Game Day AFL Round 1 - Matchday Discussion Collingwood@Western Bulldogs(Marvel Stadium - 7:50PM)

[manicpie]

Grate win, only round one. Maybe this low key start to the season might suit us

 

[DinoSoar]

Howie doesn’t even look like he’s raised a sweat tonight

 

[JB007]

Well played Tyler........I didn’t think you where ready yet but I will always remember that goal with your Bro.

 

[jjsmitty8]

Feels good to win round 1..

With only 17 round season it's way more important too.

Yep, saw a stat the other day that in the last 25 years, only two teams have made finals with a negative W/L ratio after round 17.

So history suggests that 9 wins is the benchmark for finals, so early losses this year make it a fight.

 

[unplugged]

Great win.

 

[Go Woods]

Clinical performance Pies, great first up win!!!

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

Top of the ladder baybee!

 

[Black_White]

Awesome song Boys.
Absolutely AWESOME!

 

[Chrispiesssss]

They sang the song without touching... what the

 

[ottoman]

how good was the song

 

[60 Yards Out]

Just as long as you don't remember how he played in the 2019 Prelim...

Jesus you’re a misery guts.

 

[caloschwaby]

They sang the song without touching... what the

Better than not singing it at all. They were saying before that they weren't going to

 

[domus]

Awesome song Boys.
Absolutely AWESOME!

That song made the long, crazy summer all worthwhile!

 

[Aishole]

Shortened quarters really suits us i think. We chase and harass like mad men, it will be much easier to maintain for 4 quarters.

Anyone wanna start a petition to permanently change the length of quarters lol?

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

Great start to a weird season, but what a win. Complete performance from our backline through to our forwards.
Grundy the best player in the comp along with Dusty, love how Howe, Moore and Roughead work together, Pendles keeps performing 300+ games later. The forwards, with Mihocek in particular, worked beautifully.
Loved how we rotated our forwards, and our mids, even using Elliott in middle . Love this set up for us.

 

[FireKrakouer]

I've never seen so much passion in a pies team singing the song. A good sign!

 

[SouthernPie]

What a difference it made with Brodie hitting the ball outwards instead of down at his feet. Don't know the stats but the centre clearances must have been up.

Loved that we are able to change the mid-field combination and the full forwad spot around so fluently tonight. This must surely put opposing defenders off balance.

So many good players tonight, but I always admire the quiet achievers, so thought Checkers and Mayne were really good tonight - such no nonsense, hard-working, stalwart footballers.

 

[Knightmare]

Knightmare midfield has held up fine. You don’t have to be so worried mate.

I'd summarise it more-so as Grundy carried and owned English which enabled the midfield to look good. Grundy was incredible and as good as I've seen him.

That's not going to happen every week. Not everyone is a pushover as English is, so a larger sample size is required.

A great first up performance though and keeping all but Macrae to 2 or less clearances and Bont having no meaningful impact is incredible and something that great confidence should be taken from.

Looked like a top-4 side and possible contender I was watching tonight. Shorter game seemed to suit a good portion of the group.

 

[grayza2018]

Great win!! If anyone likes bookmarking sh*t predictions I'm happy for mine to get dragged through the ringer!

Didn't see that coming, dismantled them from the start. Plenty to like out of that.

Bring on the Tigs

 

[domus]

Tyler Brown is a future star as Bucks predicted and John Noble is an outstanding pick up.

 

[domin8tors]

best things about tonight was so many fresh faces in the same side. Brown brothers, Daicos and Magden. our medium term future looks solid.

 

[Kappa]

Shortened quarters really suits us i think. We chase and harass like mad men, it will be much easier to maintain for 4 quarters.

Anyone wanna start a petition to permanently change the length of quarters lol?

Not good for Phillips Sidebottom or Rantall

 

[Baltimore Jack]

I don't think the team selection is a big deal, we would be losing this game regardless. If anyone of you are still employed and have some spare cash around, chuck it on the dogs!

Gamble responsibly.

How much did you lose?

 

[Jelly Bean]

Not enough praise for Noble. He is clearly being groomed as that quarterback back pocket player that we haven't had since Leon2011. Did a great job during the preseason and continued tonight. A real weapon with his pace and neat footskills in a backline that has a lot of intercept but not much run (excepting Crisp of course).

 

[Aishole]

Not good for Phillips Sidebottom or Rantall

Sidebottom looked to handle it fine. But Uhhh ur point is? If the team is overall better but 3 players struggle slightly more ... whats the issue there ? Not to mention each club generally has their 2-3 endurance kings like Phillips etc, it would generally even out across the comp.