Greetings, fellow Magpies, and welcome to your Game Day thread for the final clash of the home and away season. I look forward to riding the clash with you… assuming, of course, I still have a job here; JB and Mungo made for an excellent tag-team covering the ressies… A win, some form and no…
Month: August 2013
VFL Preview: Elimination Final (Magpies vs Borough)
And now, for something a little bit different… I figured that after a remarkable year at VFL level, with our hitherto uncompetitive side becoming one of the big improvers of the competition, the VFL boys deserved the rare privilege of a game preview instead of a post-mortem. And since JB has an onerous workload, I…
VFL Review: Collingwood vs. Werribee (Round 19, 2013)
Where Friday night fizzled out, Saturday remained the most important contest for the club. Our VFL side fought it out with Werribee at Victoria Park, having to win to guarantee a spot in the finals. Most would know the result by now, with the Pies running out 7 point winners, but it wasn’t without plenty…
Review: Collingwood vs. West Coast (Round 22, 2013)
Fashionably late as always, I fully intended on having the AFL review up over the weekend, with the VFL review following in kind. Time has been a rare commodity however, and this week is particularly loaded, so I hope you’ll forgive me for the tardiness in this AFL review, with the VFL one hopefully following…
Game Day: Collingwood vs West Coast (Round 22, 2013)
Greetings, Magpie supporters, this is your Game Day thread for the penultimate home and away match of this season against a flagging Eagles outfit that would probably have preferred that the season finished last Saturday night. Brent Macaffer, congratulations on FINALLY playing your 50th game. You’ve been around the place for quite a while, which…
An 11th Hour Preview…Of Sorts
I fully intended to have this preview up by yesterday afternoon, but after returning home from work and logging on, I discovered – as did everyone else in the football world – that the AFL had made their charges against Essendon public. The preview went out the window, as I settled down to take in…
Review: Collingwood vs. Hawthorn (Round 21, 2013)
On the back of our best two wins for the season, our Pies faced the top of the table Hawks on Friday night and despite our best hopes, we were handed something of a reality check. Nonetheless, whilst the Hawks kept us at arms length from half way through the opening quarter, the final result…
Post-Game: Collingwood vs Hawthorn (Round 21, 2013)
Forgive the unusual thread, JB, but 220+ posts in the Game Day thread is a bloody lot (I should know, a lot of them are mine! LOL!) As such, arguments and opinions can be hard to keep track of. So, for the convenience of fellow BOAF, I have taken the liberty of creating this post-game…
Game Day: Collingwood vs Hawthorn (Round 21, 2013)
It’s that time of the week again. My fellow Birds of a Feather, we stand upon a great threshold. After burying an old rival made new again and tearing down the reigning premiers in successive weeks, our beloved Magpies, thought by many to be a spent force for season 2013, come into tonight’s match with…
Preview: Collingwood vs. Hawthorn (Round 21, 2013)
A month ago, on the back of a particularly disappointing performance on the Gold Coast, I think most of us expected the team to be sitting precariously inside the eight at this point in time. Looking at the fixture and taking our exposed form to that point into consideration, most would have expected us to…