Throw me a positive!

[jackcass]

[swoop42]

We aren't St.kilda.

[Jezza]

[Museman]

[schuey07]

At least we aren't Brazil.

[Dave The Man]

AFL Season is Over

[Dave The Man]

[AN_Inkling]

Positive thread Dave.

[i hate carlton]

I would change half the list with our VFL guns, make every player work for his place.

[David]

Still in the running for a top 8 position, which is more than can be said for more than a third of the competition. I know some fans are of a more impatient disposition and would prefer we tank the moment it becomes apparent that we won't win the flag, but for me the season is still alive until the final siren of the final game. Still plenty to play for.

[think positive]

[simon tonna]

theres a chance we may control the ball.

[collie dog]

[Pies4shaw]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: it is easy to predict AFL doom and gloom and be accurate. If you asked someone who came from another planet, had never seen footy and had no understanding of the uncertainties of sport how the 'Pies would go in the coming season and that being said "Collingwood can't win the flag this year", they'd have a 94.5% chance of being correct before the first game of any season. Mere miserable negativity without a balanced critique adds nothing to the debate.

It's much, much harder to make a realistic appraisal of how the team's long-term prospects are shaping when things are poor on the field.

The team has been developing well and has uncovered a number of apparently capable senior players this year. Unfortunately, it looks like the kids have hit a wall and the few top-flight, experienced players can't carry the kids through this part of the year. Things might have been different if the reserves stocks hadn't been so challenged with injuries. I thought the 'Pies were probably a 6 to 10 team this season, depending upon who improved, who went backwards and who couldn't get on the park. That still looks about right (despite the ridiculous criticisms of that view posted by some over-optimists earlier in the year) and will be no great disappointment. And no, I won't like that and won't be satisfied about it. I am fiercely competitive in my business life, hate failure and under-achievement in any field of activity and, when it comes to Collingwood, break furniture every time the opposition kicks a goal, let alone when the 'Pies don't win. In that context, if I can be balanced about how the team is going, I suspect the negativism exhibited on here of late says more about the mental state of the posters than it does about the Club's progress.

[Piesnchess]

Come out and beat the Crows by five goals, and all will be forgiven. !