So, we'll potentially play The Filth next week w/oPendles, Greenwood, Sidebum, Young, McCoker, Adams + (Beams, Ball, Maxwell and Prince La Bamba)
Fat Tat will have his work cut out…
Melk.
Pies.
Reid’s done another quad
Picked this up from The Herald Suns assessment of the Pies to date & heading in to round 4.Pen license clearly optional.GILBERT GARDINER’S FORECAST: For all the pre-season naysayers Collingwood (2-1) aunt doing too badly considering injuries continue to plague the club.AUNT doing to badly.
What’s the requirement to work in journalism nowadays? Certification of competition of grade three & picture of your pen license?
Reid's done another quad
Quick, off to Germany for cutting edge not Essendon so ok to push it to the limits injections.
So, we'll potentially play The Filth next week w/oPendles, Greenwood, Sidebum, Young, McCoker, Adams + (Beams, Ball, Maxwell and Prince La Bamba)
Fat Tat will have his work cut out…
Pendlebury will play.
Picked this up from The Herald Suns assessment of the Pies to date & heading in to round 4.GILBERT GARDINER’S FORECAST: For all the pre-season naysayers Collingwood (2-1) aunt doing too badly considering injuries continue to plague the club.AUNT doing to badly.
What’s the requirement to work in journalism nowadays? Certification of competition of grade three & picture of your pen license?
Voice recognition software?
Thomas and Keefe still in drugs limbo, Pendelbury under duress but will play.
Collingwood pair Lachie Keeffe and Josh Thomas remain in virtual exile from the club with their careers in limbo, with only very limited contact between them and officials, as a result of their provisional suspension for an alleged doping violation.
Collingwood have discouraged Keeffe and Thomas from training, although under the rules they are permitted to train while under provisional suspension, and the club has also avoided discussing particulars of their case – in part because club did not want officials to be in a position in which they could be compelled to give evidence at a tribunal if the B sample is confirmed as positive.
The Magpies have not received any notification about whether the players have received the results of their B sample tests – almost always positive – which would confirm an infraction notice, tribunal hearing and potential suspension.
While Collingwood felt it would be better if Keeffe and Thomas did not train with the club at this stage, the players can still use club facilities and the medical department, and have had contact with the club’s player development manager, who looks after player welfare, in what has been described as an awkward situation for all parties. Keeffe and Thomas are contracted until the end of this year and are still being paid.
The players’ limited interactions and lack of direct communication with the club are also heavily influenced by their own legal advice.
Keeffe and Thomas tested positive to the banned substance clenbuterol back in February and have been under provisional suspension since they received notification on the even of the home and away season. No explanation of how the drug entered their system has been put forth yet by the club or the players representatives, with the B samples still to be announced. Because Clenbuterol is not a specified substance, they cannot play — as Ahmed Saad could — while awaiting the B sample.
In the event that they are suspended for a lengthy stretch — into the 2016 season — the players will almost certainly be delisted, while the Magpies will play two short on their senior list for the duration of 2015.
Collingwood, meanwhile, is set to select midfielder Taylor Adams for Saturday’s Anzac Day clash but will resist the temptation to blood young father-son recruit Darcy Moore for one of the season’s big occasions.
The Magpies were without Adams, who had a toe injury, last Friday when the tough young midfielder was a late withdrawal from the game against St Kilda. But they expect Adams to be right to play on Anzac Day against the Bombers, who have been impressive thus far in 2015.
The Pies have been keen to promote Moore after a succession of stand out performances in the VFL, and had been tempted to blood Moore for Anzac Day, but have chosen the more conservative path. Moore has been playing as a key defender in the VFL, and would be used as a tall back if he was promoted.
Skipper Scott Pendlebury, who was in doubt last Friday but played under some duress and had 30 possessions, is said to be no worse for his outing and is expected to play against the Dons.
Whether they’ve done it or not, the club’s development & welfare people should be every step of the way with them.
Remember when Collingwood was showing just how to manage such a horrible situation when it arises.
Apparently the model involves taking two players away from their support system, cutting them loose and pretending they never existed
Is their provisional suspension a different type to the one we had?
(what the two above me said)
Is their provisional suspension a different type to the one we had?(what the two above me said)
No - exactly the same; so, if found guilty their penalty starts from the time they started provisional suspension.
Side by side you stick together hey Eddie…
Side by side you sniff together hey Eddie....Edited for accuracy.
I’m putting it out there, I think Buckley is a good coach with a ■■■■ list.
I think he’s an average coach with a half decent young list with crap foot skills.
Having said that, he has implemented a gameplan that best suits the players he has at his disposal.
I think he's an average coach with a half decent young list with crap foot skills. Having said that, he has implemented a gameplan that best suits the players he has at his disposal.
From the outside though, surely it is almost impossible to actually be able to determine how good a coach someone is?
I think he's an average coach with a half decent young list with crap foot skills. Having said that, he has implemented a gameplan that best suits the players he has at his disposal.From the outside though, surely it is almost impossible to actually be able to determine how good a coach someone is?
Normally it is tough.
But he took over a team that had an average age of around 23 years ld and had played in two grand finals (excl the replay) in three years.
Since going there, that team has been in free fall and lost some very good and very important players.
How many players are still there from their Grand Final? 8? And it’s not the equivalent of the Misiti, Hird, Fletcher, Mercury, Bewick ‘core’ players that we kept between 1993 and 2000.
I think there eisenough evidence to show that he took a highly competitive team and felt the need to rebuild it.
It’s more so how he handles himself off field, did a couple of interviews tonight on 360 & Footy Classified, and I find he speaks very clear and fluent, he gets on the front foot in most cases, and seems to be transparent. He tends to display his emotions physically, but it shows his passion and desire for success but I find I don’t mind listening to him, I think he has an excellent football brain, and seems to have a gameplay attuned to the strengths of Collingwood, and is seemingly able to minimise the exploitations of weaknesses in their game. I think he’s done well with what he’s got.
I think he's an average coach with a half decent young list with crap foot skills. Having said that, he has implemented a gameplan that best suits the players he has at his disposal.From the outside though, surely it is almost impossible to actually be able to determine how good a coach someone is?
Normally it is tough.
But he took over a team that had an average age of around 23 years ld and had played in two grand finals (excl the replay) in three years.
Since going there, that team has been in free fall and lost some very good and very important players.
How many players are still there from their Grand Final? 8? And it’s not the equivalent of the Misiti, Hird, Fletcher, Mercury, Bewick ‘core’ players that we kept between 1993 and 2000.I think there eisenough evidence to show that he took a highly competitive team and felt the need to rebuild it.
Most of those that are gone were causing quite a bit of problem down there. Their off-field exploits were appalling, their efforts on-field were slipping and their commitment to the club was affecting the younger players.
So based on that he felt it was important to make a change to the list and reshape it to a better version, one that could sustain longer success. Nothing wrong with that imo and he seems to be doing a pretty good job so far this season.