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indo-dreaming started the topic in Sunday, 2 Mar 2025 at 6:21pm

Season starting this week so we need a thread to document Collingwood's run to its it's 17th premiership and the year Nick Daico's wins his first of four brownlow medal's.

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southernraw Saturday, 3 May 2025 at 8:37pm

hahaha. That's gold! Acttually had a funny chat about the whole Nullabor thing with some mates yesterday. Extend it...take some, leave some....same same. Big! Very big! Everyones a winner.

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indo-dreaming Sunday, 4 May 2025 at 7:54am

Well that sucked especially being so close to a fairytale finish.

Only good thing is i tipped Cats in footy tipping while the others at the top tipped Pies. (and all other games the same)

I told you cats are our boogy team, i think this is kind of the loss we had to have, im positive on next week against Fremantle even if its in WA and after only a 6 day break, i think we will now bounce back and be more hungry from the loss.

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GuySmiley Sunday, 4 May 2025 at 8:53am

Whether or not the pies and/or Freo have a RHG next week it will make for good viewing as we're not going to hear BAAAALLLLLLLLL every other second unless of course Jetstar have a afterpay arrangement with Centrelink's largest client base!!

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blackers Sunday, 4 May 2025 at 8:56am

That was a great game, both teams gave it everything and it went down to the last second. It felt fitting, if the pies were going to get up, that Crisp would kick the sealer. But not to be, thank jeebus. Too far out, too tired. No real losers on the night, other than the LNP that is.

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AlfredWallace Sunday, 4 May 2025 at 10:15am
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That was a great game, both teams gave it everything and it went down to the last second. It felt fitting, if the pies were going to get up, that Crisp would kick the sealer. But not to be, thank jeebus. Too far out, too tired. No real losers on the night, other than the LNP that is.

Great game. Cats deserved winners.
Again, as I’ve said before, kicked inaccurately earlier on. How is it that guys like Miochek whom I love , can kick bomb goals from way out and then miss set shot goals from within 20m of goals. I hate to say in but in the second half Dangerfield was a machine. AW

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southernraw Wednesday, 7 May 2025 at 9:58pm

One for @adam12, thought you'd enjoy this read in light of recent conversations ;-)
https://www.neds.com.au/blog/2025/05/the-tao-of-dangerfield/?utm_medium=...

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adam12 Thursday, 8 May 2025 at 12:36am

Ha! @Southern, the Tao of Dangerfield, and the Zen of Dusty! Some good lines in that blog, "Dangerfield is what would have happened if Gary Rohan and a tank (rather than a physio) had a baby."
Two great players hey.
Great to see Danger playing so well, champion players at their prime make any game they are in worth watching. (He surfs so I wonder if he is on SN and reading our conversations about him, if so...Patrick, you are a gun mate, on and off the field, two more flags and three Norm Smiths and you might go up on my wall next to Dusty, my grandad, KB and Captain Blood.)
Hope you are cruisin' not losin' @Southern.

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AlfredWallace Thursday, 8 May 2025 at 10:51pm

Another Pieformance.

Next ……..AW

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indo-dreaming Friday, 9 May 2025 at 8:18am

Yeah another 4 points and done without some key players, but we were pretty lucky they were so inefficient in their FW 50 while we actually kicked straight for once.

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AlfredWallace Friday, 9 May 2025 at 9:05am
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Yeah another 4 points and done without some key players, but we were pretty lucky they were so inefficient in their FW 50 while we actually kicked straight for once.

IndoDreaming. Hi. Hope ya well.
Another win for our machine.
Good kicking by Elliot

Besides him, we were woeful in front of goal, particularly and relatively close to.

Pull my hair out still with the ridiculous misses, we relentlessly let sides back into the game on a regular basis.

