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Round: 3 Venue: M.C.G. Date: Sat, 05-04-2014 7:40 pm Crowd: 63,152 | |||||
Collingwood | 0.4.4 | 6.7.43 | 8.9.57 | 11.10.76 | C: Nathan Buckley |
Geelong | 3.5.23 | 6.7.43 | 9.12.66 | 12.15.87 | C: Chris Scott |
GEEL by 19 | Scores level | GEEL by 9 | GEEL by 11 |
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Brownlow Medal | 3 Mitch Duncan (GEEL) | 2 Joel Selwood (GEEL) | 1 Jamie Elliott (COLL) |
A highly entertaining Saturday night encounter at the MCG in front of 63,152 fans has seen Geelong hold off an impressive Collingwood outfit to record its third win of the season and take a stranglehold on a top four place. The Cats led for almost the entire match but the Magpies were never out of the hunt, and at times looked as though they might overrun the star-studded Geelong team.
The Cats made the early running as Collingwood struggled to find a goal in the first term. Geelong kicked three of its own to establish a comfortable 19-point lead at the first change. But a towering mark over Jimmy Bartel by Jamie Elliott, touted as an early nomination for Mark of the Year and subsequent goal at the five-minute mark of the second quarter sparked the Magpies into action. They kicked the next two to draw within a point and match became an even affair from that moment. By half time, scores were level at 43 apiece.
Andrew Mackie and Tom Hawkins kicked the first two majors of the second half and the Cats were able to more or less manage that buffer for the remainder of the match. The rest of the second half was a very even affair, with Collingwood kicking five goals to Geelong's four, with the Cats eventually holding on for a nine point win.
Though the Magpies are sitting in 13th place on the ladder, they look a clearly better side than that. Their tough opening three matches have seen them lose badly to Fremantle, defeat the highly rated Sydney and push the undefeated Geelong to the limit. Notwithstanding that, the Pies will need to put some wins on the board over the next month as they take on Richmond, North Melbourne, Essendon and Carlton.
Third on the ladder and undefeated, Geelong will face some tough tests of its ow in the same period. The Cats will take on top side West Coast at home next Saturday night before meeting Hawthorn at the MCG, Port Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval and Richmond back at the MCG.
GOALS
Collingwood: Elliott 5, White 2, Blair, Toovey, Goldsack, Sidebottom
Geelong: Hawkins 4, Varcoe, Horlin-Smith, Murdoch, Johnson, Guthrie, Stokes, Mackie, McIntosh
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Collingwood: Elliott, Beams, Sidebottom, Macaffer, Maxwell, Lumumba
Geelong: Selwood, Kelly, Lonergan, Hawkins, Guthrie, Stokes
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Collingwood: Elliott, Sidebottom, Beams, Pendlebury, Macaffer, Young, Lumamba
Geelong: Selwood, Hawkins, Lonergan, Bartel, Stokes, Duncan, Kelly
INJURIES
Collingwood: Dwyer (lower leg)
Geelong: Enright (ankle) and McCarthy (team balance) replaced in selected side by Sheringham and Simpson; Varcoe (head)
SUBSTITUTES
Collingwood: Taylor Adams replaced Sam Dwyer in the third quarter
Geelong: Mark Blicavs replaced Mitch Brown in the third quarter
UMPIRES: Donlon, Hay, McInerney
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Seven Network
COMMENTATORS: Brian Taylor, Luke Darcy, Matthew Richardson, Cameron Ling
Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.
Collingwood | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
13 | Adams, Taylor | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 20y 197d | 34 | 12 |
12 | Ball, Luke | 10 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 29y 315d | 209 | 85 |
17 | Beams, Dayne | 15 | 2 | 13 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 24y 52d | 94 | 96 |
11 | Blair, Jarryd | 5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 23y 356d | 83 | 65 |
32 | Cloke, Travis | 5 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27y 31d | 199 | 353 |
2 | Dwyer, Sam | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 27y 219d | 23 | 15 |
19 | Elliott, Jamie | 12 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21y 227d | 38 | 45 |
1 | Fasolo, Alex | 13 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 21y 301d | 41 | 45 |
45 | Frost, Jack | 7 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22y 39d | 5 | 0 |
6 | Goldsack, Tyson | 9 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26y 318d | 107 | 40 |
4 | Grundy, Brodie | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 19y 355d | 10 | 1 |
23 | Keeffe, Lachie | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 23y 356d | 23 | 6 |
41 | Langdon, Tom | 11 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19y 300d | 3 | 0 |
8 | Lumumba, Heritier | 13 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 27y 141d | 181 | 25 |
3 | Macaffer, Brent | 8 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26y 35d | 55 | 29 |
5 | Maxwell, Nick | 11 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 30y 306d | 201 | 29 |
10 | Pendlebury, Scott | 15 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 26y 88d | 174 | 115 |
22 | Sidebottom, Steele | 21 | 5 | 8 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23y 93d | 111 | 86 |
36 | Swan, Dane | 18 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 30y 39d | 222 | 181 |
34 | Toovey, Alan | 8 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27y 13d | 117 | 9 |
18 | White, Jesse | 11 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26y 86d | 73 | 75 |
14 | Young, Clinton | 14 | 10 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28y 48d | 121 | 62 |
Rushed | 4 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 220 | 101 | 122 | 342 | 11 | 10 | 31 | 55 | 14 | 15 | 25y 78d | 2124 | 1374 |
Geelong | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
3 | Bartel, Jimmy | 17 | 5 | 10 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 30y 122d | 252 | 170 |
46 | Blicavs, Mark | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23y 8d | 25 | 7 |
1 | Brown, Mitch | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23y 220d | 13 | 8 |
31 | Burbury, George | 7 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21y 293d | 3 | 2 |
23 | Caddy, Josh | 8 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21y 189d | 45 | 29 |
22 | Duncan, Mitch | 17 | 6 | 13 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22y 299d | 79 | 66 |
29 | Guthrie, Cameron | 8 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21y 229d | 43 | 7 |
26 | Hawkins, Tom | 9 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25y 258d | 126 | 225 |
33 | Horlin-Smith, George | 10 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21y 104d | 13 | 8 |
20 | Johnson, Steve | 10 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 30y 275d | 218 | 407 |
9 | Kelly, James | 15 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 30y 97d | 236 | 87 |
13 | Lonergan, Tom | 8 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29y 323d | 125 | 51 |
4 | Mackie, Andrew | 15 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 29y 241d | 201 | 86 |
17 | McIntosh, Hamish | 10 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 29y 213d | 110 | 61 |
21 | Murdoch, Jordan | 7 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22y 13d | 22 | 19 |
25 | Rivers, Jared | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 29y 169d | 162 | 18 |
14 | Selwood, Joel | 8 | 2 | 22 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 25y 314d | 163 | 94 |
38 | Sheringham, Jackson | 7 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25y 287d | 6 | 1 |
16 | Simpson, Dawson | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 25y 47d | 14 | 2 |
27 | Stokes, Mathew | 19 | 5 | 10 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29y 134d | 158 | 194 |
7 | Taylor, Harry | 10 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 27y 297d | 139 | 38 |
5 | Varcoe, Travis | 5 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25y 360d | 118 | 124 |
Rushed | 2 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 206 | 93 | 165 | 371 | 12 | 15 | 34 | 65 | 15 | 14 | 26y 21d | 2271 | 1704 |