| 2019 AFL Round 6 COLLINGWOOD v ESSENDON Time & Place: Thursday April 25, 3:20pm MCG TV: 7mate / Fox Footy 3:00pm Weather: Min 9 Max 20 Chance of rain 0% Wind: W 11kph Betting: Collingwood $1.44 Essendon $2.67 |
BRISBANE 3.2.20 5.6.36 7.9.51 8.13.61
GOALS - Collingwood: Mihocek 4, de Goey 3, Cox 2, Stephenson 2, Elliott 2, Thomas 2, Brown 2, Beams
BEST - Collingwood: Treloar, Mihocek, Grundy, Stephenson, Crisp, Beams, Phillips
INJURIES - Collingwood: Aish (concussion)
REPORTS - Collingwood: Nil
OFFICIAL CROWD - 34,017 at the Gabba
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"There is an argument, clearly, that is through the competition at the moment about taggers and the effectiveness of them. We have a couple of 'go-to' guys that can do the job for us when we feel we need it, but we also need to explore our capacity to be able to have a balanced midfield that's able to defend as well as attack. Sometimes, the names that we have used [aren't] associated with defensive roles. 'Pendles' (Scott Pendlebury), Taylor Adams, Adam Treloar, James Aish, Chris Mayne, Levi Greenwood – to name a few – will have defensive roles at times, but I thought largely we were able to hunt the ball really well and impose our brand of footy, which is largely going to be our focus. We're going to come up against teams that are going to have high-disposal or high-effect midfielders and you have to work out how to quell them without losing your own integrity, and half the time that's just playing your brand better." – Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley |
Media Clippings
Fox FootyAccording to Champion Data, you only win 20 per cent of matches when trailing by 12 plus points at quarter time. And the Lions yet again attempted to defy the odds conceding 47 points in the first term, as they could just muster 20 points of their own. ... The Magpies put through three of the first four goals in an action-packed term where the ball was blasted end from end. But it was the Pies who led at the first siren with seven goals to three. The home crowd might’ve been full of voice, but it was the Magpies’ unstoppable aerial presence that caused the most damage. By three-quarter time, the Pies had recorded the most marks inside 50 ever (21), with the Lions having no match for Collingwood’s medium forwards. Jordan De Goey, Jamie Elliott and Jaidyn Stephenson combined for seven goals, with the 2018 Rising Star returning to form after a mixed-bag of form this season. Collingwood News An eight-goal third-term bonanza from Collingwood saw it coast to a 62-point win over a disappointing Brisbane. Led by four goals from Brodie Mihocek, the Magpies outplayed the Lions in nearly every facet of the game in the 18.15 (123) to 8.13 (61) victory at the Gabba on Easter Thursday. ... The Magpies burst out of the blocks on a dewy night, piling on seven goals to record the highest first quarter score (47 points) of any team this year. ... The Lions struggled to clear the ball from their defensive half in the first term, with the Pies’ strong rebounders Tom Langdon, Tom Phillips and Jack Crisp influential, while Adam Treloar commanded the middle. Treloar (36 touches, eight marks, five inside-50s) set the tone for the match, providing strong overlap run, creating space for his teammates and forcing his forwards to lead to space with well-placed kicks. The Age You have to go back to 2010, the year of The Fev, to find the last time the Brisbane Lions sold out the Gabba. That was in round two, when Brendan Fevola faced off against his old team, the Blues. The nine years that have followed have been utterly benighted for both clubs. But it’s all so much water under the bridge now. A Collingwood game always brings noise, and the fans. And this time there was a different twist, with Dayne Beams back at the Gabba for the first time since returning to the Magpies, the club with whom he played 110 games before heading north on family grounds. Beams, of course, was lustily booed by the home crowd. So were the umpires, with free kicks heavily tilted the visitors’ way in the first half. But Lions fans can’t blame either for the result. The Magpies were far too good, blasting the game open with a seven-goal first term, and piling on eight in the third to ensure the result. As exciting as the Lions have been early this season, the longer this game went, the more exposed they looked against a side with many more weapons at their disposal. ABC News Brisbane's bubble has been burst in a 62-point hiding, as Collingwood put on a clinic in the Gabba's first AFL sell-out since 2010. The 18.15 (123) to 8.13 (61) defeat was a reality check for the Lions, who were a step off the pace against a Magpies unit that looks to have found their rhythm after a patchy opening month. Brisbane's biggest AFL match in nearly a decade did not start as planned for the hosts, with Collingwood's 47 points its best first-term return against the Lions. It only got worse for Chris Fagan's troops, as the visitor's 51-point third term became the highest-scoring in history at the Gabba. AFL Following four rounds punctuated by stodgy ball movement and difficulty scoring, Collingwood broke the shackles on Thursday night. The 62-point trouncing of shell-shocked Brisbane in front of a packed Gabba was more like the free-flowing Magpies that stormed to within a kick of a premiership in 2018. And it reminded the competition they would again be a premiership favourite in 2019. Collingwood completely dominated Brisbane's up-and-coming midfield and their forward line ran amok. Disposals (+55), inside 50s (+20) and contested possessions (+16) were all one-sided, but the most jaw-dropping number was the marks inside 50. Collingwood had a whopping 25 – easily the most of any team in the AFL this season. |
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