AFL 2021 Round 20: Collingwood 90 West Coast 45

AFL 2021 ROUND 21 COLLINGWOOD v HAWTHORN Time & Place: Sunday August 8, 2:10pm AEST University of Tasmania Stadium, Launceston TV: Fox Sports Weather: Min 3 Max 14 Chance of rain:7% 0.0mm Wind: WNW 28kph Betting: Collingwood TBC Hawthorn TBC

COLLINGWOOD   4.1.25   10.1.61   11.4.70   14.6.90
WEST COAST        0.4.4      1.5.11     2.7.19     6.9.45

GOALS - Collingwood: Elliott 2, Mihocek 2, Bianco 2, Hoskin-Elliott, Sidebottom, Ginnivan, Cameron, Thomas, Grundy, Quaynor, Noble

BEST - Collingwood: Sidebottom, De Goey, Crisp, Grundy, Maynard

INJURIES - Collingwood: Nil

SUBSTITUTES - Collingwood: Nathan Murphy (unused)

REPORTS - Collingwood: Nil

OFFICIAL CROWD - 0 at the MCG

Media Clippings Herald Sun Collingwood gave its fans a delicious taste of the future and West Coast an anxious next three weeks on the back of a 45-point smashing. The Pies’ faster and braver ball use under Robert Harvey was on full show, owning the corridor and opening up their forward 50, taking 18 marks inside 50. Collingwood was able to control the ball and showed West Coast up with its superior work rate around the ground on their way to 155 uncontested marks. ... Collingwood got their customary jump on the Eagles in the first quarter on the back of brave and precise ball movement. The Pies looked inside whenever they could, but importantly didn’t use the corridor for the sake of it. Stand-in skipper Steele Sidebottom, Jamie Elliott, Will Hoskin-Elliott kicked goals before Jack Ginnivan nailed a 50-metre bomb for the first goals of his career to give Collingwood a 21-point quarter-time lead. If Pies supporters thought they were in dreamland in the first quarter they hadn’t seen anything yet. Collingwood played its best footy of the season during a six goal to one second term.  Fox Sports Collingwood has delivered a mightily comprehensive win against the odds, upsetting a horrendously poor West Coast side to place further doubts on the Eagles’ finals credentials. In a remarkable result, the young Magpies kicked the first eight goals of the game and took a whopping 155 uncontested marks to West Coast’s 93 to obliterate Adam Simpson’s side. Despite four late goals to the Eagles, the Magpies were never fazed as they ran out 45-point winners, 14.6 (90) to 6.9 (45). ...  As bad as the Eagles were, this was arguably the most thrilling Collingwood performance of 2021 so far. We’d seen glimpses in recent weeks of a new, faster style under caretaker coach Robert Harvey. On Saturday afternoon, Pies fans saw it for four quarters – and it was brilliant. Yes West Coast’s pressure was deplorable and allowed the Pies to play with great freedom. But with ball in hand, the Pies played with terrific dash and dare, which translated onto the scoreboard. The Age Collingwood have torn apart West Coast at the MCG, kicking 10 goals to one in the opening half to embarrass the Eagles once again away from home in a performance by the visitors that lacked care and effort. The Magpies did everything that the Eagles did not, putting pressure on the opposition when they didn’t have the ball and moving the ball quickly with sharp kicks and handballs when they did win possession, ending with 12 individual goalkickers in the 45-point win. It was a result that would make candidates for the Magpies’ coaching job double down on their efforts to win the vacant post. The half-time margin was an indictment on the Eagles as it was premiership skipper Shannon Hurn’s 300th game – the first Eagle to reach the milestone – but it was not out of character given their 90 point-plus defeats against Geelong and Sydney earlier in the year. This time Collingwood scored 90 points to double the Eagles’ final score. AFL COLLINGWOOD has delivered a stunning blow to West Coast’s finals hopes with an incredible 45-point victory at the MCG on Saturday. In premiership captain Shannon Hurn’s 300th game, the Eagles barely offered a yelp, conceding the first eight goals of the game before eventually going down 14.6 (90) to 6.9 (45). Acting captain Steele Sidebottom led from the front with 33 disposals and a goal, while Jordan De Goey also impressed with 34 touches and a game-high 518 metres gained.