Hate to sound like the prophet of doom but...

[ChipDouglas]

Thursdays training run one one of the worst as far as kicking skills goes that I have ever witnessed. The ball was routinely butchered and the kicking for goal almost as bad. I sincerely hope we don't paly like we trained and the introduction of three debutants is also a concern. Cox and D1ck deserve their change but picking Toovey (one of the main offenders re kicking) ahead of Ego who did train well is a strange one. It's not that the boys don't have ability, but it does stuff up the sides continuity having to fit in three newbies who haven't seen the elephant yet. Combine all of this with the fact we have recently struggled aginst an ordinary Richmond team means I'll be wearing the brown underpants today, I hope I'm wrong.

Injury front
Buckley, Didak, Johnson, Holland, Lonie, and add Rusling, Anthony, Dawes, and the list is far to long for my liking. Full strength I'm confident in our ability to beat anyone but as you can see we're a bit undermanned at the moment.

 

[daics cousin]

Yes i know.I was one of those against Toovey playing in the seniors.Cox and **** ok,but after seeing Toovey in the nab cup ,i don't rate him at all.He fumbles the ball, shocking kick of a ball,hasn't got any poise,and i hope he proves me wrong tonite but i doubt it.

 

[driver 8]

I'm suprised Egan still hasnt had a run

Whats the story there?

 

[daics cousin]

From what i heard,Egan actually injured his hand or finger(one of the two) about a week ago.He played for willy last week but from certain reports had mimimal impact in that game.So i reckon he is still not over his injury,otherwise he would have a been a definate shoe in for the Richmond game.

 

[Optimax]

Its not so much all the kicking at training was bad it was the kicking to the centre half forward that was **** couldnt hit the CHF for anything, didnt matter which one we played there (Rocca, Cloke, an fraser).

We did hit rocca up better than the others and by the end of training it seemed to be Rocca CHF and Cloke FF, and fraser first ruck but it was an open training session so things can change

 

[kendrick]

Dont forget the Tigers are also undermanned,

Simmonds is underdone and thats even if he plays.. unlikely..

Brown...our matchwinner

Coughlan... our Buckley

Hall, Thursfield, Knobel.. all good solid players always in the 22

so no rucks... our best Forward, best midfielder and most promising defender.

we are just as undermanned as you blokes!!

should be a close game.. but an average game skill wise!

 

[BoundforGlory]

Thursdays training run one one of the worst as far as kicking skills goes that I have ever witnessed. The ball was routinely butchered and the kicking for goal almost as bad. I sincerely hope we don't paly like we trained and the introduction of three debutants is also a concern. Cox and D1ck deserve their change but picking Toovey (one of the main offenders re kicking) ahead of Ego who did train well is a strange one. It's not that the boys don't have ability, but it does stuff up the sides continuity having to fit in three newbies who haven't seen the elephant yet. Combine all of this with the fact we have recently struggled aginst an ordinary Richmond team means I'll be wearing the brown underpants today, I hope I'm wrong.

Injury front
Buckley, Didak, Johnson, Holland, Lonie, and add Rusling, Anthony, Dawes, and the list is far to long for my liking. Full strength I'm confident in our ability to beat anyone but as you can see we're a bit undermanned at the moment.

Best post I have seen on Bigfooty yet!

Nothing to add, but Toovey is an absolute dud & Nicholls can join him as the worst players to be on an AFL list!

Egan, Brown, Reid, Wakelin should be in before Toovey & Nicholls.. MM has finally lost the plot!

 

[Frederlick]

Dont forget the Tigers are also undermanned,

Simmonds is underdone and thats even if he plays.. unlikely..

Brown...our matchwinner

Coughlan... our Buckley

Hall, Thursfield, Knobel.. all good solid players always in the 22

so no rucks... our best Forward, best midfielder and most promising defender.

we are just as undermanned as you blokes!!

should be a close game.. but an average game skill wise!

This has got potential to be embarassing for both sides. Will be one of those games where whoever can get a bit of confidence early will get a go on.

 

[F-U]

Toovey will never be a accurate kick of the footy. It shouldnt be his job. His strengths are his defensive work in particular his spoiling. Give him a big scalp and he will put in 100% and probably take it or break even

 

[Pie Fight]

Coughlan... our Buckley

Don't ever compare the two.

 

[roostertalk]

Coughlan... our Buckley

Don't ever compare the two.

he wasn't....but the closest thing we've got.

 

[Invigoration]

Best post I have seen on Bigfooty yet!

Nothing to add, but Toovey is an absolute dud & Nicholls can join him as the worst players to be on an AFL list!

Egan, Brown, Reid, Wakelin should be in before Toovey & Nicholls.. MM has finally lost the plot!

Please tell me what Brown and Reid have done that Toovey and Nicholls haven't? They've done nothing to prove they should be starters.

I wish there was an option on here to block out certain peoples posts, you would certainly be high on my list. I can't believe how my sh*t dribbles out your mouth, your the biggest collingwood basher I've ever seen.

I'd be interested to hear how many times you've actually seen Toovey and Nicholls play, I'm sure it's nowhere near enough to be dropping comments like 'they are the worst players to be on an AFL list'.

And have you even seen Brown or Reid play? They are both KPP and are going to need a lot longer to develop, no use just chucking them in there because they were top 10 picks which is obviously the idea you have in mind.

