Em-Barassi-ng

samoht · Post: # 996231Post **samoht** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 2:54pm

Barassi is publically declaring this year's Collingwood team as the best of all time.

Get a grip on reality Mr Football.

InkerSaint · Post: # 996235Post **InkerSaint** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 2:58pm

Have they actually broken any records yet? Tackling, posessions, consecutive wins?

mordi · Post: # 996236Post **mordi** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 2:58pm

Best Collingwood team, or any team, of all time?

Mr Magic · Post: # 996240Post **Mr Magic** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:03pm

mordi wrote:Best Collingwood team, or any team, of all time?

best Collingwood team he's seen - he's been saying it for some time.

samoht · Post: # 996242Post **samoht** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:04pm

Mr Magic wrote:
best Collingwood team he's seen - he's been saying it for some time.

ed(sic) nauseum

mordi · Post: # 996245Post **mordi** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:08pm

so they'll be the greatest team of all time...and yet without a flag!! hahah

bigcarl · Post: # 996249Post **bigcarl** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:12pm

Well, I haven't been around for as long as dear old Barass, but this is the best St Kilda team I've seen ... by a long way.

chook23 · Post: # 996255Post **chook23** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:18pm

Mr Magic wrote:
mordi wrote:Best Collingwood team, or any team, of all time?
best Collingwood team he's seen - he's been saying it for some time.

and it was supported by their best half last week.

hope we can shut that down...............they smashed Geelong.

gringo · Post: # 996263Post **gringo** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:23pm

I have a family friend who is a very close friend of Barass and they claim he is hoping the Saints get up. He might be loading pressure back on them or simply referring to the fact that collingwood teams were over achievers in the modern era from a depth perspective and in the early years simply were not really of the same standard of today.

Apart from luck in 1990 the Pies have struggled to be a dominant team, they look like the current list is a good one, but you never know until the silverware comes.

stinger · Post: # 996266Post **stinger** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:28pm

bigcarl wrote:Well, I haven't been around for as long as dear old Barass, but this is the best St Kilda team I've seen ... by a long way.

it's not bad is it.....

the guy's lost it....he once stated before a swans/saints game that i in his view i should be pleased to see the swans beat my saints ....that i wouldn't begrudge his swans a win..... as everyone wanted to see them succeed in sin city.....i told him to get real...that i would never wish for my team to lose.......he got a bit miffed....

evertonfc · Post: # 996283Post **evertonfc** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 3:38pm

In a sense, they probably are.

Our 2000 team was probably better than our 1966 team...because each year, football improves 5-10 per cent.

He's not wrong. But his hyperbole is misplaced.

spyglass · Post: # 996363Post **spyglass** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 4:41pm

i thought that he said

They're the best Collingwood team since the 1920s and 1930s. That might sound a hell of a statement.

"But when you think back, they haven't had many great sides.

"They've won two or three premierships in that long, long period (since), but they were never a great side.

"They are the best side since those days.''

never believe the headlines sub editors write

mick13 · Post: # 996401Post **mick13** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 5:05pm

Considering they've won 2 flags since the 30's, this team probably is the best Collingwood side he's seen.

JacksonsGirl · Thu 23 Sep 2010 5:48pm

You could mount an argument that this is the best St.Kilda team of all time as well.

Quite a valid argument.

bozza1980 · Post: # 996669Post **bozza1980** » Thu 23 Sep 2010 6:35pm

evertonfc wrote:Our 2000 team was probably better than our 1966 team...because each year, football improves 5-10 per cent.

I don't know, I think the 1966 team could have beaten our 2000 team in 2000 despite the fact they would all have been 50+ years old.