Bobby Hill, Nick Daicos, Lachie Sullivan , there were others , but just to name a few. All the best. AW

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indo-dreaming Friday, 9 May 2025 at 2:23pm

You are a hard man to please:D

I thought we were a lot better in front of goal and just going inside 50

Goals/behind 15-7

Elliot 6-2
Bobby 3-1
Nick 1-1
Crisp-2-0
Mason 1-0
WHE 1-0
Ned long 1-0

Sidey, Membery, Sulivan all 0-1 though (was Sideys a set shot?, i cant remember)

And that was from 34 inside 50's (they had 62)

And we had 14 marks inside 50 they only had 6

Almost all the other stats were way in their favour too some by a decent margin, for instance they had 75 more disposal's

Im real happy with the win though, when i saw the big outs and 5 day break and away on their home ground, i didn't think we would win.

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southernraw Friday, 9 May 2025 at 5:32pm

You blokes are just lucky that Fremantle are extremely shithouse!!

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GuySmiley Friday, 9 May 2025 at 5:53pm

Constantly uses the royal “we” but probably has never been to a game nor a member. #fairweathersupporter#backonthebandwagon

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Confusion Friday, 9 May 2025 at 6:02pm

We are taking credit for watching the game !

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GuySmiley Friday, 9 May 2025 at 6:20pm

We are #comingoutofthewoodwork there’s sawdust everywhere

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southernraw Friday, 9 May 2025 at 6:46pm
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Ha! @Southern, the Tao of Dangerfield, and the Zen of Dusty! Some good lines in that blog, "Dangerfield is what would have happened if Gary Rohan and a tank (rather than a physio) had a baby."
Two great players hey.
Great to see Danger playing so well, champion players at their prime make any game they are in worth watching. (He surfs so I wonder if he is on SN and reading our conversations about him, if so...Patrick, you are a gun mate, on and off the field, two more flags and three Norm Smiths and you might go up on my wall next to Dusty, my grandad, KB and Captain Blood.)
Hope you are cruisin' not losin' @Southern.

Hear hear @adam12. To all of that.
Could b a smoky for another brownlow this year. Thats gotta put him into dusty territory. Could b the same year he is a premiership skipper and wins a normy...which probably should b his second when u rewatch that GF but i was glad Isaac Smith won for my bank acc!!
Yes! Have surfed w the great man on the surf coast but kept my head down in the presence of royalty.
As to above comments about indos loyalty to the pois...could have had some epic poi memorabilia courtesy of A12s generous offer...which makes u wonder...do you really Poi @indo???

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indo-dreaming Friday, 9 May 2025 at 7:01pm
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Constantly uses the royal “we” but probably has never been to a game nor a member. #fairweathersupporter#backonthebandwagon

Dude you have to let me out of your head it's not healthy

Im not sure how "we" is royal ?

"We" as in fans and club every single pies fan young & old, male female, no matter ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, whatever all "side by side" that's the Collingwood culture

I have been to games but no I dont go regularly its' more a novelty thing, and honestly while the atmosphere is great and the MCG is mind blowing in scale in real life, i actually prefer to watch games on TV as can see everything and no commentary at games kinda sucks. (yeah i know you can put on headphones and stream), was a member one year but kinda pointless if you dont go to games.

I watch every game i can but often miss games if in Indo, although smart phones have at least made it possible to follow things in some way.

I watch every game possible no matter if we are bottom of the ladder or top of the ladder and even if we are 50 points down with 5 minutes to go i try to watch until the end.

Loved the Pies as a kid, but i did go through a very long big chunk of my life where i didn't follow AFL, it was only grand final parties/BBQ's when id watch it, I guess it was because i was way too cool for school that whole skate, surf, punk, art, alternative culture thing, where i saw AFL as like a jock thing, it wasnt until after i was married and living on Fraser Island with Foxtel that i got back into things, not sure how or why really, not a lot to do on Fraser Island other than fish surf shit waves and go bush, maybe that was it.

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blackers Friday, 9 May 2025 at 6:53pm

It was a cage rattling end. Lachie Schultz getting KO'd made it tough, as did Jamie Elliot spraying his last couple. Freo were poor from midway the first quarter to the last. What's with Nick Daicos' hamstring? Looked sore.

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indo-dreaming Friday, 9 May 2025 at 6:59pm

That KO looked heavy he looked very dazed and confused.

