It has been quite the clandestine pre-season at Collingwood this year, as it came to the attention of the supporter base at large yesterday that we had missed yet another intra-club match. A couple of weeks back we had our first full match simulation, much to the surprise of the majority. The club remained similarly…
Month: February 2013
Review: NAB Cup Round 1
Football returned to the field on Friday night, with our Magpies taking on the Bulldogs and embattled Bombers in the now familiar three way format of the NAB Cup opening round. Similar to last year, we eventually triumphed in a scrappy, rust encrusted affair that saw us best the Dogs comfortably in the end, before…
Game Day: NAB Cup Round 1 Vs. Bulldogs, Essendon
At the suggestion of our resident super hero MagpieBat, and given how the readership of this blog have historically interacted during matches in the past, I’ve decided to create a game day article for each game this year to allow people to communicate via the comments section during matches. This is the first in what…
NAB Cup Novelty Round Preview: Football’s Back!
Having been snowed under with work lately, I haven’t quite had the time to put together a more timely preview for our Friday night round robin clashes with Essendon and the Western Bulldogs. It’s also difficult to do a traditional sort of preview given the format, as we’re effectively playing two games on the one…
From the Fallout Shelter
The closer we get to the commencement of the NAB Cup and the long awaited return of football, the more we have been reminded of just how fragile the current state of the game is. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t intend to be an alarmist and there’s no doubt the game will survive, but it is becoming more and more difficult for the AFL to fend off the reckoning; a reaping of corporately sown seeds.
Injecting Hunger: A New Perspective
I doubt I was alone when I felt, for much of last year, that the hunger just wasn’t there. The standard that we had set in 2010 and for much of 2011 was admittedly difficult to sustain, the intensity being of a level previously unheard of. The change in the interchange rule definitely halted us…
Outlasting the Off-Season
For a few months now we’ve been in the midst of another off-season, another period bereft of actual football where we pick the bones of the season just completed, conjuring up hope for the season about to begin. What we also tend to do each year is bunker down, hoping that this period passes with…