Opposition Camp 2014 non-Geelong AFL match and general discussion

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i feel dirty, i actually agree with chins re variable pricing (does anyone know if i can actually just walk up and scan next week for this "a game"??):

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/collingwood-president-eddie-mcguire-says-new-pricing-system-may-explain-low-crowd-figures/story-fni5f22o-1226868551583?from=herald sun_rss
Do you have a H and A membership Daz? It's our away game vs the Pies. Haven't seen anywhere as yet that there'll be a surcharge.

Not sure how I feel about charging more for the 'blockbuster' games. Suppose these games have more entertainment value, but still in 2 minds about it.
 

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On other teams players did any one read ex captain Collingwoods comments on Scarlett in the article in-where else- the Herald Sun yesterday? Maxwell retains his anger at all things Geelong with his dig about giving back to your junior team. Seems to have missed in his little noggin that Scarlett now does give back to a team he played early games with.
Maxwell , remember his run with that awful loping style down the ground one minute before the siren in 2011 GF bouncing the ball as if the Colliwobbles were 38 points up, is such a prat.
 
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Podsiadly looks finished. Great career he had but I think the Cats decision to let him go was the right timing.
I agree with this but I derive no pleasure in seeing a Geelong Premiership player struggling, besides moneybags who are happy to infer the GFC treated them badly to deflect attention from their greed. :)

Whereas Pods is all class thus I wish him all the best and hope he improves his output (not against when he plays Geelong of course)for the remainder of the season.
 

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No i mean frontal pressure from our forward 6 to force turnovers and not allowing them a plus one. And separating their defenders.
And isolating Maxwell one out with an opponent, and sitting back with a bag of popcorn and watch his opponent dominate. :D
 

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Do you have a H and A membership Daz? It's our away game vs the Pies. Haven't seen anywhere as yet that there'll be a surcharge.

Not sure how I feel about charging more for the 'blockbuster' games. Suppose these games have more entertainment value, but still in 2 minds about it.
i will have a melbourne 11 game membership, so normally i could just scan in...but my bro sent me a list of all games at the g and it appears that there is now some grading system which cuts out just walking up. but it is very vague.
 

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It's starting to look like that. I'd love to see him get to 100 games, but I'm not sure if Adelaide will give them to him on current form.
I've been thinking the same. To be honest, I thought he needed another 50+ goal year to even be a consideration to retain at the end of 2013 and by the end, the decision to part ways with him seemed as straightforward to me as the decision on Josh Hunt. I was glad that Adelaide picked him up, but 100 games isn't looking like a formality for Pods now. He might not play every week now, but I find it hard to believe that they'll drop him, while Lynch and Walker are still out (which could be a month or more of his spot not being under scrutiny, until Lynch gets back, then if he can get a couple of twos and maybe a 3-4 in that time, he's probably safe until Walker gets back about mid-year). They'd probably love to put the acid on him, but dropping him means they'd have to put their faith in Jenkins/McKernan/Johnston. Jenkins wasn't picked and McKernan/Johnston were rubbish as well.

So, he'll get games out of necessity for the moment (which will probably get him to 90 at least until he starts to feel some serious pressure) and, following that, he's got two things in his favour: a two-year contract and that he'll no doubt have the backing of Sanderson, having had a pretty long working relationship with him. I expect he'll grind it out to 95-odd by the end of this year and then a few as an emergency in 2015, along with a farewell game or two, which will hopefully get him over the line.
 

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I've been thinking the same. To be honest, I thought he needed another 50+ goal year to even be a consideration to retain at the end of 2013 and by the end, the decision to part ways with him seemed as straightforward to me as the decision on Josh Hunt. I was glad that Adelaide picked him up, but 100 games isn't looking like a formality for Pods now. He might not play every week now, but I find it hard to believe that they'll drop him, while Lynch and Walker are still out (which could be a month or more of his spot not being under scrutiny, until Lynch gets back, then if he can get a couple of twos and maybe a 3-4 in that time, he's probably safe until Walker gets back about mid-year). They'd probably love to put the acid on him, but dropping him means they'd have to put their faith in Jenkins/McKernan/Johnston. Jenkins wasn't picked and McKernan/Johnston were rubbish as well.

So, he'll get games out of necessity for the moment (which will probably get him to 90 at least until he starts to feel some serious pressure) and, following that, he's got two things in his favour: a two-year contract and that he'll no doubt have the backing of Sanderson, having had a pretty long working relationship with him. I expect he'll grind it out to 95-odd by the end of this year and then a few as an emergency in 2015, along with a farewell game or two, which will hopefully get him over the line.
Even with the 2 year deal, do you think if he got to 100 games this year he might pull the pin himself? If there was one player in the competition who would put the club first and gracefully accept the reality, I reckon Pods would be it.
 

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No- it's not just you. Everyone wants to be us and also beat us. Don't know why they can't go and pick on the Hawks or Freo sometimes! :(
When that happens, we will no longer be the team to beat, might as well enjoy being the hunted, means we are worthy of being the hunted. If/when it happens, we will be losing > winning.
 

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Even with the 2 year deal, do you think if he got to 100 games this year he might pull the pin himself? If there was one player in the competition who would put the club first and gracefully accept the reality, I reckon Pods would be it.
I reckon he's the sort of player who'd pull the pin on 97, instead of feeling like he was being gifted the 100-game milestone. He'd at least have to feel like he's contributing to keep going. Having said that, he played a fair bit of ressies at Geelong and perhaps he'd be in a position to do the same in 2015 at the Crows, as a permanent reserves player (while still a contracted senior player).

I mean, he'd be grateful to the Crows for giving him the opportunity, but walking away from a player's contract (probably a few hundred k a year) would be difficult when he doesn't really have any tight bonds with Adelaide at the moment. Unless they came to an agreement for him to get the same/similar salary to take a S&C role at the club, he'd be a better man than me to accept that.
 
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