Watched the replay of Q1

Special comments from Ruby were dreadful, kept talking at length over good passages of play

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If Charlie was going at half pace, Weitering was going 1/4 pace.

Something you notice live that you might not on the broadcast- Acres is very disciplined on keeping his width. You could argue he sat too far from the play, but he was available as a switch on multiple occasions without being used, and his opponent get sucked closer to the play.

Any feedback on how paddy Dow went in the reserves practice match?
I did hear about a chase down tackle and at least one goal…
Just rewatched the Carlton saints game from 2021 and reminded about his ability - his step, his vision and F50 delivery was terrific in that game. With Walsh out some speed would be great if he has developed from last year

We do well against Sydney, who played in the GF last year, and it will lead us into the first 2 games with a positive mind set...

I only saw the first quarter of the reserves but Pittonet, Kennedy & Dow were toying with what looked a pretty young Collingwood midfield.

…allowing us to get ahead of ourselves once again!

P S .............. Alex Mirkov , nice effort . Looked very comfortable out there . Got his share of tapouts . His pushing and shoving in the ruck contests was pretty damn good . Reckon he actually could eventually become a weapon with that big height advantage .........

Yes , i know , i shitcanned the bejesus out of this bloke when he first arrived . He was woeful and i thought the hierarchy had lost there minds . And he was woeful . I watched quite a lot of him in the magoo's and he didn't improve one iota . Painful to watch he was . And then , something just clicked . Like overnight . Towards the end of last season all of a sudden it came together . His tapwork , palming , positioning just came together all of a sudden . Just goes to show Mick , leave it to the experts . From what i hear the bloke who has been a big wrap for him and has also done a lot of development work is none other than " The Diesel " . Kudos to you Diesel coz the improvement in Mirkov is miraculous .

Love to know what you guru's think about Mirkov's game . A lot of my mates reckon he was great and others reckon he was shite so , i dunno , come on guru's , tell me what the go is with this bloke . Will he make it ?

Sorry but the Pies had enough looks in the last term to win. We were lucky they missed so many shots. Watching it live, all day it seemed we had more of the play - but every time they got it inside forward 50 it resulted in a shot on goal. I have no idea if the stats support that, but that’s how it seemed. In the second quarter the shots all went in, but in the last term they kicked points. It could have easily been another run of 5 goals against us in the final term and a repeat of last year.

Still lots of work to do defensively IMO.

We missed some pretty gettable shots too.