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Back in form where we won a premiership, close wins are back

He was touch and go a day ago - didn't play any of the pre-season games. Even if he was medically fit he was not match conditioned - not enough training. We expected everything flow on as usual since we won a Premiership 6 months ago. And here we are now ... 0 and 3

No they didn't. Pendles was not ready, he should've been allowed to recover fully and get better conditioned before playing in Rd 1. Maybe they wanted him to get to his 400 faster, but that was the wrong call.

All the reason he should have been rested for the first game at least. He was clearly underdone, should have let him fully recover and complete his preseason before playing him. I think we were a bit over confident and expected that everything would flow on automatically.

The issue is most of our playing group are yet to turn up this season. So rather than looking at exploiting weaknesses in the Lions line-up and plotting ways to defeat them, we've have had to get down to basic skills training for our players. Hopefully they can turn the tables with a win.

That is exactly what I said [emoji848]

You can't rely on luck for two years. We made our own luck with our dare, clean ball handling and sheer trust between our players. Seem to have lost all of those traits this season.

To be fair, Cox gets blocked, pushed under the ball, hand chopped week in week out without free being paid. Any other forward would have got many of those frees. In addition, he is usually double or treble tagged and we haven't usually put the ball to his advantage at all this season. He did...

We need to take our chances when we go forward, last two weeks we've either missed the goal or turned the ball over and the opposition created goals on the rebound. We can't let that happen tonight.

Would be terrible if they make Fin the sub again.

I think Noble is stiff to he left out week in week out. He always plays his heart out and with dare. The team surely need some dare and spunk. Lot of people are being too harsh on Dean, we as a team failed to defend and he's been made the scapegoat. Moore was poor, Howe was poor and many more...

We trained at game time for one of the finals. It was on Taking the Steps. So maybe that level of conditioning happens during finals

They better do this soon Saints and Lions next won't be pushovers.

Fly doesn't believe in confidence does he?

Agree, but that's what they did with Noble last week wasn't it?

Swannies will be physical like they targetted Nick the last time we played them, hope we are ready to dish out as good as we get it.

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What other logical reason would there be? Craig Kelly mentioned that the decision was due to the earlier (by 10 minutes) start of the game - but as Jen has pointed out below recent flag unfurlings has happened closer to the first bounce time. Note that these games even had an earlier start...

But with potentially empty stands wouldn't it?

I agree. It's the world we live in mate, where everyone has their own theory and opinion of anything and everything plus it's quite easy to go public with it. It's what gets 'likes', 'views' and 'ads' for monetary gain.

Read my post again, I didn't say AJ was the difference between winning and losing - what I said was we have to prioritise selecting players that we believe would lead to a team win - not prioritize giving someone an extended run just for the sake of it.

I think this was brought about by all the noise around living in the past, premiership hangover and celebrating too much. Added to the fact that we lost last week giving more credence to these narratives the club seems to have decided to make the flag unfurling ceremony as low key as possible.

In the 'Midweek Tackle' last night they mentioned that the Swans pay around 750k of Grundy's salary and we pay about 300k. Demons pay nothing it seems.

Really? Tell that to Jamie Elliott

No doubt, but we also need to devise ways to win games. No point in giving extended runs to anyone if we aren't able to win.

Yes, we even forgot to man the mark gifting them at least 2 easy goals.

you are not alone, I usually go out on the first round as well :-D

The Collingwood Football Club confirms it has received a notice from the AFL requesting further information relating to contact made by player Mason Cox to a Giants official during the pre-game period of its Opening Round match against the GWS Giants. The Club responded to the AFL a short time...

I like this new Kappa reborn :). Totally agree with you.

Hope we can continue the tradition this year too