{"id":118286,"date":"2025-09-04T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118286\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:14:08","slug":"afl-pies-into-prelim-after-downing-adelaide-in-qualifying-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118286\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL: Pies into prelim after downing Adelaide in qualifying final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collingwood have produced 15 minutes of magic to sink Adelaide by 24 points in the AFL<\/a>‘s first qualifying final.<\/p>\n

The Pies booked a home preliminary final in a fortnight with a character-filled 11.13 (79) to 8.7 (55) victory at Adelaide Oval on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Adelaide will host a home semi-final next week after being blitzed by the Magpies in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

After leading by six points at halftime, Collingwood booted five majors to none in a golden quarter-hour.<\/p>\n

Nick Daicos celebrates a goal against the Crows.\u00a0Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Pies’ 34-year-old veteran Steele Sidebottom triggered the onslaught with two left-footed snaps in a game-breaking burst.<\/p>\n

The visitors scored five goals to three in what is widely-dubbed ‘the premiership quarter’ – and the feat gives Craig McRae’s outfit inside running on the path to this year’s grand final.<\/p>\n

Sidebottom’s two left snaps – punctuated by a near-identical major from Jordan De Goey – came in four minutes that stunned the 52,187-strong pro-Adelaide crowd.<\/p>\n

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The Pies added two more to create a match-high 35-point advantage before Adelaide could reply.<\/p>\n

The Crows, in their first final since 2017, scored three consecutive goals to reduce their three-quarter-time deficit to 19 points.<\/p>\n

But the gap proved too wide in the final term as minor premier Adelaide’s nine-game winning streak ended.<\/p>\n

Magpie great Sidebottom, in his 353rd AFL game, finished with three majors, as did his 33-year-old teammate Jamie Elliott.<\/p>\n

De Goey (26 disposals), Nick Daicos (24), his brother Josh (23) and Ned Long (23) were prolific ball-winners and captain Darcy Moore was pivotal early with six intercept marks by halftime and 10 grabs for the game.<\/p>\n

Adelaide’s Luke Pedlar kicked three goals, Taylor Walker scored two in his 300th AFL game, and defender Josh Worrell (26 touches, six marks) was a standout.<\/p>\n

But the Crows midfield was collectively overwhelmed with captain and prime mover Jordan Dawson restricted to 19 disposals by the ferocious Magpies.<\/p>\n

Adelaide’s loss keeps Izak Rankine’s hopes alive of playing again this season – he will have served his four-game ban for a homophobic slur should the Crows reach the grand final.<\/p>\n

Adelaide missed Rankine’s on-field spark as Collingwood made the perfect start with goals to Elliott and Nick Daicos.<\/p>\n

But the Crows’ milestone man Walker and Dawson responded with majors – the visitors held a 2.3 to 2.1 buffer at quarter-time.<\/p>\n

The clubs scored three goals each in the second term, with all players involved in a push-and-shove after the halftime siren when the Magpies led by six points, 5.7 to 5.1.<\/p>\n

Collingwood then applied their blowtorch in their pressure-packed third-term, with their scoring accompanied by fierce tackling which rattled their hosts.<\/p>\n

The Pies led 10.11 to 8.4 at the last break and then expertly stifled scoring to close out the victory. No side scored a goal until Elliott’s fourth major with less than 30 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood have produced 15 minutes of magic to sink Adelaide by 24 points in the AFL‘s first qualifying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-118286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}