COLLINGWOOD 2.5 Â 7.7 Â 8.11 Â 13.13 (91)
WEST COAST 4.2 Â 5.2 Â 9.3 Â 11.6 (72)
GOALS – Collingwood: Moore 3, Aish 2, Sidebottom 2, Treloar, Maynard, Crisp, White, Greenwood, Cloke. West Coast: Darling 4, Cripps 2, Hill 2, Kennedy 2, Masten.
BEST – Collingwood: Adams, Treloar, Pendlebury, Grundy, Crisp, Sidebottom. West Coast:  Gaff, Priddis, Darling, Hurn, Shuey, Hutchings.
INJURIES – Collingwood: Moore (hamstring).
UMPIRESÂ Donlon, Schmitt, Brown.
CROWDÂ 34,929 at MCG.
Collingwood may not be a top-eight side this year, but they took the measure of a second top-eight side in the past four rounds with a 19-point victory over West Coast at the MCG on Saturday.
Headed at the beginning of the final term when Jamie Cripps coolly slotted a goal from 45 metres out on the boundary line, the Magpies refused to go back into their shell. Instead, Collingwood answered with five of the last six goals of the game.
Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley had reached deep into the motivational hand-book this week, warning his side after heavy losses to Adelaide and North Melbourne that they were playing for their football futures.
The Pies responded with one of their best performances of the season. Trailing only at quarter-time due to some wayward kicking and West Coast's greater efficiency going forward, Collingwood kicked five goals to one in the second term to wrest back the initiative, then withstood a West Coast comeback to run out the game much more strongly with a five-goals-to-two final term.
Brodie Grundy gave his side a big advantage with a dominant 45Â ruck hitouts while Taylor Adams and Adam Treloar capitalised by dominating the clearances.
The Pies lost Darcy Moore in the second term after he had kicked three of his side's six goals to that point. For a long time they struggled to score goals, but when they came, they came with a rush.
West Coast continued their indifferent form away from their Subiaco fortress. But while losses to Hawthorn, Sydney and Geelong on the road can be forgiven, this one will hurt last year's beaten grand finalists.
Jack Darling was an effective forward with four goals and Josh Kennedy could have had as many with better conversion. But the Eagles did not have many other reliable scoring options. Matt Priddis and Andrew Gaff worked hard, but their efficiency was diminished by the hard-tackling Pies.
Just two points separated the sides at the final change after a West Coast third-quarter fightback brought a 17-point half-time deficit back to just two.
Collingwood had had 19 scoring shots to 12, though five of their 11Â behinds were rushed through by the Eagles' defence. That, plus a couple of misses from gettable shots, contrasted with West Coast's ability to get the ball to their key forwards and convert.
Darling added two of his team's four goals for the term to take his tally to four. Â Kennedy and Chris Masten got the other two from free kicks, Kennedy after Ben Reid dragged the ball in and was penalised for holding and Masten from a high tackle by Ben Crocker.
A five-goals-to-one second quarter sent the Pies into the long break 17 points ahead. Â Moore, who had taken six marks and kicked three goals, went off and into the rooms mid-way through the term. But even the loss of their most productive forward could not stop the irrepressible Pies, with a James Aish goal after a 50-metre penalty against Jeremy McGovern, taking them further ahead.
The 26-point turnaround for the term was demonstrated by the statistics. Collingwood had had 64 more disposals than the Eagles in the first half and dominated the second-term clearances with 14 to four. Taylor Adams had seven for the first half.
The Pies easily won the inside 50 count for the quarter, too, taking the ball into their forward arc 17times to seven, turning around an 11-14 deficit in the first term. They were keeping the pressure on the normally productive West Coast mid-field, limiting the effectiveness of prime movers  Priddis and Gaff, and had solved the problem of the Eagles' key forwards  Darling and  Kennedy by the simple process of not letting the ball inside West Coast's attacking 50.
At that stage there was no sign of the impending Collingwood blitz. But Cloke marked and goalled after finding space out wide, Aish got his first for the quarter with a snap off one step and Moore took his sixth mark inside 50 for his third goal.