{"id":170490,"date":"2025-09-26T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170490\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:56:07","slug":"pies-go-down-in-dog-fight-in-grand-final-eve-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170490\/","title":{"rendered":"Pies go down in dog fight in Grand Final Eve clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Match Report\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Collingwood have gone down to the Western Bulldogs by 57 points in their AFL Grand Final Eve clash under lights at Mission Whitten Oval.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By Danielle Croci, afl.com.au\n                            <\/p>\n<p>Collingwood have gone down to the Western Bulldogs by 57 points in their AFL Grand Final Eve clash under lights at Mission Whitten Oval.<\/p>\n<p>The Pies haven&#8217;t won an opening quarter since round one, and that continued on Friday night with a scoreless start. In fact, the Bulldogs had two goals on the board before the Pies had even entered their forward 50.<\/p>\n<p>BULLDOGS v MAGPIES\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/aflw\/matches\/7920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took just two minutes for the Bulldogs to pounce, with Sarah Hartwig capitalising on a spill from about 15m out for her first goal of the season, and then setting up Blackburn&#8217;s moments later.<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood&#8217;s first score came in the 17th minute of the second quarter from 19-year-old Ash Centra, courtesy of vision from Sarah Rowe to square her kick to the top of the goal square, where Centra took a tumbling grab and converted for her sixth AFLW goal.<\/p>\n<p>The third quarter was much more even, with the ball spending more time in Collingwood&#8217;s attacking 50, but with little reward.<\/p>\n<p>Collingwood Vice Captain Jordy Allen stood tall in the backline alongside second-year defender Lucy Cronin, with the two combining for 12 intercept possessions &#8211; the latter also leading the team in metres gained with 286.<\/p>\n<p>After Captain Ruby Schleicher went down in the third quarter following a corked thigh, midfielder Carly Remmos stood up &#8211; finishing with 15 disposals and 12 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<br \/>Collingwood will travel to Perth to face the West Coast Eagles in a Sunday afternoon clash at Mineral Resources Park at 5:05pm (AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>WESTERN BULLDOGS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05.4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10.5 (65)<br \/>COLLINGWOOD\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a00.0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.2 (8)<\/p>\n<p>GOALS<br \/>Western Bulldogs:\u00a0Blackburn 4, Hartwig 2, Wilcox, McDonald, Fitzgerald, Edmonds<br \/>Collingwood:\u00a0Centra<\/p>\n<p>BEST\u00a0<br \/>Western Bulldogs:\u00a0Blackburn, Pritchard, Hartwig, Edmonds, Wilcox<br \/>Collingwood:\u00a0Schleicher, Cronin, Allen, Remmos<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES<br \/>Western Bulldogs:\u00a0Nil<br \/>Collingwood: Schleicher (corked thigh)<\/p>\n<p>Reports:\u00a0Nil<\/p>\n<p>Crowd:\u00a02016 at Mission Whitten Oval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Collingwood have gone down to the Western Bulldogs by 57 points in their AFL Grand Final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-170490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170490","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=170490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}