I resisted the urge to post in the MM bashing thread, which from the first line;
'I hate to be a MM basher', you just knew it was going to be ridiculous...
Yeah you really must hate to be a MM basher, with a thread titled 'MM is soft, New Coach Please!' and crap like this about Malthouse losing the plot.
Wake up would you, your making a complete fool of yourself.

Playing three first gamers together, yeah risky... But I personally don't think its such a bad thing to inject some youth, especially against a wounded Richmond side, what better time.
And their selection wasn't really unwarranted. Everyone wanted Cox in, so thats a given, there's one new boy. D1ck has earned himself an early chance, hard to argue that he isn't worthy of a crack... Especially seeings everyone Collingwood basher begs for an injection of pace into our team, well there ya go.
Toovey, yeah didn't think he was great in the NAB cup either, but I'm certainly not going to judge him off that. MM obviously thinks he's earned a crack and I'm pretty sure MM has a better knownledge of it then us As surprising as that may be for you.

Egan is obviously underdone, he's be injured and it seems Malty wants him to put another game under he's belt. Not hard to work out... He's not even an emergency, doesn't take a rocket scientest to work out he wants him at Willy for another week. Which I think is fair enough, Egan isn't a walk up starter in our side regardless of what you believe... He doesn't deserve to be yet either.

Wakelins obviously been overlooked for Cox. We would have been stacked way to big down back with Cox and Wakes IMO, to me this is a match up thing. Nothing against Wakes I wouldn't imagine, but Cox earnt he's spot and obviously at the expense of Wakes.

Best of luck to the boys, lets hope they all put in a cracker and stick it up a few people out there

In conclusion;
Collingwood basher/Collingwood kid basher = no time in my books.
Give some constructive criticism, otherwise don't waste your time posting IMO

 

[Collingwoodrow]

Dont forget the Tigers are also undermanned,

Simmonds is underdone and thats even if he plays.. unlikely..
Brown...our matchwinner
Coughlan... our Buckley
Hall, Thursfield, Knobel.. all good solid players always in the 22
so no rucks... our best Forward, best midfielder and most promising defender.
we are just as undermanned as you blokes!!
should be a close game.. but an average game skill wise!

Im a huge Coughlin fan...but he aint nobody's Buckley.

What is with the myth that has become Will Thursfield amongst Tigers supporters. I keep hearing about the game against St Kilda when he dominated Nick Riewoldt before he got injured....fiction Richmond supporters.

He had 1 kick, 1 handball, 3 tackles and a free against.

Riewoldt, whilst not at his absolute best (he had a huge last quarter...on Bowden of course) was still voted best on ground with 17 possesions 8 marks and 3 goals.

Ray Hall is very ordinary...his absense messes with your structure more than your talent as you lack talls on the backline...but he aint no good.

Trent Knobel is.....well, I'll be nice here. He was let go by a team that had no ruckmen in St Kilda.

Knobel and Thursfiled are not always in your best 22...and Hall is by default

 

[Firestorm]

I resisted the urge to post in the MM bashing thread, which from the first line;
'I hate to be a MM basher', you just knew it was going to be ridiculous...
Yeah you really must hate to be a MM basher, with a thread titled 'MM is soft, New Coach Please!' and crap like this about Malthouse losing the plot.
Wake up would you, your making a complete fool of yourself.

Agreed... when did Magpie Greg's ban get lifted?

 

[DJ Black @ White Blood]

Yes i know.I was one of those against Toovey playing in the seniors.Cox and **** ok,but after seeing Toovey in the nab cup ,i don't rate him at all.He fumbles the ball, shocking kick of a ball,hasn't got any poise,and i hope he proves me wrong tonite but i doubt it.

First of all i must admit i dont know a lot about Toovey but i have to say for what seemed like years i watched the worst kick in football. He gave me the ****s totally. Every year and every game he just kept missing the mark by meters, who ever he kicked too had no chance. His name, BENNY johnston. I remember someone at Collingwood took him aside and teached him to kick and rarely today do i see him miss a target. Hopefully they get hold of toovey

 

[goalpie]

Lets all kill our selfs because Toovey is playing. Thats sarcasm by the way.

 

[Firestorm]

Toovey has been very ordinary so far.. I cant see why he is getting the chance.... but he is a senior Collingwood player now and that gives you wings

 

[piesflag07]

Not looking good.

 

[Firestorm]

Not looking good.

Lost Clement Wakelin and Medhurst in half an hour

 

[DJ Black @ White Blood]

Lets all kill our selfs because Toovey is playing. Thats sarcasm by the way.

Toovey toovey toovey stop press dont kill yourselves wait till next week toovs might play another game then you can all kill yourselves. You ripper Toovey good luck to ya. still a crap kick but.

 

[DJ Black @ White Blood]

Leon Davis is shit.

Mate what are you on, im going to have to ask you how many players do you think are shit that can kick goals from the boundary under pressure. Leon had the lights on tonight more then what you have on

 

[AsianWithAFro]

Toovs crap kick? I dunno bout that 3 goals on debut and that's something special.

 

[Nesian]

Im sure his performance tonight will keep his critics quiet for now....i was pretty impressed! Good luck to the kid!

 

[spartan-magpie]

wouldnt mind another dud who plays like that debut.. Any more duds we need to know about BFG?

 

[Invigoration]

Damn if the worst player in the AFL can kick 3 on debut, wonder what the best player does.

Be interesting to hear what that idiot has to say now after yapping he's mouth off.
Please BFG, enlighten us again with your ever growing knowledge