{"id":8009,"date":"2025-07-20T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8009\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:40:09","slug":"fremantle-dockers-stun-collingwood-magpies-at-the-mcg-to-cause-enormous-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/8009\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremantle Dockers stun Collingwood Magpies at the MCG to cause enormous upset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fremantle<\/a> have stunned Collingwood<\/a> at the MCG to put themselves in a great position to secure a top eight spot.<\/p>\n

The game went down to the final seconds, with the Dockers pinching the lead at the death to flip the result.<\/p>\n

The Pies led by a game-high 23 points early in the fourth term, before Fremantle kicked the final four of the match to win it. <\/p>\n

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\"Josh<\/p>\n

Josh Treacy of the Dockers celebrates as the final siren sounds.\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

It was a Shai Bolton set shot behind that gave Freo the lead in the final 90 seconds, with the Pies unable to respond.<\/p>\n

Former Docker Lachie Schultz had a snap in the dying seconds for Collingwood, but the shot was marked on the goal line by Fremantle’s Josh Treacy, sealing the result.<\/p>\n

Nick Daicos led the way for the Magpies, finding 43 disposals and kicking a goal, while Caleb Serong was similarly enormous with 37 disposals and a goal himself.<\/p>\n

Patrick Voss, who was delisted by Essendon, had an enormous afternoon, booting six goals.<\/p>\n

For Fremantle, the result is enormous as the unexpected win means they likely only need two more to secure a finals spot.<\/p>\n

They play West Coast, Carlton, Port Adelaide (away), Brisbane and the Western Bulldogs (away) to close the season. They could easily win their next two and put the onus on the others in the pack to catch them.<\/p>\n

The pressure now is squarely on the likes of GWS, Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs, with the first two having difficult run homes, and the Dogs now finding themselves two games behind the others.<\/p>\n

Successive losses for Collingwood however has eroded the wiggle room they had on top of the ladder, as they now only sit two points clear of Brisbane and one win clear of Adelaide.<\/p>\n

They still must play both the Lions and Crows in the final five weeks and are now in danger of losing the minor premiership.<\/p>\n

Especially given Adelaide now boasts a stronger percentage than them.<\/p>\n

Given the tight nature of the result, every close umpiring decision will be scrutinized.<\/p>\n

Had it been Collingwood who won narrowly, all fingers would have been pointing at a strange call in the first half, where the Pies were awarded a 50m penalty for dissent.<\/p>\n

\"Collingwood<\/p>\n

Collingwood coach Craig McRae has a bit to think about.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Freo’s Karl Worner was penalised for pointing at the venue’s big screen, something the adjudicating umpire clearly took offence to.<\/p>\n

Melbourne great Garry Lyon was stunned by the call, particularly given it has barely been enforced in 2025.<\/p>\n

“That hasn’t happened for 12 months, just a disgrace,” he said on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n

St Kilda champion Nick Riewoldt was equally bemused by the call, labelling it “ridiculous, selective umpiring”.<\/p>\n

Both teams would benefit from umpiring calls naturally, with Bolton’s match-winning behind coming from a high contact free kick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle have stunned Collingwood at the MCG to put themselves in a great position to secure a top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-8009","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\/8009","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=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}