The following post contains a club by club list of every player who has been delisted or has retired in season 2012.
This list will be updated daily.
Update: We have also included free agents which have advised their club they are leaving as per Dave’s suggestion below.
Ruckmen are the most boring part of SuperCoach, where almost everyone has the same players; so I have tried to cover a few different players. Get on McEvoy!!!
Today as expected, saw Gold Coast use the day to tie up the last remaining uncontracted players available given that it was deadline day for them.
As a result, Jared Brennan and Josh Fraser are now Gold Coast Suns players whilst Andrew Krakouer has joined the Premiers and Freo are hoping to strike more gold through the VFL with the pick-up of fullback Peter Faulks. (more…)
SportsBet Odds: $1.31 vs. $3.50
6th vs. 13th
These two teams have had complete opposite starts to the season, with the Pies entering the match with a 3-1 record and the Bombers with a 1-3 record. This young Essendon side should have some big inclusions, and they are known to lift for big matches so this could be a closer encounter than people realise. Collingwood have had accuracy issues over the past couple of weeks, and it caused their only loss (to St Kilda) when the scoreboard pressure was squandered and the Saints surged in the last quarter. Essendon has lost three games. One against Geelong in round one where the Cats surged in the last quarter and the Bombers dropped off, the next a week later against a reborn Fremantle side (the first time Fremantle have beaten Essendon in Melbourne in 12 years), and the last against West Coast last week to give the Eagles their first win of the season. (more…)
Today, the Collingwood Football Club announced their new extended sponsorship deal with Emirates and revealed changes to their leadership group. (more…)
Collingwood players, coaching and fitness staff departed Melbourne on Monday on route to Arizona (for the third consecutive year) for an intense and high altitude camp, but this time not all the Pies players are to be in attendance for the camp.
This year only about 20 players flew over to the Flagstaff training base for some intense training for their pre-season campaign. That leaves about 12 or so players that will be staying put in Melbourne. They will continue to train with coaches, fitness staff/trainers that also remained in Australia. The club believes that some players are better off staying in Melbourne for technical reasons, to work on skills or to recover from surgeries. Some players that stayed in Melbourne include: Josh Fraser, John Anthony and Paul Medhurst.
It was believed that Fraser, Medhurst and Anthony are training under modified programs to assist them with recovery from injuries they sustained during the 2009 season or surgeries they underwent post season.
Many of the Pies young players have also remained in Melbourne, and will be joined by the Pies new recruits following the NAB AFL Draft coming up this Thursday.
The Pies Arizona trip involves intense and high altitude training programs including hikes and weight training 2-3 times a day.
The team that travelled to Arizona will be returning to Melbourne on December 9th.
Collingwood- 13. 19 (97)
Sydney- 8.8 (56)
In a contested match at the MCG this afternoon Collingwood has prevailed over the Sydney Swans by 41 points. It was a very slow start for both teams, with only 2 goals kicked in the first quarter to Collingwood to the Swans 4 behinds. Even by half time, nothing much had happened and it was a low scoring match, where the winner was difficult to pick.
Big Moment
Collingwood seemed to turn it on after half time and finally put their foot on the pedal. They kicked 5 goals to 2 in the third quarter (three of them being consecutive) and lead by 30 points leading into the last quarter.
Key Players for Collingwood
Dayne Beams – Played his second consecutive outstanding match for the year. He collected equal game high 24 disposals, had 5 uncontested marks and laid 4 tackles. He finished that match with equal most number of contested possessions (10) and the most clearances (6). Outside rising star chance, behind Daniel Rich?
John Anthony – Had a solid match up forward for the Pies kicking 4 goals on Craig Bolton, including the first goal of the match. He collected 15 disposals, took 6 marks and laid 4 tackles.
Key Players for Sydney
Adam Goodes – Started with Prestigiacomo on him and got O’Brien at centre half forward. Had an equal game high 24 disposals (a game high 20 uncontested) and equal game high 17 kicks. He was the Swans only multiple goal kicker, kicking 3.1 from 11 marks (all uncontested).
Darren Jolly – Was the best of the big men in the middle. He had 32 hit outs against Josh Fraser (7) and Cameron Wood (17). On top of that he had 13 possessions and equal game high 10 contested possessions and 5 clearances.
Musings from the Match
• Collingwood and Sydney are 1st and 2nd for the amount of interchanges for the year. In the first 6 minutes of the match, both teams had 14 interchanges a piece. Meaning 6 minutes into the match a total of 28 interchanges had been made.
• Collingwood were wearing black armbands out of respect for Mick Malthouse’s mother who passed away on Monday.
• The Swans were held goaless in the first quarter only kicking 4 behinds.
• Jarred Moore copped a knee to the ribs in the second quarter which looked bad. He was taken to the hospital and did not participate in the remainder of the match.
• The Sydney Swans 2009 finals aspirations are now officially over, there is no way they can sneak into the finals.
• This match was Rhyce Shaw’s first match against his old side Collingwood on their home turf, the MCG.
