Post Match. Pies lose to Blues. All comments, please.

[masoncox]

I don't see anything in Bianco

I see our future captain.

From the club
13.3
ABOVE AVG
KICKS
8.1
ABOVE AVG
HANDBALL
5.1
AVERAGE
MARKS
4.6
ABOVE AVG
TACKLES
2.1
AVERAGE
GOALS
0.6
Only 7 games
So no final judgement.... but I see nothing that has impressed me.
Keep playing him

[Pies2016]

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I don’t think one person ( including myself ) saw anything in Henry’s first four games either.
Bianco looks tired. His one wood is his ball use and vision, which had been good in his first few games. Those strengths have let him down in his last couple outings.
Ideally, they should do to him what they did with Poulter last week but our injuries may mean he holds his spot. I’m also ok with that, it just means he can learn a few hard lessons on the job

[Presti35]

TBH, I kept thinking dont let Silvagni get one. Cos as soon as he does, they'll lift. And that's what happened.

[Didler]

The Magpies have not defeated Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval yet, so hopefully that drought will end on Friday night.

Wow

[Lazza]

The Magpies have not defeated Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval yet, so hopefully that drought will end on Friday night.

Wow

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

Would have been nice to put a little bit of defensive pressure on Walsh in the last half; the guy could have been playing in a tuxedo out there!

[Presti35]

We've done this many times this season. But the other day was different.

We really should have walked off with this win. We were 4 goals up and mostly in control for most of the match. But then you could see things starting to change in the 3rd quarter.

And then it simply took one good quarter by the opposition to knock us over.

There were a few umpy decisions that I think helped turn the tide, but not to blame for a 9 goal turn around.

And when they started kicking them out of their arse while we were missing set shots, you knew it was happening. We've seen it many times before.

This will go down as a game that we could have won, but people will forget that when you see a 5 goal loss.

Despite the loss, I still believe we're a better side than Carlton and will be in the coming years.

[K]

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Bianco looks tired. His one wood is his ball use and vision, which had been good in his first few games. Those strengths have let him down in his last couple outings.
Ideally, they should do to him what they did with Poulter last week but our injuries may mean he holds his spot. I’m also ok with that, it just means he can learn a few hard lessons on the job

It was a nice set-shot conversion. But his field kicking was very disappointing. Clanger after clanger.