| 2019 AFL Round 4 COLLINGWOOD v FOOTSCRAY Time & Place: Friday April 12, 7:50pm MCG TV: Fox Footy 7:30pm Weather: Min 9 Max 23 Chance of rain 50%: <1mm Wind: NNW 10kph Betting: Collingwood $1.20 Footscray $4.25 |
COLLINGWOOD 3.1.19 6.3.39 7.6.48 11.10.76
GOALS - Collingwood: De Goey 3, Treloar 2, Beams, Cox, Mihocek, Elliott, Sidebottom, Thomas
BEST - Collingwood: Grundy, Adams, Sidebottom, De Goey, Treloar
INJURIES - Collingwood: Moore (ankle)
REPORTS - Collingwood: Nil
OFFICIAL CROWD - 60,878 at the MCG
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"It's been pretty consistent the way that they've beaten us - we get off to a good start, they grind their way back in and then grind us out. We were out-grunted after quarter-time. It's been a bit of a consistent theme so it's something that we haven't been able to remedy. Our game looked good, again, early but when the work rate went up and we needed to match that we weren't able to. ... It's not easy to acknowledge that because it's fairly fundamental to the game of footy. But I've got no doubts about our capacity to be able to respond to that." – Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley |
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Collingwood NewsFrom the outset, the bout appeared as though it would deliver upon its pre-game billing. Just as they had done barely six months ago, Collingwood and West Coast played as though they were the two best teams in the competition throughout an enthralling clash. The Pies, like they had done in the 2018 Grand Final, claimed an early advantage in large part through De Goey's excellence. His two early goals set up a 12-point quarter-time lead. But the Eagles, much like they had done last September, fought back valiantly. Gaff, Shuey and Sheed – for one reason or another the three most high-profile players featuring at the MCG – lifted to become the architects of a second-term revival. A handy half-time buffer, built after a six-goal-to-three second quarter, was stretched to a 20-point lead by the final change as the visitors continued to tighten their grip on the game. It came as the Eagles suffocated the Magpies with their defensive set-up. Fox Footy The controversial ‘contact below the knees’ rule has again reared its head, with a free kick costing Collingwood big-time in their clash with West Coast. Collingwood’s Tom Phillips was controversially penalised for a contact below the knees of West Coast’s Jamie Cripps in the second quarter of their clash at the MCG. Phillips had fumbled the ball and went to retrieve it, with Cripps falling over the top of the Pies midfielder. The Pies couldn’t believe it — to the point youngster Jaidyn Stephenson thought Phillips had received a free kick and threw the ball to his teammate, instead of Cripps. It resulted in an immediate 50-metre penalty, with Cripps slotting a goal from the subsequent set shot. The Age Although supply was not plentiful Jamie Elliott had little influence on the contest finishing with just one goal while Jordan DeGoey exploded from the blocks with two first quarter goals before playing cameos a long way from the goal face. Unfortunately for Jaidyn Stephenson not everything he touches this season is turning to goals and he messed up two goal scoring opportunities with poor decisions. NEWS.com.au AFL superstar Patrick Dangerfield led the outcry against an “absolute disgrace” from the umpires in the Magpies’ grand final re-match against the Eagles. West Coast added further insult to their grand final triumph by running over the top of Collingwood in a 15.8 (98) to 11.10 (76) win. The game reached fever-pitch after Collingwood’s Tom Phillips was penalised for sliding in at the knees of West Coast’s Jamie Cripps. Replays showed Phillips had his head over the ball and was the first man to the ball, while Cripps appeared to be sliding in with his legs. The decision to award Cripps a free-kick in the centre square was compounded by a controversial 50m free kick when a Collingwood player failed to return the ball to Cripps on the full — clearly confused whether Phillips or Cripps had been awarded the penalty. When Cripps kicked his third goal from the free kick, the Collingwood fans lost their marbles. “The Pies army, they’re going ballistic down here,” Channel 7’s Luke Darcy said. The free kick was heavily criticised by AFL commentators online, including Dangerfield, the AFL Players’ Association president. |
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