today's intra club game at vic park

[ramjet21]

plenty in attendance but not the best quality of footy, perhaps understandably at this stage of the season. bucks picked up a lazy 75 touches at half back before being rested in the final quarter. others to impress were justin crow, luke shackleton, tom davidson had a couple of nice touches and richie cole looked sharp. missed the first 5-10 mins - anyone know why woewodin only ran laps? seemed like everyone else participated, with the exception of the injured trio - tarks, johnno and rhyce. number changes caused confusion for many spectators, further complicated by some players switching from the red to the black team during the match and vice versa. a solid hit out but nothing spectacular. any thoughts from those who saw the whole match?
...hawthorn were getting ready to play their match straight after ours - spider everitt's drink looked suspiciously like a VB.

[labrooy]

According to the AFL website Woey is suffering from a bout of Gastro. He should be right for next week though.

[matm]

I have uploaded some images to Nick's gallery under - match day. Collingwood

[WhyPhilWhy?]

My god! In picture 10/19 Cameron looks bigger than Pebbles!

Link for Kaylene http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/gallery/index.php

[fan4collingwood]

Can someone do a link to the gallery...once again I can't seem to open it from this PC....and I want to see Cameron

[magpies are 2 good]

another 2 not of played today was a player called mark mcgough but i dont know why he missed. has he done any training yet apart from running?

[zoia]

Yer i think Stinky has been eating at a few chinese places down richmound lately, prob why his sick atm

[PB]

Mark has a mild case of OP according to officials . That's why he hasn't been doing a great deal lately.

[Joel]

Any reports? Please.

[Louis]

I was at the match yesterday and was rather impressed by what I had seen. The skill level was not all that bad,given the time of year.I saw the cartlon practice match the night before and can honestly say our standard was far superior to theres. Without crapping on their best player was one H Scotland who will be a regular.
In our practice match my heart filled with hope when I saw Tom Davidson running around.Although he did not have much effect he looks to have bulked in the upper body a fair bit and seemed to have a decnt burst of pace when leading to a contest. His physique is alas Jon Hay circa 2001. Impressing also was the Shaq.If he has not got the makings of an all out cult figure at the club I'll freak. In the midfield he has about as hard as I have seen. He is similar to Mcgough in hardness to the contest but his disposal was top rate. He was baulking and running the lines like a man possessed, he will be in the action at Subiaco. The only thing is his foot speed and that may be exposed at Suby....Richard Cole was also a standout with his hardness and strength. We are puting together a physically formidable group which is a trademark of Malty's sides. Didak was class through and through and ferocious. And even Lonies kicks were like Gold. Also impressing was junior Cloke at CHF who lead well for a big fella and marked well. His kicking was a little askew but improved as the match wore on. Brayden Shaw had little impact and fumbled and kicked ineffectively but you can see the kid has some class. He was actually out done by Heath who took a few grabs and covered the ground well.
We have another man child - man mountain in Billy Morrison who came on in the second half. This kid is huge and even though I was standing next to him in line at highpoints food court a few weeks back with Bo Nixon I could not appreciate how big the lad is. His legs are as big for a 17 year old as I have ever seen.
Tristan Walker was played down back and manned Jnr Cloke for most of the game. I must say this was the most heated and competitve dual of the morning. Points victory to Clokey but Walker can hold his head up high. I think he still does not know the art of being a good defender but he has all the physicall attributed to impose himself down back,or even up forward for that matter.
Taz was sublime and looked like silk covering ground whilst Pebbles was unimpressive but did what he had too. Lokan was good in bursts with his run telling and the dual of Scotty Burns on David King was interesting. Initially playing tight on eachother both guys freed up after the first quarter and were equally effective. King is obviously being touted to succeed Benny Johnsons position down in the back pocket as my tip is more Benny Johnson in the midfield this year. Buckley 's played on the back flank points more to the fact that guys like Cole-Didak-BJohnson will be moved into the engine room Ie on ball.
Shane Obree played well also.Typically got heaps of the ball and showed some glipmses of his 2001 form which netted him 12 brownlow votes.
Dutchy was good and easily has the best physique at Collingwood and Lica was workman like as always.

thats all I got for now...if I think of anything else .....

[Louis]

Hell I forgot to mention our rucks.Frazer played well and had a large stint up forward kicking a couple but the suprise was the form and size of guy Richards. Looks like this kid is coming of Age and took some marks across the backline. He played as aggressive as I have ever seen and I dont think id ever seen him ever take a grab before. He layed the game similat to McKee a couple of years back as a drop back ruckman but did it with more class.herein lies the difference, Richards actually has some class.

[Louis]

Hope everyone enjoyed the post.

[MagpieMad]

thanks Louis great post!

[Johnson#26]

[Canberra]

Thanks for those reports,ramjet21 and Louis. For those Nick's members who want more,there is a large post at Extreme Black & White and also at Lulie St. Dash
http://www.voy.com/51976/
http://pub114.ezboard.com/ftheouterfrm56.showMessage?topicID=825.topic