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\u201cIt just didn\u2019t feel like we connected that well, this week, again. But it\u2019s one of those hard games when you dominate so much of the territory, you\u2019re winning it back and you\u2019re going into such density, so it makes it really hard to score,\u201d McRae explained of his side\u2019s forward-half inefficiency during his post-game press conference. <\/p>\n
\u201cCan\u2019t help but feel frustrated in that game, because you feel like you\u2019ve done so much right, and then you don\u2019t get the nourishment of the four points. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s many layers to it, but our connection (going) inside 50 wasn\u2019t at the level it has been, (but) also we thought we did enough to get the job done today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pies will be ruing the events of the third quarter in particular; generating 20 inside-50s to Fremantle\u2019s six for just one goal to take a slender nine-point lead into the final change. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn hindsight, I did feel like we were dominating the game, and we probably didn\u2019t get the scoreboard reward for effort \u2014 it definitely felt that way at three-quarter time,\u201d McRae said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe go into three-quarter-time with a margin, (and) I had this real inner trust and belief that we were doing enough right in the game all game … you guys watch us play; the pressure was there. We had a lot of good stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Collingwood is the league\u2019s best defence this year, but after losing Jeremy Howe and Dan Houston to injury \u2014 joining underrated key backman Billy Frampton on the sidelines \u2014 the Pies conceded their biggest score in nine matches, since they gave up 83 points to the Dockers in their first meeting of the season back in May. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey scored a lot easier than what teams have done against us in the past (for) per-inside-50 conversion. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ll learn some good lessons around that. I think this is a day we\u2019ll sit back \u2014 we want to get better every single day \u2014 this is one of those game we look at and go \u2018Okay, we\u2019ve got some work to do\u2019, and I\u2019d rather be learning those lessons now than learning them later on in the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘Grity’ & ‘brave’ Freo win over Pies | 12:27<\/p>\n
Victorious Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir was probed on a contentious moment in the second quarter that saw one of his troops penalised 50 metres for \u2018umpire dissent\u2019. <\/p>\n
Young Dockers defender Karl Worner paid a heavy price for his decision to point to the scoreboard after giving up a free kick for high contact against Lachie Schultz. <\/p>\n
After directing the adjudicating umpire\u2019s attention to the MCG scoreboard replay while pleading his case, the umpire marched him from roughly the 50-metre arc to the goalsquare for \u2018dissent\u2019 as a punishment, resulting in the simplest of Collingwood majors. <\/p>\n
And post-match on Sunday, when quizzed on whether he thought Worner was harshly adjudicated given the lack of such calls made in the past 12-18 months, Longmuir began by saying: \u201cI think that\u2019s a great summary\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not allowed to say anything about it, but how often have we seen that paid this year?<\/p>\n
\u201cI see it 10, 20 times every weekend, players pointing (at the scoreboard). I just don\u2019t see it paid. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, are we going to stamp it out, or are we not? Is it going to be paid, or is it not? I don\u2019t make that call.\u201d<\/p>\n
At half-time of Fremantle\u2019s one-point win, the Fox Footy broadcast panel circled back to the controversial incident, with former Melbourne captain Garry Lyon calling the inconsistent interpretation \u201crubbish\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat just annoys me no end,\u201d he began. \u201cIf you are going to pay that, you\u2019re paying 50 of those free kicks (per) weekend for the last 18 weeks. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd what? (In) Round 19, halfway through the second quarter of a Sunday game, you decide that\u2019s dissent? That is rubbish. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we lose our confidence in the umpire department. That\u2019s not on, that \u2026 if you\u2019re going to pay it, pay it every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the space of a fortnight, Collingwood, heralded as the close-game masters for multiple years, has lost two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[10136,638,64,63,55,639,10135,10125,10133,10143,10128,10129,10124,10145,5330,3231,10132,10126,10140,10131,7495,10127,668,10130,10137,10142,10134,10144,85,10138,10141,10139],"class_list":["post-8186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adjudicating-umpire","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-broadcast-panel","tag-close-game-masters","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-dan-houston","tag-dissent-call","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-garry-lyon","tag-head-coach","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jeremy-howe","tag-justin-longmuir-on-karl-worner","tag-lachie-schultz","tag-one-point-win","tag-post-game-press-conference","tag-premiership-points","tag-press-conference","tag-real-inner-trust","tag-scoreboard-replay","tag-scoreboard-reward","tag-single-day","tag-single-time","tag-sports","tag-territory-game","tag-umpire-department","tag-umpire-dissent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186","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=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}