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Collingwood
7.16.58
Port Adelaide
19.11.125
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Collingwood
Port Adelaide
Q1
3.3.21
5.2.32

    Collingwood Events

  • 4 mins - Behind, A.Treloar
  • 5 mins - Goal, S.Pendlebury
  • 7 mins - Goal, S.Sidebottom
  • 12 mins - Behind, M.Cox
  • 28 mins - Behind, J.White
  • 30 mins - Goal, M.Cox

    Collingwood and Port Adelaide Events

  • 13 mins - Goal, A.Young
  • 15 mins - Goal, C.Wingard
  • 16 mins - Behind, A.Young
  • 18 mins - Goal, R.Gray
  • 22 mins - Behind, O.Wines
  • 24 mins - Goal, J.Neade
  • 27 mins - Goal, C.Wingard
Q2
5.10.40
10.5.65

    Collingwood Events

  • 5 mins - Behind, J.White
  • 10 mins - Behind, B.Crocker
  • 11 mins - Behind, J.White
  • 12 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 15 mins - Behind, J.De Goey
  • 21 mins - Behind, S.Pendlebury
  • 25 mins - Behind, T.Cloke
  • 26 mins - Goal, S.Sidebottom
  • 30 mins - Goal, M.Cox

    Collingwood and Port Adelaide Events

  • 1 mins - Behind, D.Byrne-Jones
  • 2 mins - Behind, C.Dixon
  • 3 mins - Goal, T.Boak
  • 16 mins - Goal, J.Trengove
  • 18 mins - Behind, B.Ebert
  • 18 mins - Goal, J.Westhoff
  • 20 mins - Goal, J.Neade
  • 22 mins - Goal, A.Young
Q3
6.13.49
15.9.99

    Collingwood Events

  • 10 mins - Behind, S.Pendlebury
  • 13 mins - Behind, J.Crisp
  • 17 mins - Goal, J.De Goey
  • 20 mins - Rushed Behind

    Collingwood and Port Adelaide Events

  • 5 mins - Behind, B.Ebert
  • 6 mins - Behind, T.Boak
  • 7 mins - Goal, C.Wingard
  • 12 mins - Goal, H.Hartlett
  • 14 mins - Goal, J.Neade
  • 15 mins - Behind, H.Hartlett
  • 19 mins - Goal, J.Impey
  • 24 mins - Behind, C.Dixon
  • 27 mins - Goal, J.Polec
Q4
7.16.58
19.11.125

    Collingwood Events

  • 1 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 10 mins - Goal, B.Grundy
  • 12 mins - Behind, M.Goodyear
  • 23 mins - Rushed Behind

    Collingwood and Port Adelaide Events

  • 3 mins - Behind, C.Wingard
  • 4 mins - Behind, J.Pittard
  • 13 mins - Goal, A.Young
  • 17 mins - Goal, S.Gray
  • 22 mins - Goal, J.Neade
  • 27 mins - Goal, A.Young

Scorers

Collingwood
Port Adelaide
Goal Scorers Collingwood Port Adelaide
Goals and Behinds Cox (2.1), Sidebottom (2.0), Pendlebury (1.2), De Goey (1.1), Grundy (1.0), White (0.3), Cloke (0.1), Crisp (0.1), Crocker (0.1), Goodyear (0.1), Treloar (0.1) Young (4.1), Neade (4.0), Wingard (3.1), Boak (1.1), Hartlett (1.1), Gray (1.0), Gray (1.0), Impey (1.0), Polec (1.0), Trengove (1.0), Westhoff (1.0), Dixon (0.2), Ebert (0.2), Byrne-Jones (0.1), Pittard (0.1), Wines (0.1)

