Pre Match: Pies v. Lions - All comments here please.

[Joel]

Aker reckons that Brad Scott will be playing now.

[The Prototype]

This is going to be a worrying game....

Going to be a good hard game, a very must win for both sides for the Top 4 I'm not really that confident of a win, but I think we have a good chance of beating them. Last time we gave them a head start and almost won that game, now maybe this time we can jump them and then take it away from them in the last. I think the most a team will win this game by will be 14 pts. It's good to see Clement and Cloke back, shame that Rupe had to miss out.

I really don't think Brad Scott will play, sure he may, but I just don't think they will risk a player who isn't really ready, just like Collingwood wouldn't, even if the game is a must win, they should save anyone that is under an injury cloud for when they are fit to play.

Pies by 14pts.

[Donny]

Collingwood v. Brisbane at the MCG on a Saturday arvo.

Is this football heaven ? Is for me.

In my early days of following the Pies, games were always on a Saturday arvo. All 6.

To get up on Sat. morning and read The Sun (as it was then) was a real buzz. At about 2.30 I'd tune my radio to the station doing our game, hear how the reserves were going, get all my stats sheets ready and wait for that magic moment. The siren !!

Tomorrow, at about 2 pm, I'll log into Nick's scoreboard chat and, with adrenalin flowing, countdown the last few minutes to that same magic moment.

C'morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn Maggies !!!!!

[couragous cloke]

just reading some of these posts is getting me excited, i just finished watching the prelim (again) and im totally pumped for saturday.

[Joel]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. CARN PIES, go out there and;

CRUSH, KILL AND DESTROY Brisbane.

[Jonesy]

I think our start will be the key. Can afford to be off the boil like last week, even for 10 minutes or game will be gone. The midfield will decide this one, especially if we can get the ball to Taz an Anthony quick while they are one out.

Go Pies!![/img]

[peter_pies4ever]

What's the weather going to be like?

[magpie willow]

word on the street is its gonna hail and piss down mate we cant let this affect us dont let it worry ya pies kill hte bastards!

[Joel]

[Pied Piper]

Don't all shoot me at once ... but I had a funny feeling earlier today that we were going to win and win well tomorrow, in what will be a real benchmark game for us - the game that signals one team's arrival and another's slow decline.

It's just a feeling.

I just hope I'm right...

[peter_pies4ever]

the_weed you are not the only one i think we will win by a good margin tomorrow if the weather holds up, if it is rainy i believe it will be close and only a couple of goals might be the margin.

[Joel]

I've just woken up and had a look outsidede. I don't know what it's like in Melbourne but there is blue skies down here on the Peninsula.

[Proud Pies]

It's raining magpies and lions here....and the rest of the day has the same in store

[silf85]

Umpires today are

#2- Michael Vozzo
#6- Andrew Coates
#11- Scott McLaren

IN RED

[Magpie Since 1986]

A wet Saturday at the G. This is going to feel like going to the GF again.
Why are the umpires in red? Isnt that a bit close to the Brisbanes maroon.
I would have thought yellow would be better, guess they might not clash that much.