Post Match. Pies pip Dogs. All comments please.

ANNODAM · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:02 am

I didn’t watch last weeks game Steve, they weren’t showing it in central AU where I am atm, so had to rely on the comments & scores in the game thread.
This week, I managed to catch the game live, people here who were watching with me (strangers) were laughing at us, the comments weren’t too favourable either!

I just don’t get how far off the pace we are atm, maybe playing deep into September has affected our pre season preparation.

Walkinshaw · Joined: 12 Apr 2019

The pies struggled big time tonight. They got away in the last quarter but luck was on their side. I hope my pies are working their way into the season. Go Pies

Pies2016 · Joined: 12 Sep 2014

BHPIE · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Broken Hill

Back to 16 , 17 , Garbage fu#k around in the backline till we turn it over, a defensive zone thats next to useless when the opposition has the ball,instead of man on man, why oh why play that shit, once we started going long to Cox with crumbers around him we looked a different side in the last quarter, BE MORE DIRECT Collingwood FFS

Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

Very pleased with the way we finished the game. We started to get on top when De Goey played in the middle and Stephenson was playing up forward. Those were good moves by Bucks at a time when the game had the potential of slipping away from our fingers.

Overall, it was a very ugly spectacle and we were lucky that the Dogs' ineffectiveness going forward stopped them from kicking a bigger score. Grundy dominated as expected, but our inability to take advantage in the clearances is a concern and needs to be addressed.

Happy to take the four points, but we'll need to step it up against Brisbane next week because I think a similar performance would see us lose to them. I remain optimistic we'll start to click into gear and resemble what we produced last year, but we're not there just yet.

Worrying news about Mayne. Hope everything is okay on the medical front.

VicParkTragic · Joined: 17 Oct 2010

Interesting game. When it was an open affair for the first 2 and 1/2 quarters we looked average. When it became more contested we got on top. Not sure how that changed. De Goey in the centre, kicking to Cox to make a contest, more desperation? I thought the backline did ok and the final quarter was more of what we would expect. Need more of that.

VicParkTragic · Joined: 17 Oct 2010

Oh and Varcoes effort in the final quarter was outstanding.

Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

kymbo5@yahoo.com.au · Joined: 23 Mar 2014

Pipes1970 · Joined: 03 Jul 2017

Winning ugly is still winning

I don't want to be playing our best football yet

From round 15 on just like last year.... building up nicely and arriving at the finals in absolutely wicked form

Yep... that'll do

mudlark · Joined: 19 Mar 2002 Location: Maroochydore Qld

Interesting comments about a team we haven't defeated at the MCG since 2010 and have beaten us, comprehensively 5 of the last 6 times we've met. Forget that we lost our link man in the backline in the first 5 minutes. Forget that we were one rotation down for the entire game. Forget we missed, at my count, 6 set shots from inside 30 metres, forget the basic skill errors by foot and forget the now obligatory half pie kick out of defence by Tom Phillips only to see it sail back over his head for a goal, the thing that stood out for me was the absolute and utter disgrace that were the umpires.

Anything we did was awarded with a free against us and it was usually a 50/50 and we were advancing. And seriously!! The report of Miochek was an embarrassment to the game. Free kick yes. 50 No !! Report??? Mind you, having said that, Checkers really should be dropped on that performance. He was shocking and dropped at least 6 sodas when we were going forward.

The last qtr should really give everyone a glimpse of what we are capable of and I think it's just a matter of just doing what they did last year.Quick ball movement and quit stuffing around with slow play. Cox was a perfect example when the ball came in quick and high. He was involved in just about every last qtr goal.

I'll happily be going to the Gabba on Thursday and I'm sure we'll get the Easter chockies. Beams Sier and Reid in. Mayne, Miochek out.

MatthewBoydFanClub · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: Elwood

stui magpie · Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:55 am

That was a shit game to watch but I'll take the 4 points and move on.

thebaldfacts · Joined: 02 Aug 2007

Didn't go to the game, but watched the replay.

Great to have a win. Not playing great, but premierships aren't won in April.

Just a few thoughts.

Thought that in the last when the game was up for grabs, full credit to Callum Brown. He was incredibly clean with his hands, not fumbling, and getting crucial handballs out. Starting to see why Bucks is playing him as next cab of the rank.

Definitely need Sier. De Goey in the last in the centre square was the bull we needed, but it is exactly the roll that Sier has played so well. Both in the team is essential for us to go all the way.

Moore continues to impress. Bit of a scare when he went off to the rooms again, given his injury history, but thankfully all was well.