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Argh now I'm worried.
This was supposed to be us! We were supposed to have the easy win while cats and pies had the gruelling struggle.
I now have a horrible feeling tonight is going to be a real struggle for us. Ugh, this has been a really shitty night.
I'm going to bed.
Collingwood has sapped me of all my confidence now. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I now have a horrible feeling tonight is going to be a real struggle for us. Ugh, this has been a really shitty night.
I'm going to bed.
Collingwood has sapped me of all my confidence now. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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I agree we need to beat the Dogs first, but ..
re: Geelong - a number of their so called champion players like Ling and Bartel may rack up possessions but they are slow and don't provide run.
Bartel for instance probably had close to 20 more possessions than Harry O'Brien - but O'Brien runs with it and looked more effective with a lot more zip.
re: Geelong - a number of their so called champion players like Ling and Bartel may rack up possessions but they are slow and don't provide run.
Bartel for instance probably had close to 20 more possessions than Harry O'Brien - but O'Brien runs with it and looked more effective with a lot more zip.
Bloody hope so. I am genuinely worried about how good they were tonight.degruch wrote:Hehe...tonights game was never going to be close. Tomorrow night will be the game all the 'experts' expected tonight...but we survived it and almost won last year, we'll get through again. Collingwood v witches hats tonight...they won't know what hit 'em if we get through.
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I have never seen Collingwood given so much control of the corridor...no pressure at all. They just won't get it against us. We just HAVE to win tomorrow night...it'll be one of the great travesties of AFL football history if we don't.#1GILL wrote:Bloody hope so. I am genuinely worried about how good they were tonight.degruch wrote:Hehe...tonights game was never going to be close. Tomorrow night will be the game all the 'experts' expected tonight...but we survived it and almost won last year, we'll get through again. Collingwood v witches hats tonight...they won't know what hit 'em if we get through.
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The GF will be a fizzer if we don't win tomorrow night. We have to finish off the Dogs.degruch wrote:I have never seen Collingwood given so much control of the corridor...no pressure at all. They just won't get it against us. We just HAVE to win tomorrow night...it'll be one of the great travesties of AFL football history if we don't.#1GILL wrote:Bloody hope so. I am genuinely worried about how good they were tonight.degruch wrote:Hehe...tonights game was never going to be close. Tomorrow night will be the game all the 'experts' expected tonight...but we survived it and almost won last year, we'll get through again. Collingwood v witches hats tonight...they won't know what hit 'em if we get through.
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I just got home from the game - pies were simply awesome. HOWEVER, cats play into their hands. We, on the other hand play a different style. PIes were never going to be easy for anyone. Win tomorrow night, and I'm confident that Ross will have something worked out for them. One thing for sure - no way we'll roll over and take it like the cats did in that first half.
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Geelong looked fantastic last week against witches hats.#1GILL wrote:Bloody hope so. I am genuinely worried about how good they were tonight.degruch wrote:Hehe...tonights game was never going to be close. Tomorrow night will be the game all the 'experts' expected tonight...but we survived it and almost won last year, we'll get through again. Collingwood v witches hats tonight...they won't know what hit 'em if we get through.
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This is exactly what I was thinking as I watching it last night.Moods wrote:I just got home from the game - pies were simply awesome. HOWEVER, cats play into their hands. We, on the other hand play a different style. PIes were never going to be easy for anyone. Win tomorrow night, and I'm confident that Ross will have something worked out for them. One thing for sure - no way we'll roll over and take it like the cats did in that first half.
The Pies were great but Geelong were poor. The Saints would have played possession footy to stop the rot, Goddard would have been more effective as loose man in defence than Scarlett was, Riewoldt and Kosi would've been better than Pods and Mooney were...
The Cats looked bad. They persisted with handballs to whoever and they were immediately swamped by Collingwood players who weren't shepherded out of the contest by other Cats.
Credit to the Pies where it's due. I'm worried about how good they were but Geelong certainly contributed to that. We will do better.
the cats didn't put in the hard yards till half way through the second quarter.
they were arrogant and looking to the week after.
see Hawthorn GF 2008.
