Game On! Pies v. Saints. Score updates, all comments.

[#26]

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Watch the match thread. The knives will be out before the end of the game.

[Lazza]

You are right! The probable combination of raw emotion, alcohol and whatever else makes for fabulous entertainment😝 I actually don’t mind if for a great laugh but rarely join in, preferring my prime seat and the popcorn 🍿😜

[Piesnchess]

[qldmagpie67]

I get some people wanted to see more kids in round 1 honestly it was never going to happen
Blooding 5 or 6 at once is a recipe for disaster it just wouldn’t work at they need support of some senior players for when things get tough
There’s also a small group of senior players who are on notice by the coach who have 6/8 weeks to show they deserve to hold there spot on there CURRENT form not on reputation of years gone by
If come round 7/8 the some senior players haven’t performed you’ll see the coach pull the trigger and go for youth at all costs
I have no expectations for tonight just want to see 22 guys have a red hot crack at it and show some new game plan is in place

[BBHS]

I'm usually pretty pessimistic on Round 1 Games. But I got a good feeling this year will start well with the list fit and a new coach.

We where competitive most of last year and it wasn't the shit show others have described it as. We where in most games and injuries aside think we will go alright this year.

[think better]

I'm officially excited - can't wait to see what we dish up under Fly.

Not expecting a win necessarily just keen to see how we play and what intensity we bring to each contest

[Harrysz]

I have no idea how our team will go tonight. We're playing a team that finished just out of the 8 last year and we finished second bottom. How relevant is that for tonight? Lots of people got excited about Richmond. Remember them? They won 3 flags in 4 years. Last year was an outlier, an aberration (hello Caro). This year, they said, they'd be back to their form of 2017-2020. It didn't look that way last night.

We all have varying levels of patience as is evidenced by these posts. I'd love us to have success, sooner rather than later. For this year, I want to see improvement so that when the season is over we can say, this team has shown that it has potential for long term success.

[Return of the baldfacts]

Just happy that the footy is back and that we will have a more aggressive game plan.

[Dave The Man]

I tipped Saints to win by 30 pts BUT there is a Possibility we could win

[Pie-For-Life]

Excited for tonight, hope we have a good game whatever the outcome. Looking forward to seeing the young players through the year, but the turnover from old to new will take time as you can't thrown them all out there at once.

[Jezza]

New era, new dawn. Really excited for the year ahead despite being in a developmental and rebuilding phase.

Round 1 games are always hard to predict, but we're a chance here. At our best, we're capable of winning this.

C'mon WOODSMEN!

[BazBoy]

Fly said it exactly as it is!!

“Are we the finished product—well no”

Only will I get frustrated and impatient is when mistakes are let to happen
continual week after week

But I’ll do my absolute best to not be vitoral

[think positive]

[BazBoy]

😃

[Charlie Oneeye]

How good are they ?

I had a look at last year's lineup against them and quite frankly, I wonder how we lost by only 10 points.

Easy win tonight... probably 10 goals up by half-time.