{"id":67015,"date":"2025-08-14T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67015\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:53:15","slug":"rory-sloane-eddie-mcguire-and-nine-experts-pick-their-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67015\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Sloane, Eddie McGuire and Nine experts pick their winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon<\/a> goal kicking champion Matthew Lloyd<\/a> believes Saturday night’s clash with Adelaide<\/a> might just be “do or die” for Collingwood’s<\/a> premiership hopes.<\/p>\n

A loss would be the Magpies’ fifth in the last six weeks and put them at risk of missing the top four altogether, after sitting 10 points clear in first before the slump.<\/p>\n

Collingwood has had a perfect recent record against Adelaide, however, winning their last 10 encounters, though the last few have been by 10, four, two, one and five points respectively. <\/p>\n

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\"Craig<\/p>\n

Craig McRae, Collingwood coach.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Lloyd believes they need to make it 11 if they are to have any hope of contending for a premiership this season.<\/p>\n

“They (Adelaide) couldn’t get Collingwood at a better time with the way Collingwood are playing,” Lloyd told Nine’s Today.<\/p>\n

“Collingwood has lost four of their last five. They’ve been in freefall. They seem to be lacking a lot of confidence. Their system has broken down.<\/p>\n

“If Adelaide is ever going to beat them, at home, on top of the ladder, this is the game to do it.<\/p>\n

“Collingwood has been coming off a lot of short breaks and they are coming off a good break. If the are to win (the flag) this Collingwood they need to win on Friday night.<\/p>\n

“Like, you don’t win a premiership losing five out of six games coming into finals. It’s a really big night for Collingwood.<\/p>\n

“I think it is do or die. They have to turn it around and this is the night they have to do it. We’ll find out a lot about where they’re at. So many players out of form, they’ve been breaking down defensively, we’ll see what they’ve got.”<\/p>\n

Collingwood is expecting forward Beau McCreery to return from injury, though Norm Smith Medallist Bobby Hill will not play. <\/p>\n

It’s a big game for the Crows as well. A win would effectively seal the minor premiership, an incredible achievement given they finished in the bottom four last year. <\/p>\n

A loss would give Geelong<\/a> a chance to unseat them come the end of the season, though it’ll come down to percentage. <\/p>\n

Of Nine’s expert tipsters, Eddie McGuire<\/a> and Tony Jones<\/a> are backing Collingwood to cause the upset at the Adelaide Oval and topple the Crows.<\/p>\n

\"AFL<\/p>\n

AFL tipping leaderboard after round 22.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Expert tips for round 23<\/p>\n

Jimmy Bartel: St Kilda, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Carlton, Hawthorn, Collingwood, Richmond, Geelong, Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Rory Sloane: St Kilda, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Carlton, Hawthorn, Adelaide, North Melbourne, Geelong, Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Tom Morris: St Kilda, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Carlton, Hawthorn, Adelaide, North Melbourne, Geelong, Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Eddie McGuire: St Kilda, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Carlton, Hawthorn, Collingwood, North Melbourne, Geelong, Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Clint Stanaway: St Kilda, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Carlton, Hawthorn, Adelaide, North Melbourne, Geelong, Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Nat Yoannidis: St Kilda, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Port Adelaide, Hawthorn, Adelaide, Richmond, Geelong, Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n

Tony Jones: St Kilda, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Carlton, Hawthorn, Collingwood, DRAW, Sydney, Western Bulldogs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon goal kicking champion Matthew Lloyd believes Saturday night’s clash with Adelaide might just be “do or die”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-67015","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\/67015","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=67015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}