AFL Round 5: Collingwood v Essendon Wednesday 3:20pm AEST @MCG

[SA HAWK]

We were two men down.
Undermanned yet still kept coming.
So courageous. So brave. So inspirational.

So disappointing.

 

[roacheee]

Nah mate, we were rubbish. When it got real we got found wanting, again.

crap
u pressured pretty well, hard at the contest for most of the game
most not all

 

[Black white]

Absolutely.
Senselessly endangering the lives of others.
Collingwood should be fined and banned from anzac day indefinitely.

Danks again

 

[Bludd]

To those who are more tactically aware - Collingwood were able to stop the Essendon spread causing Essendon to be in struggle-town to move the ball anywhere past their D50. How do they do this? Is it simply that the Collingwood players ran with and did not allow the opposition free? Or is it the way they setup their zone after a stoppage?

 

[Aramis]

We were two men down.
Undermanned yet still kept coming.
So courageous. So brave. So inspirational.

That was your idea of courageous, brave and inspirational?
Standing in your back half playing kick to kick and getting cheap possessions?

That was honestly one of the most embarrassing performances i've seen from ANY club this season. You're incredibly deluded/an absolute fail troll.

 

[demondavey]

Absolutely.
Senselessly endangering the lives of others.
Collingwood should be fined and banned from anzac day indefinitely.

Yeah, it’s collingwoods fault.

 

[Moshie The Mook]

What did you think of the loss Goddard?

Goddard is just asking Zaka if he wants to go to the Extreme concert.

 

[caloschwaby]

Shameful of collingwood to play Jordan De Goey in the Anzac game.
His behavior is directly contravening the Anzac spirit.
Hope he isn't driving the team bus or it could be goodbye yellow brick road.

You can't be serious
I'd argue his ability to bounce back from the dire situation he put himself in is exemplary of the ANZAC spirit.

 

[PieLebo87]

Won’t someone please think of the pretzels.

Don’t understand what everyone is referencing to, but I’m eating it...

 

[caloschwaby]

We were two men down.
Undermanned yet still kept coming.
So courageous. So brave. So inspirational.

So delusional too...

 

[zacaxel1975]

Shameful of collingwood to play Jordan De Goey in the Anzac game.
His behavior is directly contravening the Anzac spirit.
Hope he isn't driving the team bus or it could be goodbye yellow brick road.

Absolutely.
Senselessly endangering the lives of others.
Collingwood should be fined and banned from anzac day indefinitely.

Early contender for shitest post of the year, then backed up for the double.

 

[Aramis]

Early contender for shitest post of the year, then backed up for the double.

I agree zacaxel1975 I know its round 5... but that back to back is going to take some beating...
A true April premier right here folks.

 

[Tiger71]

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You feeling insecure about next Sunday? Relax, you guys should win.

Lol not insecure at all. We should win by 6 goals

 

[caloschwaby]

Treloar was one of our worst. How the hell did he win the Anzac medal over Pendles, Sidey, Grundy, Varcoe or Dunn? Unreal.

Although I agree with you there was some atrocious decisions made, you can't go wrong giving it to the guy who got 34 disposals (equal 1st to Zaharakis) + 2 goals.

 

[PieLebo87]

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Lol not insecure at all. We should win by 6 goals

You sound insecure. Might be best you chuck on the GF DVD again, you’ll sleep better tonight.

 

[Aramis]

We were two men down.
Undermanned yet still kept coming.
So courageous. So brave. So inspirational.

zacaxel1975 theres an argument he threepeated... see above.

 

[zacaxel1975]

zacaxel1975 theres an argument he threepeated... see above.

No more bets folks, we have a clear winner.
What a shocker.

 

[Damon_3388]

Lol they gave it to the turnover merchant. Grundy should of won it

Joe Daniher (11 turnovers today) didn't win the medal this year.

 

[BPikkers]

To those who are more tactically aware - Collingwood were able to stop the Essendon spread causing Essendon to be in struggle-town to move the ball anywhere past their D50. How do they do this? Is it simply that the Collingwood players ran with and did not allow the opposition free? Or is it the way they setup their zone after a stoppage?

Great observation. I’d say it is the setup as apart from round 1, the opposition has found it increasingly more difficult to get the ball through. A significant difference to last year where we were leaking everywhere.

 

[sonnywalters]

Bombers.
So brave.

 

[YnBlack]

Well, both teams are playing good team footy with organised defense. It's a shame that they'll both be coming off a short break, and will both have a few injury outs, but it should still be an exciting, tough battle.

In 2018 so far, the Pies are:

#5 in the league in tackles per game (Tigers are #7)
#6 in the league in tackles inside 50 per game (Tigers are #5, after being #1 last year)
#7 in the league in clearances per game (Tigers are #13)
#2 in the league in contested possessions per game (Tigers are #7)
#5 in the league in uncontested possessions per game (Tigers are #14)
#5 in the league in running bounces per game (Tigers are #3)
#4 in the league in metres gained per game (Tigers are #1)
#6 in the league in disposal efficiency (Tigers are #9, after bizarrely being #18 last year)
#4 in the league in intercept possessions per game (Tigers are #3, after being #1 last year)
#4 in the league in points against per game (Tigers are #3, after being #1 last year)

Collingwood's game is built on defence and doing the hard stuff, but they also have pace and run and spread and link together well as well (something which the Demons don't do - #18 in the league in running bounces, #15 in uncontested possessions, #16 in disposal efficiency) so they'll have no problem matching the Tigers in those areas, and should prove to be more worthy opposition than sloppy, slow Melbourne were last night.

On that basis it will be a close tussle then, I look forward to that then

 

[Damon_3388]

Great observation. I’d say it is the setup as apart from round 1, the opposition has found it increasingly more difficult to get the ball through. A significant difference to last year where we were leaking everywhere.

The midfield is probably the best its been defensively under Buckley. Scott Pendlebury (#4 in the league in tackles per game currently) being a big driver of that.

 

[SCRAY72]

Well done Pies. Early days but you should play finals in 2018.

 

[barrackers]

To those who are more tactically aware - Collingwood were able to stop the Essendon spread causing Essendon to be in struggle-town to move the ball anywhere past their D50. How do they do this? Is it simply that the Collingwood players ran with and did not allow the opposition free? Or is it the way they setup their zone after a stoppage?

Largely man on man, although not always via their direct opponent. For example if Essendon took a mark and the Collingwood who was in that contest was closest to the outlet player they'd peel off to cover with the next closest player to the mark sliding across. One occasion comes to mind where Stephenson directed a teammate to cover the outlet, which was pleasing to see from a first year player.

 

[romeohwho]

Pies very good again today. Bombers very ordinary.