Back to Back

[Footy Is The Win]

Let's make this year really count by backing it up!

Our time is now. Gotta love the 20's.

Lachie Schultz gonna be a massive crowd favourite. I would love to see Ash Johnson get back in the side, and hopefully Reef can step up.

 

[Markfs]

yes back to back....that's a good idea... i was planning for a crap year next year but I wasnt thinking about this possibility...

 

[Footy Is The Win]

yes back to back....that's a good idea... i was planning for a crap year next year but I wasnt thinking about this possibility...

The media is writing us off already. In fact they gave us no hope all year this year.

I'm already hungry. 17 flags puts us top of the pack where we belong!

 

[sideswipe]

The media is writing us off already. In fact they gave us no hope all year this year.

I'm already hungry. 17 flags puts us top of the pack where we belong!

You do know that we are $5.50 favourites?

 

[kartanoman]

How about I do you one better and REALLY make it count by running the table and going back-to-back undefeated?

Got game?

Peace!

 

[gerryg400]

Let's make this year really count by backing it up!

Our time is now. Gotta love the 20's.

Lachie Schultz gonna massive crowd favourite. I would love to see Ash Johnson get back in the side, and hopefully Reef can step up.

And our time is right now
Now we can do anything we really want to
Our time is now
Here in the morning of our lives.

 

[Footy Is The Win]

You do know that we are $5.50 favourites?

I don't follow the betting. Is that good?

 

[sideswipe]

I don't follow the betting. Is that good?

Probably a bit too hard to explain.

 

[Footy Is The Win]

Probably a bit too hard to explain.

Doesn't matter.

 

[Footy Is The Win]

In: L.Schultz - A well distinguished gentleman whose heart truly lies at Collingwood.

Out: J.Ginnivan - A drug addicted trouble making traitor.

 

[Fat Jesus]

In: L.Schultz - A well distinguished gentleman whose heart truly lies at Collingwood.

Out: J.Ginnivan - A drug addicted trouble making traitor.

Ginni is good. Premiership player much loved.
This thread very average

 

[Markfs]

You do know that we are $5.50 favourites?

But the media doesnt bet

 

[Footy Is The Win]

This thread very average

Move on.

 

[Vicky Park]

In: L.Schultz - A well distinguished gentleman whose heart truly lies at Collingwood.

Out: J.Ginnivan - A drug addicted trouble making traitor.

I was enjoying this thread, sitting here day dreaming in the sun, until I read your ‘out’.

But I think you’re really a kind person deep down and this is a joke.

 

[sideswipe]

Move on.

You don't really want him to. You want the attention.

 

[Footy Is The Win]

I was enjoying this thread, sitting here day dreaming in the sun, until I read your ‘out’.

But I think you’re really a kind person deep down and this is a joke.

I loved Jack, I think the problem was so did Jack.

 

[Footy Is The Win]

You don't really want him to. You want the attention.

Yeah whatever. Dude would have stayed home GF eve if he gave two squirts.

 

[adammania9]

There’s something more in this team than previous Collingwood units. I don’t think the pursuit of success will be lost after tasting it. I don’t know if we’ll go B2B but I’m expecting we make a full fist of it. Our previous grand finals (2002/03, 2010/2011, 2018) came during the height of the Brisbane, Geelong (then Hawks) and Tigers dynasties. There’s no equivalent this time around. There’s no understating how much B2B premierships would mean to a club with as much heartbreak as it has had. And now that Carlton are back in town, it would mean even more to overtake them and Essendon to be the first to #17.

 

[Horaceg]

I’m good with back to back, how can I help?

 

[FAIRANDBALANCED]

I'm not greedy, I just want to play Carlton in a PF having finished 6th and them 2nd in the season, then knock them off by a point, then go on and beat Stephen May's Dees by an after the siren Billy Elliott goal in the GF.

Nick Daicos Brownlow.
Nick Daicos Norm.

If that happens I'll finally be satisfied...

 

[YouBeauty]

People talking about back to back really need to stop and smell the roses. Live in the moment seriously. What is the point if you're always looking for the next.

 

[magpies42]

What’s key is that we’ve kept the coaching panel together. They will be key, we’ll need to adapt.

Anything is possible.

 

[RobJD]

There’s something more in this team than previous Collingwood units. I don’t think the pursuit of success will be lost after tasting it. I don’t know if we’ll go B2B but I’m expecting we make a full fist of it. Our previous grand finals (2002/03, 2010/2011, 2018) came during the height of the Brisbane, Geelong (then Hawks) and Tigers dynasties. There’s no equivalent this time around. There’s no understating how much B2B premierships would mean to a club with as much heartbreak as it has had. And now that Carlton are back in town, it would mean even more to overtake them and Essendon to be the first to #17.

Good point about not being in a dynastic period, probably should have been the Demon's or Doggies era, but it looks like they've shot themselves in the foot, the Cats and Tiger dynasties seem over.

I'm expecting the GWS to be a real threat next year, more so than the Lions as I feel the Lions are a bit of a one trick pony, sides that can slow them down out of defence and have speed and carry through the midfield will trouble them when it counts (doesn't look like they've injected any speed which seems strange to me).

The Blues look like they'll be good again, can't see many weaknesses in their list, they too failed to address their key weakness, their coach!.

Bit worried about our aging list, I thought this year was our last shot at it with Pendles, Steele etc, but the way they played in the GF, I think they will have one more year in them. A fit McStay covers the GF side's major weakness and Schultz in that side would have performed better than Ginny, so there's another positive. Hoping that Murphy is OK and can play a full year. With those ins, and some straighter kicking, we should win the 2024 flay by 8 goals!!!!!!

We really need someone like Reef to step up as I have concerns about Billy Elliott - not sure if he was carrying an injury, but he seemed to struggle late in the year. The loss of Tay means we're short a spare in and under player (so we might get exposed there during the year), not sure either Macrae or Allan fit into that role, we'll need one of those two to make a spot their own.

Would love to see Ash in that side, and I like a lot of what Krueger does - just not sure who goes out

 

[anshell]

It would be great to win back to back premierships.That hasn’t been done since the 1930’s so it would be a huge achievement for us.I feel that next year is probably our last chance to win another premiership with our current list.We saw how important Pendlebury,Sidebottom and Howe were to us in the finals.They’re all big game players and their leadership is priceless.I have a feeling we’re going to fall off a cliff when they retire,in much the same way as Geelong did this year with their rapidly ageing list.

 

[legendstatus]

Odds are certainly against us next year in terms of backing up again

Need the likes of Reef, Allan, Dean, AJ, Krueger and Harrison to step up with more options