Post Match. Pies whack West Coast. All comments please.

[leonmagic]

Crisp was absolutely huge. A great win, could be looked back on as the victory that led us to the flag.

[PyreneesPie]

Just watching a few highlights - Mason and McGovern almost simultaneously marking the ball, but the umpire awarded the "man in front", who was Mason.
Well done to whatever umpire that was. I was beginning to think that decision had been archived.

[PyreneesPie]

[eddiesmith]

[Larry]

Just got back from the game it was so good.
So many of them looked like they couldn’t move another step but just kept going to contest after contest.
Unfortunately I don’t think Crocker is up to it, goes to the right position just can’t win the ball.

[Magpietothemax]

[think positive]

Well it’s 2am and I’m wide wake, I’m sick, m tired, amd I’m oh so happy! Wth that godawful 90 sec playing in my mind, I watch the last 90 sec tonight, and yelled, and begged and pleaded to every god on the planet, and at the siren, I howled! And laughed and sang as Degoey and Sidey whooped and hugged it out, and they all joined In, and bucks ran across the enemies battle ground to join them! How good was that! Win lose or draw I would have been proud tonight, but that was a win for the ages! God I love this club! Cheers!

[MattyD]

I thought to myself if we don't win this week, we won't have the confidence to be top 4 this year.

After a long working week for me, I went to bed halfway through the 3rd quarter. Just before drifting off to sleep, I sent my mother a message. She lives in Perth and her husband is an Eagles fan.

She's a god-fearing Christian woman and I said to her, "The Pies need divine intervention tonight."

She's a Collingwood supporter and said, "Don't worry, I'm praying for Collingwood tonight."

She never says that.

That win tonight was just what we need to get some confidence back.

I can smell the finals.

Oh, and I'll be laughing about "Fatanui" all day. Thank you to whoever said that LOL

[thebaldfacts]

With just over 12 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter, they kicked their 12th goal to go ahead 12..4 to 9.4.

From then on, they scored only one point to our 2.8.

To turn the game around from that point was amazing. The belief that a win like that gives the players is what is needed come September.

[BazBoy]

I saw a win I will never ever forget back in the day
The day was late September 1958 —-thrills me still

And last nights game will thrill me too every time I think of gutsy

So many stories last night
Roughead never put a foot wrong being the back line big
Checkers strong strong marking (the one a minute from the end❤️)
Noble to Cameron shut him down
A very serviceable game from the Yank
Mate I could go on and on —you all saw it same as me
And are just as proud

[warburton lad]

An amazing win- certainly a win for the ages. We showed the sort of character that got us to the GF last year and deserved the win.

Enough has been said of the efforts of our players tonight so any commentary from me would be superfluous.

Looking forward to next week when we could perhaps consider some of the following: Goldsack, Scharenberg, Howe, Varcoe, Thomas and Adams.

Outs may include Crocker and Moore (injury.)

I iike the thought of Goldsack in for the next two really tough games- he can play the 'tall' back option and release Hoskin-Elliott back forward. I'm afraid that Crocker is not quite up to the level and would select Varcoe over Thomas, or Daicos to play as a defensive forward on Heater and make him accountable on the turnover.

Still, all those conundrums are for the week ahead.

Floreat Pica

[BazBoy]

Well said Lad and yes drool we can over last night —-oh so sweet

But that was then and next week another battle to which we approach with the intangible

Believe,momentum and selflessness

A hard road at times being a Pie lover but wouldn’t have it any other way

Just love em

[the fuzz]

Proud.
I had a feeling we would be up to it.
Never underestimate this team. We are not going to crumble after a few bad weeks and negative outside commentary.
Pure guts when we needed it.
Many players stood up that I could highlight, that as others have.
I’ll just mention one.
Sir Scott Pendlebury.
He may we’ll have broken his finger.
Kept not only playing, but playing well. That’s the leadership we needed and it’s what we got.
Go Pies

[Pies4shaw]

Surprisingly, given the rubbish that's been written on Nick's since Pendlebury and Sidebottom each had their only bad game of 2018, Collingwood's midfield thrashed the West Coast midfield last night - and they did it by slaughtering the soft West Coast mids for contested possession. There were only five players on the field who had more than 10 contested possessions - Treloar (16), Sidebottom (14), Grundy (12), Pendlebury and JDG (11 each). The two highest disposal tallies were from Treloar (39) and Sidebottom (33). The main three mids (Pendlebury, Treloar and Sidebottom) had 104 disposals between them - in last year's GF, the same three had 64.

Grundy steamrolled the West Coast rucks in the second half, of course, which made it easier. The longer the game went, the less likely a West Coast player became to get hands on the ball. We all know Natanui has a great spring and incredible athleticism. That's all very fine and interesting - but when the game was on the line, he just kept getting whacked by the B-double, so much so that he ended up nowhere to be seen while Collingwood's midfield owned territory in the last quarter. More than ever, AFL is a physical contest, rather than a game decided by demonstrations of cute skills - week after week, without any especially "pretty" runs or "ooh/aah" disposals, Grundy just grinds whatever opposition idiot they give him into the dirt.

Where the 'pies really improved from last week, though, was with ground-ball and run inside (and from) the defensive 50. The small West Coast forwards barely touched the ball in the last hour of the game. That was mainly because we played WHE on their medium marking target (so, if he couldn't mark the ball, he was never going to touch it on the ground), Maynard thrashed Darling (who, as Alan Toovey repeatedly demonstrated in his career, is actually a pea-heart), Crisp kept doing what he does to the best of his ability (so that, despite having some miserable moments in the first half of the match, he just rolled over the top of them in the last quarter) and Noble and Quaynor (despite both, at times, demonstrating a general lack of familiarity with the Coach's gameplan, which is entirely understandable) getting to the contests, repeatedly and closing down the easy ball out the back.

I don't know whether it would be fair to ask Maynard to take Darling on a warm, sunny Spring afternoon at the MCG - but his job last night was critical to the win.

[shawthing]

Just woke up and I'm pleased to say after reading this thread again that our miracle win was not a DREAM. Yes, it really happened.