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Game Detail

Round: 8   Venue: M.C.G   Date: Fri, 18-05-2012 7:50 pm   Attendance: 75,650
Collingwood 3.6.24 7.9.51 10.11.71 14.12.96 C:
Geelong 2.4.16 6.6.42 7.12.54 11.18.84 C:
  CW by 8 CW by 9 CW by 17 CW by 12  
Brownlow Medal 3 Scott Pendlebury (CW)2 Joel Selwood (GE)1 Steele Sidebottom (CW)

Match Report

Grand Final rematches always have something extra to them, but this game proved to be something else. Collingwood lost three games in 2011 (all to Geelong) including the Grand Final, so this was always going to be fierce encounter. Although the Cats had great history over the Magpies, they still had plenty to prove after being smashed by Adelaide a week earlier. Many in the media questioned whether Geelong’s golden run had finally come to an end. It looked that way when Collingwood pulled away to a 24-point lead early in the last quarter. But the Cats wouldn’t go down without a fight. Cats star midfielders Jimmy Bartel and Joel Selwood were pivotal in the revival. Another Cats miracle looked likely when Matt Stokes leveled the scores with less than two minutes remaining. But a contentious umpiring decision to award Collingwood’s Alex Fasolo a 50-metre penalty gave the Magpies the lead that they never relinquished. Scott Pendlebury (30 possessions and four goals) was simply outstanding for Collingwood, playing a near-perfect game.

GOALS

Collingwood: Pendlebury 4, Fasolo 3, Goldsack, Cloke 2, Swan, Blair, Dawes

Geelong: Podsiadly, Duncan, Hawkins, Stokes 2, Motlop, Chapman, Stokes

BEST - 

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Collingwood: Pendlebury, Sidebottom, Wellingham, Shaw, Goldsack, Beams

Geelong: Selwood, Johnson, Taylor, Kelly, Enright, Bartel

BEST - THE AGE
Collingwood: Pendlebury, Sidebottom, Reid, Beams, Swan, Fasolo
Geelong: Selwood, Enright, Chapman, Bartel, Johnson, Taylor

COACHES COMMENTS
Nathan Buckley (Coll): You know how dangerous a side like Geelong can be when you turn the ball over in that part of the ground. They've got the width of the wings, they've got enough room between their own goals to find some depth as well.

Chris Scott (Geel): I don't think it's fair on the opposition to say that we should have won it, but we were supremely confident in the box and I think the boys were as well. It just didn't go our way. We lost the crucial contests at the wrong time. But I thought in that last quarter we just dominated. I mean, 23 inside 50s in a quarter of footy is a domination.

Umpires: Stevic, Meredith, Findlay


Match report by Oliver Caffrey

Player Stats

CollingwoodMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
17 Beams, Dayne 18 3 10 28 0 1 0 4 0 0 22y 96d 66 64
11 Blair, Jarryd 3 0 12 15 1 0 0 5 0 0 22y 34d 43 41
27 Buckley, Simon 3 2 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 25y 30d 39 8
9 Clarke, Martin 9 3 8 17 0 0 0 3 2 0 24y 187d 54 16
32 Cloke, Travis 13 6 2 15 2 1 0 2 1 2 25y 74d 157 243
31 Dawes, Chris 7 7 7 14 1 1 5 2 1 0 24y 2d 55 71
4 Didak, Alan 10 3 4 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 29y 93d 204 266
1 Fasolo, Alex 11 2 5 16 3 2 0 0 1 0 19y 345d 20 26
6 Goldsack, Tyson 6 5 7 13 2 0 0 3 1 2 24y 362d 77 15
18 Jolly, Darren 5 1 8 13 0 0 28 1 3 3 30y 194d 214 110
23 Keeffe, Lachlan 9 7 4 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 22y 34d 13 5
5 Maxwell, Nick 6 6 6 12 0 0 0 2 0 1 28y 350d 165 26
8 O'Brien, Harry 8 4 7 15 0 0 0 2 1 1 25y 185d 143 16
10 Pendlebury, Scott 16 3 14 30 4 0 0 6 0 0 24y 132d 135 90
20 Reid, Ben 12 6 3 15 0 0 1 3 1 2 23y 19d 59 5
39 Shaw, Heath 22 9 8 30 0 0 0 2 1 1 26y 173d 138 32
22 Sidebottom, Steele 22 9 16 38 0 1 0 3 1 0 21y 137d 69 60
28 Sinclair, Ben 9 2 7 16 0 1 0 4 0 1 20y 230d 12 7
36 Swan, Dane 15 2 12 27 1 1 0 4 0 1 28y 83d 183 141
13 Thomas, Dale 10 5 8 18 0 1 0 3 1 2 24y 332d 136 105
34 Toovey, Alan 7 5 5 12 0 0 0 3 0 0 25y 56d 95 8
21 Wellingham, Sharrod 9 7 11 20 0 1 0 3 0 1 23y 316d 78 46
Rushed           2              
Totals 230 97 168 398 14 12 34 55 14 18 24y 240d 2155 1401
GeelongMatch StatsCareer
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
3 Bartel, Jimmy 14 3 7 21 0 1 1 6 1 0 28y 166d 212 143
35 Chapman, Paul 15 3 9 24 1 2 0 3 1 0 30y 195d 230 297
11 Corey, Joel 7 1 17 24 0 1 0 5 0 2 30y 91d 242 72
22 Duncan, Mitch 9 4 5 14 2 0 0 5 0 0 20y 343d 37 39
44 Enright, Corey 15 6 10 25 0 0 0 3 0 0 30y 247d 230 51
29 Guthrie, Cameron 8 0 4 12 0 0 0 1 1 0 19y 273d 10 0
26 Hawkins, Tom 8 5 4 12 2 4 2 0 1 2 23y 296d 87 128
19 Hunt, Taylor 4 4 11 15 0 0 0 4 2 1 21y 195d 27 3
8 Hunt, Josh 11 6 4 15 0 0 0 4 1 0 30y 65d 173 22
20 Johnson, Steve 16 7 7 23 0 2 0 3 1 1 28y 319d 183 370
9 Kelly, James 11 5 15 26 0 1 0 9 0 1 28y 141d 200 76
13 Lonergan, Tom 6 2 3 9 0 0 0 4 0 0 28y 1d 82 44
4 MacKie, Andrew 18 5 4 22 0 0 0 2 1 1 27y 285d 158 71
32 Motlop, Steven 6 2 3 9 1 0 0 0 1 1 21y 67d 13 10
31 Podsiadly, James 8 5 2 10 2 3 2 2 1 1 30y 251d 50 120
14 Selwood, Joel 19 7 17 36 0 1 1 5 2 0 23y 358d 121 52
2 Smedts, Billie 3 0 2 5 0 0 0 3 0 2 19y 345d 6 1
23 Stephenson, Orren 6 5 6 12 0 1 17 3 2 0 29y 308d 3 0
27 Stokes, Mathew 12 4 7 19 3 0 0 0 1 0 27y 178d 116 170
41 Stringer, Jesse 3 3 4 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 21y 45d 5 2
7 Taylor, Harry 11 6 6 17 0 0 0 2 1 0 25y 341d 98 9
12 West, Trent 3 4 9 12 0 1 15 3 1 2 24y 214d 28 10
Rushed           1              
Totals 213 87 156 369 11 18 38 68 18 14 26y 32d 2311 1690