Pre match. Round 1. Pies v. Lions - all comments.

[BBHS]

Nah. Hope we smash these pricks the hatred runs deep no matter how much shit has gone on in the last feel days.
Backbones people!

[swoop42]

Come on people fire up!

Think back to how you felt during the whole Beams saga and recall your hate for this rancid mob.

Christ we mightn't be world beaters but these arrogant tossers won 4 less games than us last year.

They aren't Hawthorn and are certainly beatable.

After this week we need a win.

Bring the passion, footy is back!

[watt price tully]

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[mackasmatt]

Hope the team looks something like this. We need to remember that Pendles didn't play last time v Brisbane and Swan was in terrible form. Beams may have also made his mind up by round 21 as to going home. Our midfield is still extremely light-on.

B: Williams, Frost, Goldsack
HB: Langdon, Brown, Toovey
C: Varcoe, Swan, Crisp
HF: Sidebottom, Cloke, Blair
F: Elliott, White, Fasolo
R: Pendlebury, Adams, Witts

Bench From: Sinclair, Karnezis, Broomhead, Kennedy, Freeman, De Goey

Undecided:
Dwyer
Armstrong
Grundy
Reid (rehab?)
Oxley
Ramsay
Gault

Out:
Ball (retired)
Beams (trade)
Lumumba (trade)
Keeffe (susp)
JThomas (susp)

Greenwood (inj)
Macaffer (inj)
Scharenberg (inj)
Seedsman (inj)
Young (inj)

[mattys123]

No Witts this weekend at all, which is disappointing.

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/video/2015-04-01/blackmores-injury-update-round-one

Probably means Gault will be upgraded tomorrow and play.

[MagpieBat]

This is what I want to see...

B: Toovey, Brown, Langdon
HB: Williams, Frost, Goldsack
C: Sidebottom, Adams, Varcoe
HF: Elliott, Cloke, Karnezis
F: Kennedy, White, Gault
R: Grundy, Pendlebury, Swan
I: Fasolo, Ramsay, Broomhead, Crisp

E: Oxley, Sinclair, De Goey

Witts unavailable, so White starts, for mine.

[Magpietothemax]

I am not as pessimistic as many. Brisbane is like a torso with no head and no legs...great midfield, but where is it going?
Our defence will be OK because it won't be threatened with a monstrous forward line, and our forwards will be OK provided that we can deliver to the ball to them!
So we must find a way to counter their midfield superiority. And for that, I think we could through weight of numbers because our recruiting strategy seems to have been to get as many players as possible capable of rotating through the midfield. Our players are inexperienced, but we have alot of them!
So I would like to see Sinclair selected, as he can run through the midfield. I would like to see Crisp, Broomhead, Freman,De Goey all selected. Since I can't have all, I would go with De Goey over Freeman if only due to preseason form. My team would be:

Toovey brown williams

Langdon. Frost. Sinclair

Varcoe. Swan sidebottom

Fasolo. Cloke. Goldsack

Elliot. White. gault
Foll: Grundy pendles Adams

Inter: de goey Blair broomhead Crisp

I would have Gault in rather than Karnezis because of Gault's proven capacity to take a mark and act as a diversion of defenders from Cloke. Also White could be freed up to run through the midfield as well, and perhaps Swan come to the forward line during a break.

I think that the chance for us to counter their midfield will be to rotate many different players through there, which we are capable of. It will be a team effort of our fleet of midfielders to control Rockliff and Beams.

[Dave The Man]

So - Gault will get Elvated from Rookie List with Witts Out?

As we need 3 Tall Forwards

[MagpieMad]

mattys123′s Match Preview Round 01 � Collingwood vs Brisbane is up on the site:

http://www.magpies.net/nick/?p=1556


thanks matt, appreciate it.

[watt price tully]

[woftam]

I have a feeling their 2 rucks will put it down their mids throats all night.
Never has Grundy been more required to stand tall & nullify them.

[HAL]

How much did it cost?

[John Wren]

pies by 14.

[yin-YANG]