Review Round 23, 2024 - Collingwood vs. Brisbane Lions

[Mr Ripper]

We lost by 1 point to a team playing for their season, it is frustrating but come on, time for a rebuild? Pfft

P’raps people have had a gut full of seeing the same group of players making the same set of mistakes under the same circumstances on repeat. Maybe we do need to make a drastic list change.

 

[Grasshopper17]

I have searched on all of Fox’s socials and not found it otherwise I’d have posted it but they showed maybe two minutes of it I think on 360 or Couch last Monday.

I sort of don’t know why they aren’t released more broadly or bigger edits outside the two minutes they showed; I mean you’ve gone to the trouble of miccing a player but then it’s not publicly accessible which then begs the question; why go to the trouble.

They did a few different edits of Zorko in the Sydney game over the next couple of weeks. Maybe they will do the same with Dunks. Didn't even know he'd been miked up until your post above. Cheers.

 

[Grasshopper17]

It's good that they look at the mental side of things but hopefully we are adjusting our game plan in those late game situations. Some of the footage shown for our set up with McCreery's goal was concerning. We had 6 forwards outside 50 still. I know there was still time on the clock but surely we push more forwards up to the stoppage and congest it better.

Especially after giving up two straight goals. Of course in the past against Melbourne we did the opposite and it happened all the same. Frustrating and when it happens again at the MCG it’s upsetting.

Yep definitely two sides of the coin here, and when the TV heads brought up this "6 forwards" business on Sunday night, my mind went straight to the Melbourne game that buttermuffs is referring to.

Truth be told, at that stoppage where the final goal was kicked there was still 3 minutes to go, so we probably decided it was too early for us to go into that save-the-game mode, which I fully endorse. I've always been an advocate for winning the game, not saving it. And it looked like that's what we were trying to do, even at that late stage.

But I think the conversation about our positioning after Collingwood hit the front is fair game. No point trying to save the game at that stage, but that's what it looked like we were set up for.

This is the footage I'm referring to here


And our very own Kate McCarthy doubled down on this in a podcast during the week. I think she's excellent.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Should take note of how collingwood treated a dead rubber, Moore absolutely pumping them up pre game, their emotion towards team mates making great plays mid game. What do we do, sulk when team mates don't pass to each other, Not many team players in this team. Dunks and Starcevich are lone warriors.

You know when even Ian Healy is pointing out our lack of energy on breakfast radio, yep, it was ordinary. So good for 2 months up to and including the St Kilda game, donuts since, even in 2 games we've been leading for 90% of.

 

[p4p1]

The only one anything like this I can recall was in the 2003 Semi Final against Adelaide. Lynchy got a free kick or a mark in the goal square, basically on the goal line.

This was back in the day where even if you marked it in the goal square you still got pulled around on a stupid angle, directly out from the centre of the goal line.

So Lynchy walked right up to the man on the mark, who's like half a metre from the goal line, looked over and asked the field umpire, "this is fine, right?", held the ball right down at his ankle and toed it through from about a metre out. The Adelaide guy threw his arm out at it but with no success.

I remember thinking that was so smart and why don't more players do that. This was before you had blokes running around and doing J-curves instead of normal drop punt set shots.

Maybe this is what people are thinking of?

I ended up messaging Lynchy and Browny on social media. Doubtful they will get back to me because I don’t know them at all, but you never know.

 

[Denno]

I ended up messaging Lynchy and Browny on social media. Doubtful they will get back to me because I don’t know them at all, but you never know.

I recall Lynch doing a drop kick from about 2m out, running into an open goal (was Dermie commentating?)

Whether it was intentional or not is another thing.........

 

[martinson]

Last place kick was Tony Ongarello decades ago at Fitzroy.

He reverted to the place kick with some success because he was a great mark but used to spray his kick.

facebook.com/watch/?v=1889234961127644

 

[p4p1]

Lynchy messaged me back. To say this has made my day is a massive understatement.
Grasshopper s recollection was right, mine was wrong. To be fair it was 20 years ago and a kid.

But guys Lynchy messaged me back which makes us pretty much best friends now. If MySpace was still a thing he would definitely be in my top friends now.