Melbourne vs Collingwood Round 10

[Barra13]

THE BEAST by Whispering Jack

This weekend the football world will recognise the man who was the last coach to take the Demons to a finals appearance (not to mention a win over Collingwood on Queens Birthday) with the Big Freeze at the "G" event to raise awareness of and funds for a cure for motor neurone disease, an affliction which Neale Daniher suffers. The cause is a worthy one and the clubs involved in this weekend's blockbuster game are to be commended for throwing their efforts behind the objective of finding a cure for the "beast".

And when the game begins and hopefully a massive sum has been raised for MND research, the fans of this club which Daniher coached to finals appearances and one grand final for almost a decade can be a part of the search to cure their own club's "beast", an affliction that has wracked the club since his last days at the helm.

Since Daniher's departure, the club has been in a constant cycle of disastrous and failed attempts to rebuild with few glimpses of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.

Even with the arrival of new coach Paul Roos and the advent of some bright young talent, the ride continues to be a bumpy one as attested by the season's record to date of three wins and six defeats and a poor percentage. The anomaly is that five of those losses have been against clubs that occupy the top eight and the other was against a team that came within a whisker of making last year's grand final. One of the wins was over a current top eight side; another against a team just outside. In a competition where the fixture is engineered to give the lower sides a decent draw, Melbourne has played only once against a club occupying the current bottom seven spots on the ladder. The Demons can't even win the luck of the draw because this week they're up against fourth placed Collingwood.

They are also a team that shows all of the signs of a young team with some promise, exhibiting growing pains and carrying baggage from its unsuccessful recent past. One of those signs is inconsistency. The gap between the team's best and its worst is a gaping chasm and one has no clue as to which side of its persona will emerge at the long weekend.

That is the nature of the Beast.

THE GAME

Melbourne v Collingwood at MCG Monday 8 June 2015 at 3.20pm (AEST)

HEAD TO HEAD

Overall Melbourne 79 wins Collingwood 145 wins 5 drawn

At the MCG Melbourne 59 wins Collingwood 78 wins 3 drawn

Last Five Meetings Melbourne 0 wins Collingwood 4 wins 1 drawn

The Coaches: Roos 0 wins Buckley 1 win

MEDIA

TV Channel 7 Fox Footy Channel (Live at 3.00pm)

Radio Triple M 3AW SEN ABC ABC Grandstand

THE BETTING

Melbourne $ 3.55 to win Collingwood $1.30 to win

LAST TIME THEY MET

Collingwood 8.13.61 defeated Melbourne 3.10.28 at MCG in Round 12, 2014

Melbourne lost by only 33 points but it was an excruciatingly painful game to watch. The Demons kicked a goal in the first minute and only two more for the afternoon in a defensive slog but were well in the game until late in the third quarter when an umpiring slip and some skill errors gave the Pies the upper hand. In spite of all that, honours for best on the ground went to Demon Bernie Vince.

TEAMS

MELBOURNE

B: Colin Garland, Tom McDonald, Jack Fitzpatrick
HB: Jeremy Howe, Lynden Dunn, Neville Jetta
C: Daniel Cross, Aaron vandenBerg, Heritier Lumumba
HF: Ben Newton, Cam Pedersen, Jack Viney
F: Jeff Garlett, Jesse Hogan, Aidan Riley
FOLL: Max Gawn, Nathan Jones, Bernie Vince
I/C (from): Angus Brayshaw, Jack Grimes, Matt Jones, Viv Michie, Jake Spencer, Jimmy Toumpas, Jack Watts

IN: Max Gawn, Viv Michie, Ben Newton, Aidan Riley

OUT: Rohan Bail (omitted)

COLLINGWOOD

B: Tom Langdon, Nathan Brown, Marley Williams
HB: Alan Toovey, Jack Frost, Tyson Goldsack
C: Travis Varcoe, Dane Swan, Paul Seedsman
HF: Jamie Elliott, Jesse White, Steele Sidebottom
F: Alex Fasolo, Travis Cloke, Jarryd Blair
FOLL: Brodie Grundy, Jack Crisp, Scott Pendlebury
I/C (from): Tim Broomhead, Jordan De Goey, Sam Dwyer, Ben Kennedy, Brayden Maynard, Adam Oxley, Jarrod Witts

IN: Tim Broomhead, Sam Dwyer, Ben Kennedy, Brayden Maynard

OUT: Taylor Adams (toe)

NEW: Brayden Maynard (18, Sandringham U18)

[ossie85]

A bit nervous about this game, still confident, but you never know.

Go the Pies

[Purple 77]

A bit nervous about this game, still confident, but you never know.

Go the Pies

8 years in a row. 8 DAMN YEARS I've copped it from you, but especially Dad.  >:(

No more. No, more. The Dees will get it done this time, and I'll be waiting to rub it in both ya damn faces  :P

[Barra13]

Personally, I reckon it could go wither way. Depends if it is the good or bad Collingwood, same for Melbourne, depends if the good or bad team shows up. Both teams fluctuate between playing really good footy or poor footy at times.

[T Dog]

Pies by a lot surely. Cloke will go HUGE   ;D

[ossie85]

Pies by a lot surely. Cloke will go HUGE   ;D

Cloke with have 8 shots at goal..... so... somewhere between 0 and 8 goals

[Purple 77]

Pies by a lot surely. Cloke will go HUGE   ;D

*ahem*


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[T Dog]

Pies by a lot surely. Cloke will go HUGE   ;D

*ahem*


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Is he playing on Cloke this week?   ::)

[Purple 77]

Pies by a lot surely. Cloke will go HUGE   ;D

*ahem*


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Is he playing on Cloke this week?   ::)

More in reference of "Pies by a lot surely" :P and that Hogan puts Cloke to shame  :P

But I'm sure he could if he wanted to, besides, TMac has got him covered anyway  ;)

[My Chumps]

Got a funny feeling you fellas might really take it up to the Pies today...

[ossie85]

Pies by a lot surely. Cloke will go HUGE   ;D

Cloke with have 8 shots at goal..... so... somewhere between 0 and 8 goals

Well I was wrong with Cloke...... only the 7 shots

Great entertaining football, Dees a lot of positives. Gave up a lot of stupid goals which they will improve at

[Big Mac]

Not sure whether to be happy or disgusted with that performance

Went from wanting to leave halfway through the 1st qtr to being very happy in the 2nd

Then you know what happened after that

Ended up leaving 10 mins early and beat the traffic so I guess that's one win

[Big Mac]

Also, why did we keep kicking it to the spare man?

Surely Roos would have realised that we needed to match Oxley up because our spare man was doing shower all

[Mailman the 2nd]

Some really bad errors cost them big time, like it wasn't even an accountability issue they were just awful. Couple of times they had Collingwood on the ropes and just threw it away with horrible handballs and short kicks to contests.

Other than that they played their strengths pretty well, had some nice conversion going forward as well

[Purple 77]

So many stupid skill errors that you just don't see from other teams.

Take those out; we were better than Collingwood today.

Which makes this the most frustrating match for me than that horrible Brisbane game last year.