| 2019 AFL Round 18 COLLINGWOOD v GWS Time & Place: Saturday July 20, 4:35pm AEST Sydney Showground TV: 7mate / Fox Footy 4:30pm AEST Weather: Min 8 Max 18 Chance of rain: 0% 0mm Wind: WNW 7kph Betting: Collingwood $2.20 GWS $1.64 |
WEST COAST 6.3.39 10.4.64 12.4.76 12.5.77
GOALS - Collingwood: Mihocek 4, Cox 3, De Goey 2, Phillips 2
BEST - Collingwood: Mihocek, De Goey, Treloar, Sidebottom, Pendlebury, Crisp, Phillips
INJURIES - Collingwood: Moore (hamstring)
REPORTS - Collingwood: Nil
OFFICIAL CROWD - 56,251 at Perth Stadium
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"Footy's a hard caper. The scrutiny is quite intense, but we got back to a mentality that was working for each other and having a selfless attitude. We did OK in the early stages of the game, but as the game wore on we were able to find our mojo and really enforce ourselves in a manner we haven't been able to against West Coast as games have progressed over the last 18 months. That was encouraging. ... The competition's pretty fierce. There's an evenness to it that we haven't seen for a while. I think at times even I have discredited some of our wins against some pretty good opposition in retrospect. But it was an important one for us, just for our mentality and for our progress through the season. The ladder will look after itself, but this was a good one to win." – Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley |
Media Clippings
Fox FootyEleven minutes into the third term, fans were asking: “West Coast by how much?” Cue a stunning, unexpected 45-minute period of dominance that sparked Collingwood’s most significant win of 2019 yet. In one of the games of the season, the Magpies overcame an 18-point margin to upset the highly-fancied Eagles by one point, 11.12 (78) to 12.5 (77), in a brave and brilliant performance. Concerning signs over the past two weeks threatened to derail Collingwood’s season after losses to North Melbourne and Hawthorn. And then it lost defender Darcy Moore to a hamstring injury in the opening term. Instead, the Pies persevered under enormous pressure and delivered a stunning win in front a parochial West Coast home crowd to revive their top-two hopes. AFL THE SCENES in Collingwood's coaches box as the final siren sounded said it all. Backs were slapped, high fives thrown around like confetti and a celebratory hug between Nathan Buckley and close mate Brenton Sanderson showed just how big that one-point win was. Some games mean more than others, and after losing four on the trot to West Coast the visitors had to find a way past their nemesis to keep their season from slipping towards crisis mode. The Magpies have made a habit of performing on the road under pressure and Friday night's triumph with their backs to the wall will go down as one of their best in recent memory. Collingwood News Collingwood has rediscovered its mojo. After successive losses – and an uninspiring victory over the Western Bulldogs that perhaps drew as much criticism as the defeats – the Pies are back in their coach's good books. A thrilling one-point victory over reigning premiers West Coast on Friday night is just what Nathan Buckley has been searching for from his side over the last month. Collingwood was gritty, bold and held its nerve late, overturning a significant 16-point deficit at three-quarter time to storm home at Optus Stadium and claim a vital victory. Having publicly questioned his charges in recent weeks, the Magpies coach was more than happy to hand out the plaudits for his side's work ethic and desperation on the road. The Age Just when Collingwood was threatening to blow a promising start to the season and become irrelevant in 2019, they find a way to beat the reigning premiers on the road. The Magpies turned around a two-game losing streak and an 18-point deficit against West Coast to win a thriller by one point at Optus Stadium and return to second spot on the ladder. Trailing by 16 points at the final change, the Magpies dominated the final term after they had struggled to kick goals in the second and third terms. But when Ben Crocker kicked a point with seven minutes remaining, it was the first time the Pies had led since the opening term. They held on to win 11.12 (78) to 12.5 (77), keeping West Coast to just one behind from the 11-minute mark of the third term to the final siren. Herald Sun The last term was sheer mayhem as the Pies chose the hard road over the free-scoring one. They surged and surged but couldn’t score. West Coast couldn’t clear the ball from their defensive 50. Mihocek, the game’s best forward, gave his team a sniff with a strong mark at the front of a huge pack to drag the margin back to seven points. It took a surgical piece of Jordan De Goey brilliance — a banana from the pocket, to put them one point back and then it was a matter of centimetres and a matter of points. Ben Crocker managed one, Grundy managed one. The Pies won by one. |
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