Good morning, fellow Magpies. Welcome to the Game Day discussion thread for the Greatest Match in the Whole History of All Time… also known as this Round 19 encounter with the reigning premiers from Tigerland, the Richmond Football Club. The teams: Collingwood B: Brayden Maynard, Darcy Moore, Jack Crisp HB: Jeremy Howe, Matthew Scharenberg, Tom…
Month: July 2018
Game Day: Collingwood vs North Melbourne (Round 18, 2018)
Morning, one and all. Welcome to this week’s Game Day thread, as we play host to North Melbourne in Week 2 of “Stress-Test Month”. I came up with the name myself and if you don’t like it, shame on you. But I think we can all agree, it would advantageous to win this game of…
Game Day: Collingwood vs West Coast (Round 17, 2018)
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Game Day thread, as we embark upon the first part of a month-long stress test of our finals credentials against quality opposition teams currently in the Top 8, or thereabouts. First up, the West Coast Eagles, presently on the road to us at their ‘favourite’…
Review: Collingwood vs. Essendon (R16, 2018)
Having clawed our way into second spot on the ladder, we’ve now managed to fend off our fellow climbers to maintain our position just shy of the summit for yet another week. To be fair, our footing is precarious and on the weekend we did rely quite heavily on some superhuman efforts from our leading Sherpas in Pendlebury, Grundy and the emerging De Goey to kick free of the Bombers, but once more we have done what was required to get the four points — for the seventh round in a row.
Round 16: Collingwood vs Essendon (Round 16, 2018)
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Game Day thread, this time for the re-match with Essendon, as we celebrate the 200th game milestone of one our finest servants in modern times (and perhaps of all time): Steele Sidebottom. The teams, for those unawares… Collingwood B: Brayden Maynard, Brody Mihocek, Jack Crisp…