Autopsy Round 22 = Hawthorn 110-46 Collingwood

[PonsfordMagpie]

Total horror show. We’ve lost our identity of what made us great.

Losing Howe in the first minute set the tone for the rest of the match. Instead of it galvanising us, it broke us.

It looks like we’re physically and mentally cooked. Such a shame the season is going down the drain fast after so much promise initially.

It’s going to be a long weekend.

 

[unplugged]

Strange old night. Have had about an hour and a half to calm down knowing we were absolutely no chance.

Firstly, you've got to feel for Howe. Finally comes back and we're a bees dick off a best 23 for Adelaide next week and down he goes within 90 seconds.

Similar effort to last week, although even worse on a 5 say break, we were flat again. Absolutely no pressure put on in the middle, soft half-hearted tackling efforts all over the ground, no aerial presence, the list goes on. Their mids waltzed out of the middle all night and hit up their forwards without any dramas.

And then we got so far behind we had players trying to do too much and it worsened.

I get we had a similar slump in 2023 but nothing like this. We might turn this around but we've seen an over-reliance in sports science this year which has meant resting, loads lessened, loads increased, etc. rather than just cracking in and playing your best team to win each week.

Happy if someone tells me otherwise but now we need to win the next 2 or we miss the top 4.

All in all a very embarrassing night on Steele's 350th. He'd probably rather his 300th where he ****ed his knee and we won.

 

[Soaring Magpie]

Defenders can’t defend.
Midfield is slow.
Forwards can’t kick straight.

We are in all sorts of trouble.

 

[AmericanMustard]

Newcombe is still a campaigner

 

[doofdoof]

May 30, 2025

Collingwood 107 vs Hawthorn 56.

Our last dominant win this year.

 

[coolidge1000]

We look so slow , our ball use going fwd is deplorable just bomb it in high and long same out of defence we look a shell of the side we have been

 

[cityslick1]

Howe injury no way contributed to this in a material way.

Writing has been on the wall for weeks. Whilst fly’s presser will be v v interesting

Too many best 22 players going backwards. Moore, Long, crisp, de Goey, WHE a spectator, and of course Houston…. We def do have a problem.

Age and lack of pace has finally caught up with us. And confidence is shot. Fumbles and slips everywhere.

Maybe some of the ‘showing love for another’ sessions need to be replaced with intensity and basics training. Eg hawks front and centre at every contest. Not for us. And STOP bombing the ball into the fking forward line! It doesn’t work… never has.

Would be an amazing story to come back from this in the finals. We wait, in hope….

Go pies

 

[CanadianPie]

Thank Christ that's over

 

[Bramax]

Total horror show. We’ve lost our identity of what made us great.

Losing Howe in the first minute set the tone for the rest of the match. Instead of it galvanising us, it broke us.

It looks like we’re physically and mentally cooked. Such a shame the season is going down the drain fast after so much promise initially.

It’s going to be a long weekend.

Long week.

 

[Exambolor]

Also all the campaigners on here to take joy out of when this side loses, congratulations glad you enjoyed tonight and you know who you are and you should be ashamed of yourselves (I’m fuming at the loss btw but goddamn some of the no names that pop up to get their take in is annoying)

I’ve also gotta get this off my chest too, some again the campaigners here blaming Bobby for this slide can go and get stuffed as far as I’m concerned. We’re not Carlton fans targeting McKay when he had his issues, we’re not bloody like that.

 

[Go Woods]

Hard to see us winning another game all of a sudden.
We'll be lucky to qualify for a home elimination final now.

 

[JoinDate]

Nah, that was good. I really enjoyed it.

 

[satty]

I would be very surprised if the players don't call a players only meeting after this. They have a major elephant in the room that they need to address, they are no longer playing for each other, show absolutely no effort.

 

[TradeDraft]

so we have given up on the 2025 Season

We at moment are the Worse Team in the AFL

Don’t really care at the moment for rest of the season

 

[TradeDraft]

Hard to see us winning another game all of a sudden.
We'll be lucky to qualify for a home elimination final now.

Might as well miss finals

 

[MoreMoore]

We lost this on selection
Absolutely the slowest team we could have picked.
Titch is done, Long out of form

 

[Kreme Pie]

That game stinks. Like someone ate a dead rat that had cancer, digested it, then just took a steaming dump on top of a plate full of rotten fish heads.

 

[gouki88]

 

[Obese Arachnid]

Someone needs to be held accountable!

 

[peter9789]

When does the cricket season start?

 

[PiesHateU2]

Season over. We'll limp into finals (because we won enough games in the early part) and get eliminated.
Might as well send the VFL team to Adelaide next week. Absolute whooping coming up

 

[JoinDate]

Someone needs to be held accountable!

I blame your sheep!

 

[Seedsman_]

Strange old night. Have had about an hour and a half to calm down knowing we were absolutely no chance.

Firstly, you've got to feel for Howe. Finally comes back and we're a bees dick off a best 23 for Adelaide next week and down he goes within 90 seconds.

Similar effort to last week, although even worse on a 5 say break, we were flat again. Absolutely no pressure put on in the middle, soft half-hearted tackling efforts all over the ground, no aerial presence, the list goes on. Their mids waltzed out of the middle all night and hit up their forwards without any dramas.

And then we got so far behind we had players trying to do too much and it worsened.

I get we had a similar slump in 2023 but nothing like this. We might turn this around but we've seen an over-reliance in sports science this year which has meant resting, loads lessened, loads increased, etc. rather than just cracking in and playing your best team to win each week.

Happy if someone tells me otherwise but now we need to win the next 2 or we miss the top 4.

All in all a very embarrassing night on Steele's 350th. He'd probably rather his 300th where he ****ed his knee and we won.

Interestingly enough I listened to Daniel Hoyne on Tuesday and he said that we were statistically better over the last month than in that form slump of 2023. Well it’s clear that stats don’t tell the full story.

 

[migz]

Every player has really dropped their ****n bundle. I don't understand how we go from being the most structured team to an absolute shambles.

How many ****n times were our mids under no immediate pressure but panicked and turned it over? ****n RELAX and take a moment to think. The hawks drew us to every contest and shared it around. Whereas we just kept panicking. Infuriating to watch us play such dumb footy.

 

[Knoxy]

That was our worst ever loss under Fly. Players looked rattled and lost right from the start. Howe being KO'd in the opening minute didn't help.

Forward line was dysfunctional and defence was a disaster, however being smashed in the middle made both look worse.

Can't think of any positives, other than our season is still technically in our hands with two games left. However it will take a miracle to beat Adelaide, hell I don't even feel confident about the Dees now.

Anyway, onto next week lads.