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AlfredWallace Friday, 9 May 2025 at 7:00pm
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You blokes are just lucky that Fremantle are extremely shithouse!!

And we are just lucky most weeks to beat the opposition, not really, we are doing fine.
The controversial point in the Geelong game which was clearly a goal to Lachie Schultz from a different perspective shows a gap between ball and hand the size of the Grand Canyon. How can four umpires get it so wrong ? . Every backman calls touched hoping it goes their way.
Put Blicsavs on a lie detector, he’d fail for sure. Go Pies. We will meet you all in the last few weeks of the season, not getting ahead of ourselves, just extremely confident. AW

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southernraw Friday, 9 May 2025 at 7:14pm
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You blokes are just lucky that Fremantle are extremely shithouse!!

!!

And we are just lucky most weeks to beat the opposition, not really, we are doing fine.
The controversial point in the Geelong game which was clearly a goal to Lachie Schultz from a different perspective shows a gap between ball and hand the size of the Grand Canyon. How can four umpires get it so wrong ? . Every backman calls touched hoping it goes their way.
Put Blicsavs on a lie detector, he’d fail for sure. Go Pies. We will meet you all in the last few weeks of the season, not getting ahead of ourselves, just extremely confident. AW

Haha...some see the Grand Canyon, and others see the great wall of china AW. Rock solid defence. Blicavs is a very good boy!!
Nah your Pies r flying and the only way to cope is to discredit them at every opportunity!

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AlfredWallace Friday, 9 May 2025 at 7:18pm
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You blokes are just lucky that Fremantle are extremely shithouse!!

!!

And we are just lucky most weeks to beat the opposition, not really, we are doing fine.
The controversial point in the Geelong game which was clearly a goal to Lachie Schultz from a different perspective shows a gap between ball and hand the size of the Grand Canyon. How can four umpires get it so wrong ? . Every backman calls touched hoping it goes their way.
Put Blicsavs on a lie detector, he’d fail for sure. Go Pies. We will meet you all in the last few weeks of the season, not getting ahead of ourselves, just extremely confident. AW

Haha...some see the Grand Canyon, and others see the great wall of china AW. Rock solid defence. Blicavs is a very good boy!!
Nah your Pies r flying and the only way to cope is to discredit them at every opportunity!

Hi SR mate.

Good sport- we all love the banter. Your Bombers are tracking ok, pity about those earlier injuries you’ve succumbed to.
You guys are still getting good waves and we are also. Day 5 tomorrow and then it drops away to 3ft . Has been great weather and waves.
Perth was bloody 30c yesterday. Can you dig it ? AW

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indo-dreaming Friday, 9 May 2025 at 7:29pm
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southernraw wrote:

You blokes are just lucky that Fremantle are extremely shithouse!!

And we are just lucky most weeks to beat the opposition, not really, we are doing fine.
The controversial point in the Geelong game which was clearly a goal to Lachie Schultz from a different perspective shows a gap between ball and hand the size of the Grand Canyon. How can four umpires get it so wrong ? . Every backman calls touched hoping it goes their way.
Put Blicsavs on a lie detector, he’d fail for sure. Go Pies. We will meet you all in the last few weeks of the season, not getting ahead of ourselves, just extremely confident. AW

At the time i was like oh no that sucks it's clearly a goal from the footage shown, it should have overturned the umpires call.

Then the game ended, and i didn't click until a few days latter when people were still whinging on social media that if the correct call had been made we actually would have won.

Which kind of sucks, they just should have a lot better tech and cameras they have a huge budget and it's 2025.

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southernraw Friday, 9 May 2025 at 7:38pm
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southernraw wrote:
AlfredWallace wrote:
southernraw wrote:

You blokes are just lucky that Fremantle are extremely shithouse!!

!!

