Post match. Dogs overrun Pies - All comments please.

[Donny]

Let's hear ya.

Collingwood 14 18 102
Western Bulldogs 20 15 135

Goalkickers: Rocca 3 Davis 2 Didak 2 Cloke 2 Fraser 2 Burns Dick Pendlebury

[stui magpie]

WTF happened? Daniel Kerr sneak into our rooms at half time and spike their drinks with horse tranquillisers??

[Cangaru]

Shocking but we'll improve, I guess its better to happen now against this mob than in the Elimination final like last year!!!! See ya all until the next day game as its too late for me over here in Mexico when its a night game its like 4am in the morning. Go the Pies meanwhile!!!!
Canga!!!

[Babylove]

Not overly surprising. We have a young list and they are going to have their ups and downs. Pity that it happened against the Bulldogs seeing as how they beat us in the elimination final, but still I thought there were some positive signs from some of the younger players.

[Dave The Man]

Piss Weak 2nd Half. Good lesson for Kids Those

Love to hear what Hiss has to say later!

[The Prototype]

WTF happened? Daniel Kerr sneak into our rooms at half time and spike their drinks with horse tranquillisers??

Yes he spiked all our drinks and made them all dopey, well I think they were dopey before that But it ruined our day.

[Adz]

Rocca is a disgrace in front of goals.
Didak yet again goes missing against the dogs and Thomas needs to focus on game, not hair.

[Mossi]

Need to see the game to comment. A belting won't hurt. The Dogs are a really good side and play well against us........

[swooper]

Just got home. VERY disappointing second half. They absolutely ran all over us from about 1/2 way thru 3rd quarter. Disappointing because although I wasnt all that confident about beating them today, I thought it would be good to measure ourselves against a good side....and I think we fell way short.

Kicking in front of goal was very ordinary in second half (and after all those great goals in the 2ND Q.). Bullies ran and ran and had loads of open space...they made us look very, s l o w........

PS. Only 47,000 there in the end, think the 'sell out' talk before the game scared alot of people off.

[spoljar]

Two Words: Reality Check!

Great first half, very ordinary second half! Its a long way to finals first and than the Grand Final!

[Magpie Since 1986]

Our kicking for goal finally cost us a game.

Rocca in the first quarter... 25m slight angle - misses everythin
Heath Shaw in the third quarter, 15 m out minimal angle, misses
Rocca in the third quarter again... see first quarter
Swan in the final quarter, 15m out slight angle, misses

Rocca wasn't just missing he was missing by A LOT, seriously flawed kicking. We should have have been 7-8 goals up half way through the 3rd and the game would have been dead and buried.


Kicked ourselves out of it.

[DaVe86]

Goal kicking has threatened to hurt us for a month. Fortunately our opponents have been equally as bad as us. Today it came back to hurt us. Doggies are unreal on the rebound. We had as much of the ball in the 3rd quarter, but missed 6 shots on goal. Dogs kicked a goal off 4 of those behinds. It was goal kicking which turned the game. Once the dogs got a sniff they were unstoppable.

[swooper]

So true....and all those fumbles they made in their forward line early on, and we couldnt make them pay....sooooo frustrating!

[Johnson#26]

Two Words: Reality Check!

Here here.

And on Thomas, I reckon he has to go back to basics, but he was not the worst.

[Nath]

Rocca missing the easy one kills us around 4 times a year, this is the first time for the year.
Overrun and out worked in the second half, players that have been relied upon for the past 7 weeks couldn't get the job done today.
Not the worst result and the first half performance showed what we are capable of. Kids needed to see how another team overruns and hurts an opposition unit. Some need a rest to get the bodies right, a few senior players need to lift.