Recent content by cleomenes

There is no effective way to register displeasure on this. The AFL has already crushed my interest in neutral games by allowing the ultra defensive tactics to take the game over. Now, my club has revealed a rotten heart. I won't be able to watch games and barrack for them after this. I see their...

What a nightmare of a day. How can I keep following this club? 4 good or promising players who wanted to stay moved out! I hate this.

I'm gobsmacked.

I'm starting to hope that there will be no trades out of Collingwood this year. There has been a lot of talk about Treloar, including a little from me, but there are few actual facts. This might be enough for a legal challenge in the US, but as things take their courses here, it may be that the...

I find most of this discussion pretty offensive. The man has a contract and wants to fulfill it. To me, the discussion ends there. I don't like it that the club is "keeping its options open" if that's what it is doing. The principled thing would be to come out and say that the contract will be...

This is supposed to be a board for people like you. You wouldn't believe that if you read what is posted on it.

It seems to me that the Cameron/Grundy situation is possible only because of the 16 minute quarters. Those two seemed to mostly change off the bench, so that only one was on the field at a time. This means that the other players were not getting a lot of time off the ground. A tactic for this...

Another point, I would play him against the Eagles. He might only get 4 kicks, but three of them goals, he might get a dozen or he might be useless. The chance should be taken. We have no other player that might break the forward line open as he might. We have to accept the "might not" as part...

I don't see any fear of physical contact. I see a player out of form, very down on confidence and stopping to think rather than doing what he instinctively would. Opponents seem more ready for his evasive moves too, so they are anticipating him. The lack of zip in his chasing, such a feature...

There is a lot to take from this game, both for Collingwood and the AFL. For Collingwood, the game style is not the problem as nearly everyone here seems to think. Three things stood out in this game as major problems, as they have for some time. 1. Top teams are harder at the ball than we are...

Article in our local rag (the Mercury) a couple of days ago. I presume copied (as most things in there are) from the Herald sun.

This rule has always been contentious, but after a flirtation with the traditional interpretation early this year, we are back to ridiculous inconsistency. The 1970 grand final is readily available on video to show what the rule once was and should be now.

As predicted, McLaughlin has come out and said that next years games will be played under Covid rules. I doubt that I will watch much of it, if any. The boring, scoreless tacklefest that his (and Dimitriou's) administration has dealt us holds few attractions. Watching supremely skilled players...

If Sidebottom does come to the team, he will present a quandary to the selectors. On first game day he will have spent two weeks cooped up in a hotel room. His fitness will have declined badly. He will not be able to play his normal role. As I see it, he will have to play half forward, and...

It is pretty clear that the desire within the AFL administration is to continue with the rule changes that Covid has imposed on us. Shorter games, wildly different breaks between games accepted as fair, very little daytime football and matches every day of the week all excused by Covid, but...