Jordan De Goey leads Collingwood to victory against Richmond as Jack Riewoldt suffers injury
Already hurting after a tough loss, there may be more bad news on the way for Richmond with star defender Dylan Grimes to be looked at closely by the MRO for a late hit on Jamie Elliott. Is he in trouble?
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A future career in list management might not be dead after all for Adam Treloar.
The midfielder boldly declared Collingwood’s young squad had Richmond’s covered when he chose the Magpies over the Tigers four years ago, and that looked a blunder when Trent Cotchin lifted the 2017 premiership cup.
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But in the past three games Richmond has lost to Collingwood twice — including in a preliminary final — and Alex Rance for the season.
The pain could deepen with the possibility full-forward Jack Riewoldt has a small crack in his right wrist after a big fall early in the second quarter.
Riewoldt battled on but looked bothered and, while Richmond’s big four — Rance, Riewoldt, Trent Cotchin and Dustin Martin — has been bulletproof for so long, playing without two of the four would change this team’s whole complexion.
A crack for Jack would likely require a month of healing.
Riewoldt ran down the race for 11 minutes of treatment in the final quarter, jogging past an animated Damien Hardwick, who coached from the sidelines.
The scoreboard flattered the gutsy Tigers for the first three quarters as they desperately hung on, despite being grossly outplayed.
But they wake up this morning at 1-1 and with question marks mounting.
He has some headaches, Dimma, none bigger than the fixture.
They face GWS at Giants Stadium next week, then Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval and Melbourne on Anzac eve in Round 6.
Nick Vlastuin did an impressive job in Rance’s absence last night but that draw is far from ideal for a team figuring out how to replace a great.
For a defence already missing Rance and Bachar Houli, it was untimely of Dylan Grimes to throw an elbow at Jamie Elliott’s face in the dying minutes last night.
MARK THIS DOWN AS A PROBLEM
Collingwood’s total control of the Sherrin was spelled out by the uncontested marks. The Magpies led 42-9 at the first break, 88-31 at halftime, 120-53 at the final change while uncontested possessions finished up 338-185. They dictated the tempo, knew when to hold and when to be bold. It was like the Tigers were playing under the roof at Docklands — they had no outside game. Brodie Mihocek was on track to better Mason Cox’s preliminary final when he pulled in a career-best four contested marks in the first 15 minutes. The ball gets lost in Mihocek’s mitts, the man who played fullback in Port Melbourne’s 2017 VFL flag. Mihocek’s gone from stopping goals in the state league to booting them for the Pies in the big league. While Mihocek marked under pressure his mates did it in space with Jack Crisp, Jeremy Howe and Steele Sidebottom among the chief controllers.
“I OWE HIM ONE”
Richmond’s unlikely charge peaked when Shane Edwards’ goal after the halftime siren gave his team three in two minutes. But it should’ve been Kamdyn McIntosh who took the holding the ball free kick after pinging Sidebottom in a tackle. Magpie great Mick McGuane labelled it a “disgraceful decision” when the umpire handed Edwards the ball. Edwards admitted at halftime: “I thought it was his kick, so I guess I owe him one”. The All- Edwards appeared to floor Treloar with a rib-tickler minutes earlier, although given the match review officer’s lenient assessment of Round 1 he probably didn’t lose too much sleep last night.
That is a disgraceful decision to allow Shane Edwards @Richmond_FC be given the free kick. How the umpires could get it so wrong. Kamdyn McIntosh was the player that tackled Steele Sidebottom @CollingwoodFC so it should have been his shot at goal. #AFLTigersPies
— Michael McGuane (@MickMCG34) March 28, 2019
JORDY SURE
Jordan De Goey was the worst player on the ground at quarter-time. His stats read one clanger kick for -1 SuperCoach points. By halftime it was obvious De Goey is de man and by the final change he was a key reason they were going to win. De Goey’s second goal followed a speccy on Oleg Markov and it would’ve been three in a row for him if not for handing Treloar one in the goalsquare. A selfless De Goey booted five when he could’ve had seven. North Melbourne knew what it was doing when it threw $5 million at this bloke.
ARE TIGER ISSUES ABOUT TO GET WORSE?
Already hurting after a tough loss, there may be more bad news on the way for Richmond.
To rub salt in the wound, Dylan Grimes faces a nervous wait to see how a lunging high elbow on Jamie Elliott will be assessed by the match review officer.
Elliott got straight up after the contact but did go to the bench.
SCOREBOARD
RICHMOND 10.6 (66)
LT
COLLINGWOOD 17.8 (110)
GOALS
Richmond: Lynch 3, Short 2, Higgins 2, Edwards 2, Rioli
Collingwood: De Goey 5, Cox 2, Mihocek 2, Stephenson 2, Thomas, Treloar, Phillips, Mayne, Pendlebury, Elliott
SAM LANDSBERGER’S BEST
Richmond: Edwards, Short, Ellis, Cotchin, Lynch
Collingwood: Mayne, Pendlebury, De Goey, Crisp, Grundy, Treloar, Phillips, Beams
SAM LANDSBERGER’S VOTES
3. Chris Mayne (Coll)
2. Scott Pendlebury (Coll)
1. Jordan De Goey (Coll)
INJURIES
Richmond: Riewoldt (wrist)
Collingwood: Nil
Reports: Nil
Umpires: Chamberlain, Foot, Gianfagna
Official crowd: 70,699 at the MCG
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