Collingwood – 17.12 (114)
Port Adelaide –11.10 (76)
Collingwood ran out dominant victors against Port Adelaide at the MCG on Sunday night by 38 points. The Pies trailed for the majority of the first half, before a burst in the opening 20 minutes of the second half of the match saw them kick 7 goals, 2 behinds to 0 goals, 1 behind.
Turning points of the match
The Pies were down at quarter time by 13 points, then at half time by one goal. But some brilliance in the third quarter brought the Pies back into the match and allowed them to dominate the second half. They kicked nine consecutive goals either side of half time to blow out a demanding lead that the Power was never going to reach.
Key Players for Collingwood
Dane Swan – O M G! Swanny finished the match with a whopping 48 disposals. The commentators were willing the Pies players on to give him another two so he could reach 50. Was clearly best afield and played a consistent match.
Leigh Brown – Leigh best game in the black and white. He was the big tall man to stand up for the Pies. He kicked 1 goal, collected 18 possessions, had 5 marks and laid 8 tackles on Chaplin.
Key Players for Port Adelaide
Domenic Cassisi – Played his role as captain in a match where he team got blown away in the second half. He tagged dominant Pies midfielder Pendlebury and won the contest. He collected 30 disposals, took 7 marks and laid 8 tackles.
Kane Cornes – Tagged Leon Davis for the majority of the game and locked him down for a period of time. He collected 29 touches, 21 of them being handballs, laid 5 tackles and had 3 marks.
Musings from the match
• Daniel Motlop (ankle) was a late withdrawal and replaced with Matthew Westhoff .
• Halfway through the first quarter two of light towers on the Great Southern Stand side of the MCG went out. If it was to get any darker, half the ground would have been pitch black. This power outage forced Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams to come down from his coach’s box to coach on the boundary line. The phone lines in his box were out and minutes later Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse also was coaching from the sidelines.
• Collingwood is the most dominant tackling team in the league inside the forward 50.
• At half time Dane Swan had gathered almost double the number of possessions than the next-most productive player on the ground.
• Collingwood dominated the hit outs 41 to 27. For the Pies Josh Fraser had 24 and Cameron Wood had 13. Where as for the Power Dean Brogan had 16 and Brendan Lade had 10.
• Both teams had the same amount of tackles 56 a piece.
• Collingwood had 9 less contested possessions, but 15 more uncontested possessions than Port.
• Collingwood dominated the marks inside the forward fifty; 15-9.
• Overall Kicks, Handballs and Marks were relatively similar between the two teams.
Supercoach news
• Chad Cornes night ended half way through the third quarter with a calf injury, he is expected to miss 2-3 games.
• Dane Swan what more can I say about this guy? 48 possessions say it all. He collected Supercoach points for the round and has averaged this 107.22 so far this season before this round. Highly recommended captain material. I sure was happy this week when I made him my captain!
• Brad Dick had an exceptional game for the Pies. He played only his fourth AFL game and achieved 126 Supercoach points. He had 9 inside 50’s, kicked 3 goals, had 2 marks and collected 25 possessions. He could potentially be a good up and coming forward and is only worth only 141,100 prior to this round.
Tags: Brad Dick, Chad Cornes, Dane Swan, Domenic Cassisi, Kane Cornes, Leigh Brown
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