Lock in his comeback game in round 2 as Collingwood at the MCG. The AFL won't be able to help themselves.
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Player Watch Izak Rankine Part II
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No doubt
Not his fault Nicks can't develop a squad or coach.
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After watching the first two games, I am not convinced having Rankine would have changed the results. We were never in it, we never matched the intensity or pressure. Our skills were shit all over the park and the coaching and game plan was so sub par. His loss didnt help but we had lost both games before the game started.
Thats a fair assessment really, but it wouldn't have hurt
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Not just missing izak but all the bullshit media pile on that followed killed our focus and we looked spooked no end from that point. Even having to have multiple people commenting on the booing of last week (and then having that critiqued ad nauseam) was just more distraction and forced repeantant defensive whackamole. Its been a shit show from the moment it was eluded to on the Sunday night after the original pies game.
Talking to a Collingwood supporting work colleague just today - I said I don't think Rankine would have made much difference in either final but he said the whole thing was a complete deflater on finishing top - felt sorry for us and reckons it was a stitch up
Need to be more resilient though and need a top line mid - (Noah Anderson would be nice about now, eh?)
What if she’s a bit of a paparazzi? Do people now need to respect paparazzi in their place of work?
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Dead set stitch up
McRae is campaigner. Everyone thinks he's warm and fuzzy, he's a ruthless campaigner
He will go to any length to get an advantage, as will many others in league
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Don’t they count Ala Dangerfield
This has to be the weirdest argument ive ever seen on here. Thats saying something, I hang in the political threads most of the time.
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Carn mate .. seriously
That clown has an account from 2004 with only a few posts
Probably a ford cortina burner
tbh i didnt look.
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All good .. that old account of the ford cortina got yeeted
****en dopey ****en power clown
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The fact the Rankine suspension and subsequent "villains of the league" narrative derailed the playing group says more about how mentally weak we are than the on-field impact of Rankine.
I dont think it derailed us at all, we just simply didnt have the extra gear our opponents did..... or the coaching nous.
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0 - 4 with both teams (SANFL and AFL) going out in straight sets isn’t a great look.
It does ask the question about the right preparation during that period
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Not really
The SANFL side played well against Glenelg and gone boned towards the end, didnt play well last week granted.
Squad goes down with flu, you'd imagine it affected some of the SANFL players as well.
To me it goes further back than the Rankine stuff. We cooked our players by not rotating and managing more players.
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Fair enough and happy with that explanation.
I mean you might not be wrong either, it might even be a mixture of both
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I hope I’m wrong, but I’m getting camp vibes from it that the players are pissed off about it.
Could be absolutely nothing and they just sucked in the finals.
I dont think the fallout will be that bad, they'll get over it quickly enough
Yeah they do get over it. I’m certain supporters stay pissed off for longer. Just a bad couple of weeks at the office for them.
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