Where and when: MCG, Monday June 10, 3.20pm AEST
What it means for Collingwood: A win would complete a successful first half of the season before the third-placed Pies enjoy a well-earned rest, but a second successive upset loss at the MCG would raise some doubts.
What it means for Melbourne: Simon Goodwin’s team needs to recapture some semblance of the uncompromising brand they created last year, and only that will do against a rebounding Collingwood. Victory could kickstart the 16th-placed Demons on a long road to recovery.
The stat: The Demons have been hot favourites in their past two clashes against the Pies but have failed miserably on both occasions – by 16 points in the last round of 2017, thus missing the finals, and by 42 points in last year’s Queen’s Birthday clash.
The match-up: Brodie Grundy v Max Gawn
In the eyes of many, Magpie big man Grundy (ranked No.3 in the Official AFL Player Ratings) has taken over from Demon counterpart Gawn (No.1) as the AFL’s premier ruckman, so here’s the perfect opportunity to settle it – at least for now.
It’s a big week for: Sam Weideman
It’ll also be a long week for the young key forward after he fluffed a chance to be the hero in his AFL return against Adelaide in Darwin, missing an otherwise regulation set shot in the dying seconds. He’ll be keen to atone in his first Queen’s Birthday game against the club his father and grandfather represented.
Thommo’s Tip: Pies by 18 points
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LATE CHANGES
Collingwood: Nil
Melbourne: Tim Smith replaced in selected side by Josh Wagner
FINAL INTERCHANGE
Collingwood: James Aish, Chris Mayne, Callum Brown, Brayden Sier
Melbourne: Angus Brayshaw, Mitch Hannan, Oskar Baker, Josh Wagner
Clearing up for a fine afternoon in Melbourne.
Thank god Satan Clayton got up. Was likely to be a late change!
Phew! Satan rises.
Good luck today btw, TR. Cheering for you to post a big score and have a crack at the weekly prize.
Cheers GD.
All does Satan Oliver or Satan Clayton have a better ring to it?
Lol. Been pioneering “Satan Oliver” for a while, starting to catch on.
Either way, I don’t mind, just as long as his devilish disposal efficiency and the curse he put on me to start him over Neale is acknowledged.
Sorry GD – I know you’ve been pushing it and I generally like what you post but it’s a crap tag, in my humble opinion.
Grundy and Oliver both playing … yes!!!
Predictions: Demons to push the pies, but they won’t lose 2 in a row at the G
Satan Oliver to rack up 45 disposals with 29 handballs.
A significant injury to a star will eventuate.
Treloar to have a quiet day tagged by Harmes.
Gawn and Grundy to both just hit the ton, recording 107 and 102 respectively.
Marty Hore to score 60 with Lever, May back etc.
Top score: Satan Clayton 154, racking up 45 at an ugly 54% disposal efficiently, however 13 tackles gets him to 150.
You should place a multi. All looks good from here 😉
Moore and Hore. One of you will be gone after today, so which of you is gonna stand up and be counted? Pls try and make it a hard and regrettable decision. Thanks 🙂
Moore is a big game player I recon
Afternoon, PJ. And yeah, think you’re bang on. Big showing from Moore today, getting him back in AA calculations.
I guess this isn’t a big game huh?!
if you have Brodie Smith AS – I’d be tempted to keep Hore over him, the way he is going oif late and with Milera back and laird, no room for them all methinks??
By the way, how good is the Big Freeze going with the sliders!!??
Hear what you’re saying mate, but will likely hold Brodie as he’s doesn’t mess my bye structure with Lachie gone now. Would rather save the trade and eventually he and Hore can be D6/7. If Gardner gets dropped I should be able to loop them given WBD’s late fixtures in the back half.
That’s the thinking anyway. Am sure I’ll have to trade him for cash when injuries hit, but not right now.
Very gusty here @ the G today
Might benefit treloar & Brayshaws ground game
Ground is soft with all the rain too
Who goes better in windy the conditions for my C
Gawn
Or
Grundy
Here’s to Gawn and Grundy not completely stifling each other.
happy for them both to cancel each other out at the 100 mark!! *wink*
Am working today
Won’t be able to post scores
Dw, I’ll get em’.
Thinking about taking a punt on Clayton Oliver as C to try and salvage the massive overall slide I’m going to have this round, thoughts?
Go for it ahead of G or G
Who was your VC?
Crippa.
Rolling with Clayton though, will smash Cripps 194 with ease.
My reply was in response to the post above yours asking about whether to give C Oliver the C.
Neale
Dursma to Degoey?
What? No.
a) if you’ve held Duursma through his bye use him as cover for the next two byes
b) he’s been scoring well over the last two weeks and will make more money
c) De Goey too dependent on goals, look elsewhere
Great day for footy, great day for humanity. Hope you’re all wearing those blue beanies today.
Gut feel is that Hore and Oliver struggle SC-wise today, and Grundy and Gawn cancel each other out. Might be a tough day for Supercoach! Pies by about five goals
wash thy mouth out good sir!!!
Also Max is still the best ruck in the comp.
