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Two_Pies · Post by **Two_Pies** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:35 pm

Johnno has played good games from the half Forward line bobbing up as the link to goal. We fall down there so often. The Blues defence is pretty loose (bar say Lappin if played there) we need Bucks to get some good delivery.

Lokan may get his last roll of the dice on Sturday to show if he is a Pie next year. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that Willo may be on the table as a possible selection.

uuuuu..... The LoneSTAR · Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:12 pm

Two_Pies wrote:But I also have a sneaking suspicion that Willo may be on the table as a possible selection.

He did kick a couple last time we met with only 6 touches - And our forward line is looking a little 'empty' at the moment. However, i'm guessing they'll stick with youth as the Williams decision has probably already been made. Having said that, if we do want to win i guess a little experience couldn't hurt,........ too much

Two_Pies · Post by **Two_Pies** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:29 pm

He's tall, he is .... tall .... and did I say he's tall ?

Cannibal · Post by **Cannibal** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:40 pm

Streak wrote:
Cannibal wrote:Simple message: WIN!

'Pies to win by one point and make the Blues' lives a misery all summer long.
You know what, Cannibal - I'd really love to win by a point. But make it a bouncing ball right on the final siren... or as the result of a really really iffy free kick...

That way we not only win, but we get to hear them gripe and complain about it for years ("We were robbed!!"). Oh, that would just make it all so beautiful...

Ah, lovely! Yes, I'll go along with that.

Would prefer a really, really iffy free kick in the centre square, a 50-metre penalty resulting from Kouta throwing the ball away in disgust and abusing the umpy for giving the free, putting us deadset straight in front, 10 metres out, just as the siren goes. Kick a goal and win by one point!

We'll be rubbing it in for years!

maggies2003 · Post by **maggies2003** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:29 am

ive had enough... memo to MM: play johnno or piss off back to WA.

eddiesmith · Post by **eddiesmith** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:41 am

Memo to Ben Johnson: Get a damn kick and you might get a game

sq3 · Post by **sq3** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:26 am

I hate to say it - but this is going to look like the millenium match all over again.

3rd degree · Post by **3rd degree** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:05 am

Shut it SQ3 I don't want to hear that bile.

jackcass · Post by **jackcass** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:10 am

Pies will struggle. It looks like they only have 29 fit palyers to choose from (22 Pies, 7 listed for Willi 1's & 2's). Carlton are not far from having their full squad to choose from.

3rd degree · Post by **3rd degree** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:14 am

I agree we will but I don't like been reminded of that match.

sq3 · Post by **sq3** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:49 pm

Cannot hide from the truth as painful as it may be - 3rd degree.

3rd degree · Post by **3rd degree** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:01 pm

Ya bloody poet !

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:13 pm

maggies2003 wrote:ive had enough... memo to MM: play johnno or piss off back to WA.

If he wasn't out of form, he'd be in the team.

DaVe86 · Post by **DaVe86** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:13 pm

Didak out hurts heaps. Johnson was one of our best last time we met. Tarrant kicked 5. Rocca was playing.

The only real big name we have back compared to last time we played is Buckley. Say bucks adds 3 goals, we loose atleast 10 from the above names.

So a win would really hurt them.

Streak · Post by **Streak** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:27 pm

Tanking. Against Carlton.

I've been a Pies supporter for 4 years, and even I can see the kind of evil that's overtaken this great sport, if we can even dream of throwing games to win draft picks.

But I understand the thinking. It'd be great to have our own Deledio, our own Riewoldt, running around the Lexus centre next year, dominating on the field and off it. Some little hyped up marketing coup on legs. It'd be fantastic.

But the whole priority picks thing throws off my thinking, makes it hard to balance my thoughts, so I've eliminated it. There's three rounds to go, and the realisation I've made is, draft picks are off-season thoughts. I won't think about draft picks until we know, for certain, which ones we're going to get. This season is not yet over - and while it's still on, all that's important is the next battle, the next foe.

And the more I think about it, the more draft picks look like a true consolation prize - the prize you carry home because you're just not good enough.

Stuff draft picks, and stuff the AFL's stupid bloody rules for putting us in this position. Stuff draft picks - this one's for Burnsy. And Wakes. And that little kid in the Collingwood scarf who doesn't know what draft picks are - all he wants is to see his heroes kick goals and win.

After tomorrow night, I'll take home the satisfaction of a win over the Scum, or of knowing we tried our best and went down fighting, or nothing. Nothing else is acceptable. Tomorrow night we'll honour two champions of our club, and I'm certain the boys who take the field will play for four points, no matter how it affects the ladder, because wins and losses matter, as well as how you play the game. We won't make the finals, and I don't care about finals at this point, because just like any other night, a win tomorrow will pump me up and a loss will crush me.

I want to beat the Blues. I want to grind them to dust. They've suffered loss after loss this year, defeats, financial sanctions... I want to add humiliation to their list of troubles. I want us to beat them by 900 points, to be so dominant that Wakes drifts forward for a rare goal - or three. I want Trav to kick a bag. I want to hand them a lesson in football so severe that Fevola and Kouta cry.

I want our bottom-three, injury-ravaged side to show them what the following words truly mean: courage, commitment, sacrifice, integrity.

I want to win in such spectacular fashion it becomes a story I tell my grandkids one day, and I can utter the line "...and I was there to see it!"

Stuff finals. Stuff draft picks. Stuff Carlton.

PS. ---- Priority Picks are for LOSERS ----

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