WB Game Day V Collingwood R1 2021

[Before I Die]

Bailey Smith gets the medal. Looks like we may have solved our 2nd winger problem.

Wasn’t it great to see our boys win the ruck contest.

[KT31]

Still a bit to work on but for a solid effort first up, backline performed a lot better than I thought it would.
Dogs of mayhem are back.

[whythelongface]

Well. Our midfield has been good. But I’m unconvinced at the other ends of the ground.

Collectively our defence was excellent. Sure Collingwood lack significant firepower up forward but still the performance was excellent

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Bailey Smith get the medal. Looks like we may have solved a 2nd winger problem.

Wasn’t it great to see our boys win the ruck contest.

Bailey Smith - if he keeps that up, he's a lock for for AA.

[Mantis]

Nice to get over a team we’ve struggled with over the past 4 seasons... lots we did well, lots to improve on which we expect.

Our midfield bats real deep and we’re going to overwhelm lots of teams.

[The Adelaide Connection]

Collingwood kicked 7 goals. How many less goals would it need to be to get a positive comment?

+68 point turnaround from round 1, 2020. I’m happy with that.

[chef]

Great start to the season. GV boys played great, happy days.

[merantau]

Stefan Martin played exactly as I thought he would. Excellent body on body work to often get first hand on the ball. English was good and will get better. Bruce played his second best game for us. The Baileys down back were very good. Keith was excellent and Caleb Daniel too. Great defensive effort really.

Bailey Smith had a cracking game. I am really happy with the way we contested all night.

[divvydan]

It's interesting as Collingwood still dominated hitouts (46-19) but I never felt that it was so dominant, perhaps because it wasn't coming about from English getting outbodied and Grundy grabbing it or putting it down the throat of a mid.

[angelopetraglia]

Pies didn’t look good. We blew them away early and then they played ultra defensive with plenty of men behind the ball. They were trying not to lose rather than trying to win. Good to just get the win, but we still lacked that killer instinct with that last kick inside 50m.

[Grantysghost]

What do we think Treloar's role is? Didn't seem to have a lot of midfield time. I wouldn't mind him in there more now I've seen him in the flesh.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

It's interesting as Collingwood still dominated hitouts (46-19) but I never felt that it was so dominant, perhaps because it wasn't coming about from English getting outbodied and Grundy grabbing it or putting it down the throat of a mid.

And I think that's part of the deal. Grundy has earned 9 Brownlow votes in the last 3 games against us. He won't get one tonight.
We just nullified what was a key weakness for us.
And that's good in this case.

[bornadog]

Bailey Smith gets the medal. Looks like we may have solved our 2nd winger problem.

Wasn’t it great to see our boys win the ruck contest.

Hitouts were Pies 46 to 19 - but it didn''t feel like that.

[jeemak]

What do we think Treloar's role is? Didn't seem to have a lot of midfield time. I wouldn't mind him in there more now I've seen him in the flesh.

I think he'll work into a more midfield oriented role as his match fitness ramps up. He's played one practice match mostly off a half back flank prior to this evening, so I expect he'll be better for the run and will get more time next week.

[bornadog]

This last quarter is embarrassing in so many ways. Mostly for the AFL.

This is what happens when rotations are reduced - another AFL Blunder