Post Match. Pies done by Eagles. All comments, please.

[Seth]

Life is just soooooooo wonderful. Locked down, can’t go out, can’t travel, can’t wAtch my footy team live, gotta wear a mask all day, people dying, my footy team is garbage anyway with no ticker. Season is just ripe for WA teams now and their feral fans. 2020 can just go <snip> Let's try to keep it PG. Thanks, BBMods.

[K]

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What a lesson we a getting.....and not just on the field.

The KPF is the most important player/position on the field.
Our lack of respect for the importance of this fact is what lost us the 2018
GF and is why we don’t usually win easily.

Kennedy and Darling
Reiwoldt and Lynch
Hipwood and Mcstay

Our best is Mihocek (by a mile) over two VFL standard players (Cox and Cameron)

They’re a the difference.

The most important position in a football team, we have treated without the respect or understanding of its importance.

Yes, we haven't had a really good KF since Cloke.

And sadly Mihocek has gone missing in finals and against good defenders.

[K]

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Last games for Wills, JT, Noble.

I thought Noble did quite well.

JT, not so much...

[K]

Collingwood won the inside 50 count 37-35

At one point late in the game, Collingwood had scored goals from 5% of I50s, and WC had scored goals from 60% of I50s.

[Achilles]

WC are a classy side. They showed us up big time today. We're missing a couple of tough fast midfielders and a marking forward. If we face them again, we'll hopefully have JDG, Pendles and Sidebum back to level the playing field, but going forward, we need the likes of Kelly, Shuey etc.

[Haff]

Does anyone think Buckley simply gave up at 3/4 time? Basically swapped the backs and fwds including Grundy. Backs have been awesome all year but when our mids get absolutely smashed it doesn’t matter who’s down there, you ain’t gonna have a good time.
Young R2 ain’t up to it yet. With 2.5 of our best mids out and what looks like a less than fit Grundy, i don’t know what I’m expecting.
We’re very much also rans now.
Throw everything at Clarko!!!

[Sicks Bux]

We got thrashed so I guess it'll be busy here this week. Ah well. Steele and Pendles will be back next week and we have Freo, Sydney and Adelaide. Maybe today's hidding will put the rocket up us we need to beat them.

[alexjvillani]

Does anyone think Buckley simply gave up at 3/4 time? Basically swapped the backs and fwds including Grundy. Backs have been awesome all year but when our mids get absolutely smashed it doesn’t matter who’s down there, you ain’t gonna have a good time.
Young R2 ain’t up to it yet. With 2.5 of our best mids out and what looks like a less than fit Grundy, i don’t know what I’m expecting.
We’re very much also rans now.
Throw everything at Clarko!!!

What else could he do? Honestly, 60+ points down is just asking for experimenting.

[Dave The Man]

Life is just soooooooo wonderful. Locked down, can’t go out, can’t travel, can’t wAtch my footy team live, gotta wear a mask all day, people dying, my footy team is garbage anyway with no ticker. Season is just ripe for WA teams now and their feral fans. 2020 can just go <snip> Let's try to keep it PG. Thanks, BBMods.

Shut the Board for a Day or 2 Will Help

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

an apology please buckley and players to the collingwood fans

[ANNODAM]

This hub bullshit is disadvantaged the VIC teams, it's fkn pointless, the season is shot!
How can we (as a VIC Club) compete & beat these interstate teams at their grounds week in week out...

It’s not just that. It’s not having our own facilities and recovery tools to get the team fit every week. And now on a 4 games in 13 days bullshit program, without our facilities to get us up for each game? It’s a joke. We finally get the ‘easy’ games, yet have to play in three states in 10 days with a mounting injury toll, and sub standard recovery facilities to boot. Joke. I still can’t fathom how we got shafted with that Adelaide game in the middle. Makes ZERO sense. And for us to simply take it without a complaint? Farcical, pea hearted rubbish from our end.

This x 100.

Exactly what my better half was saying.

[Magpietothemax]

That was a shattering performance. We just weren't up for the fight. Certainly it was always going to be hard, without Sidey and Pendles in the midfield, and their midfield is actually pretty powerful. But we looked psychologically smashed after the first quarter. When WC applied the heat, we had nothing. I think we can clearly see the impact of players being separated from their families, in a strange and restrictive environment, taking a toll.
While it was hard to see how we could get over them with so much quality out, especially from our midfield, I agree with those who have noted that this game was not an indication of our players' ability nor courage. The real indication will be seen over the next few weeks. How will we respond?
WCE could kick goals from anywhere, in any direction. They don't usually have that level of skill. They had an aberration game, and it combined with our aberration game, to produce a scoreboard catastrophe. Our guys will need to reset mentally.
Positives: Sidey is back next week, hopefully Pendles is as well, and has avoided a major season ending injury, Cameron played well, IQ played well.
Negatives: JDG and Howe gone for the entire year; need some bigger bodies in there to provide more physicality through the middle.

[Piesnchess]

Soon as i heard Pendles was out i knew we were in deep trouble, you cant cover players like him, de Goey, Sidey, Howe, and where the hell is Langdon and Greenwood these days ?? Our defence has bee very good this season, but obviously not today these pricks are an old very experienced team, on their own pissing ground, was never going to be easy for us. Just move on, get our confidence back with a few relative easier games coming up. Thats all we can do now.

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

Time to rebuild properly. Today has set us back a few years i feel.

[simon tonna]

an apology please buckley and players to the collingwood fans

You need to apologise for every word you post on here. For God's sake piss off.