Finals 2025 Week 1

[Booney]

Morning all.

[am Bays]

Mornin’

[whufc]

Collingwood sledge Rankine.

Rankine slurs Quaynor.

Quaynor gets bood by Adelaide fans.

Right.

Yeah I mean booing Houston make sense.

Franpton as well, that's just explayer and ex team stuff.

The Quaynor booing is odd, it's almost as if blame him for Rankines suspension.

Bit odd.

Im guessing most of those booing went to a march last Sunday.

[stan]

Jokes on you lot having to barrack for Collingwood tonight [emoji38]

Seriously though it went exactly how I thought it would (except for tipping us in hope lol)
Finals experience counts

Whislt there were some bad mistakes, I feel the bigger issue of the night was Moore and what happened with those forward entries.

With the big 3 down there, they should have been able to man him up and stop his influence. In saying that, Frampton played probably his best game ever which did allow Moore some freedom. I reckon if Framtpom struggled with Thilthorpe then it would have been different, but he held his own and it went along way in Collingwood getting the win.

Frampton playing blinder probably wasn't on anyone's bingo card for last night.

[Brodlach]

The sun rose today

[locky801]

Went as i predicted

Cricket was a belter of a game last night

[Lightning McQueen]

Collingwood sledge Rankine.

Rankine slurs Quaynor.

Quaynor gets bood by Adelaide fans.

Right.

Yeah I mean booing Houston make sense.

Franpton as well, that's just explayer and ex team stuff.

The Quaynor booing is odd, it's almost as if blame him for Rankines suspension.

Bit odd.

Booing in any form is just pure rankness, I do get the hatred towards Houston though, what he did was a poor act and something he has to live with.

Although I'm still old school and thought the Rankine suspension was excessive but the booing of Quaynor was terrible, karma came into play there.

[Lightning McQueen]

At least Rankine can play in the GF now.

[Corona Man]

Collingwood sledge Rankine.

Rankine slurs Quaynor.

Quaynor gets bood by Adelaide fans.

Right.

Yeah I mean booing Houston make sense.

Franpton as well, that's just explayer and ex team stuff.

The Quaynor booing is odd, it's almost as if blame him for Rankines suspension.

Bit odd.

Im guessing most of those booing went to a march last Sunday.

Talking about a mob who boo point posts!

[mots02]

Morning all.

Up early for the big Port announcement today?

[Jim05]

ROB seemed to cop a lat of heat from supporters but he wasn’t that bad I thought. Bizarre to be still chasing Draper when midfield class is what they lack. Add an Oliver or Merrett to their midfield and they look miles better

[Corona Man]

ROB seemed to cop a lat of heat from supporters but he wasn’t that bad I thought. Bizarre to be still chasing Draper when midfield class is what they lack. Add an Oliver or Merrett to their midfield and they look miles better

Thought his "header" was innovative.

[amber_fluid]

ROB seemed to cop a lat of heat from supporters but he wasn’t that bad I thought. Bizarre to be still chasing Draper when midfield class is what they lack. Add an Oliver or Merrett to their midfield and they look miles better

Thought his "header" was innovative.

I can recall him heading the ball on more than 1 or 2 other occasions this year
You’ve got hands ROB!

[Booney]

In the end :

The loss of Rankine was glaringly obvious when the midfield move was to put Laird and Keays in the middle. That was the midfield of 2022 that failed to deliver then.

At the selection table they put Hinge, Peatling, Milera, Laird, Smith, Michalanney and Bond magnets on the board. 7 half back flankers and 3 of them had to masquerade as midfielders. Michalanney has a massive future ahead of him but he looked like a 21 year old who had missed a month of footy. This isn't a knock in him, I'm sure they'd have preferred to give him a run in the SANFL but had to bring him in.

The coaches box showed up that one group were pro's and the other's were new kids on the block. It was 19 points at 3/4 time but Fly went shut down from the opening minutes. Pendlebury and J Daicos played keepies off inside the first 90 seconds and killed nearly a minute on the full back line. Every uncontested mark be it sideways or backwards they took all through the last quarter. A clear direction to stifle any charge Adelaide might mount and the Nicks box didn't have an answer. 66+ uncontested for Collingwood, they simply denied Adelaide the ball at every opportunity.

Cox played his role. Collingwood knew they'd have time in their forward half they just couldn't let Adelaide bounce it back out, Adelaide score on the rebound better than anyone and Cox, who only took 4 marks and 2 of them were on the wing, played his role perfectly. Brought it to ground over and over and locked it inside the forward 50.

N Daicos is a freak. The ability he has in traffic, the poise he has to find team mates when under pressure and the speed at which he makes decisions with the ball in hand is unrivalled in the game at the moment.

[MW]

Can't argue any of that. Was men vs boys out there. Finals are a different game and I felt they knew it going in.
There will be a few shrinking in their seats when they watch some footage back. Thilthorpe and Soligo to name two.
Benefit of being minor round bullies is we get another shot at it.

[Booney]

Can't argue any of that. Was men vs boys out there. Finals are a different game and I felt they knew it going in.
There will be a few shrinking in their seats when they watch some footage back. Thilthorpe and Soligo to name two.
Benefit of being minor round bullies is we get another shot at it.

Explain the AFL site best players to me please.

BEST
Adelaide: Thilthorpe, Neal-Bullen, Pedlar, Walker, Worrell
Collingwood: Moore, Elliott, N.Daicos, De Goey, Sidebottom, Cameron, Frampton

[MW]

Thilthorpe was great for most of the day, just shat the bed on occasions.
15 disp 2 goals, 4th ranked player on the ground behind three Pies

[wenchbarwer]

I'm not on social media, have SAPOL put up a missing persons alert for Darcy Fogarty?

[Booney]

Maynard and Keays post match was a lip readers smorgasboard.

[MW]

Maynard and Keays post match was a lip readers smorgasboard.

Some on twitter saying Maynard may have spat on ANB, and thats what got the reaction. Wait and see what unfolds from that if any truth to it.