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Collingwood
12.14.86
Western Bulldogs
15.10.100
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Collingwood
Western Bulldogs
Q1
1.5.11
5.1.31

    Collingwood Events

  • 5 mins - Behind, J.Blair
  • 9 mins - Behind, J.Blair
  • 12 mins - Behind, T.Varcoe
  • 23 mins - Goal, S.Sidebottom
  • 25 mins - Behind, A.Fasolo
  • 25 mins - Rushed Behind

    Collingwood and Western Bulldogs Events

  • 6 mins - Goal, L.Hunter
  • 11 mins - Goal, L.Hunter
  • 13 mins - Goal, M.Boyd
  • 14 mins - Goal, J.Stringer
  • 26 mins - Goal, T.Cloke
  • 28 mins - Rushed Behind
Q2
7.9.51
9.1.55

    Collingwood Events

  • 7 mins - Goal, J.White
  • 8 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 13 mins - Behind, C.Mayne
  • 14 mins - Goal, C.Mayne
  • 21 mins - Goal, S.Sidebottom
  • 23 mins - Behind, A.Fasolo
  • 23 mins - Goal, A.Fasolo
  • 27 mins - Goal, A.Fasolo
  • 30 mins - Goal, A.Fasolo
  • 32 mins - Behind, J.White

    Collingwood and Western Bulldogs Events

  • 6 mins - Goal, J.Johannisen
  • 12 mins - Goal, T.Liberatore
  • 19 mins - Goal, J.Johannisen
  • 28 mins - Goal, M.Bontempelli
Q3
9.11.65
14.6.90

    Collingwood Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, A.Treloar
  • 16 mins - Behind, J.Ramsay
  • 25 mins - Behind, D.Moore
  • 29 mins - Goal, T.Goldsack

    Collingwood and Western Bulldogs Events

  • 4 mins - Behind, L.Dahlhaus
  • 6 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 7 mins - Goal, M.Bontempelli
  • 8 mins - Behind, L.Jong
  • 9 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 10 mins - Goal, L.Hunter
  • 17 mins - Goal, L.Picken
  • 19 mins - Goal, S.Crameri
  • 21 mins - Goal, T.McLean
  • 28 mins - Rushed Behind
Q4
12.14.86
15.10.100

    Collingwood Events

  • 5 mins - Goal, S.Pendlebury
  • 10 mins - Behind, M.Cox
  • 11 mins - Behind, A.Fasolo
  • 14 mins - Goal, W.Hoskin-Elliott
  • 18 mins - Goal, S.Pendlebury
  • 28 mins - Rushed Behind

    Collingwood and Western Bulldogs Events

  • 8 mins - Behind, J.Stringer
  • 9 mins - Goal, L.Picken
  • 16 mins - Behind, M.Boyd
  • 20 mins - Behind, J.Stringer
  • 25 mins - Behind, J.Stringer

Scorers

Collingwood
Western Bulldogs
Goal Scorers Collingwood Western Bulldogs
Goals and Behinds Fasolo (3.3), Pendlebury (2.0), Sidebottom (2.0), Mayne (1.1), White (1.1), Goldsack (1.0), Hoskin-Elliott (1.0), Treloar (1.0), Blair (0.2), Cox (0.1), Moore (0.1), Ramsay (0.1), Varcoe (0.1) Hunter (3.0), Bontempelli (2.0), Johannisen (2.0), Picken (2.0), Stringer (1.3), Boyd (1.1), Cloke (1.0), Crameri (1.0), Liberatore (1.0), McLean (1.0), Dahlhaus (0.1), Jong (0.1)

Team Statistics

Collingwood
Western Bulldogs

Statistics

Collingwood Western Bulldogs
Goals 12 15
Behinds 14 10
Scoring shots 28 26
Goals/scoring shots 43 58
Disposals 431 392
CollingwoodGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
T.Adams 33 20 6 13 14 12 2 1 0 7
J.Blair 15 6 3 9 13 4 1 1 0 4
M.Cox 8 3 1 5 5 0 1 1 21 0
J.Crisp 17 11 6 6 3 3 0 1 0 1
A.Fasolo 22 13 8 9 11 3 1 0 0 1
T.Goldsack 8 5 1 3 2 2 1 0 0 0
B.Grundy 12 7 7 5 4 4 0 1 29 1
W.Hoskin-Elliott 22 15 8 7 6 1 2 0 0 1
J.Howe 26 16 11 10 11 3 1 0 0 0
B.Maynard 16 11 7 5 4 4 0 1 0 1
C.Mayne 13 9 4 4 5 5 1 1 0 0
D.Moore 10 7 4 3 4 1 0 1 0 0
S.Pendlebury 35 16 3 19 24 6 4 0 0 10
T.Phillips 26 12 2 14 9 4 0 0 0 4
J.Ramsay 25 12 5 13 8 3 1 3 0 0
B.Reid 12 7 7 5 1 1 0 0 0 1
H.Schade 10 4 4 6 1 0 0 1 0 0
S.Sidebottom 35 17 4 18 9 3 1 0 0 6
J.Smith 20 14 6 6 5 1 0 1 0 0
A.Treloar 33 20 8 13 11 3 0 1 0 6
T.Varcoe 15 8 5 7 6 2 1 1 0 0
J.White 18 13 8 5 5 2 0 1 0 0
Western BulldogsGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
S.Biggs 17 14 5 3 2 3 1 1 0 0
M.Bontempelli 22 8 3 14 12 4 0 0 0 1
M.Boyd 26 14 2 12 6 2 0 0 0 1
T.Boyd 5 1 1 4 2 2 0 3 24 1
T.Cloke 14 12 6 2 9 1 2 0 1 2
Z.Cordy 14 10 2 4 4 2 2 3 0 1
S.Crameri 17 8 4 9 9 4 1 3 0 1
L.Dahlhaus 24 9 4 15 11 7 1 0 0 5
C.Daniel 22 10 1 12 7 2 0 1 0 2
L.Hunter 21 13 6 8 5 2 2 0 0 0
J.Johannisen 30 18 7 12 9 0 1 1 0 1
L.Jong 11 2 2 9 7 14 0 0 0 1
T.Liberatore 16 8 4 8 11 14 1 0 0 3
J.Macrae 25 15 7 10 5 7 2 0 0 2
T.McLean 13 8 5 5 5 7 1 0 0 1
D.Morris 16 6 7 10 5 1 0 1 0 0
R.Murphy 22 15 6 7 4 1 0 0 0 1
L.Picken 20 12 8 8 6 4 1 0 0 1
F.Roberts 10 8 2 2 4 2 1 0 0 0
J.Stringer 14 11 7 3 4 4 0 2 0 1
M.Suckling 19 17 11 2 3 2 0 2 0 0
E.Wood 14 9 8 5 5 2 0 0 0 0

