Collingwood v Adelaide - Semi Final

[silicone skyline]

, I think I might be turning Emo tomorrow.

I already thought you were

[Swooper16]

If i were a crows supporter i would be a tad worried for a couple of reasons.

1) The crows have been made $1.73 favs with the bookies which firmly places the weight of expectation firmly on Adelaide. Their finals record when favourite has been ordinary under Neil Craig.

2) Malthouse's ability to get C'wood up for games where everyone has backed against them.

Of course nothing would be better then to get the finals monkey off the back by beating C'wood in Melbourne. But despite the shorter break I am going to tip C'wood by less then a goal.

Picked it like a dirty nose..!!

[silicone skyline]

If i were a crows supporter i would be a tad worried for a couple of reasons.

1) The crows have been made $1.73 favs with the bookies which firmly places the weight of expectation firmly on Adelaide. Their finals record when favourite has been ordinary under Neil Craig.

2) Malthouse's ability to get C'wood up for games where everyone has backed against them.

Of course nothing would be better then to get the finals monkey off the back by beating C'wood in Melbourne. But despite the shorter break I am going to tip C'wood by less then a goal.

Picked it like a dirty nose..!!

I wonder what this margin was paying?

[NO-MERCY]

Well done Crows. Great game.
Sorry, someone had to win.

One of the veteran trio has to go after tonight....the Crows can't afford for all three to go at the end of next year, too big a hole.

Now....after all of the great contests between these two sides in the past decade or so (in particular) will any Crows supporters actually give us some respect?

Any crows supporter would be mad not to acknowledge that Collingwood are our bogey team.

Here's my gripes for the night:

1) We over possessed the handball again, leading to our final disposal into the forward 50 to be under pressure and we F***** it up.

2) Senior players failed with disposal at critical times, mind you, so did Collingwood.

3) How many times did the ball bounce right for Collingwood tonight? Every contest, the ball would take a deflection straight to a Collingwood player. Cast your mind back to first minute, ball bounces on the GOAL LINE backwards. We couldn't take a trick.

4) Harry O'Brien has a different set of rules to defend by. All night, he holds chops arms and when the time comes for the ump to dish out an evener, he pulls a free out for JOHN ANTHONY??!!! FFS!!!! It couldn't get any worse.

5) Please Geelong, smash the crap out of these hacks. If a forward line with Leigh Brown and John Anthony make a grand final it will be a disgrace.

Yes, BTW, I'm f****** peaking.

You had a good ride from the umpires all night & yet one decision don't go your way & you all cry your hard done by & you've been screwed.
I say look at the goals Tippet got from "soft" free kicks
I've never heard such a whinging bunch of sooks me whole life than what i've heard & read tonight by Crow supporters.
Take it on the chin, you've all got ahead of yourselves after beating West Coast, Carlton & Essendon by big margins & you all thought like K.G that you only had to show up tonight to take the points.
Collingwood 1st of all gave you a start playing undermanned & then a 5 goal head start at qtr time.
What more do you want?

[Dogwatcher]

You don't know what you're talkin' about mate.
It's the AFL's fault.

[NO-MERCY]

Yeah its always someone elses fault!

[FD88]

A few points:

- McLeod was ordinary tonight

- Edwards turned the ball over a fair bit, poor game

- Burton couldn't get near it

Now personally I think our best chance for a flag is 2011 (though we could push it next year too), while those who disagree do so on the basis of the inevitable retirements of our old sages by that stage. Tonight does go some way to laying those doubts to rest, because we flew out to a 30+ point lead on the back of dominant football from Vince, Mackay and Thompson. Two of those three will be better next year than this year. As long as the club makes the tough calls (Burton gone for one you would think) so that we don't end up with all the oldies retiring at the same time, we will have no problems finishing higher in 2010 than we did this year, and indeed higher again in 2011.

Bit of patience needed, remember we all agreed back in March/April/May that 2009 was simply building the platform for bigger and better things later on.

