
Add to that players who have had the barest of taste of finals action before.
Brodie Grundy
Josh Thomas
Ben Sinclair
Sam Dwyer
Marley Williams
Lachlan Keeffe
Get behind your team this week and pump them up!
Get your Collingwood mates to the footy. Fill the MCG with a sea of Black and White. Be proud and shout loud - as all good barrackers should!
Don't leave anything behind in 2014
You can be promised this: If our young team do qualify for finals this year, Friday night will be a game for the ages. It'll be the night we close a chapter of our past, and begin a bright new chapter of our future.
Be there!
Post your support in this thread.
Killjoys will have their Bigfooty accounts microwaved.
#gopies
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