Team Statistics

Collingwood
Port Adelaide

Statistics

Collingwood Port Adelaide
Goals 7 19
Behinds 16 11
Scoring shots 24 30
Goals/scoring shots 29 63
Disposals 394 391
CollingwoodGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
J.Blair 21 8 3 13 7 8 2 0 0 1
T.Cloke 13 10 6 3 4 4 1 1 0 0
M.Cox 8 6 6 2 5 0 1 1 13 0
J.Crisp 22 9 3 13 11 8 1 1 0 2
B.Crocker 7 3 3 4 2 3 0 1 0 0
J.De Goey 19 11 4 8 7 3 1 1 0 2
J.Frost 8 3 2 5 3 0 0 1 0 0
M.Goodyear 7 3 1 4 5 2 0 0 0 0
L.Greenwood 21 11 2 10 8 12 1 3 0 3
B.Grundy 18 9 1 9 11 0 1 0 25 5
J.Howe 20 14 10 6 9 1 2 0 0 0
B.Maynard 22 16 10 6 10 1 3 1 0 1
A.Oxley 13 6 4 7 1 2 0 1 0 0
S.Pendlebury 30 15 5 15 12 9 2 1 0 4
B.Reid 25 18 7 7 11 1 3 0 0 0
S.Sidebottom 20 11 3 9 7 4 1 0 0 2
B.Sinclair 27 14 3 13 9 2 1 0 0 0
J.Smith 21 9 4 12 5 3 1 1 0 1
A.Toovey 10 6 1 4 6 2 2 1 0 0
A.Treloar 28 9 3 19 11 7 0 1 0 3
T.Varcoe 20 7 7 13 6 2 0 0 0 0
J.White 14 14 8 0 2 2 0 1 1 1
Port AdelaideGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
L.Austin 10 7 5 3 4 0 0 0 0 0
T.Boak 25 14 4 11 10 4 0 2 0 4
M.Broadbent 16 14 6 2 6 3 1 1 0 0
D.Byrne-Jones 20 11 5 9 5 4 0 1 0 0
C.Dixon 14 6 3 8 10 4 1 2 1 0
B.Ebert 17 11 5 6 8 7 0 1 0 0
R.Gray 26 8 3 18 15 3 2 1 0 5
S.Gray 18 11 7 7 9 4 1 1 0 2
H.Hartlett 18 9 1 9 8 2 1 0 0 1
D.Howard 6 4 3 2 2 2 0 4 2 0
J.Impey 22 18 8 4 6 1 0 1 0 0
N.Krakouer 11 10 3 1 3 0 0 0 0 0
J.Neade 15 9 3 6 7 4 0 0 0 2
C.O'Shea 14 9 2 5 4 1 0 0 0 1
J.Pittard 23 20 6 3 2 3 0 2 0 0
J.Polec 20 9 2 11 9 5 2 1 0 2
P.Stewart 10 6 3 4 5 2 1 2 0 0
J.Trengove 12 3 0 9 9 3 2 0 6 3
J.Westhoff 27 13 4 14 9 2 1 0 1 3
O.Wines 24 13 0 11 14 6 1 1 1 4
C.Wingard 19 12 3 7 9 3 2 2 0 0
A.Young 24 13 5 11 9 2 1 1 0 0

Match Details

Collingwood
Port Adelaide
START TIME
11:10AM
WEATHER
A little rain
VENUE
MCG
Umpires
Justin Schmitt, Simon Meredith, Leigh Fisher

AFL 2016: Port Adelaide thrash Collingwood Magpies by 67 points

PORT ADELAIDE  5.2      10.5      15.9      19.11     (125)
COLLINGWOOD  3.3      5.10      6.13      7.16     (58)

GOALS
Port Adelaide: Young 4,  Neade 4, Wingard 3,  Hartlett, Impey,  Polec,  Trengove,  Westhoff, R Gray, S Gray,  Boak. 
Collingwood:  Cox 2, Sidebottom 2, Grundy,  de Goey,  Pendlebury.
BEST
Port Adelaide: Impey, Young, Boak, Dixon, Hartlet, R Gray
Collingwood: Reid, Pendelbury, Treloar, Howe, Cox, Sidebottom
UMPIRES
Schmitt, Meredith, Fisher.
CROWD
28,567 at the MCG.

Would the real Collingwood stand up? Would that the real Collingwood even turned up at the MCG on Sunday.