THey lost it as much as the pies won it.
watch their defenders standing off the forward, and running forward.
they didn't chase and tackle till it was too late.
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US IF WE DON'T GIVE THE RESPECT to the DOGS.
the odds on the TAB are as a function of trying to lure people to bet on the dogs to offset the potential 4 million dollar payouts should the saints win based on $100,000 and $500,000 bets for the saints.
I am thinking about putting money on the dogs at this time TBH if the odds lengthen any more.
they were arrogant and looking to the week after.
see Hawthorn GF 2008.
THey lost it as much as the pies won it.
watch their defenders standing off the forward, and running forward.
they didn't chase and tackle till it was too late.
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US IF WE DON'T GIVE THE RESPECT to the DOGS.
the odds on the TAB are as a function of trying to lure people to bet on the dogs to offset the potential 4 million dollar payouts should the saints win based on $100,000 and $500,000 bets for the saints.
I am thinking about putting money on the dogs at this time TBH if the odds lengthen any more.
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I'm not even thinking of next week. I was talking about tonight. I thought we'd thrash the bulldogs and the other two would gave a close match. Now the Maggies have flogged Geelong, I HIGHLY doubt we will have an easy win tonight now. The way Collngwood destroyed them tonight, leads me to believe that we'll get the close one.
And as I won't be able to watch or listen to the game I really hope it is not going to be tight and close. And even if I was looking ahead to next week what does it matter? I'm not one of the players. I'm sure the players won't be getting ahead of themselves.
And as I won't be able to watch or listen to the game I really hope it is not going to be tight and close. And even if I was looking ahead to next week what does it matter? I'm not one of the players. I'm sure the players won't be getting ahead of themselves.
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Well now that I have woken up I feel a lot better.
I think it's just jealousy. Collngwood supporters have already made the GF whereas we still have to qualify. It's so much easier fir them to kick back and hope for a real slugfest tonight.
But now I've had a nice sleep and feel much better and ready to cheer us on tonight (sort of) so we can meet them in the GF.
Go Sainters!!!
I think it's just jealousy. Collngwood supporters have already made the GF whereas we still have to qualify. It's so much easier fir them to kick back and hope for a real slugfest tonight.
But now I've had a nice sleep and feel much better and ready to cheer us on tonight (sort of) so we can meet them in the GF.
Go Sainters!!!
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Harness all your worry into cheering the boys and giving them something even close to the support the pies got from the crowd tonight.[/quote]
This is the key.. I want to be able to hear you all from Perth... I hope all in Melbourne are turning up and going to be loud and proud
Harness all your worry into cheering the boys and giving them something even close to the support the pies got from the crowd tonight.[/quote]
This is the key.. I want to be able to hear you all from Perth... I hope all in Melbourne are turning up and going to be loud and proud
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To the OP...
The Pies playing so well will hopefully bea great mental spur to our players that they need to display the frenetic work rate that they know that they can deliver...
Pies have aped a ot of what the Saints do..
So we just need to deliver our est and we can triumph..
Besideas Saints v Geelong GF would have been bih.
But Saints v Pies will be HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Pies playing so well will hopefully bea great mental spur to our players that they need to display the frenetic work rate that they know that they can deliver...
Pies have aped a ot of what the Saints do..
So we just need to deliver our est and we can triumph..
Besideas Saints v Geelong GF would have been bih.
But Saints v Pies will be HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hope our team is now jealous of Collingwood more than the Dogs are - that's all I can say.
They've "upped" rather than "aped" us..
We need to step it up - it remains to be seen if we can apply Collingwood
type of pressure over the next 2 games.
One thing Collingwood has over St Kilda is precision foot skills - how they deliver long passes to a team mate's advantage within a foot of the boundary line was amazing.
They've "upped" rather than "aped" us..
We need to step it up - it remains to be seen if we can apply Collingwood
type of pressure over the next 2 games.
One thing Collingwood has over St Kilda is precision foot skills - how they deliver long passes to a team mate's advantage within a foot of the boundary line was amazing.
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The question needs to be asked of Bomber Thompson.
Many have rated him as one of the best coaches getting around,but really,he's had an embarrassment of riches to work with.
