Collingwood’s love affair with ANZ Stadium has continued with the Magpies overturning a 23-point second quarter deficit to score an AFL win over the Sydney Swans.
The Magpies made it nine wins from their last ten games at the venue as they came from behind to record a 12.17 (89) to 10.9 (69) win on Saturday.
The loss dropped Sydney to 0-2, while Collingwood improved to 1-1.
Sydney led 31-8 in the second quarter, but couldn’t match Collingwood’s midfield in a hard-fought but scrappy encounter.
Sparked by champion midfielders Craig Pendlebury (33 possessions) and Dayne Beams (30), the Pies kicked seven to three in the second half.
The game was locked at 67-all early in the final quarter,but Collingwood kicked the last three goals of the game through Beams, Jamie Elliott and Clinton Young.
It was a stirring response from a Collingwood side flogged by Fremantle in their first game, while Sydney were again overrun in the final quarter as they were by GWS in their opening game.
Elliott kicked three goals and Travis Cloke and Tyson Goldsack weighed in with two apiece for the victors.
Lance Franklin was Sydney’s only multiple goalkicker with two and added 16 possessions and four marks in a better effort after his quiet debut against GWS.
The Swans kicked five straight goals either side of quarter-time after Elliott booted the first major of the match.
Heritier Lumumba racked up 13 touches in the first quarter,which Collingwood started well before Sydney got on top to lead by 11 at the first break.
The Swans outmarked the visitors 39-13 in the first quarter.
The Magpies kicked four of the last six goals of the second quarter to claw their way back to within nine points at halftime.
With Pendlebury becoming progressively more influential, the Pies slammed on the first three goals of the third quarter.
Franklin temporarily reversed the tide with a booming 55-metre goal, but Collingwood’s own spearhead, Cloke quickly replied with a major at the other end.
Collingwood kicked four goals to two in the third quarter and held a three-point lead at the final change before going on with the job.
Steve Kerr
Roar Rookie
This author actually has a few articles up from the AAP across different sites, and Craig Pendlebury gets mentioned in those other articles too. Maybe he has a cycling column where he explains how Lance Franklin was stripped of his Tour de France titles.
Cat
Roar Guru
Spelling errors are even less forgivable when it takes 10 seconds to run it through spell and grammar check but neither is acceptable. Then again the authors should be checking their own work as well.
Yank Paul
Guest
Does The Roar have editors? I mean, spelling errors are easy enough to make, but misidentifying an All-Australian player? Give me a break.
Matt
Guest
Good player that Craig Pendlebury isn't he? No mention of young gun Jack Frost giving the $10mil man a lesson either. Did you actually watch the game or just take parts of every other real journalists story?