Richmond vs Collingwood @ the MCG --- Round 20, 2024

[one-eyed]

Collingwood v Richmond Preview

Lachlan Geleit
SEN
25 July 2025

The reigning premiers against the likely wooden spooners.

If you were to predict how this game was going to go just a month ago, it’d be Collingwood by how much.

But with the Magpies losing their last four and most recently going down to Hawthorn by 66 points, who knows what to make of Craig McRae’s side?

Surely there’s just too much talent still in this Collingwood side to get the job done though, particularly against a Tigers side that’s won just twice in 2024 and has all of Josh Gibcus, Jack Graham, Dylan Grimes, Mykelti Lefau, Tom Lynch, Toby Nankervis, Jack Ross and Tylar Young out.

While the Pies also have their fair share of injuries, it just can’t be an excuse this week and they simply must win if they’re any chance of playing finals in 2024.

It’s genuinely a last chance saloon for the Pies here and a loss would absolutely be the final nail in their coffin.

While we’re not expecting Collingwood to get back to their best – given how far they are from it at the moment – they should just be too strong all over the park player-for-player.

Tip: Collingwood by 23 points.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/07/25/who-will-win-and-why-the-tips-and-predictions-for-afl-round-20/

[eliminator]

More likely we'll just play the Filth back into form...

Spot on. With team selections fear we are looking  at a trashing

[one-eyed]

Tigers’ burning question: Will they finish the season strongly?

Richmond have had an incredibly difficult 2024 campaign, the club having been plagued by injuries as it looks to rebuild a new era under coach Adem Yze. The Tigers were highly competitive on the road against Port Adelaide last week, trailing the Power by just eight points at three-quarter-time before Toby Nankervis’ concussion and Samson Ryan’s ankle issue saw the Tigers unable to compete at the coalface and therefore run over the top of. “We really want to finish the season off strongly and play with a lot of spirit,” Yze told reporters this week. “We don’t want to fall over the line, we want to break through that line.” The Tigers take on an under-fire Collingwood outfit this week before North Melbourne, St Kilda, Hawthorn and the Gold Coast on the run home. It’s been a bleak season at Punt Road, but given their recent success and continued grit and determination, supporters can’t be too disheartened.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/lions-poised-for-flag-tilt-dons-defence-woes-exposed-concerns-for-flag-frontrunners-blowtorch/news-story/79d34193c983a660ed9730e2c1f0d36e

[Chuck17]

Hopefully not

[Hard Roar Tiger]

#pickonegetitdone

[Simonator]

Samson is the most uncoordinated player I’ve ever seen

[Simonator]

Disgraceful effort by broad and trezise on the Hoskin Elliot goal.

[mightytiges]

Seriously the ARC is a load of crap with its 1980s blurry camera resolution  .

[Knighter]

Stupid goal umpire can stuff off

[Andyy]

How the F was that called a goal?

That's dead set cheating

[Buddysucks]

We really lack desperation all over the field. Easily bumped off the ball or out of the contest. Always outnumbered.

[pmac21]

Someone go near Nick Daicos FFS. 

[Simonator]

Seems like we are playing with Miller the only key defender. Why play balta forward and not bring blight in ? Baffling. We look like hot poo

[Buddysucks]

Not 1 defender flying to spoil!

[Buddysucks]

Stuff our defence is poo!