Scott Pendlebury leads his dejected Magpies from the MCG.
Scott Pendlebury leads his dejected Magpies from the MCG. Photo: Getty Images

Three weeks of solid remedial work came spectacularly undone as Port Adelaide annihilated the Magpies by 67 points. Of the Collingwood that thrashed Brisbane, beat Geelong and were brave when decimated against the Bulldogs, there was no sign. Instead, there was by match's end only the rabble that represented in the first two months of the season.

Coach Nathan Buckley could quantify the scale of the defeat. "We were minus 25 in ground balls, contested possessions on the ground," he said. "Three blokes at the contest, five Port Adelaide players. Fifty metres away, four or five seconds later, where you'd think our extras must be, three of our blokes at the contest, five or six Port Adelaide players. It looked like we struggled to cover the ground compared to our last couple of weeks.". But he couldn't explain it. It defied explanation.

Chad Wingard finds some space for Power.
Chad Wingard finds some space for Power. Photo: Getty Images

We'll concentrate on one fundamental: goal-kicking. Collingwood had 53 forward entries and kicked seven goals. Port Adelaide had 59 forward entries and kicked 19. In the second quarter, when the Magpies were beginning to fade but the match was still there to be won, Collingwood kicked seven behinds in a row. Port kicked five goals in a row. Collingwood went into half-time flat, and came out flatter.

That was big picture. Here is snapshot. In the third quarter, Travis cloke outbodied Logan Austin, then dropped the mark. Within seconds, at the other end, while Collingwood's defenders all rushed to spoil Charlie Dixon, the ball fell into the smartly positioned arms of Jarman Impey, 20 metres out. You can guess the rest.

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Somehow or other, this was always going to come back to the repatriated Cloke. He was not the sole reason the Magpies were so abject; it wouldn't do to make him the scapegoat. But he was the elephant in the room, perhaps the woolly mammoth, from a time gone by. He toiled away, but that is the least expected of an AFL footballer. He took one contested mark. He kicked one behind, a right-foot snap. His one set shot, from 50 metres, missed altogether. You probably guessed that. Mason Cox, the American project, kicked two goals and looked at least twice as likely.

Austin, Cloke's opponent, was playing his first game of football. Until Sunday, he was a Port Adelaide Magpie. In Adelaide, Magpie means not quite at AFL standard. So it did in Melbourne, too, on Sunday.

But the fact is that Port outsmarted the Magpies as well as outplaying them. When you concede one goal out the back, so to speak, you might think your opposition were cheating. Two, you might still delude yourself. Half-a-dozen times and you have have to start to think it is a plan. When it happens in the last minute of the game as easily as it happened in the first quarter, you have to admit it was a plan that worked.

While Collingwood fiddled around, taking too long to kick the ball and kicking it poorly when they did, Port roosted the ball long into the skiddy open spaces of the wet MCG, and economy-sized Jake Neade, Aaron Young and Chad Wingard had a feast. But special mention must be made of Jarman Impey, the fizziest, flitting-est player on the ground. Was a footballer ever better named?

Coach Ken Hinkley made even more special mention of Dixon, who didn't kick a goal, but whose rollicking efforts made space for the goalkickers. "Outstanding," Said Hinkley. "His best game for the club."

Port showed themselves to be nothing if not versatile. With no recognised ruckman, and missing at least two other talls, they went small and played a small game, and won it comprehensively. Their midfield bullocked Collingwood's out of the game. Here, the stats lie. None of Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom and Adam Treloar had their usual impact. But Travis Boak was brilliant. Between the Travises Boak and Cloke, there was nothing, and everything.

In a stuttering season in which they have struggled to string wins together and failed to beat top eight opposition at all, this was the Power's best performance. Hinkley put it this way: "We're at the corner. We're having a little look around the corner at the moment. We've got to be convinced that we're going to keep going around the corner."

We'll put it this way: was that the real Port Adelaide standing up on Sunday? For Power's sake, they'd better hope that was them out there on Sunday.

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