THE PIE FULL TOWERS
Or to put it another way…….
MALTHOUSE CHARGED WITH CATTLE RUSLING
What is the difference between Collingwood and APEC?
Nothing, they both shut Sydney down!
Before the Round 21 clash this season, the Swans bully boy, Barry Hall, (how come football’s ‘tough guy’ never tries his heroics on Ant?) mouthed off about how much he and his salary cap advantaged Swans loved beating the Pies.
I’m surprised they can remember coz I can’t!
But I’m not here to dredge up the past.
So what if the traitor choked on his own treachery again.
He couldn’t get a kick on Route 66!
Nor am I here to bag the Collingwood heretics Lane, Walls and Voss – or as I like to think of them Ryobi, Bosch and Makita, top notch power tools.
Channel Ten really should splice and dice their commentary from Collingwood games into a feature length movie. They could call it ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
I’m not even here to slap my own back despite the fact that last week’s column was more on the money than a former Pie turned Demon blonde haired ruckman.
At Spud Central we like to look to the future and not dwell on the past.
And a young man by the name of Sean Rusling is clearly quite a big part of Collingwood’s exciting future.
It was at half time last Satdee night that it sunk in quicker than a German movie star’s Rolex - when was the last time a Collingwood finals campaign was blessed by the relatively late inclusion of a bona fide, genuine, real deal, A-grade, fully sick footballer?
Think about it.
The Balsa Boy has looked the goods in many of his games but they have been so few and far between opposition clubs have not had to worry about it.
Then, all of a sudden, BB ‘arrives’ smack bang on the eve of the finals and starts delivering quicker than a midwife!
In the blink of an eye the Pies forward line has been transformed!!!
And so too must the mindset of the oppo backmen and coaches.
It’s not often, as Collingwood supporters, that the cards fall our way entering the finals. But surely somebody must be smiling down upon us to have gifted us with such a class act as Rusling at this late stage of the caper.
As my learned colleague, Mikey Eyebrows, explained to me on Satdee night regarding all matters Rusling:
“If it looks like a star, walks like a star, runs like a star, marks like a star and smells like a star then it MUST be a star!”
And with Travis, the Lakeside Latin and Ruz all putting their hands up quicker than a Munich method actor how much must Medders be lovin’ it?
It’s no co-winky-dinks that he continues to improve with every outing. There is zero focus on Freo’s former goal sneaking goblin – which is also a hard fact to fathom.
Think about that also.
A high profile (if somewhat wayward) Freo forward crosses the border over summer as part of a trade involving THE BIGGEST club in football and a certain other high profile player and flies all season under the radar! Zero pressure. Zero expectations.
Like Casey Donovan’s music career, it’s unheard of!
If that doesn’t highlight the amount of raw talent the Pies have on tap these days I’m not sure what does.
Still, who am I to judge, I don’t work for Channel Ten…………yet.
Pies by 23 points.
Medders to kick 4 in a wonderful return to his old stomping ground.
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