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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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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 »
Magpie fans ... get ready for the time of your lives. The Collingwood football machine is on the verge of breaking its 20-year premiership drought and we’re going to witness one giant party in good ‘ol Melbourne town.
After ruling the MCG’s hallowed turf on Friday night against Geelong, the Magpies are red hot and on their way to winning the AFL’s biggest prize this Saturday.
The Magpies have just two hurdles to overcome in their bid to secure their first flag since 1990.
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Tails says:
Well you know what they say, “If you can’t beat ‘em, hate ‘em. Read more »
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GreenGoblin says:
The average Australian doesn’t care about mining taxes or climate change. What they care about is sport. The nation stops for grand finals, and Victoria has a day off so it can organise and run a horse race that stops a nation. Yet the political elite ignores sport. Sport gets… Read more »
It’s going to be a ferocious war zone on the MCG’s hallowed turf this Friday night.
The Magpies are fired up to punch nails in the Cats’ coffin in their preliminary final blockbuster.
But the Magpies must achieve three targets – beating midfielders Gary Ablett, Jimmy Bartel and co. in the central war zone, shaking off their goal-kicking yips to win on the scoreboard and destroying the demons that have haunted them for decades, the Colliwobbles.
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Luke says:
I’m sorry Paul but i am not a league fan… infact I attended 4 Sydney Swans games this year. The television ratings speak for themselves, there is no need to try and discredit them. Perhaps you’d like to read this artcile on how well the swans are doing financially: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/sydney-swans-dive-to-big-cash-loss/story-e6frexwr-1225820982027.… Read more »
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Paul says:
Not sure if you know Luke that the swans average attendance for the 11 home games in 2010 was 30675 which I am guessing would be a touch larger than any of the Sydney League teams. I always find it funny that the League people in this town always cling… Read more »
Brendan Fevola is one of those blokes who quite literally has trouble as his middle name.
If it’s not a phone text scandal over model Lara Bingle, it’s something just as bad, like an allegation of indecent exposure.
After the Lions suspended Fev today, there are serious questions about the bad boy’s future.
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Art Sing,although hotel tree origin assessment live control leg eat new survive trial division ahead movement set victim slip decision nothing test touch before between look maintain code around normal brain threaten ring bed reach whether opposition full turn total soon quarter settle screen duty understanding language effective power selection… Read more »
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Jean says:
Innocent until proven guilty, I’m not a fan of Fev’s but he’s an easy target. Let’s see the proof that he has exposed himself. Why did it take the woman a week to come forward? Money to be made? Read more »
When Hawthorn looked like crashing out of the finals, former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett came to the rescue.
Kennett, the Hawks’ president, didn’t flinch when he gave the Hawks players and coach Alastair Clarkson a giant kick up the butt last week. His strong criticism gave the media plenty to fuel in the lead-up to the Hawks’ do-or-die match against Melbourne.
Captain Sam Mitchell defended his Hawks teammates and an “outcoached” Clarkson after their pitiful loss to the Sydney Swans, while former Hawk star Shane Crawford hit out at Kennett.
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Brendan says:
Jeff only stuck the boots into Hawthorn because he saw how Brett Ratten’s spray got Carlton fired up the previous week. However, where the players might react positively to their own coach privately and publicly slagging them off, a public spray from an outspoken politician turned president, with limited afl… Read more »
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Peter says:
Your dreaming… Read more »
Ever since Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse got into strife after allegedly calling Saint Stephen Milne a “f***ing rapist”, the Magpies have done everything they can to earn their stripes.
The Woods’ victory over St Kilda on Saturday confirmed they are in the hunt for the AFL flag after claiming top spot on the premiership ladder.
The Woods were desperate to gain the upper hand over the Saints and show their authority after their April 9 horror game, in which AFL’s “role models” stooped to a new low following the ugly Malthouse-Milne exchange.
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Roja says:
Collingwood play Hawthorn, St Kilda, Geelong, Carlton and the Bulldogs twice. They have the hardest draw of any team in the league in 2010. The money for gate receipts is quite true, the pies 11 away games are the most desired of any teams in the league due to the… Read more »
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Peter says:
@ Martin, and who did Hawthorn SMASH in the prelim final in 2008 to win the premiership? St Kilda… Also, when it comes to big games Hawks vs. Coll, Hawthorn always come out on top.. When Hawthorn hit odd of 28 to 1 after losing 6 games at the start… Read more »
This is my first column for The Adelaide Advertiser since last month’s South Australian election and as such I feel duty bound to reflect on the wash-up from the result. But not for the first time, I’d rather write about footy.
Just to keep the political tragics happy, the shorthand version of the SA poll is that almost one in every 10 voters abandoned their support for Mike Rann because they find him kind of annoying, but he got back anyway because Labor had such a strong majority.
Which brings us to the Adelaide Crows. History shows that when a successful footy club goes bad it can shed around 10 per cent of its membership. Like Labor under Rann, the Adelaide Crows enjoy a comfortable buffer in terms of their support.
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benno says:
Penbo, I thought you were a Swannie. Come on, you don’t have to pretend you’re loyal to Adelaide just cause they’re losing. We know you’ve been having torrid weekend motel meetings with the Swans for a while now. Read more »
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The Pride of says:
It just got worse; our crows are 0-3. Half the Melbourne team can’t handball to save themselves, yet we found a way to lose to them. But Sturt did beat Glenelg by 39 points yesterday, so I’m happy with that. And Port lost too, which is never a bad thing. Read more »
It seems absurd that the lesser football codes - the imported football codes - persist in starting each season by arguing their supremacy on the national sporting stage.
As John Howard memorably stated on the day the CFMEU pulled down all the bollards outside Parliament House and smashed up the souvenir shop, it is both ugly, and un-Australian.
The origins of our one true national code, the great game of Australian Rules Football, remain the subject of conjecture. Some argue that it was invented by a couple of black guys kicking the shit out of a possum. Others argue it evolved naturally when the Aborigines rejected rugby on the grounds that none of them were stockbrokers, rejected league on the basis that they already had enough mindlessly violent initiation rites in their culture, rejected soccer because they didn’t want to spend another 40,000 years dreaming that someone might actually score a goal.
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a little part of me dies inside when you say backs says:
there are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who dont, and i dont think your three year old would. Read more »
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tell em' their dreaming says:
Take it from me. The day victorian eggball is the national sport of Australia is the day ice-hockey os the national sport of Brazil Read more »
IN the dying minutes of the first AFL semi-final, it appeared the Magpies would crash and burn … falling victim to another attack of the Colliwobbles.
But for some fateful reason, Magpie full-forward John Anthony steadied and threaded a major when it counted the most. The Crows must have felt like they were feathered and tarred.
Anthony’s heroics saved the Magpies from an agonising aftermath. It wouldn’t be much fun to cop a deathly stare from coach Mick Malthouse. If anyone has seen Malthouse’s face in the rooms after a loss, you would feel for the players.
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James McDonald says:
Please don’t classify Geelong as Victorian! Us Melburnians consider Geelong an interstate team, that’s why everyone was going for St Kilda in the GF. Hopefully we can bring the flag back to Melbourne next year through Hawthorn or St Kilda. If Geelong win again, I’ll change to NRL and support… Read more »
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Julie Tullberg says:
Hi Melissa, Thanks for your response. I’m not Melb centric .... definitely not! I’m open-minded about the potential of the AFL. Having said that, there are serious plans for more interstate development and I agree with the AFL’s strategy here. I think another Victorian team would over-populate the AFL in… Read more »
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