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Game Day QF1 Crows vs Pies 2025-09-04 - This time it's personal!

How will you be watching the game tonight?


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The players were definitely to blame but that was by far the shittest coaching display I have seen Nicks and Co produce. And yes Davis is just as much to blame. By far out coached and to not direct players to go through Moores opponent is just an example of the outright ineptness of Nicks as a strategist. An u12 coach can tell the best way to stop a player intercepting everything is to make them accountable. McRae got away with coaching 101 and thats embarressing for Nicks and Davis. ****ing deplorable.
We couldn't direct anyone to do anything, because every single disposal was under pressure. Had zero way to get free ball.
 
He played 9 defenders and stuffed our structure for no reason.

Nicks is massively to blame.

This has always been the problem with Nicks as a coach. He coaches to react to other teams game plans rather than make teams beat his. My guess is he panicked without Rankine, over thought it and went back to his Fremantle losing best bullshit structures. What a clown.
 

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Not too bad, not that far off, did a lot right, just a little bit off, just didn't quite cope with the moment, our guys were a bit nervy, hopefully another final or two or three will get them to settle a bit more. Started pretty bad but didn't finish too bad. Could really do with another quick midfielder or two, rankine and Rachele will be handy.
 
On the ground players made massive mistakes they don't usually do. Minus those errors we are in it up to our eyeballs.

Picking Draper for midfield does nothing given all the mistakes we made.

We made so many mistakes in part because our structure was torn apart and we had guys running around confused with no idea what to do
 
We couldn't direct anyone to do anything, because every single disposal was under pressure. Had zero way to get free ball.

nah it wasnt. We had a lot of times we just bombed it long under no pressure. Collingwood werent laughing because they won, they were outright laughing at us after the game. Dont create excuses that arent there. We lost this game more than Collingwood won it.
 
Too often we've coughed up a run of goals with little opposition. Completely monstered early in the 3rd. Our midfield / clearance work badly exposed once again. Having to throw Laird in there was damning. Couldn't see if they tried Curtin in there, but surely that was worth a shot.
 
We made so many mistakes in part because our structure was torn apart and we had guys running around confused with no idea what to do

Nicks has no answer to any coach who has a sound Plan A, B. Nicks has a Plan A that requires heavy reliance on certain players. Anything else is adhoc reactions. There is no excuse.
 
We made so many mistakes in part because our structure was torn apart and we had guys running around confused with no idea what to do
.... because they shit the bed in finals pressure. We kept bombing in long over the back of our forwards to 3 pies players. I50 entry was shit.

Players made shit decisions to play on. It was finals pressure. They will learn from that.
 

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Get those deep entries into the forward line, boys. High and long because that always works so well. Need leading forwards and precision kicking
At one stage we had 7 fwd 50 entries in a row and it was just a mad scramble of 34 players in our forward line.
 
What are the AFL going to do about Collingwood dropping the F bomb on TV?
Bored Nothing GIF
 
There's some silliness going on in this thread. I understand it's disappointing but we came from 15th to be here, and it was always going to be tough. Not getting there in our first final is not a disaster.
Yes you’re correct. We should just be happy
What are the AFL going to do about Collingwood dropping the F bomb on TV?
I’m offended… does that count?
 

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We came from 15th because we underachieved the last two seasons, we should've had a couple of finals games under our belt now we are challenging - instead they served up this shit tonight.
We were alwaysgoing to need everything going our way to win straight through in our first final series..that was never going to happen with Rachelle and Rankine situation. How would Collingwood have gone with out Daicos and Elliot?

Still plenty of opportunities to learn next week and hopefully beyond.
 

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