And we are just lucky most weeks to beat the opposition, not really, we are doing fine.
The controversial point in the Geelong game which was clearly a goal to Lachie Schultz from a different perspective shows a gap between ball and hand the size of the Grand Canyon. How can four umpires get it so wrong ? . Every backman calls touched hoping it goes their way.
Put Blicsavs on a lie detector, he’d fail for sure. Go Pies. We will meet you all in the last few weeks of the season, not getting ahead of ourselves, just extremely confident. AW

Haha...some see the Grand Canyon, and others see the great wall of china AW. Rock solid defence. Blicavs is a very good boy!!
Nah your Pies r flying and the only way to cope is to discredit them at every opportunity!

Hi SR mate.

Good sport- we all love the banter. Your Bombers are tracking ok, pity about those earlier injuries you’ve succumbed to.
You guys are still getting good waves and we are also. Day 5 tomorrow and then it drops away to 3ft . Has been great weather and waves.
Perth was bloody 30c yesterday. Can you dig it ? AW

Yes love a bit of footy banter.
Argh yeah, we might have to wait another year to make a final, 2 to win one. Who knows but should be a public holiday if we do!
Yeah concerning that it's 30 in mid May. And no sign of letting up.
Not complaining though, like you said, endless swell, offshores, blueskies, 21degree water and more of the same to come. Stoked to hear you've been scoring from this ripper of a swell 'event' we just had!!
Cheers mate.

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southernraw Friday, 9 May 2025 at 7:40pm
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southernraw wrote:

You blokes are just lucky that Fremantle are extremely shithouse!!

And we are just lucky most weeks to beat the opposition, not really, we are doing fine.
The controversial point in the Geelong game which was clearly a goal to Lachie Schultz from a different perspective shows a gap between ball and hand the size of the Grand Canyon. How can four umpires get it so wrong ? . Every backman calls touched hoping it goes their way.
Put Blicsavs on a lie detector, he’d fail for sure. Go Pies. We will meet you all in the last few weeks of the season, not getting ahead of ourselves, just extremely confident. AW

At the time i was like oh no that sucks it's clearly a goal from the footage shown, it should have overturned the umpires call.

Then the game ended, and i didn't click until a few days latter when people were still whinging on social media that if the correct call had been made we actually would have won.

Which kind of sucks, they just should have a lot better tech and cameras they have a huge budget and it's 2025.

Fair but you can always find many incident's throughout a game that could have gone either way....and the Pies are the last team that should ever be allowed to complain about the umpiring!!! I thought they were on your list...in your best on ground most weeks!!!

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GuySmiley Friday, 9 May 2025 at 9:36pm

“… I have been to games..”
We are bullshitting
We are thinking that pies still 20 cents?
We are still playing at VB park aren’t we?
You are a crack up aren’t we info?

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southernraw Friday, 9 May 2025 at 9:43pm

Fark me, do the Blues and Pies swap the same yellow maggots each round.
Blues best on ground tonight clearly the same 4 that get the Pies over the line in the close ones.

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blackers Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 8:47am
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Fark me, do the Blues and Pies swap the same yellow maggots each round.
Blues best on ground tonight clearly the same 4 that get the Pies over the line in the close ones.

It seemed like that early doors but settled more fairly in the second half I feel. It was a hard watch after quarter time. Reckon Ross Lyon teams are the dullest and most grim going around.

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blackers Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 5:09pm

The Bongers have started well

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blackers Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 6:54pm
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The Bongers have started well

And hung on in the end. Well played.
I did note they are currently sponsored by Dutton, not related but an amusing thought thinking of Guy Smiley and SR wearing a shirt emblazoned with that name.

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AlfredWallace Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 7:01pm
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The Bongers have started well

And hung on in the end. Well played.
I did note they are currently sponsored by Dutton, not related but an amusing thought thinking of Guy Smiley and SR wearing a shirt emblazoned with that name.

GuySmiley and SouthernRaw.

Go Bombers. So glad you defeated the ‘Nancy boys’ from Sydney. See the Bombers fly up. AW

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GuySmiley Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 8:17pm

Yes WE played well didn’t WE :)

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blackers Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 8:27pm

But do you have that jumper?

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GuySmiley Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 8:42pm
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But do you have that jumper?

Wearing this one to the gym tomorrow ….

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blackers Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 8:49pm

Good man yourself.