The Collective Spirit

Sonny Walters and Alex Pearce will proudly represent the collective this Sunday against Collingwood on Sir Doug Nicholls round. Time to Restump Podcast preview the clash.We need after a response to last week. Collingwood won’t be a pushover but if we get back to playing our brand, it should hold us in good stead.If we’re any chance of a top 4 finish, we have to bank 4 points here. You need about 15 wins a season to make the top 4. We’ve got 13 games left meaning we need to win 8 of them. We’ve got Melbourne twice, Brisbane & Carlton to come, so 4 of those 13 games are against current top 3 sides. A further 3 are against current top 8 sides…. which means 7 of our remaining 13 games are against top 8 sides. It’s a tough run home which makes Sunday’s game vital.  We look at the changes and somewhat scratch our heads in bewilderment over Brandon Walker’s omission. The selection panel obviously knows more than us and sees things we may not. Good to have Sonny, Switta & Tabs back though. You never want to hear “put off contract talks” but Griff Logue has done just that. Sounds more agent inspired but we’ll inevitably have to have the conversation. We momentarily deal in hypotheticals about what could unfold.Fyfey has Rd12 in his sights and despite the Malthouse madness, he’ll be a welcome return. Connor Blakely looks done and dusted in the purple so we’re looking to support his new venture, Blakely’s Backyards. James Clement cops a “what the hell, Jimmy!” He passed up the invitation to hop on the Restump for a chat…. and, to be fair, who could blame him… but he then accepted the invite onto the Collingwood fan pod, Pie Hard. We don’t want to exaggerate but is treasonous too strong a term?And, no you don’t escape it, we bring it home with another episode of the Neighbourhood Watch segment. So, if you’ve gorged yourself all your listening content, enjoyed a second course of filling noise and you still haven’t had sufficient…. click play for this purple listening snack to tide you over.  Send us Fan MailSupport the show