Oppo Camp 2014 non-Geelong AFL match and general discussion

[Bobby_]

Podsiadly looks finished. Great career he had but I think the Cats decision to let him go was the right timing.

 

[BotsMaster]

Their record v Swans in Sydney is amazing.

Agreed. I was put off by last weeks display by teh Pies that I thought they were no good.

Could just be that the Swans aren't used to having Buddy down forward yet to be effective.

 

[barmy44]

Podsiadly looks finished. Great career he had but I think the Cats decision to let him go was the right timing.

agreed, thought the same thing watching today.

 

[Big Tom 2013]

i feel dirty, i actually agree with chins re variable pricing (does anyone know if i can actually just walk up and scan next week for this "a game"??):

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/collingwood-president-eddie-mcguire-says-new-pricing-system-may-explain-low-crowd-figures/story-fni5f22o-1226868551583?from=herald sun_rss

Do you have a H and A membership Daz? It's our away game vs the Pies. Haven't seen anywhere as yet that there'll be a surcharge.

Not sure how I feel about charging more for the 'blockbuster' games. Suppose these games have more entertainment value, but still in 2 minds about it.

 

[you pick one]

Is it only me that thinks every other club plays out of their skins against us and reverts back to shit the following week.

 

[ATSAM]

On other teams players did any one read ex captain Collingwoods comments on Scarlett in the article in-where else- the Herald Sun yesterday? Maxwell retains his anger at all things Geelong with his dig about giving back to your junior team. Seems to have missed in his little noggin that Scarlett now does give back to a team he played early games with.
Maxwell , remember his run with that awful loping style down the ground one minute before the siren in 2011 GF bouncing the ball as if the Colliwobbles were 38 points up, is such a prat.

 

[Connoisseur]

Podsiadly looks finished. Great career he had but I think the Cats decision to let him go was the right timing.

I agree with this but I derive no pleasure in seeing a Geelong Premiership player struggling, besides moneybags who are happy to infer the GFC treated them badly to deflect attention from their greed.

Whereas Pods is all class thus I wish him all the best and hope he improves his output (not against when he plays Geelong of course)for the remainder of the season.

 

[winty]

No i mean frontal pressure from our forward 6 to force turnovers and not allowing them a plus one. And separating their defenders.

And isolating Maxwell one out with an opponent, and sitting back with a bag of popcorn and watch his opponent dominate.

 

[darren forssman]

Do you have a H and A membership Daz? It's our away game vs the Pies. Haven't seen anywhere as yet that there'll be a surcharge.

Not sure how I feel about charging more for the 'blockbuster' games. Suppose these games have more entertainment value, but still in 2 minds about it.

i will have a melbourne 11 game membership, so normally i could just scan in...but my bro sent me a list of all games at the g and it appears that there is now some grading system which cuts out just walking up. but it is very vague.

 

[BotsMaster]

Is it only me that thinks every other club plays out of their skins against us and reverts back to shit the following week.

Been happening every week since 2009.

 

[Willo_]

And isolating Maxwell one out with an opponent, and sitting back with a bag of popcorn and watch his opponent dominate.

The 2009 prelim game plan

 

[winty]

Podsiadly looks finished. Great career he had but I think the Cats decision to let him go was the right timing.

Maybe he's no good any more as the number 1 key forward. He might improve when Tex Walker gets back and he takes the 2nd best defender instead of the best each week.

 

[Teriyakicat]

Is it only me that thinks every other club plays out of their skins against us and reverts back to shit the following week.

No- it's not just you. Everyone wants to be us and also beat us. Don't know why they can't go and pick on the Hawks or Freo sometimes!

 

[vealesy]

No- it's not just you. Everyone wants to be us and also beat us. Don't know why they can't go and pick on the Hawks or Freo sometimes!

Its worked out in our favour in the long run.

 

[Willo_]

Maybe he's no good any more as the number 1 key forward. He might improve when Tex Walker gets back and he takes the 2nd best defender instead of the best each week.

He got arguably our number 2 last week...

 

[Teriyakicat]

He got arguably our number 2 last week...

Our #2 >>> most opposition's #1

 

[Partridge]

Podsiadly looks finished. Great career he had but I think the Cats decision to let him go was the right timing.

It's starting to look like that. I'd love to see him get to 100 games, but I'm not sure if Adelaide will give them to him on current form.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

It's starting to look like that. I'd love to see him get to 100 games, but I'm not sure if Adelaide will give them to him on current form.

