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uuuuu..... The LoneSTAR wrote:http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,15795819%255E19763,00.html
Collingwood's defence, led by the finger-pointing general James Clement, was again superb.
Cam - Are you helping out down at Lexus these days????
Sshhh... just been giving Clemo some help with directioning... been trying to get Brodie on board as well, but he is misfiring at the moment - uses the pointing finger to wipe his sweat/fringe out of his eyes/just look cool... you can only do so much with the cattle you got
3. Burns
2. O'Bree
1. Presti (with the following players very unlucky to miss out: Holland, Fanning, Johnno, Maxwell, Swan and more).
Well, we beat them. Absolutely rapt with the win - yeah it was ugly, but ugly is our thing. It felt like we were back to '03 with our intense pressure play making a half-decent team look awful. Port had a crack at it, too, but we're far too good in high-pressure games.
So much to love about this game - Port at full strength for the first time this season (?), world-beater Francou finally running into some form, and us with so many injuries and playing so many kids.
Aren't these kids unreal? For the first time, today, I had the thought that we actually mined the best talent out of last year's draft - better than Richmond and Hawthorn. For the first time, this weekend, Rusling and Egan truly looked the goods. I had my doubts about Fanning and Maxwell, but they were inspirational on Friday.
We are in for a year of disappointment and frustration next year - and I'm starting to feel it already: disappointment in some of our senior players, who are beginning to be eclipsed by the kids; frustration at the fact that we can't play 35 players, and some of them are going to miss out every week. So, it's a good kind of disappointment and frustration. Already I'm a little frustrated that we can't play Davies and Yakka more often - and soon we'll have Davo and Richards fit! And what about next year, when Rhyce and Pebbles are back? AARGH!
uuuuu..... The LoneSTAR wrote:http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,15795819%255E19763,00.html
Collingwood's defence, led by the finger-pointing general James Clement, was again superb.
Cam - Are you helping out down at Lexus these days????
Sshhh... just been giving Clemo some help with directioning... been trying to get Brodie on board as well, but he is misfiring at the moment - uses the pointing finger to wipe his sweat/fringe out of his eyes/just look cool... you can only do so much with the cattle you got
Yep i agree with Johnson#26, Cammy or Dave Fanning. Mayb even Dutchie, he does an alrite job of acting. Mayb if we try and get a few around it so the cameras cant c = less time off
I'd prefer Cloke to smash through a certain J Brown, M Voss & then C Johnson in that order. Brown is a prig, Voss is a sniper and Johnson is an intimidator of the soft.
My tip - Pike will get a recall to reprise his role in Lonie's nightmares.
......It took just one minute for Malthouse to find proof of the theory [Port being soft]. Port midfielder Peter Burgoyne rushed out of the centre square, came to the top of the 50-metre arc . . . and ignored the goalfront. He chipped the ball into the arc for no advantage, except for the reinforced Collingwood defence where James Clement ruled.
And so it went on for two hours as Port's rush back to finals contention collapsed with a 31-point loss that says so much of the Power.
So annoying about Port is that its players know the problem. Repeatedly at their own meetings they have hit on the fact - as if it is the secret to life - that if they do not play, as they put it, "hard, competitive" football, they are losers. And yet when Collingwood put that theory to the torch on Friday night, most Port players wanted to get back to their hotel rooms to hide under the blankets.
Collingwood's gameplan is perfect against Port. Its strengths work ideally to exposing the Power's weaknesses.
Collingwood's best game is Port's worst nightmare.......
Stumbled across this.... dunno if anyone has seen it/been posted.... kind of liked reading after we have won...
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Combating Port's big three too tall an order for Pies
By Rohan Connolly
July 1, 2005
Through more than two decades and the forging of a fearsome coaching reputation, Mick Malthouse has stuck rigidly to some essential philosophies.
That's been good news to a stack of ground-level "hard nuts" who mightn't have had heaps of pace or flashy skills, but whose effort and commitment to the contest won the coach's favour. But not necessarily such good news for the big men whose aerial contests bring the ball to ground.
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It's a philosophical bent that could be brought into stark focus this evening. Because as game at ground level as are Malthouse's midfield warriors, without quality opposition for Port's trio of ruck talls, the ball might not even get that far.
Would be a Sheedy thing to do (bringing him back in) not really a Matthews thing.