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The Collingwood Magpies have put themselves into second on the ladder with a 39-point win over the Gold Coast Suns on Saturday night.
Final score
Gold Coast Suns 8.12.60
Collingwood Magpies 14.15.99
The 15th-placed Gold Coast Suns face the red-hot 4th-placed Collingwood Magpies at Metricon Stadium. Join The Roar live at 7:25pm Saturday 30th June for live scores and a blog.
The Suns will try to steal a big home win over the much fancied Magpies on the Gold Coast, as their season continues to plummet to further depths. The Magpies season has looked impressive so far and, sitting pretty in the top four, they will look to continue their strong form.
Gold Coast have not been able to call home a fortress throughout their short lives but they will look to get a win and break their streak of eight straight losses. Collingwood are riding high with five straight wins and are pushing hard to finish the season in the top four.
As if the season couldn’t get any worse for the Sun’s their captain Tom Lynch has been ruled out for the remainder of the season with a knee injury, the injury is horrible for the Suns and it may end up being the final time they see their star forward in the yellow and red as he is a free agent at seasons end.
Jordan De Goey has been a star this season and with talk that he has re-signed with the Magpies after turning down lucrative offers elsewhere he will be out to prove he is worth the new contract.
Last week’s game for the Suns was one they would want to forget, after a strong start they then went on to go goalless for straight quarters as the Hawks ran over the top of them in Tasmania, some late goals in the final quarter to the Suns (their first 4th quarter goals in over 4 weeks) was a consolation but not enough to keep them in the game.
Collingwood fought off a spirited Carlton side who threaten to cause the boilover at times.
The Magpies have won the past 4 games against the Suns and this week doesn’t look like that streak will be broken as the Suns are struggling with injuries as well as poor on field play, Collingwood are hitting their stride and playing at a level not seen for a number of years now.
Poor kicking and a lack of attacking last week against the Hawks was disappointing and will need to be assessed this week if they are to have any chance.
The Pies started slow before running out 20 point winners against their old rivals Carlton, in what was a lacklustre display at times they will want to play at their best from start to finish and get a percentage boost if they are able to.
This is a game the Suns could potentially catch a top four side napping but Collingwood should be expecting the Suns to come to out strong and kick away themselves.
Prediction
Collingwood by 40
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