I've been thinking the same. To be honest, I thought he needed another 50+ goal year to even be a consideration to retain at the end of 2013 and by the end, the decision to part ways with him seemed as straightforward to me as the decision on Josh Hunt. I was glad that Adelaide picked him up, but 100 games isn't looking like a formality for Pods now. He might not play every week now, but I find it hard to believe that they'll drop him, while Lynch and Walker are still out (which could be a month or more of his spot not being under scrutiny, until Lynch gets back, then if he can get a couple of twos and maybe a 3-4 in that time, he's probably safe until Walker gets back about mid-year). They'd probably love to put the acid on him, but dropping him means they'd have to put their faith in Jenkins/McKernan/Johnston. Jenkins wasn't picked and McKernan/Johnston were rubbish as well.

So, he'll get games out of necessity for the moment (which will probably get him to 90 at least until he starts to feel some serious pressure) and, following that, he's got two things in his favour: a two-year contract and that he'll no doubt have the backing of Sanderson, having had a pretty long working relationship with him. I expect he'll grind it out to 95-odd by the end of this year and then a few as an emergency in 2015, along with a farewell game or two, which will hopefully get him over the line.

 

[Partridge]

I've been thinking the same. To be honest, I thought he needed another 50+ goal year to even be a consideration to retain at the end of 2013 and by the end, the decision to part ways with him seemed as straightforward to me as the decision on Josh Hunt. I was glad that Adelaide picked him up, but 100 games isn't looking like a formality for Pods now. He might not play every week now, but I find it hard to believe that they'll drop him, while Lynch and Walker are still out (which could be a month or more of his spot not being under scrutiny, until Lynch gets back, then if he can get a couple of twos and maybe a 3-4 in that time, he's probably safe until Walker gets back about mid-year). They'd probably love to put the acid on him, but dropping him means they'd have to put their faith in Jenkins/McKernan/Johnston. Jenkins wasn't picked and McKernan/Johnston were rubbish as well.

So, he'll get games out of necessity for the moment (which will probably get him to 90 at least until he starts to feel some serious pressure) and, following that, he's got two things in his favour: a two-year contract and that he'll no doubt have the backing of Sanderson, having had a pretty long working relationship with him. I expect he'll grind it out to 95-odd by the end of this year and then a few as an emergency in 2015, along with a farewell game or two, which will hopefully get him over the line.

Even with the 2 year deal, do you think if he got to 100 games this year he might pull the pin himself? If there was one player in the competition who would put the club first and gracefully accept the reality, I reckon Pods would be it.

 

[Partridge]

Is it only me that thinks every other club plays out of their skins against us and reverts back to shit the following week.

Sometimes. I think we make more of it than it really is. Adelaide certainly weren't at their best last week for instance, and definitely not in the last quarter.

 

[Vdubs]

No- it's not just you. Everyone wants to be us and also beat us. Don't know why they can't go and pick on the Hawks or Freo sometimes!

When that happens, we will no longer be the team to beat, might as well enjoy being the hunted, means we are worthy of being the hunted. If/when it happens, we will be losing > winning.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Even with the 2 year deal, do you think if he got to 100 games this year he might pull the pin himself? If there was one player in the competition who would put the club first and gracefully accept the reality, I reckon Pods would be it.

I reckon he's the sort of player who'd pull the pin on 97, instead of feeling like he was being gifted the 100-game milestone. He'd at least have to feel like he's contributing to keep going. Having said that, he played a fair bit of ressies at Geelong and perhaps he'd be in a position to do the same in 2015 at the Crows, as a permanent reserves player (while still a contracted senior player).

I mean, he'd be grateful to the Crows for giving him the opportunity, but walking away from a player's contract (probably a few hundred k a year) would be difficult when he doesn't really have any tight bonds with Adelaide at the moment. Unless they came to an agreement for him to get the same/similar salary to take a S&C role at the club, he'd be a better man than me to accept that.

 

[winty]

Anyone give Melbourne any sort of chance today? Got a feeling the Eagles will smash them.

 

[Catastic82]

Anyone give Melbourne any sort of chance today? Got a feeling the Eagles will smash them.

Melb will get thrashed , won't be 186 but it'll be 100 points easily

 

[catempire]

Those sounds you can hear are the pangs of Paul Roos regret.