Afl Grand Final
The Magpies’ 20-year premiership drought is over. Collingwood players were soaking up the sweetest feeling in AFL today after their 56-point annihilation of St Kilda in the Grand Final replay.
The nervous tension expended in last week’s draw proved to help the Magpies. Today they moved with confidence and precision.
The Pies blew away their cobwebs in last week’s draw. It proved a blessing in disguise as the Pies finally executed on their game plan.
Collingwood are into a Grand Final.
If you’re a Collingwood supporter, read that line again, and let it sink in. If you’re not a Collingwood supporter, read that line again, and suck it up.
The lot of you have grown more obnoxious and annoying than anything our supporters could dish up. Nearly 40,000 people have joined some nonsense Facebook event: “The Day Collingwood Choke”. Their M.O.? “Collingwood are shit and we hate you.”
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Fgmfpbdb says:
We need it because we are not there, because we haven’t smelled the death and the terror, because we have not seen the corpses with our own eyes. , virtiulgirls.com, virtiulgirls.com, http://flikmhso.puhuwog.co.cc/virtiulgirls.com.html virtiulgirls.com, 3808, Read more »
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He was cranky after all says:
Spinner….., mate…., not a sound strategy to slag off Pies supporters as stupid with a series of incoherent rants and selective analysis. It is in fact you who misses the point, in both your original comment and subsequent responses. 2009 - 15 of 22 matches at their home ground and… Read more »
After months of uncertainty last week had about it a sense of clarity.
With all the incessant talk about the rise of Collingwood, Geelong was finally going to set this season right. The undisputed heavyweight champions were going to teach the Pies a lesson about finals footy.
We all knew Travis Cloke couldn’t kick. Didak hangs up his boots at the end of August. Not even Dane Swan could carry a team by himself in the heat of a Prelim. Stacked up against 14 All-Australians in a team which had reached the mountain top twice in the last three years, Collingwood had no hope.
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Graham S says:
Good teenage memories Greg, reminds me at a similar age scalping tickets at the footbridge in ‘67, taking my 1st date out to the ‘68 GF and the piece de resistance: Climbing up over the bowling green hedge at the MCG member’s entrance, scampering unseen across the green, into an… Read more »
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Puss Inbootz says:
There,s a saying in football,,,a good young side will beat the good old side,,,the weary legs and punished bodies do take their toll,however Geelong,s 2 out of 3 flags are the measure of a great side,maybe Ling,Ottens and Scarlett will fade,but underneath that is a side with the talent to… Read more »
Make no mistake - the mighty Collingwood Magpies are due.
They are ready to build on the lessons of a near-flawless 2010 season and a gallant defeat in this Saturday’s Grand Final by going one better in 2011. If there is one thing this team has mastered over more than a century, it is the ability to bounce back from a grand final defeat. With another grand final defeat.
Today, as a special tribute to the Pies, The Punch offers its readers this FREE downloadable slightly glossy poster commemorating Collingwood’s 24 extraordinary losing grand final appearances.
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Kevin says:
Is this going to be updated for the latest loss? Read more »
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Kirk says:
It may have taken 2 weeks but the Mighty Magpies have the silver ware. Now if you will excuse me, I have some gloating to do !!!! Go Pies !!!!! Read more »
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