Paul Robinson is one of the men behind the cult social media channels 'The Carlton Draft' and 'The Ressies Footballer'.
His Black and White passion is unquestionable, and the views represented in this article are solely his own and not representative of the Collingwood Football Club.
Be still my beating heart. Is it true? Is Josh Daicos finally in?
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of church bells ringing and fans rushing to their computers to buy tickets… The Son of God is here!
Finally.
After weeks and weeks of me tweeting Nathan Buckley and the club account begging to see my dream centre-half-forward line, the selection committee has responded.
Daicos, Moore, Brown.
It’s the stuff that dreams are made of.
The only way the side could be any better this week is if the children of Ben Kinnear, Chris Egan and Craig Jacotine were named on the back flank line.
Wouldn’t that be a day to remember.
Luke Darcy feels the full force of Ben Kinnear in 2001. Image: AFL Photos.
The dads of Josh, Darcy and Callum accomplished a fair bit for Collingwood during the 1970s, 80s and 90s. In fact a combination of their achievements reads…
- 676 games for Collingwood
- 937 goals for Collingwood
- Seven Collingwood Best and Fairest awards
- Seven leading goal kickers
- 13 goals kicked on John Gastev
- Two Brownlow Medals
- One spot in the Collingwood Team of the Century
- One spot in the Greek AFL Team of the Century.
The list is pretty impressive. Especially if you consider the fact that Peter Moore isn’t even Greek!
Happy dads. Peter Daicos and Gavin Brown have passed extremely good genes onto their respective sons. Image: AFL Photos.
Okay, touchy-feely stuff out of the way now, bring on the Cats!
Our record against Geelong speaks for itself. The last time we lost to the mob from down the highway, Sam Newman was playing U/9’s footy. So don’t be too concerned by their impressive ladder position in 2017.
I’m not sure how I feel about the club gifting SoG (Son of God) a walk-in-the-park, guaranteed win first up. Is it arrogant? Or is it a good way to ease him in to his 250-game career?
We need to remember its just young Daics’ first game. He is human after all, so don’t expect anything massive straight away.
I’m predicting a quiet first five minutes before he slowly works into the game and falls just shy of his Dad’s 13-goal haul against the Brisbane Bears in ’91.
Okay, so finals is now impossible and we have just fallen short of the undefeated season I predicted.
Sad yes, but a redeeming feature doesn’t come much better than smashing the Cats twice in one season. Let’s be a part of history and contribute as one of the reasons they don’t finish top four.
I’ve already predicted SoG to kick twelve, and with Moore, Steele Sidebottom and Ben Reid kicking another 10 between them, we’re going to be bloody hard to stop. 