[geppscrossrams]

Game was lost in the 3rd quarter. No run or pressure handed the match to the Pies

[JK]

Game was lost in the 3rd quarter. No run or pressure handed the match to the Pies

I think the Crows played reactive footy in this period, the problem was pretty simple, they just stopped getting to the footy first as they had been earlier, and started chasing guernseys in a disorganised manner.

[NFC]

David Mackay, elite is at your doorstep.

[MatteeG]

David Mackay, elite is at your doorstep.

As a totally neutral he was definitely the best 4 quarter contributor for Adelaide.

Crows blew it in the second quarter- to let the pies somehow win that quarter despite absolutely dominating all but the last couple of minutes was criminal.

And the problem wasnt the free kick, it was allowing Maxwell to get that kick forward through the congestion that was crucial. (Maxwell btw played a superb captains game I thought).

SS as for the ball bouncing the right way for the pies- it was about time the ball didnt bounce for Hentschel- since his comeback (dont get me wrong I am rapt for the bloke to even make it back) things have fallen in his lap more than for anyone else I reckon.

Anyways, great game- kept me on the edge all night.

[NO-MERCY]

David Mackay, elite is at your doorstep.

As a totally neutral he was definitely the best 4 quarter contributor for Adelaide.

Crows blew it in the second quarter- to let the pies somehow win that quarter despite absolutely dominating all but the last couple of minutes was criminal.

And the problem wasnt the free kick, it was allowing Maxwell to get that kick forward through the congestion that was crucial. (Maxwell btw played a superb captains game I thought).

SS as for the ball bouncing the right way for the pies- it was about time the ball didnt bounce for Hentschel- since his comeback (dont get me wrong I am rapt for the bloke to even make it back) things have fallen in his lap more than for anyone else I reckon.

Anyways, great game- kept me on the edge all night.

I've thought exactly the same way, i'd be very surprised if Hentschel is kept on the list next year.

[A Mum]

Magpie, just wondering whose best players they are? Thought Mackay was good tonight.

i get them from the afl website all year

Two extra names now showing up in the best players on the AdelaideNow news story.
Mackay and Dangerfield.

[Psyber]

... I've thought exactly the same way, i'd be very surprised if Hentschel is kept on the list next year.

I think he's done enough to see how he comes up next year - if he's just lucky the Crows can use that...

Who do you barrack for?
I'd guess Port from your comments over the time I've been here, but there may be some other factor operating...

[catchit]

in the 3rd when i seen tippet take a mark at full back and porpy was next to him i thought WTF!!!!!
would that of been a player decision or a coaching decision??
either way that was where the game was lost IMO... 30 odd points up and the pies kick a few,all of a sudden a spare man goes to the backlines, pies take the lead and the spare man goes back to his man, crows take the lead, spare man goes back AGAIN.. pies win...
who ever was responsable for that call cost them the game...not a umpires decision..
i dont think malthouse out coached craig.. i think craig out coached himself..

[lincolnsdirtysecrets]

exactly what I thought catchit. Craig pressed the panic button

[Dogwatcher]

Ahhhhh...just watched the end of the match again. Nice.

[lincolnsdirtysecrets]

Ahhhhh...just watched the end of the match again. Nice.

did you see that soft free kick with 50 seconds to go? how much did you pay the umpires?

[Thiele]

Ahhhhh...just watched the end of the match again. Nice.

did you see that soft free kick with 50 seconds to go? how much did you pay the umpires?

the free kick was there

[Hondo]

Game was lost in the 3rd quarter. No run or pressure handed the match to the Pies

I think the Crows played reactive footy in this period, the problem was pretty simple, they just stopped getting to the footy first as they had been earlier, and started chasing guernseys in a disorganised manner.

For all the theories getting bandied about, these are the 2 best posts I have read on what went wrong. It's a simple game when you boil it down.

Obviously in the second quarter we missed a couple of set shots which hurt but the game was really lost in that 3rd quarter. The lads went missing.

Then, 5 minutes before 3/4 time the run suddenly came back and we looked good again. I don't know how the switch got flicked back on. From then on we actually outplayed them. Unfortunately we'd dropped 6 goals in the 20 minutes beforehand