Collingwood – 26.13 (169)
Fremantle – 13.7 (85)
Collingwood has won its fifth consecutive match and staked a claim for a top four finish in Season 09’ after absolutely smashing a run down and under-manned Fremantle side after a thrilling final quarter. This saw the Pies kicking 7 unanswered goals and overall 10 goals to 2 in the last quarter to blow out the margin to win by 84 points.
Big Moment
Collingwood had an extremely solid first quarter kicking 6 goals to Fremantle’s 2, but the Dockers came back in the second quarter and beat the Pies in goals.
The third quarter saw a goal for goal match, until consecutive goals were kicked by the Pies, through John Anthony, Tarkyn Lockyer and Alan Didak. This allowed the Pies to lead into the three quarter time break with a 34 points margin.
The Pies had the momentum leading into the final quarter and blew the game and the Dockers apart kicking 10 goals to the Dockers 2.
Key Players for Collingwood
Dane Swan – Was tagged all match by Matthew DeBoer and dominated him. He played a yet again outstanding game and was everywhere, all the time. He had 41 possessions, 11 marks, 3 tackles and kicked 1.1.
Alan Didak – Kicked the first goal of the match and was tagged by Dockers youngster Greg Broughton and won the battle. He had his second good game in a row and possible career best effort. He kicked 2 goals and collected career high 39 possessions.
Travis Cloke – Played on Antoni Grover who had some tightness in his thigh. Kicked a season high 3 goals and had probably his beat game for the season. He had 17 disposals and 8 marks.
Dayne Beams – Even though he came off with a possible ankle problem in the second quarter he came back in the second half and ended up having a good impact on the match. He had 22 disposals and kicked 2 goals in his return to senior footy.
Key Players for Fremantle
Aaron Sandilands – He dominated the hit outs against Josh Fraser . He finished with 44 hit outs and was the Dockers best player. He had 25 disposals, kicked a goal and had 8 marks.
Paul Hasleby – Had a very busy match and ran hard the entire game. He had 33 possessions, kicked 1 goal and took 10 marks
Paul Duffield – Played a good match especially in the third quarter and assisted the Dockers in keeping up with the Pies after moving from half back to the midfield. He collected 25 possessions and took 4 marks.
Musing from the Match
• Leon Davis was a late withdrawal for the Pies, with a virus; he was replaced by Paul Medhurst, in his first game back for the Pies since his ankle injury.
• Clancee Pearce was a late withdrawal for the Dockers; he was replaced by Des Headland .
• There was no coin toss at the beginning of the match. Apparently it’s the home team’s responsibility to sell the coin toss to someone (e.g. auction it off). But there was no coin, so the two captains (Maxwell and Pavlich) spoke and Pavlich stated he wanted to kick towards the Punt Road end first and Maxwell was happy to kick towards the city end.
• Season high 3 goals in a match for Travis Cloke.
• In the second half the Pies kicked 16 goals to the Dockers 6 to set up with 84 point winning margin.
• Collingwood’s most prominent players in this match: Didak and Swan collected 80 possessions between them.
• The closest possession winner to Didak and Swan was Fremantle’s Paul Hasleby with 33.
• Collingwood dominated in marks, handballs, kicks and overall disposals.
• Alan Didak had game high 31 kicks followed behind by Swans 24.
• Fremantle dominated the hit outs 55-17, mostly through Sandilands’ 44. But the Pies had 6 more clearances.
• Collingwood had 5 more clangers than Fremantle.
• Collingwood had 22 more inside 50’s but 5 less rebound 50’s.
• Collingwood had 13 individual goal scorers, 9 of them kicked multiple goals.
• Paul Medhurst . had a relatively good first game back for the Pies, kicking 3 goals. It will be interesting to see which player will be dropped to make way for Leon Davis who was only out of the team due to injury..
SuperCoach News
Keep an eye on the following possibly injured players:
• Matthew Pavlich came off the ground with a possible calf injury in the second quarter; he may be out for 3-4 weeks. He finished with 21 SuperCoach points, very disappointed for people like myself who have him in their teams.
• Antoni Grover had thigh tightness also in the second quarter.
• Dayne Beams has a possible ankle problem.
• Steven Dodd was knocked unconscious in the third quarter by team mate Dean Soloman’s knee, the stretcher was called.
Fremantle first gamers Zac Clarke and Hayden Ballantyne scored only 32 and 9 points respectively.
Collingwood had 6 players scoring 100+ points; lead by Dane Swan (167) and Alan Didak (163). Where as Fremantle only had 3; lead by Aaron Sandilands with 137 points.
Tags: Aaron Sandilands, Alan Didak, Dane Swan, Dayne Beams, Matthew Pavlich, Paul Duffield, Paul Hasleby, Paul Medhurst, Travis Cloke
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