Autopsy Seen this before - Pies lose again

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Mar 21, 2007
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Strange decision not to move JDG on to the ball when the game was there to be won. Couldn't get near it up forward and he has been our most dangerous mid of late.

Good effort overall, but disappointing not to take our chances in the end. That bizarre reserved opening cost us.
 
Second half much better than the first. The losses of Grundy, Greenwood and Wells leading into the game certainly hurt. Daicos and Broomhead would have been better inclusions, but neither would have changed the result.
 

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Strange decision not to move JDG on to the ball when the game was there to be won. Couldn't get near it up forward and he has been our most dangerous mid of late.

Good effort overall, but disappointing not to take our chances in the end. That bizarre reserved opening cost us.
Fasolo totally overrated! Abysmal performance in his 100th game. Should be put up for trade bait while he still has some currency.
 
Aug 29, 2005
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Never gave ourselves a chance to win with the first half tactics full negative, ffs we parked the bus as they term it for a half and we still had 100 points scored on us...

Selection also uninspired. Buckley loves the hard working grunt types too much imo. Puts too much stock in the gps numbers over actual performances.
Brown jnr isn't ready and imo has a even bigger hill to climb then Daics jnr and Kirby due to lacking real weapons and being undersized for his role. Yet Buckley plays him due to work rate??
 
Aug 29, 2005
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Mason Cox isn't an AFL standard footballer. Constantly towelled in the middle of the ground when he was there.

Alright tap work but once the ball hits the deck he provides nothing


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He goes to ground every time contact is made, put him out of at least 5 contests as the port players kept their feet and just ran off him.
 

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Collingwood in a nutshell.

Some endeavour not rewarded due to stagnant, incompetent ball movement. Basic errors, lack of a gameplan, lack of composure at the critical moment. All the effort in the world will come to nothing when you have no system and no class like we do.

Effort, class, system. The three points of the winning triangle. We manage one most days, which is why we are bottom 6 for the forseeable future.

Good solid outing by Schaz, and Reid blossoming as a forward is about the sum total of what was good about that. Brown tried, but is about 10kg short of what is needed to survive at afl level if he is not quick and he is definitely not quick.

Blair, well, what can I say. If you want to know why we are bottom 6 look at today. He is barely functional as a 150 game player in a bottom 6 team and keeps getting games. There is no excuse for his continued place in the team beyond the sort of rigidity of thinking and stubborn fixation on irrelevant considerations that has driven us to this morass.

We need to fix the two missing points on the triangle. Class and system. THe first requires time and undoing the many drafting cluster*s that have bested us in the last 4 seasons. The second requires a coaching armageddon. What is the betting on either?
 
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