Post match v Dorkers...all comments here

[nitric]

Its just confidence. As MM said, so very long ago it seems, confidence is a great thing and he'd like tp bottle it.

Remember April and May?

[favourites 2008]

Players in trouble would be Lockyer, Davis, Licca, Lonie, O'bree. Too often this year have gone missing. Davies is a must in next week. I hope MM sticks with pendles and thomas, maybe its Davies and Holland in and Licca and Davis out. Take ya pick out of Cloke and O'Brien. For me its Harry although both wont play if preti is fit.

[Seth]

Freo too good.

Too good? How many weks are we going to use that one.

We are weak, gutless, insipid, showponies, and most of all imposters! We do not deserve to be in the 8, get out you *&^*(&%$% girls!

[HAL]

A deeper algorithm is needed to respond to that correctly. Perhaps I'm just expressing my own concern about it. And why not, exactly?

[sq3]

No ticker = No finals.

We need players who WILL put in - NOT Look like they are putting in.

I think MM will finally have lost some patience with some of the highly paid players.

[ad4eva]

Far too many of them are sitting back and waiting for someone else to do something about it... especially when it comes to laying tackles.

You look at the '02 and '03 seasons, we were the best tackling team in the competition, not the most talented or the most exciting nor did we have a dominating part of the field, we had 22 wanting contributors.

Tackling means pressure and pressure means coughing the ball up.

In the past month we havent been tackling, applying pressure therefore its just far too easy and the opposition has a ball gliding through packs and out of defence.

[Magpiefan3]

Listening to Triple M and they said we someone decent in the midfield, because our midfield does not spark that much.
I throught Didak played great today and also Pendles. While i was walking out lots of collingwood supporters said, we need to drop Tarrant for a week. We seriously need Dutchy and Maxwell back in the team and also Richards. Hope that Prest plays next week.
Looks like we have not book our tickets for September action yet.

[Birdy]

This team is in all sorts of trouble. How can you go from the leagues best to worst in just a month? Yes on current form we should be at the bottom of the ladder, even Essendon and Carlton would beat us at the moment.

Season is all over unless the players decide to pull their finger out and start playing with some guts in the next few weeks.

West Coast are very beatable at the moment. A big win against them next week could give the players confidence a much needed boost and spark a run to the finals, but serving up this soft shit yet again will see another 60+ thumping.

[melissa]

I have never seen a game with so many bulls**t free kicks and over-zealous umpiring! The first half was extraordinary, I was just about tearing my hair out! Then no one was manning up, Freo players were just running past players like Lonie, O'Bree, Lockyer, Morrison, and kicking into their forward 20. That slip by O'Bree was the most costly to my mind. He didn't back up Heath Shaw at all. It was a pissweak effort, as was the "mark" Lonie took in the final quarter, when he was beset upon by Farmer and dropped it in Freo's goalsquare.
Altogether not desperate enough, not tough enough, not skilled enough. Willy reserves would beat them at the moment. The only decent efforts I saw were Buckley, Pendles, Taz, Rocca (in the first half) and Didak. Cloke also wasn't too bad but was beaten by Pavlich. Saw a few good things from Wakelin too.
All in all, very, very disappointing.

[melissa]

....and when is Malthouse going to realise that Lockyer is not a matchup for Farmer?!

[melissa]

Forward 50 not 20.... oops, typo!

[favourites 2008]

You look at the '02 and '03 seasons

lol looks like another week of looking at the season highlights dvd's, i suggest every1 go and buy them or ask me for a copy cos its the only thing thats gets me through the week.

[ad4eva]

Collingwood
Player K H P M HO T FF FA G B
Nathan Buckley 11 8 19 6 0 2 1 1 2 1
Scott Burns 9 8 17 3 0 0 2 0 1 1
James Clement 10 1 11 3 0 1 2 0 0 0
Jason Cloke 2 9 11 4 3 4 4 0 0 0
Leon Davis 2 4 6 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
Alan Didak 14 3 17 6 0 0 1 2 3 2
David Fanning 3 2 5 3 3 2 0 2 0 0
Josh Fraser 12 4 16 6 11 1 0 1 1 2
Ben Johnson 15 5 20 5 0 2 2 0 0 1
Paul Licuria 8 6 14 4 0 2 0 0 0 1
Tarkyn Lockyer 8 8 16 0 0 2 1 1 0 0
Ryan Lonie 13 6 19 3 0 5 1 1 0 0
Chad Morrison 10 7 17 2 0 2 2 0 0 0
Shane O'Bree 12 9 21 5 0 3 1 1 0 0
Scott Pendlebury 11 12 23 5 0 2 1 0 1 0
Anthony Rocca 3 4 7 2 1 3 1 2 2 1
Heath Shaw 12 7 19 4 1 2 0 0 0 0
Rhyce Shaw 10 6 16 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dane Swan 17 8 25 7 0 2 2 1 1 0
Chris Tarrant 11 4 15 8 1 2 2 3 3 2
Dale Thomas 7 3 10 4 0 3 1 1 1 1
Shane Wakelin 6 7 13 5 1 1 0 0 0 0

[ad4eva]

You look at the '02 and '03 seasons

lol looks like another week of looking at the season highlights dvd's, i suggest every1 go and buy them or ask me for a copy cos its the only thing thats gets me through the week.

[/quote]

Sad but true mate...

Maybe MM can show them a few of these highlights because a few of them are taking pulling on the black and white for granted.

[Culprit]

Just got back from the G, I spent after half time in the social club. We are pretenders so I am not getting worked up about it. Reality is we finished 15th last year and I can't see us doing much in September so I may as well plan a holiday for then.