Post Match. Pies down Dockers. JLT.

[Donny]

Collingwood 17.9.111
Fremantle 12.12.84

Goals: Varcoe 3, Checkers, Elliott, Stevo, Daics 2, Crocker, Sidey, Wills, T Brown, Phillips, Beamer 1.

Disposals: Sidey, Pendles 34, Phillips, Beamer 25, Aish, JT 23, Levi 22, Crisp 21, C Brown, 20, Moore 18, Crocker 20, Checkers 15, Murphy 12, Stevo 15, Wills 14, Grundy 15, Quaynor 12, Langdon 14, Varcoe 14, Daics, Elliott 11.

D/E: Langdon 90%, Aish 87, Varcoe, Grundy 86.7, Pendles 82.4, Beamer 80.

Tackles: Varcoe, JT 6, Pendles, Phillips, Grundy 5.

AF points: Pendles, 117, Sidey 113, Phillips 103, Varco 102, Grundy 101

Let's hear ya !!

[piedys]

Solid hit out peeps, that's what we wanted.
Freo's inaccuracy at goal probably killed their momentum, not that it matters.
Looks like the work load got shared, and that's a critical system that served us very well in 2018.
No injuries sustained, we deserve that at least.

Now get plenty of water back into their bodies immediately!

[eureka]

Also great to chalk up that first win of the year even though it is jlt Awsome job well done and on the road in unfamiliar surroundings

[Johnno75]

Some handy recruits in Moore, Billy and Beams.

[stui magpie]

Yeah, good hitout and for me the best part was seeing Billy and Darcy play with freedom. Those 2 alone are the difference between runners up and a premiership team.

Stevo shows no sign of second year blues
Tyler Brown is coming on. Might take some time but the finished product should be special.
Daics has been on the beach weights and has some physical intensity he didn't have last year to go with his undoubted skill. He looks fitter, stronger and determined. (boner alert)
Roughead down back with darcy makes our backline look so much better


We only had something like 9 players from the grand final team playing, we have some serious depth both now and in development.

Very positive.

[3rd degree]

Sounds like we showed up , no injuries always good Wills will be first pick, Scotty Burns like.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

Good work out in the 40 degree heat that should have favoured Freo, especially in the last quarter when Freo got within a goal of us, but couldn’t go on. Aish held our backline together in the absence of Maynard and Langdon marked everything in sight. Moore had a better second half while Crisp slowly worked himself into the game.

Tyler Brown is a work in progress. He needs to play around the ball but until he puts on a bit of weight the opposition mids will throw him to the ground. Mihocek and Stephenson continued on from last year and Elliot did some beautiful things to show us why we missed him last year.

IQ will obviously start off in the VFL this year. He won’t want to watch a replay of the Freo game but since it was a meaningless game he won’t mind how he played. His coaches will tell him it only gets better from here. Nathan Murphy was very solid. He has the potential to play as a CHB releasing Langdon to the flanks.

Overall a really good effort. Still a few things to sort out and the starting positions in the 50m arc needs more work. We don’t want to be giving away frees in the centre of the ground.

[melliot]

-Phillip's. Jeez didnt th I'll no he had that much of it.
-Mihocek looks good. No superstar. But plays a solid role and contributes at each contest.
-Stevenson and Jamie look dangerous. Add deGoey WHEand Cox. It's a dangerous forward line.
-Murphy is a bit of a worry by foot. Does everything else well.

[eureka]

Chalking up that first win was the aim and well achieved

[PyreneesPie]

[Pie-For-Life]

Beams, just makes us better, competition for spots will be hot.

[Raw Hammer]

Daicos gets in the right spots but often gets ignored. They finally used him as a link up player in the final term and he showed his sublime skills. Handy depth if needed, like last season, and pushing for first 22 if he replicated that last quarter through all four.

Tyler Brown has that certain ‘it’. I think he’s good things to make it. His brother needs to find strength and penetration in his release handballs when tackled...currently the ball bobbles and gets taken away by the opposition.

Elliott is just a freak. Football Gods, please leave him alone. Pretty effing please. Ditto Moore.

Backline is a worry still. Desperately need Maynard, Howe, Dunn and Schaz back.

Missing: Cox, Adams, Treloar, Maynard, Howe, JDG, WHE, Dunn, Schaz, Wells*, from our most talented line up (I might have missed more). Exciting times ahead, especially if we stay injury free (which we won’t).

[Pies4shaw]

[masoncox]

Some good signs there.
A number of good players including the Brown boys.
Stevo has some great pace.
Thomas did well .....got the ball a lot.
Watched Quaynor last week and this week.
He needs some decent time in the VFL.
Moore looks better down back, but sometimes doesn't cover his man.
Still wonder about Reid going forward full time.
See ya in Moe next week.

[Collingwood Crackerjack]

Geez, a lot to like from that showing, Jamie and beams first and foremost, but checkers, daics and both browns, trav looks cherry ripe, loved spud Murphy's game, wowee! Bring on round one, the hunger reminded me of early days 2011