Match Details

Collingwood
Western Bulldogs
START TIME
7:50PM
WEATHER
Partly cloudy
VENUE
MCG
Umpires
Chris Kamolins, Justin Schmitt, Curtis Deboy
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Collingwood v Western Bulldogs: Second dirty dog story for Magpies

WESTERN BULLDOGS
5.1       9.1      14.6       15.10     (100)
COLLINGWOOD     
1.5       7.9       9.11      12.14     (86)
GOALS - Bulldogs: Hunter 3, Picken 2, Johannisen2,  Bontempelli 2, Boyd, Stringer, Cloke, Crameri, McLean, Libertore.
Collingwood: Fasolo 3, Sidebottom 2, Pendlebury 2, White, Mayne, Treloar, Goldsack, Hoskin-Elliott.
BEST - Bulldogs: Johannisen, Hunter, Daniel, Liberatore, Macrae, Bontempelli, Dahlhaus, 
Collingwood: Pendlebury, Adams, Grundy, Howe, Fasolo, Sidebottom, Treloar, Hoskin-Elliott  
INJURIES
Collingwood:
Aish (virus) replaced in selected team by Mayne.
Bulldogs: Morris (leg)
REPORTS 
Collingwood:
 Varcoe for alleged rough conduct in the first term.
Umpires: Deboy, Kamolins, Schmitt
Crowd: 66,254 at the MCG

On Monday Nathan Buckley was asked to swallow an implausible story of a dog and a door knob. On Friday he was presented an equally unpalatable Dogs' tale.

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Bulldogs beat Magpies by 14 points

The Premiers held off Collingwood to claim a 14 point win in their season opener.

The Bulldogs hit the lead early without needing to play well, were reined in by Collingwood's energy, and made to play well to win. Which they did, finding the gears to play well enough to do what was needed to win. 

The narrative of the match was about Captain Bob being back. It was also about an old, new dog - Travis Cloke, who proved also to be an old dog with a new trick – kicking straight. Well, for his first important one anyway.    

The most deliciously poetic moment was late in the first term when Cloke marked 55 metres out – his range – and directly in front – not his angle. This time he kicked long and true and confounded Collingwood fans turned as one to one another and asked "Why didn't he do that for us?" They sniggered later when he put a shot from closer range out of bounds, but it was a mirthless giggle, for Cloke's Dogs were home by then.

Collingwood had chosen a tall side trying to outplay the best running team in the league by keeping it off them in the air. It didn't work.

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The Magpies' most effective forwards were small – Alex Fasolo and Steele Sidebottom – and their talls Mason Cox, Darcy Moore and Jesse White did nothing. Their cumbersome forward line was made taller by Chris Mayne coming in late for the ill James Aish.

The Bulldogs, in contrast, were playing with their new forward line – with Stewart Crameri and Cloke as additions to a premier line up.

This theoretically should have unsettled their structure. But it didn't. Both players were only ever used as targets forward as an afterthought. They were used if they were in the right positions but not just because they were out there – which had been Collingwood's approach.

Luke Beveridge instead tinkered with his forward line, rotating his players through the wings and half-forward line and taught old dogs new tricks (we're going to stick with this canine theme, OK?).

Jason Johannisen won the Norm Smith Medal surging off half-back last year but he like was swung forward along with skipper Bob Murphy and caused mismatches. He booted a couple of goals in the third term.

The Magpies' ability  to stay in the game was based on effort not skill. They had energy and ownership of the ball early, yet conceded easy scores through their own sloppiness. 

It was a pattern of the first half that the cleaner Bulldogs could concede contested possession and clearances so significantly, yet effortlessly turn possession into score.

 Early on, they were helped in this by being gifted the ball by Collingwood turnovers. And they kicked straight – 9.1 at one point.

Collingwood dragged one of their talls to the bench in the second term and funnelled their attack through Alex Fasolo. He booted three goals the third term and helped Collingwood to recover the  lead. Adam Treloar goaled for the first of the second half to give Collingwood a lead but it proved short-lived.

This awoke a slumbering dog (I warned you about that dog theme) and with Marcus Bontempelli – quiet in the main – moved forward,  he had a hand in goals and quelling the Magpie rally.

They spread Collingwood's defence and outran them through the middle. The Magpies were pressing up at the ball and working hard to trap it in their zone but they didn't score. Then the Dogs would get them out the back. It was the reason they dominated virtually every statistical column, yet lost.

Collingwood's loss was made worse by Travis Varcoe being reported for a hit to Luke Dahlhaus when he charged in off the centre square. The Bulldog was close to Pendlebury, who had the ball, but probably would not have anticipated the contact. Â