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Collingwood Magpies vs Fremantle Dockers: AFL highlights, live scores, blog

24th June, 2016
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Bounce: 7:50 pm AEST
Betting: Collingwood $1.85, Fremantle $2.00
Umpires: Andrew Stephens (12), Shaun Ryan (25), Troy Pannell (28)

Last five
R13, 2015: Fremantle 12.8 (80) def Collingwood 11.7 (73) @ Domain
R1, 2014: Fremantle 17.14 (116) def Collingwood 5.16 (46) @ Etihad
R7, 2013: Fremantle 15.10 (100) def Collingwood 10.13 (73) @ Domain
R14, 2012: Collingwood 15.17 (107) def Fremantle 12.6 (78) @ MCG
R23, 2011: Collingwood 20.12 (132) def Fremantle 8.4 (52) @ Domain

Collingwood
B Jonathon Marsh, Nathan J. Brown, Jeremy Howe
HB Marley Williams, Ben Reid, Ben Sinclair
C Steele Sidebottom, Adam Treloar, James Aish
HF Jordan de Goey, Travis Cloke, Travis Varcoe
F Jesse White, Mason Cox, Jarryd Blair
FOL Brodie Grundy, Scott Pendlebury, Jack Crisp
I/C Levi Greenwood, Tom Phillips, Brayden Maynard, Josh Smith
EMG Brent Macaffer, Jarrod Witts, Alan Toovey

Fremantle
B Cameron Sutcliffe, Zac Dawson, Lee Spurr
HB Stephen Hill, Sam Collins, Hayden Crozier
C Lachie Weller, David Mundy, Danyle Pearce
HF Michael Barlow, Matt Taberner, Michael Walters
F Chris Mayne, Matthew Pavlich, Hayden Ballantyne
FOL Zac Clarke, Connor Blakely, Lachie Neale
I/C Nick Suban, Tommy Sheridan, Darcy Tucker, Jack Hannath
EMG Clancee Pearce, Garrick Ibbotson, Ed Langdon
The resurgent Collingwood face a seriously sliding Tigers in Friday night action. (AAP Image/Julian Smith)
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The Collingwood Magpies and the Fremantle Dockers face-off in an intriguing match at the MCG tonight. Join The Roar for live scores and commentary from 7:50pm (AEST).

While this match is not overly important in the context of the premiership race, it nevertheless shapes as an even and interesting contest.

While Collingwood have been poor for most of the season, they played two excellent games against Geelong and the Western Bulldogs before the most recent wave of injuries hit their ranks.

However, Rounds 9 and 10 appear to have anomalies, as the Pies went on to suffer bad defeats at the hands of Port Adelaide and Melbourne at the MCG before their Round 13 bye.

However, while their recent form is terrible, they’ll be out to prove a point to themselves and to the rest of the competition.

On the other hand, Fremantle, having started the year with ten straight losses, enter Round 14 on the back of three straight wins.

As such, regardless of the quality of their opposition in the past three weeks, Fremantle will go into this game highly confident of taking the premiership points back west.

In team news, Collingwood have made three changes. James Aish, Travis Cloke and Nathan J. Brown are in, with Jarrod Witts, Ben Crocker and Jack Frost left out of the 22.

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In contrast, Fremantle have made just the one change from last week’s victory over Port, with Jack Hannath coming in for Tanner Smith after a week’s omission.

On paper, Collingwood and Fremantle appear to be pretty well matched across the ground. However, although Fremantle have hit a purple patch of form, Collingwood will be absolutely desperate to win after two straight losses at the MCG.

Another loss tonight would see the Magpies slump to 15th, and while they have been pretty bad at times this year, there’s no way that they will let that happen without a fight.

Collingwood’s midfielders will provide greater intensity than Port’s did last week, and they should be able to get the better of the young Dockers brigade.

While Fremantle would love to win, they seem to have less incentive. I expect that the Pies will start the match with a bang in the first quarter and hold on for the victory.

Prediction
Collingwood by 23 points.

See the result differently? The Dockers to have a ‘Pie Night’ of their own? Please let me know! And, of course, don’t forget to join The Roar tonight at 7:50 pm (AEST) for live score updates and debate in our live blog.

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