The Collingwood Rant is now up!

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

I listen every week, its a real highlight to look forward to, to get me through the early days of the week.

Thanks for going to the effort of putting it together.

I am boggled by the calls to 'keep it positive'....reminds me of a dysfunctional area at work, where all the good workers have left due to poor management, and are that are left are a bunch of dead sh*ts who do no work and leave messages on the white board about 'staying positive' while the work queue builds up and up

[derkd]

I stand corrected on the coaching front. Thank you Richmond for your revolving door of coaches.

[Jezza]

Always enjoyed the podcast.

I'm not interested in niceties, I just want to hear the blunt assessment of Sly and Spook whether things are good or bad.

At the moment, the club is at a low point so I'm not surprised their assessment of the current state of affairs is negative. In time, one can hope better times are around the corner.

[swoop42]

We aren't unique when it comes to coaching appointments IMO and are just another club alongside Richmond, Essendon, Carlton, West Coast and Adelaide who all have a large supporter base filled with expectations of success. You could probably add Hawthorn and Geelong to that list also as I doubt their fans would suffer fools gladly given their clubs history of success.

If this football club ever wants to return to being the biggest and the best in the land then it needs to stop believing it still is.

Where we once won premierships to build our legend, over the last 60 years our clubs greatest achievement is perpetuating the myth that we somehow remain better and more special than the rest.

That we still have a large supporter base owes a lot to the legacy of those early dominant Collingwood sides as one generation of family support lead it being handed down to the next.

But surely the passage of time and lack of premiership success in this period is gradually taking it's toll on our level of support.

It's now 85 years since we won consecutive flags and we have not won multiple flags in the same decade since the 1950's.

Until 2017 Richmond might well have been irrelevant for close on 35 years but in winning multiple flags in the late 60's early 70's they cemented themselves a large supporter base and now having won over a new generation of kids they have simply grown it again.

My greatest hope would be that our current board finally get it and freed from the hyperbole of Ed we dispense with all the hubris based on glories long gone, we show some humility and alongside the new coach we work bloody hard to build this club up to the point where we can deliver sustained Premiership success.

Personally I don't want to leave this mortal world without witnessing at least one period of success that the fans of Richmond, Hawthorn or Geelong have gotten to enjoy over the last 10 years.

How about everyone else?

[schuey07]

^ This 100%. Being nice gets you nowhere. I like that the podcast tells it how it is. We need to move on and stop living on past glory.

[orie]

[Sly]

What a majestic way to send off outgoing coach and club legend Nathan Buckley!

Where has this form been the last two and a half years?

Sly and Spook look at the amazing win over league pacesetters and perennial snowbunnies, the Melbourne Football Club!

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[orie]

I guess there is nothing much that is new to say.
Same old..... same old.

[Big T]

Oh there's plenty and my lunch break has been ruined by no rant to listen to... come sly and spook! Your fans await.

[Haff]

Dry July way laid it?

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

Normally up on a Tuesday, I'm getting withdrawals...

[Sly]

Where do you go when it seems that there's nowhere left to go?

Sideways.

And back again.

Back around, turn it over, try to get it back, then start it all over again.

Sly and Spook examine the loss to St Kilda, and then delve into the coaching debate and address some of the rumours going around.

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[Magpietothemax]

Enjoyed this rant guys, as usual. I agreed particularly with your analysis regarding the conflicted psyche of our players. on the one hand, our players have the instinctive ability to play with aggression and audacity, but at the same time, their natural decisions are being stymied by the necessity of playing the team thing, playing the role that has been assigned...leading to schizophrenia/split personaltiy disorder on the playing field. Do SFA for three quarters, then in the final quarter you say, that's it, what have we got nothing to lose, I am just gonna do what I believe i need to do...
And, as a result, blow the opposition out of the water. Had that game last week gone on for a few more minutes, I reckon we would have won.
Just need another coaching perspective to harness the potential.

[Sly]

Actually thought we were a good chance to snatch an unexpected win.

Cameron took that good intercept mark on the wing late in the game. He swung around to kick it, and was tackled by somebody in the protected zone. The umpire pinged Cameron. It should've been a 50-metre penalty.

[Jezza]

As always, great podcast guys.

Agree that the game could have been snatched in the dying stages. We had 2:13 left when we got within 8 points.