• Rhyce Shaw had the tagging job on Collingwood ball magnet Dane Swan and was all over him in the first quarter only letting Swan have the one kick. In the second quarter Swan collected 9 possessions, and seemed to be more involved in the match. But even so, and even though he collected 22 possessions by the end of the match he was not his usual self and not as instrumental and influential as he has been. No Brownlow votes for this match.
• Both teams seemed to have a lot of run in them and a lot of bounces. The Swans had 20bounces (lead by Matthew O’Dwyer with 9 and Rhyce Shaw with 5). The Pies had 39 bounces (lead by Heath Shaw with 19).
• It seems the bounce while running runs in the Shaw family. Rhyce Shaw and Heath Shaw had a total of 24 bounces today and are the leading ball bouncers in the completion. Rhyce as number 1 and Heath as number 2.
• Collingwood only had 9 more disposals than Sydney.
• The Pies had 28 more inside 50s than the Swans; 61-33, but the Swans had more rebound 50s; 42-22.
• The Pies had 12 more marks inside 50.
• The Swans lead by Darren Jolly dominated the hit outs 40 to 26.
• The Pies had more contested possessions but the Swans had more uncontested possessions.
• The Swans were able to shut down the Pies big ball winners in Davis, Pendlebury, Didak and Swan. Yet still managed to lose by over 40 points. What does this say about the Pies? It says that they play as a team and allow contributions from all players and do not solely depend upon only a few players to make their play.
• Collingwood has now won 12 out of their last 13 matches
SuperCoach News
If you stuck with Josh Fraser through his 5 weeks off with injury. You would be relatively happy with his results scoring 96pts.
Both Dane Swan and Alan Didak scored under average point this week, scoring 90pts and 65pts respectively. If you had Swan as your captain this week, you would have felt a tiny bit let down this week, especially because it is his first under 100pts in 12 weeks.
The high scorers this week for the Pies were Dayne Beams (115pts), Leon Davis (115pts), John Anthony (123) and Nick Maxwell (112pts).
For the Swans, Adam Goodes had the highest score, scoring 107pts. He was followed by Lewis Roberts-Thompson scoring 106pts, Heath Grundy scoring 105pts and Paul Bevan scoring 101pts.
Western Bulldogs – 16.14 (100)
Collingwood – 17.9 (111)
Musings from the match
Supercoach news
Collingwood – 15.12 (102)
Essendon – 9.13 (67)
Collingwood have won their 6th game in a row on Friday night against a disappointing Essendon side. The Pies outclassed the Bombers for one quarter and that proved the difference as they ran out 35 point victors. It was a hard fought game for the first, third and fourth quarters but the Pies kicked 7 goals to 1 in the second quarter and that proved the difference. The Bombers were wasteful in the first quarter and would have felt their 2 point lead should have been 3 goals having missed some golden opportunities.
Big Moment Dale Thomas’ goal in the third quarter was a stunner. Soccered off the ground out of Fletchers gadget hands and through the big posts. Key Players for Collingwood Alan Didak – Yet another outstanding performance with 35 possessions. It looks like he has hit some fantastic form that is here to stay. Travis Cloke – 19 disposals, 9 marks and 4.2 for the night showed he has found some rare form after following up last weeks decent effort. Josh Fraser – Dominated the ruck with 35 hit outs, 15 more than the Bombers entire team. Also picked up 23 disposals and chipped in with 1.1, his goal was a brilliant snap after taking the ball out of the ruck. Key Players for Essendon Brent Prismall – He looks settled in the Bombers midfield now and is just getting better. He collected 28 disposals, 8 of those contested, 5 marks and 5 tackles. Scott Lucas – Has kicked a few in each of his games since returning to the side and was the Bombers top goal scorer with 3.1. He also worked hard up the ground gathering 18 disposals, 6 of those were contested. Adam McPhee – Played pretty well down back, despite Cloke getting on top of him. 29 disposals was the Bombers highest. Musings from the match · 13-2 hit outs to advantage in favour of the Pies. · The umpiring in the second quarter was a little suspect, especially when Leon Davis clearly threw the ball out of a pack with one hand eventually resulting in a Pies goal. · The Bombers were a little unlucky in the third. They had much of the run but the Pies were able to pull goals out of nowhere to keep the Dons out of it. · It was a disappointing game to watch for Bombers supporters after their stunning performance last week against the Blues. · The Pies have now won 6 in a row, only the second time that has happened under the Malthouse regime. Supercoach news Josh Fraser, Travis Cloke and Alan Didak all scored over 130 points this week. Don’t get on the Cloke bandwagon yet though, he is known to be inconsistant. The Didak ship has already sailed with him getting really expensive now. Fraser has been consistant for most of the year so if you need a ruckman he might be good. Dayne Beams got 94 last week and 97 this week. His price is sure to rise so those who have had him since the start will be licking their lips. Those who got on the Scott Lucas bandwagon will be happy with his return. I know I’m content. Look into getting Brent Prismall also, I almost already did but went for Andrew Welsh instead… Broke my rule of not picking up a tagger and it didn’t pay off.
