Post Match. Pies prevail. All comments.

[Piesnchess]

Strong win in the end. and we do have the depth to cover injuries now, unlike previous Magpie top teams. Like, Carmichael, Bianco, McInnes, McStay, Ruscoe, even Lipinski, all say hello now.

[eddiesmith]

Lucky the team has more resilience than some of you.

Lol yep!

As for the there goes DeGoeys Brownlow surely it’s nicks for the stumps to steal!

Until the umpires give JDG max votes each week as he can’t win to take them away from Nick.

Don’t know what radio station I had on, haven’t worked out what they are in the country

[jonmac1954]

The final margin was pretty much what you would have expected before the match,but boy oh boy,do we make it hard for ourselves sometimes.The second and third quarters were our death quarters yet again.

Shame about Degoey,he was absolutely flying until he hit that player,then he went into his shell,and it definitely affected him mentally.He’s going to be hard to replace in the next couple of weeks.

Opens a spot up - won't be a like for like transition - but gives a chance to someone not in the first onball list to come in and shine.

[stoliboy]

If you had said at the start of the game we would double their score and win by 10 goals you would have thought it was an easy win.

That was a classic stressful Collingwood game to watch lol

Likely suspension to DeGoey.

Injuries to McCreery and WHE (Ash seems to only have a corky).

And what were we 7 goals bill at one point.

The umpires in the first half certainly favoured the home side and some of those early West Coast goals were gifts from the umpires. But West Coast really made a fight of it.

The bounce of the ball also seemed to not favour us.

Glad we got the 4 points.

[schuey07]

Lucky the team has more resilience than some of you.

Lol yep!

As for the there goes DeGoeys Brownlow surely it’s nicks for the stumps to steal!

Until the umpires give JDG max votes each week as he can’t win to take them away from Nick.

Don’t know what radio station I had on, haven’t worked out what they are in the country

[Gerry Cooper]

That might have been the ABC. For West Coast/Freo home games, their commentary is always heavily biased to the home team. Their mindless bias gets irritating after a while.

[slangman]

Sloppy game highlighted by losing clearance for the second time
In successive weeks against the bottom sides.
Quite a few players had very poor games and would be lucky to hold their spots next week.
I thought Mitchell battled hard all game whilst others provided cameos.
Apart from the four points there was not too much else to get excited about.
JDG 2-3 weeks is not what the doctor ordered.

[warburton lad]

I will take a 63 point win every day of the week.

Yes we were outplayed at times by a desperate Eagles outfit, but we still prevailed with 9 goal kickers...

For next week:

Out De Goey (suspended)
In: Carmichael or Macrae

Out: Harrison
In: Elliott

I think we will find that Bobby Hill, Johnson, McCreery and Hoskin-Elliott will come up given the 9 day break.

[schuey07]

If you had said at the start of the game we would double their score and win by 10 goals you would have thought it was an easy win.

That was a classic stressful Collingwood game to watch lol

Likely suspension to DeGoey.

Injuries to McCreery and WHE (Ash seems to only have a corky).

And what were we 7 goals bill at one point.

The umpires in the first half certainly favoured the home side and some of those early West Coast goals were gifts from the umpires. But West Coast really made a fight of it.

The bounce of the ball also seemed to not favour us.

Glad we got the 4 points.

This was a team that has never lost 10 in a row. That 3rd quarter was their grand final, in front of their home supporters, they threw everything at us, they were trying to make a statement, then we smashed them when they ran out of legs. The game was never in doubt.

[Haff]

[swoop42]

It was evident to me in the first quarter that the Eagles were gonna bring the effort today and they should be content with that performance given their circumstances.

In reality it shouldn't be no real surprise how the game unfolded as we've been winning most games this season with a half of football and today was again no exception.

With injuries mounting and the De Goey suspension not convinced however that a half of football will be enough in the coming weeks.

[What'sinaname]

[Gerry Cooper]

A bit if a grafting effort I thought. West Coast surprised us a bit. The boys lifted when they needed to in the last quarter which is always good. Injuries and suspension may hurt us going forward.

I thought Ginnivan needs to up his work rate and fight in contests. I thought his game today was nowhere near the standard we need from him, particularly when other pressuring forwards aren't there. If he doesn't produce next week, a spell in the reserves might be in order.

[PyreneesPie]

Luv ya,Checkers.
He and Ash are a great combination in the forward line now. They have good synergy happening.

[Donny]

Collingwood 18.12.120
West Coast 8.9.57

Goals: Checkers, Nick, Ash, Hill 3, Cox 2, Harrison, Mitchell, Adams, Crisp 1,

Disposals: Mitchell, Nick 30, Adams 23, Cameron 22, Pendles, Josh 21, Jordy 19, Noblet, Moore, IQ 18, Checkers 15, Murph 14, Crisp 16, Cox 14

Tackles: Mitchell 13, Crisp 7, Hill, Murph 5.

D/E: Noble 88.2%, Moore 87.5

AFs: Mitchell 123, Nick 114, Cameron 107, Checkers, Cox 98, Adams 95, IQ 92.