Collingwood’s finals hopes are hanging by a thread after a 24-point loss to Hawthorn condemned them to the AFL bottom four.
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Final score
Hawthorn Hawks 18.10.118
Collingwood Magpies 14.10.94
The Hawthorn Hawks and Collingwood Magpies will clash at the MCG on Sunday afternoon as both teams look to keep their finals hopes alive. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match starting from 3:20pm (AEST).
Hawthorn are coming of one of their best wins of the season as they went to across the border to beat at that time the top of the ladder Adelaide by 14 points.
It was an Alastair Clarkson masterclass as he showed the rest of the league on how to beat Adelaide.
Luke Hodge and Shaun Burgoyne, who many people have criticised throughout the season, played superb and were the catalyst behind the victory.
Collingwood turned out a very poor performance last week as they were completely outclassed by Port Adelaide to go down by 31points but it could have been much worse.
All the usual suspects had big games with Pendlebury, Treloar, Sidebottom and Adams combining for 132 disposals and on the whole, they had 78 more touches then the opposition but six less inside 50s. A lot of sideways ball movement from the Pies.
Hawthorn will welcome back defender Ben Stratton but will be missing Paul Puopolo who is out with a groin. Stratton will help the young defence as his able to play on both smalls and talls.
In what is the most interesting team selection this week Collingwood have dropped key defender Ben Reid who many believe is top 5 most important players for them. Buckley has decided to go with Goldsack and Dunn.
The Pies also welcome back gun forward Jamie Elliot. Josh Thomas will play his first game in almost 1000 days after his drug suspension and they also bring in Mason Cox and Jackson Ramsay.
5 of the top 20 disposal winners in the comp are playing today so expect it to be a high possession game it will be just about how much damage they major ball winners can do for both sides.
Prediction
This game is an absolute coin toss. I honestly can’t pick any team with either confidence going in to today. If Hawthorn can replicate last week’s performance they should be winning but Collingwood prior to last week were playing some decent football albeit against some weak opposition.
Hawthorn by 1
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Chris
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I wouldn´t get too excited about beating this year's wooden spooners! As a true Maggie let me point out the following:- a) Murray Weideman- Legendary Premiership Winning Captain-Coached the team to the wooden spoon in 1976 only to be taken over by an outsider.....Tom Hafey; b) Tony Shaw-Legendary Premiership Winning Captain-Coached the team to the wooden spoon in 1999 only to be taken over by another outsider Mick Malthouse in 2000; c) Nathan Buckley-Record winning Copeland Trophy winner-Coaches team to another wooden spoon in 2017(?) to be taken over by another outsider??? Only time will tell...But I think I´m oin the money!!!
Swannies
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Great to see the mighty Hawks still fighting hard for finals but seems unlikely.
Mat Datson
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» Click here to read the full match report AFL Roar MVP 3-Tom Mitchell Tom continues his stellar season as he was the main man in the engine room once again. Had 35touches and crucially kicked 2 goals. 2- James Sicily Some Alastair Clarkson brilliant coaching this. Was Brilliant down back all day taking 11marks and was intercepting everything. 1- Jordan De Goey Easily Collingwoods best player today and one of his best games of the season. Had 32touches.
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FULLTIME Hawthorn make it back to back wins as they look to stay in the hunt for a finals place with a 24point Victory to Collingwood. Hawthorn 18.10.118 Collingwood 14.9.94
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GOAL Breust dribbles the ball through the boundary and thats all she wrote. 24points with 1minute left. Hawthorn now 1 game out of the 8 but their percentage is bad. Hawthorn 18.10.118 Collingwood 14.10.94
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GOAL ROUGHY! Snaps the goal from directly infront in what should be the icing of the game. 3minutes left Hawthorn 17.9.111 Collingwood 14.9.93
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4 Minutes left Hawthorn 16.9.105 Collingwood 14.9.93
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GOAL The FAS! Gets past 2 players and kicks a goal from 40m. Hawthorn 16.9.105 Collingwood 14.9.93
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GOAL Tom Mitchell is well found 40m out. Kicks his 2nd and his had a day out. Upto 31touches. 7minutes left Hawthorn 16.9.105 Collingwood 13.9.87
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GOAL Tom Mitchell intercepts the ball and kicks the goal. 12minutes left Hawthorn 14.7.97 Collingwood 13.8.86
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GOAL Pendlebury picks out Treloar who kicks the goal from 40m.Game could go either way Hawthorn 14.6.90 Collingwood 13.8.86
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GOAL Gunston kicks 2 within a minute as he snaps the ball through Hawthorn 14.6.90 Collingwood 12.8.80
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GOAL Gunston burst through traffic to kick the first of the final term, Hawthorn 13.6.84 Collingwood 12.8.80
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Final Term 2point game going into the last term. Huge match for both sides. Hawthorn 12.6.78 Collingwood 12.8.80
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3 Quarter Time Roughead has a shot after the siren from 25m out directly infront and misses. Hawthorn 12.6.78 Collingwood 12.8.80
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GOAL The Fas! Kicks the goal from 40m and now the Pies are back infront Hawthorn 12.5.77 Collingwood 12.7.79
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GOAL Broomhead with a nice crumb and snap to bring the margin back to 4points. 4minutes left in the term Hawthorn 12.5.77 Collingwood 11.7.73
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GOAL Back to back goals as Hawthorn as Breust kicks it from the square. Hawthorn 12.5.77 Collingwood 10.6.66
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GOAL Sorry for the delay in updates my internet died. But Hawthorn are back in front thanks to a Tim Obrien goal. 8minutes left in the term. Hawthorn 11.5.71 Collingwood 10.6.66
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GOAL A Silly 50m has gifted Roughhead a goal Hawthorn 10.3.63 Collingwood 9.3.57