(No Trolling) 2018 AFL Grand Final - West Coast v Collingwood, 2.30pm AEST, MCG

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Summary

Just who is this year's Grand Final favourite? Is it West Coast, the higher-ranked team and winner of both clashes this year? Or is it Collingwood, which gets to play at the MCG, will have an extra day's rest and is fresh from ending Richmond's hopes of back-to-back flags? The Eagles will have to defy history to win their fourth premiership, having not won a final at the MCG since their last flag in 2006, and the drought at the ground lingers to 1999 if you remove non-Victorian opponents. On top of that, the past five non-Victorian Grand Finalists lost the decider. Beyond that, the contested possession battle looms as critical to the final result, with West Coast and Collingwood the top two in that statistic in September.


This year

Round 17: West Coast 15.12 (102) d Collingwood 9.13 (67) at the MCG

This was the game in which Nic Naitanui's knee buckled and his season ended, but the Eagles stamped their premiership credentials with a rare victory at the home of Australian football. The Pies led by 20 points in the first term and would have led by more if not for some wastefulness. West Coast kicked six of the last seven goals to power away.

Qualifying final: West Coast 12.14 (86) d Collingwood 10.10 (70) at Optus Stadium

Josh Kennedy and Jack Darling came to life as the Eagles, who kicked the first three goals of the night, came from 10 points down at three-quarter time to book a preliminary final berth. Defender Brad Sheppard suffered a season-ending hamstring injury, while Lewis Jetta gave West Coast the lead for good with a great snap, followed by a Ronaldo-inspired celebration.

Details

• WHERE AND WHEN: MCG, Saturday, September 29, 2.30pm AEST
• TV AND RADIO: Click here for broadcast guide
• AFL Match Centre
• Weather: Cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of showers, chiefly in the morning. Max 14
• MCG Event page

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MCG Fact Sheet
http://www.mcc.org.au/_/media/files/mcc/library/fact-sheets/20180929_gf_-wc_v_coll.pdf?la=en

 

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WEST COAST V COLLINGWOOD

EAGLES:

B: Hurn, Barrass, Schofield
HB: Cole, McGovern, Jetta
C: Redden, Yeo, Masten
HF: Hutchings, Darling, LeCras
F: Rioli, Kennedy, Cripps
FOLL: Lycett, Shuey, Sheed

I/C: Ryan, Duggan, Venables, Vardy

EMG: O.Allen, Nelson, Ainsworth, Ah Chee


MAGPIES

B: Brayden Maynard, Tom Langdon, Jack Crisp
HB: Jeremy Howe, Tyson Goldsack, Travis Varcoe
C: Adam Treloar, Scott Pendlebury, Tom Phillips
HF: Will Hoskin-Elliott, Brody Mihocek, Jordan De Goey
F: Josh Thomas, Mason Cox, Jaidyn Stephenson
Foll: Brodie Grundy, Taylor Adams, Steele Sidebottom

Int: Brayden Sier, James Aish, Chris Mayne, Levi Greenwood

Emg: Jarryd Blair, Ben Reid, Callum Brown, Flynn Appleby

 

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[mick500]

Go umpires! Best of luck, I hope you get as much meeeeee time as possible. Remember, today is all about you!!

 

[mick500]

Will also be very interested to hear the commentators call the pies fans cheering "the noise of affirmation" like they do in Perth, Sydney, Adelaide rather than just "how great is this passionate pies fan noise, sleeping Giants blah blah blah, Buckley fairy tale blah blah blah."

 

[droughtbuster]

Game Day. As a magpies fan cannot believe that we are here but now we are am nervous as anything.

Hope the boys bring the pressure and hard work of last week and feel it could unsettle the west coast. Always worried about Kennedy and Darling but if we win the midfield we should win the game.

The big spanner in the works is Cox's form. I think he can do it again and contribute 2 - 3 goals!

Come on the magpies and for all the pies fans enjoy the big day!

 

[mick500]

Buckley is to never be involved in a premiership. Hasn't he read the tea leaves? Pies aren't ready for this match. Short of an umpiring miracle they get beaten by 5 goals plus.

 

[mick500]

Always worried about Kennedy

Don't worry too much. Karl langdon was asked if mcgovern would play this week on the radio with rowey and Bicks and he said "Don't worry about mcgovern" he then said "Kennedy is playing with a broken leg, lecras with a broken wrist and someone else with cracked ribs. Plenty of injured Eagles players going out there." Then theres mcgovern.

 

[mick500]

As a neutral I'm just hoping for some biffo. It's a GF. Don't pull a crows, don't leave anything out there . If the time calls for an all in brawl, do it. We should have at qtr time last year. But lever was a knob instead.

 

[Xtreme]

Happy grand final day everyone.

 

[mick500]

Happy grand final day everyone.

Yeah, hope it's as miserable for everyone as it was for us this time last year.

 

[Johnny_Dogg4]

Feels like Christmas morning.

Hope this is a close cracking game

 

[wce4premiership]

UP THA BLOODY COASTERS!!!

 

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[Lsta062]

Would have loved if this was Richmond vs West Coast but it is what it is

Go West Coast!

 

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[The_Big_Ship]

Eagles by 30.

Jack Darling Norm Smith.