Welcome Pies fans. Your Round 11 Game Day thread for this game against St Kilda is now online. For those who haven’t heard the news, Collingwood have made two changes, with Lachlan Keeffe and Taylor Adams coming into the team as like-for-like replacements for the long term injured Nathan Brown and Luke Ball, who has…
Month: May 2014
Review: Collingwood vs. West Coast (Round 10, 2014)
After last week’s lacklustre effort, most Magpie fans were hoping the team would rekindle the sort of intensity that we had showcased prior to the bye, bouncing back on the MCG against a West Coast outfit who have been mostly disappointing in 2014. We burst out of the blocks with the first two majors of…
Game Day: Collingwood vs West Coast (Round 10, 2014)
Good morning, dawn patrollers (or if you’re just logging on to the blog for the first time just moments from bounce down, good afternoon) and welcome to wherever you are. This is your weekly Game Day thread for this Round 10 clash against West Coast. Congratulations Dayne Beams on reaching the next of what will…
Belated Thoughts on a Recent Loss
Heading into the bye with a 5-2 record – in the midst of a four game winning streak – it was understandable that our following fixture and the recent form of Adelaide filled many among our fan base with confidence. It is also forgivable, when affording passion its rightful place in football, that many were…
A Half at Victoria Park
Yesterday our VFL Magpies took on the embattled Bendigo Gold at Victoria Park, the result never a question of who, but rather how much. Due to a prior engagement I was only able to take in the first half before hitting the road again, but given the result on Thursday night it felt important to get back to our spiritual home, even if only for two quarters, to see what was on offer before our next team selection.
Game Day: Collingwood vs Adelaide (Round 9, 2014)
At last, it’s over! Another bye round mercifully passes (two byes in the first two months? Either start the season with 9 games on the one weekend in mid-March or wait until the grounds are available). And while I’m not a fan of football on a Thursday night, I’ll take an early resumption of our…
After Seven
As we twiddle our thumbs through our first weekend free of anything Collingwood since the start of the year, I figured this was an opportune time to discuss the year to date. The season started disastrously, but the following six games have left most Magpie fans in a buoyant mood. As they take a well…
Review: Collingwood vs. Carlton (Round 7, 2014)
A dispassionate perspective would view our latest win as just another four points, the book end to a solid month of football that sees us sitting 5-2 as we hit the bye. It was just a win over a less than average outfit, the team doing no more or less than what they should have,…
Game Day: Collingwood vs Scum (Round 7, 2014)
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is that time of the week again. And it is that time of the year again. Time for our fighting Magpies to charge out onto the field of the MCG to do battle with the hordes of Satan in a titanic struggle for Righteousness, Truth, Justice and all that…