Oliver is so ill disciplined. Just gave away a 50…
Please stay low Grundy…..new recruit r14. Will compliment Gawn nicely !!
Max on 48 at Qtr-time!
SC relevant scores after Q1:
PIES
Sidebottom – 45
Grundy – 24
Pendles – 23
Treloar – 19
Crisp – 17
Moore – 16
DEES
Gawn – 50
Satan Oliver – 29
Hore – 21
Brayshaw – 15
T. McDonald – 13
Baker – 7
I hope Grundy stays low as plenty have C on him. People should’ve gone for Gawn as he’s clearly a better player and isn’t managing an ankle injury.
Mobility: Gawn
Skills: Grundy
Ruckwork: Gawn
Pressure: Grundy
Forward Craft: Even
Intercept Marking: Gawn
Contested work: Gawn
It’s close but I think Gawn is still the better player.
If my life depended on it…Grundy. Would make a great poll.
Gawn more mobile?!?!?! You’re kidding us aren’t you!!
Satan’s problem is he keeps getting contested possesions that lead to poor de. Eight out of nine so far.
Without clangers Satan Oliver would’ve been on 40 at QT. 9 touches all contested at 70% is excellent.
Draft, have crisp, Treloar, Grundy and 70 points, vs Gawn captain. Thought it was over… not only leading by 30+ point at qtr time…
Yo should shit it in
Gawn given two frees to Grundy…last one neither knew what was happening…..Grundy goal.
Melbourne overuse the ball so much particularly with handballs. The more they touch it the more likely there is going to be a mistake.
Hore and Treloar turning the ball over and scoring points, yet Moore loses points for not being able to pick up a ground ball
Hore has been doing a lot of one percenters and a few tackles
He had a good quarter, but it started with him turning over 2 handballs, 1 which directly cost them a goal. Yet he still gained points on each occasion
I will preface this by saying I don’t have him and one opponent does , but he went from 40 to 61 with 3 hb 1 tackle and no kicks!56 to 61 with one handball .
Kicks out on the full… Gains 3 points
AFL predicted Satan beating the handball record of 35….
He’s up to 18 before HT.
Just 3 kicks ffs.
That’s good! Satan can’t kick this year…
Gawn 17 disposals to Grundy’s 9. More HO to advantage too. Giving him an absolute footy lesson as predicted.
Coming home hard…top three dees scorers. Shame about whit, hurn, yeo.
SC relevant scores at HT:
PIES
Sidebottom – 62
Grundy – 57
Treloar – 42
Pendles – 38
Moore – 30
Crisp – 22
DEES
Gawn – 80
Oliver – 70
Hore – 61
Brayshaw – 46
Baker – 30
T. McDonald – 13
I’ll post full scores after this quarter GD – I’m home now and able to?
Yep. Ty, Macca. You’re usually quicker and your format is better.
no worries mate – but what you are posting is great for most people! Most are only interested in the SC relevant players!!
Cheers!
Np, I type them manually from FF for people just checking in. You and PJ post the exhaustive lists, also appreciated.
C’mon Moore.
He’s scored 23 points in 13 mins, Sean. Be happy lol.
I was cheering him on not bagging him.
I want him to do well.
Having serious regrets now at getting scared off the results of the last three years between these two and not selecting Gawn and C!!
Who have you VC/C’d?
Neale into Jelly … Neale was looking great till HT then the tag shut him down completely … bit poor on his behalf and the GWS ?? Must have thought they were still playing the Suns!!
Ah. Bad luck. I was certain Neale was gonna hit his B.E at half time.
Don’t feel bad though, anyone who missed Cripps (myself included) will be hating themselves rn.
yeah Cripps score was a bit WTF?? On about 52 midway through the third quarter and ends up on 194??? That’s some serious scoring …
he was mightily involved though …
Having deeper regrets on not having Gawn in my team after being scared off by
Grundy 1st game and impact Preus will have.
Need to get him in ASAP however damage done.
Wtf Pendles !!!!
Satan 2 points for the quarter l…
Mr Grundy…the game is won. Don’t put any more pressure on your ankle. Take a rest and I can get you cheaper r14.
Booo – stay away, you might break him for the rest of us who have had him all year!! *wink*!!
I went Gawn/goldy and picked up rob on bench with the idea of two rucks each week during byes. Has cost me a bit so far but going to pay off now as long as rob not dropped for sauce..cant see that happening after rob 102 this week.
Any chance Baker can get on the field and get his hand on the pill??
Hmmmm Hore is fast firming as my D6 over B Smith. Do we believe he will have the JS for the year?
Good poll question for the week??
Hore jS? He’s a chance at top 5 in best and fairest….
Gawn
Oliver
Harmes
Hunt
Hore
Top 5 rn
Good poll on both points. Reckon LLoyd, Hurn Laird, Stewart, Sicily, Daniel, Whit, and one or two others might still have him covered. Great d7 if you can wrangle it.