He has no plan B,he's just relied on his teams brilliance to win games,which is fair enough when you have 6-7 freaks in your side,and 7-8 other very good players to go with them. However we will see what sort of a coach he is in the next few years as he loses players. He hasn't found an answer for our frontal pressure on there over possesive style play,and we let them off the hook in the GF last year with atrocious kicking. This year Collingwood mauled them in round 19,yet he learnt no lessons from it,and got his right whack last night,his arrogance finally caught up with him
Many have rated him as one of the best coaches getting around,but really,he's had an embarrassment of riches to work with.
He has no plan B,he's just relied on his teams brilliance to win games,which is fair enough when you have 6-7 freaks in your side,and 7-8 other very good players to go with them. However we will see what sort of a coach he is in the next few years as he loses players. He hasn't found an answer for our frontal pressure on there over possesive style play,and we let them off the hook in the GF last year with atrocious kicking. This year Collingwood mauled them in round 19,yet he learnt no lessons from it,and got his right whack last night,his arrogance finally caught up with him
Bring back the Lockett era
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There may not be a plan B.jonesy wrote:The question needs to be asked of Bomber Thompson.
Many have rated him as one of the best coaches getting around,but really,he's had an embarrassment of riches to work with.
He has no plan B,he's just relied on his teams brilliance to win games,which is fair enough when you have 6-7 freaks in your side,and 7-8 other very good players to go with them. However we will see what sort of a coach he is in the next few years as he loses players. He hasn't found an answer for our frontal pressure on there over possesive style play,and we let them off the hook in the GF last year with atrocious kicking. This year Collingwood mauled them in round 19,yet he learnt no lessons from it,and got his right whack last night,his arrogance finally caught up with him
The lesson Bomber may have learnt may be that his champion team is too slow - and Collingwood has gone past them in most departments.
You also need speed to chase and apply pressure - when the ball was free Selwood, Bartel, Ling , Chapman - Geelong's so called champions" couldn't get to a loose ball ahead of the bottom four ranked Collingwood player nor could these "champions" apply effective chase.
I could catch Hunt just by walking - the guy is too muscle bound.
This left Collingwood free to deliver their pin point passes.
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That is well and good but didnt that team with all its slow players nearly beat us 2 weeks ago. Yes I know the whether helped them but they did get within a kick. By the way pace isnt our strength either and sides with it really worry us. The pies do have it. Slow play and controlling the ball is what is required next week if we win tonight.samoht wrote:The lesson Bomber learnt may be that his champion team is too slow - and Collingwood has gone past them in most departments.jonesy wrote:The question needs to be asked of Bomber Thompson.
Many have rated him as one of the best coaches getting around,but really,he's had an embarrassment of riches to work with.
He has no plan B,he's just relied on his teams brilliance to win games,which is fair enough when you have 6-7 freaks in your side,and 7-8 other very good players to go with them. However we will see what sort of a coach he is in the next few years as he loses players. He hasn't found an answer for our frontal pressure on there over possesive style play,and we let them off the hook in the GF last year with atrocious kicking. This year Collingwood mauled them in round 19,yet he learnt no lessons from it,and got his right whack last night,his arrogance finally caught up with him
You also need speed to chase and apply pressure - when the ball was free Selwood, Bartel, Ling , Chapman - Geelong's so called champions" couldn't get to a loose ball ahead of the bottom four ranked Collingwood player nor could these "champions" apply effective chase.
I could catch Hunt just by walking - the guy is too muscle bound.
This left Collingwood free to deliver their pin point passes.
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I was just pointing out the difference between Collingwood and Geelong - I know we don't have pace either and that's a concern.plugger66 wrote: That is well and good but didnt that team with all its slow players nearly beat us 2 weeks ago. Yes I know the whether helped them but they did get within a kick. By the way pace isnt our strength either and sides with it really worry us. The pies do have it. Slow play and controlling the ball is what is required next week if we win tonight.
Zoning may not be the way to play Collingwood ? - we might need to just go man on man and not give them any space - and attack ferociously and in numbers like they do - assuming we beat the Dogs?