Post match. Pies run all over Dons. All comments please.

[courtza]

Degoey very good

[Monco Matt]

Don't you just want to win every game we play, regardless if its a praccy match. I was content to go half arsed and lose, but, white line fever gets us all. Glad we fired up in the last and stole an unlikely win. DeGoey looked good and was the most impressive I guess. Not sure if we showed signs of improvement though, probably need a few more game first. Nice to beat the peptide kings.

[daicos35]

Very encouraging start. The nine pointers evened up the hit the post goal they were given. Tay Adams was excellent in the commentary box. Looking forward to seeing ya in Mandurah Tay. And all of ya's!!

WHE WOW! Mason became a factor, Tom Phillips reminds me of Scotty Burns. Jordan De Goer, Josh Daics, all encouraging. Good luck recovering Ben Sinclair, you deserve a break.

Go 'Pies

[What'sinaname]

Always nice to win, and spread of goal kickers was great. It's only one game, but we look better without Cloke. Ball movement was so much better too,

but

Up til 3/4 time, Bombers kicked 10 goals from Collingwood turnovers which isn't good.

[STOKA35]

Turnovers still hurt us times . Fab 5 out of the midfield to come back in is a good sign.

[Stinga]

[stui magpie]

[Redlight]

It's always good to beat those drug-cheating flogs, but tonight rings a note of caution for me.

From (my admittedly suspect) memory, last year we had a pattern of being down early in the preseason matches, and then coming back to win - if not in all three matches, then in a couple.

At the time that gave me some optimism for the season ahead. However I think there's a danger that opposition sides might put the cue in the rack once they've done what they had to do. Everything seems to be working, why take unnecessary risks?

Tonight followed that same pattern, the Bombers had us under control and then rested some players and we came back to win. Great, but this wasn't a performance that I was all that happy with.

After last year I don't think I'll take a relaxed breath until I see the results of round one.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

Wouldn't read anything into the result. We handed Essendon the game in the third quarter when we took players off. They handed the game back to us in the last quarter when they took players off. Pity about Sinclair who was playing well when he got injured (why didn't we take him off the ground at half time?).
The recruitment of WHE could turn out as significant as the recruitment of Treloar. Daicos is the crumber we have been craving for, but I'd be surprised if he gets games in 2017. Schade could be a player but needs to do more work on his one on one body work to be an effective key back.
Like the body work of De Goey who is heavier than last year but hasn't lost any pace. Cox, Crisp and Phillips rounded out our best players. Keeffe started out a bit rusty having missed 2 years out of the game, but soon settled down. He took the ruckwork in preference to White and was significant in our comeback in the last quarter.

[swoop42]

Didn't see a second of it but it's always better to win even if in the scheme of things it means diddly squat for season proper.

Always good to see old eel face suffer another loss and I hate Essendon so good start to the year.

[Pies4shaw]

Captain's victory.

[PyreneesPie]

[Funkadelic]

Only caught the second half, De Go Go with the big last qtr looks to have put on some size, loved his inside work. Greenwood is a monster in the trenches and terrible when he has it in space, so weird. Happy to have the footy back!

[Pies4shaw]

Are we keeping Sinclair to use the parts? I can't believe he got injured again.

[Dave The Man]