Daniel’s a FWD and Laird won’t make it, even from here. Well he might, but I won’t be buying him 😉
I guess im going to keep Brayshaw looks like he is improving i think he just bet his BE
yep, his BE was 81 …
If Grundy can get to 80, Gawn to 130, Satan Oliver to 115 and Hore to 95, I’ll finish up on 1916. Will be wrapped with that.
need 100 from Grundy please … Gawn can stop playing now … they should put him in cotton wool … big second half of the season … the game is done … and all that jazz!! *wink*
hahaha
Big third Quarter by the Pies to lead comfortably:
11.8.74 to 5.9.39
Collingwood Magpies: 11.8.74
Adam Treloar 90
Steele Sidebottom 88
Brayden Sier 82
W. Hoskin-Elliott 80
Tom Phillips 72
Brody Mihocek 72
James Aish 69
Jordan De Goey 69
Brodie Grundy 68
Jaidyn Stephenson* 65
Darcy Moore 64
Jack Crisp 59
Brayden Maynard 56
Jeremy Howe 53
Scott Pendlebury 51
Levi Greenwood 48
Jordan Roughead 46
Callum Brown 44
Josh Thomas 42
Chris Mayne 41
Mason Cox 40
Travis Varcoe 39
Melbourne Demons: 5.9.39
Max Gawn 110
Clayton Oliver 92
Angus Brayshaw 89
Marty Hore 78
Christian Petracca 71
James Harmes 69
Steven May 68
Christian Salem 61
Bayley Fritsch 58
Michael Hibberd 57
Jake Lever 52
Jayden Hunt 46
Nathan Jones 41
Sam Weideman 39
Charlie Spargo 39
Oskar Baker 37
Tom McDonald 36
Jack Viney 36
Joshua Wagner 34
Jeff Garlett 30
Mitch Hannan 29
Sam Frost 8
10 goals 25 points for the Dees over the last six quarters. At least the players will be ‘bitterly disappointed’.
Feel bad for Gawn. Been carrying these morons all year.
He could’ve won the game for the morons last week.
Oh come on, Chips. He fed them the ball all night against the Crows and they butchered it, not his job to kick goals. He did his part, guy’s a beast.
*not a Demons supporter btw
*bitter Dees supporter here.
**very bitter.
would argue that Weideman’s kick was even easier chance, even though it was after siren … he should have nailed that one more so than Gawn!!
Dees had more than 80% possession in the forward pocket for thus far in the quarter … and failed to take advantage of it. They need someone who can kick straight and also some better ability to crumb the ball from around the contest and convert – first chance the Pies had to get it out – straight down field and the score …
Melksham is the Dees MVP behind Gawn and Oliver. Which is tragic.
One of hore or moore has to go for LLoyd after r13.. Moore dpp is attractive.
Which one goes ?
t/u hore
t/d moore
TrooRoo of the scores posted last night it seems yours was the one to beat. Hope it was enough to get top prize coz I think we just drew.
He’s gone as soon as it opens. Dashing locks n all
Keep hore , played well and well looked after by cd.
Gawn reclaims number 1 ruck spot…
Well Pies finished with a rush and 4 goals in last 7 minutes. Big win for them!
Scores pre final scaling …
Collingwood Magpies: 15.8.98
Steele Sidebottom 118
Adam Treloar 104
Brayden Sier 103
W. Hoskin-Elliott 96
Jaidyn Stephenson* 94
Brody Mihocek 92
James Aish 86
Brayden Maynard 86
Brodie Grundy 84
Tom Phillips 84
Jeremy Howe 84
Jordan De Goey 82
Jack Crisp 80
Darcy Moore 78
Scott Pendlebury 67
Chris Mayne 65
Callum Brown 65
Jordan Roughead 63
Mason Cox 58
Levi Greenwood 58
Josh Thomas 57
Travis Varcoe 44
Melbourne Demons: 7.15.57
Max Gawn 154
Angus Brayshaw 118
Clayton Oliver 114
James Harmes 94
Marty Hore 94
Christian Petracca 92
Bayley Fritsch 81
Steven May 81
Christian Salem 79
Jake Lever 68
Michael Hibberd 64
Charlie Spargo 60
Jack Viney 59
Sam Weideman 55
Jayden Hunt 53
Oskar Baker 50
Nathan Jones 49
Mitch Hannan 47
Tom McDonald 46
Jeff Garlett 44
Joshua Wagner 44
Sam Frost 7
First VC / C I have got wrong all year …. *sad face*
I hit 2230 roughly before scaling if my calculations are correct….
Interesting to see where I place.
That’s outstanding. Post in the How Did You Go? thread with your weekly ranking too.
Keen to know!!
Apparently I can’t count. 2145. Thought I was trailing TrooRoo by 78 exact same players plus Moore who scored 78.
TrooRoo last night you said u needed 450 to get 2150. Yours players got a combined score of 445 which would put you at 2145. How’d you get 2230 ? Captain someone today ? I could be wrong. All these numbers are doing my head in. Great score whatever you got.
MAYNARD STEPHENSON and the PIE’S doin the Queen proud.
Happy birthday, PieFan 😉
Haha nah mate i’m not the Queen but I met Eddie once and he said she go’s for the PIE’S!