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2020 is the most frustrating year I can remember enduring as a Collingwood fan. We've had worse years - much, much worse years - but none have been quite so infuriatingly difficult to sit through. We played off in a grand final two years ago, fell a couple of points short of doing the same last...

There's actually quite a lot to take from tonight's performance. I don't think we're dead and buried in 2020 just yet. We played the equal top team, on their home deck, sleeping in their own beds, hardly having left their state all year, off the back of a horror run of games where we've had 14...

We're a club in crisis mode right now. Absolutely obliterated by a team that was hanging on the edge of the 8; smashed at the contest by a team chock full of youngsters sitting pretty in 17th. It's not the losses, it's the manner of the losses. You always wanna show your brand. This team is...

A blazing start and a whimpering finish! What a strange one. On the one hand, a team containing Tyler Brown, Jack Madgen, Josh Daicos, Darcy Cameron and John Noble (the most senior of which having played a whopping 17 games) ran the premiers the distance, and escaped with 2 points. On the...

Ned Guy and his team deserve massive kudos for their work in retaining our best players on significantly less coin than they could be making elsewhere. He took over from the fiasco that was Gubby, whose highlights included trading Witts out for picks 44 and 62, Cloke out for 76, Marley out for...

Somebody's gotta write one for that game. One of the most famous wins in Collingwood history. Not just beating, but utterly dismantling a heavily-favoured arch nemesis on the second biggest stage of the year. Wins just don't come any sweeter than that. The Coach Like many, I've criticised...

GAME REVIEW The single best game Collingwood have played in the Buckley era. I know that the game last week was against very, very low calibre opposition, but even then you could see something... different. A distinct gameplan. An urgency. A willingness to work hard both ways. Last week was a...

These two teams shouldn't be allowed to play football against each other. Whatever it is, the matchup just causes embarrassing, embarrassing, embarrassing football. Error-riddled, low-skilled nonsense that's actually no longer enjoyable to watch - and I say that as somebody whose passion for...

I've got too much pent up Collingwood energy to spend, so why not waste some time reviewing a meaningless pre-season game? And let's be honest here, how meaningless can a game really be if Collingwood plays in it? And wins it? Against a near full-strength opposition? Without our entire first...

I've been thinking this for the last little while, but the two teams competing in the grand final today have convinced me to put fingers to keyboard and write it down: For the first time since 2010, I think the Collingwood Football Club is actually ahead of the curve in terms of list...

THE FINAL TEAM B: Marley Williams --- Nathan Brown --- Tom Langdon HB: Matthew Scharenberg --- Ben Reid --- Brayden Maynard C: Steele Sidebottom --- Scott Pendlebury --- Jack Crisp HF: Jeremy Howe --- Travis Cloke --- Dane Swan F: Jamie Elliott --- Darcy Moore --- Alex Fasolo R: Brodie Grundy...

Away from home, without our first choice ruckman against the best ruck in the game, against the best player in the game, against all the odds - and we just played superior football to the best team in the AFL. We lost it on the scoreboard, and that will hurt the boys as much as it hurts us, but...

THE GAME Okay... what in the name of sweet zombie Jesus was that? The first half - just terrible. As Bucks rightly said, the worst half of our season to date, and we've played a couple of shockers. We were going at half pace, laying limp-wristed tackles, losing contest after contest, kicking...

Another really, really disappointing game where we actually had the skill to win, but lost due to lapses of effort and being beaten at the contest. Every time there was a contested ball that mattered, the Tigers wanted it more and won it. And when they didn't win it, they were bailed out by a...

A pretty deplorable effort overall, not much to take from this game. Most players should feel pretty embarrassed with the effort and mindset they took into the game and rightfully so - they were embarrassing. The short-lived fightback after the Cats got about 10 goals up only highlights how poor...

We're a disgusting football club at present, completely directionless, completely hopeless. We don't deserve to play finals. We don't deserve to beat any football side (bar Carlton) at present. We've fully deserved to lose 4 of our past 5 and in all likelihood we'll fully deserve to finish the...

I haven't had the desire to watch the replay of this one yet (God knows I've seen enough defeats to Hawthorn over the years as it is) so the following will be influenced by my experiences watching the game live, at ground level - not the best vantage point. Apologies if I'm off the mark as a...

That was some vintage 2012/2013 Collingwood-style defeat right there folks. I'd hoped we'd turned the corner with regards to those sort of performances in 2014 - we've been really good at winning the games we should be winning this year. But that was just a carbon copy of the Port Adelaide and...

I like to make the occasional thread just to try and verbalise what I'm feeling regarding our great football club. This one is entirely positive, an observation I've made over the past few weeks, as the boys have begun to string some really solid football together: it feels like that we're...

I didn't see the customary player review thread anywhere and I couldn't sleep so thought I'd take a whack at it. Don't want to step on anyone's toes though, so mods feel free to merge this with Snoop's thoughts when they're up. Overall Thoughts The rollercoaster ride continues in 2014...

What a difference a couple of weeks can make. About this time a fifteen days ago we were watching our lads battling to keep touch with the GWS, having been soundly beaten all over the ground by the GC Suns the week before. There were question marks hovering over coach and team, even question...

I didn't know where to rant so I thought I'd make it self-contained. So... How do you begin to dissect a loss like that? Let's start with the positives, since that shouldn't take too long. Sam Dwyer continues to show cleaner hands than the majority of his higher profile teammates, Marley...

Thought I'd get this rolling as that was as gutted as I've felt as a pies fan for as long as I can remember. We weren't just beaten - we were smashed by a much more dedicated, passionate team. Really hope this hurts the players, that effort was absolutely disgusting, one of the worst I've seen...

I'm not usually one for potting players but I was just having a Jolly v Hudson discussion with some mates and looked into some of the stats for those guys this year - and they don't paint a pretty picture for Darren Jolly version 2013. The first thing that jumps out is his low possession count...

Poor boy just can't take a break at the moment, injury wise. But putting his rotten run of luck aside for a moment, I'm slightly (only slightly) concerned about his game in general. Is it just me, or has he become considerably more fumbly in recent times? In 2011 he was such so ludicrously...

[edit - apologies for the huge wall of text that follows. Thank you to those who take the time to read it] What a frustrating season. It was always shaping to be a tough year for the pies, with Bucks taking the reigns as the infamous Malthouse deal came to fruition. Pundits all across the land...

The conclusion of tonight's semi-final saw the West Coast Eagles finish the season with 532 frees for and 431 frees against - an historic +101 free kick differential in the number of free kicks received versus the number of free kicks given away. This represents only the second time in AFL...

Over on the Collingwood website shop, all the Adidas gear is being heavily discounted, presumably in light of the new jumper sponsor announcement meaning that they're well overstocked with all the Adidas remnants. Anyway, not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but you can pick yourself up an...

Whatever happens gameplan-wise, the side that runs out to take on the Hawks on Friday night is going to look vastly different to any Collingwood side that Hawthorn have seen this year. The number of changes we've made to the teams that lost in rounds 1 and 17 is incredible. In 2012, the...

I can deal with a lot of things in football. Getting done by a better team, copping the wrong end of the umpire's whistle, I can live with all that. The one thing that still gets to me is the apparent lack of effort from a player on my own team. So, bearing in mind that tonight was Carlton's...