Round 17 2019

West Coast v Collingwood
Round 17, 2019

Date

Fri, 12 July 2019 (6.10pm WST)

Venue

Perth Stadium

Attendance

56,251

Result

Lost by 1

Score

COL 11.12.78 - 12.5.77 WCE

Brownlow

3 S.Sidebottom (COL)
2 S.Pendlebury (COL)
1 A.Treloar (COL)

Ladder

4th

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West Coast lost a thriller to Collingwood despite leading at every change, with the Magpies swamping the home side in the last quarter and edging their way in front to record a 1-point win. The match began as a shootout with both sides kicking six goals in the first term, but scoring dried up in the second half, with the panicking Eagles unable to score more than a single point in the final term. Youngster Jarrod Cameron kicked four first-half goals, his second straight four-goal haul, and Elliot Yeo had eight tackles and 26 disposals to go with his two goals, but West Coast lost Jamie Cripps to a nasty groin injury before quarter-time.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
West Coast		6.3.39		10.4.64		12.4.76		12.5.77
Collingwood		6.1.37		8.3.51		9.6.60		11.12.78

Goals: Cameron 4, Darling 3, Yeo 2, O.Allen, Hickey, Ryan

Best: Yeo, Gaff, Cameron, Darling, Sheppard, Redden, Jetta

Injuries: Cripps (adductor)

Named sides

	West Coast				Collingwood
B:	25.Hurn	37.Barrass	28.Cole	B:	37.Maynard	23.Roughead	19.Greenwood
HB:	5.Sheppard	20.McGovern	23.Jetta	HB:	25.Crisp	30.Moore	35.Quaynor
C:	4.Sheed	8.Redden	3.Gaff	C:	21.Phillips	10.Pendlebury	16.Mayne
HF:	39.Cameron	27.Darling	15.Cripps	HF:	17.C.Brown	46.Cox	32.Hoskin-Elliott
F:	1.Ryan	17.Kennedy	44.Rioli	F:	2.De Goey	41.Mihocek	5.Elliott
R:	9.Naitanui	6.Yeo	13.Shuey	R:	4.Grundy	7.Treloar	22.Sidebottom
I:	7.Masten	12.O.Allen	16.Hickey	I:	14.Aish	49.Noble	36.Sier
	30.Nelson				39.Crocker
E:	21.Petruccelle	31.Schofield	43.M.Allen	E:	34.T.Brown	24.Thomas	12.Scharenberg
	45.Smith				26.Daicos

In: Kennedy, Cole

Out: Ah Chee (calf), Duggan (ankle)

Quarter by quarter

Both sides went in as named. The match was played in fine and clear conditions.

From the coach

"It would have been a pretty good game to watch. I think there was three or four chapters within that game that ebbed and flowed. The first quarter, both teams kicked six goals, which I don’t know if both teams would have been happy with that. We were getting scored against from clearances, we were probably getting them on turnovers a little bit. We just ran out of steam in the second half really and their ability to sustain effort was better than ours and that’s pretty much what it came down to in the last quarter. We couldn’t win the ball, we couldn’t get any field position and it looked like they just wanted it a little bit more than we did at stages.

"Momentum shifts happen. I thought our defenders early were off and Collingwood’s forwards … had the better of us. But as the game wore on I thought they stepped up to the level we’ve seen before. But for them to lose Moore early made them really small and to lose Cripps for us early made us really tall. So one of those things was going to work in someone’s favour and I thought we just looked a bit out of whack in the front half. But that was sort of secondary to the intensity and effort that Collingwood put in, particularly in the last quarter. We were just holding up the dam wall early.

"... I thought their mids as a collective in the last just won the critical contests and you look at the contested (ball) discrepancy, but sometimes that doesn’t tell the true picture. But tonight I thought the really important plays it could have gone either way and the ball bounces around, we didn’t win any of those and we normally win our fair share."

From the papers

The West Australian

"The scoring dried up in the third term which suited West Coast who edged a further goal clear. The fit bodies were also drying up for Collingwood who had ruckman Brodie Grundy limping but still out there, Pendlebury out there but nursing a hand injury and James Aish sent to the rooms after landing heavily on his right shoulder.

And the Pies were finding scoring increasingly hard. They were caught between a rock and a hard place. To bridge the 16-point margin they faced at three quarter time they were going to have to open the game up more. And that was going to put them at great risk of being scored against by West Coast’s potent attack.

Darling was still a threat and had kicked one of his team’s two third quarter goals and gifted the other to Yeo. Midfielder Tom Phillips had kicked the only third term major for the Pies.

The last term was sheer mayhem as the Pies chose the hard road over the free scoring one. They surged and surged but couldn’t score. West Coast couldn’t clear the ball from their defensive fifty."

The Age

"Both teams kicked six goals in the opening quarter, the first coming from the boot of Jack Darling within a minute of the start. Collingwood hadn’t even touched the ball.

But the Pies got going and traded blows with the reigning premiers. Eagles small forward Jarrod Cameron kicked three goals in seven minutes midway through the term.

Magpie Talls Mason Cox and Brody Mihocek kicked two apiece, both from marks.

The lead changed six times during the first term. Darling’s second goal, kicked just before the siren, left the Eagles with a two-point lead."

Reserves

Round 14 (14 July)

West Coast celebrated the public opening of their new headquarters at Lathlain Park with a comfortable win over West Perth. The Falcons kiced three quick goals after half-time to close within 11 points but the Eagles shifted to another gear in the last term, kicking eight goals to one to record a 69-point victory. Jake Waterman kicked six goals and Jack Petruccelle had five on his return from injury, and Brayden Ainsworth had 26 possessions in the midfield.

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
West Perth		2.0.12		5.2.32		9.5.59		10.5.65
West Coast		3.5.23		9.9.63		12.11.83		20.14.134

Goals: Waterman 6, Petruccelle 5, McInnes 3, M.Allen, Ashman, Brander, Brooksby, Flint, Williams

Best: Waterman, Watson, Peytruccelle, Ainsworth, Smith, M.Allen

Injuries: Smith (hamstring)

Reports: Grey for rough conduct against C.West

Named side:

	West Coast
B:	46.Riach	9.Petrie	64.Curnow
HB:	26.Watson	35.Rotham	51.Fisher
C:	38.Mutimer	33.Ainsworth	10.Brander
HF:	59.Ashman	36.McInnes	55.Flint
F:	2.Waterman	40.Brooksby	66.Reid
R:	32.Williams	22.Brayshaw	11.Grey
I	43.M.Allen	21.Petruccelle	31.Schofield
	45.Smith
E:	56.Hug	58.Busher	62.Cary

In: Brander, Petruccelle, Schofield

Out: Foley (soreness), Robilliard, Cary

Injury list

In the leadup to the match the following players were listed as injured or unavailable:

Player		Injury		Expected return
Venables		Concussion		TBC
Duggan		Ankle		5-6 weeks
Vardy		Knee/ankle		3 weeks
Hutchings		Hamstring		2 weeks
Kennedy		Illness		Test
Petruccelle		Hamstring		Test
Brander		Calf		Test
Bines*		Hernia		2-3 weeks
Edwards*		Foot		2-3 weeks

References

https://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2019/17/wce-v-coll