2007 AFL Season Elimination Final 2: Collingwood v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 8 September 2007 between Collingwood and Sydney in the second elimination final of the 2007 season of the Australian Football League. Collingwood hosted Sydney at the MCG. Nathan Buckley captained the hosts. Brett Kirk captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mick Malthouse and the visitors were coached by Paul Roos.

Collingwood (18.17.125) defeated Sydney (13.9.87).

Match Details

Season: 2007 AFL Season
Round: Second Elimination Final
Teams: Collingwood v Sydney
Date: Saturday 8 September 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 64,645

Match Results

Outcome: Collingwood def. Sydney
Score: 18.17.125 - 13.9.87

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Collingwood	6	.	5	8	.	9	13	.	12	18	.	17	18	.	17	(125)
Sydney	1	.	4	7	.	5	9	.	8	13	.	9	13	.	9	(87)
Margin	COLL by 31			COLL by 10			COLL by 28			COLL by 38			COLL by 38
Duration	31:26			29:12			28:36			32:42			2:01:56

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Collingwood) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Sydney) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Collingwood

Captain: Nathan Buckley
Coach: Mick Malthouse

Sydney

Captain: Brett Kirk
Coach: Paul Roos

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. McBurney (#3)
S. McInerney (#30)
M. Stevic (#9)

Player Statistics

Collingwood

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
5	Buckley, Nathan (c)	WR	74%	1	0	19	11	8	4	0	5	1	0	1	0	1	2
17	Burns, Scott	C	65%	0	0	15	5	10	4	0	4	2	2	2	1	0	4
43	Clarke, Martin	WL	89%	0	0	16	5	11	3	0	1	4	2	1	0	3	0
8	Clement, James	BPL	94%	0	0	6	6	0	4	0	2	0	2	1	0	2	0
32	Cloke, Travis	FF	90%	3	2	18	14	4	9	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	7
1	Davis, Leon	RO	75%	1	1	14	13	1	2	0	5	4	0	0	0	2	2
4	Didak, Alan	INT	70%	1	0	17	15	2	3	0	3	2	6	2	3	1	4
25	Fraser, Josh	INT	64%	0	1	9	7	2	2	15	4	2	1	4	0	0	2
38	Goldsack, Tyson	HBFR	88%	0	1	12	6	6	3	0	4	0	0	2	0	3	0
24	Lockyer, Tarkyn	BPR	88%	0	0	14	7	7	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	4
30	Lumumba, Heritier	CHB	100%	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	9	1	3	1	2	4	1
27	Maxwell, Nick	HFFL	93%	0	0	12	8	4	2	1	6	1	3	2	1	2	1
7	Medhurst, Paul	HFFR	85%	1	2	17	15	2	7	0	1	0	6	1	1	1	5
11	O'Bree, Shane	INT	60%	0	0	15	11	4	3	0	4	2	2	1	1	1	3
10	Pendlebury, Scott	RR	83%	1	0	24	15	9	4	0	5	6	5	3	2	3	6
21	Richards, Guy	RU	59%	0	0	11	9	2	3	16	1	5	1	1	1	0	1
23	Rocca, Anthony	CHF	89%	6	0	16	11	5	9	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2
2	Rusling, Sean	FPR	99%	3	2	13	9	4	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
39	Shaw, Heath	HBFL	97%	0	0	23	14	9	10	0	2	1	3	2	1	4	3
36	Swan, Dane	INT	68%	1	0	17	13	4	5	0	4	1	4	0	2	4	2
13	Thomas, Dale	FPL	77%	0	2	12	9	3	4	1	4	1	1	1	0	0	2
14	Wakelin, Shane	FB	93%	0	0	10	10	0	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0
Rushed					6
Total (22 players)				18	17	321	219	102	102	33	68	35	45	27	16	34	53

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
41	Barlow, Ed	INT	68%	0	0	9	7	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	2
21	Barry, Leo	FB	100%	0	0	15	8	7	0	0	4	0	2	0	1	4	1
42	Bevan, Paul	HBFL	81%	0	1	11	7	4	9	0	2	1	3	0	0	2	0
6	Bolton, Craig	CHB	100%	0	0	11	7	4	3	1	0	1	3	0	1	4	3
24	Bolton, Jude	RR	87%	1	1	22	10	12	5	1	4	2	4	3	3	2	0
28	Crouch, Jared	FPL	74%	0	0	11	8	3	1	0	1	1	3	2	3	3	2
2	Davis, Nick	FPR	85%	2	0	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
26	Dempster, Sean	HBFR	76%	0	0	11	7	4	5	1	3	0	1	1	0	2	2
10	Everitt, Peter	INT	49%	0	0	9	2	7	1	18	0	4	2	1	0	0	1
12	Fosdike, Nic	INT	76%	1	0	11	9	2	1	0	2	1	3	0	2	1	3
37	Goodes, Adam	RO	98%	0	2	29	15	14	11	0	0	5	4	1	1	2	5
1	Hall, Barry	FF	88%	1	2	12	9	3	6	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	3
16	Jolly, Darren	RU	51%	0	0	6	5	1	2	14	0	3	0	0	0	0	2
31	Kirk, Brett (c)	C	88%	1	0	26	16	10	5	0	7	6	6	1	3	3	8
9	Malceski, Nick	WL	89%	2	0	23	15	8	7	0	3	0	7	1	3	1	7
4	Mathews, Ben	HFFR	81%	0	0	16	9	7	4	0	2	2	2	0	0	2	1
3	McVeigh, Jarrad	WR	71%	0	1	12	8	4	4	0	2	2	1	0	1	1	3
5	O'Keefe, Ryan	HFFL	95%	0	0	11	8	3	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	4
19	O'Loughlin, Michael	CHF	92%	4	1	15	11	4	8	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	2
25	Richards, Ted	BPL	93%	0	0	14	7	7	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1
30	Roberts-Thomson, Lewis	BPR	91%	0	0	12	6	6	5	1	0	0	3	1	1	4	0
13	Schneider, Adam	INT	67%	1	0	8	4	4	3	0	3	2	2	1	2	0	1
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				13	9	298	181	117	88	36	37	30	55	16	27	32	51

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

Collingwood							Coach: Mick Malthouse
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	25	T. Richards	21	L. Barry	30	L. Roberts-Thomson	21	G. Richards	4	A. Didak
	2	S. Rusling	32	T. Cloke	13	D. Thomas	10	S. Pendlebury	25	J. Fraser
FORWARD							1	L. Davis	11	S. O'Bree
HALF-BACK									36	D. Swan
	42	P. Bevan	6	C. Bolton	26	S. Dempster
	7	P. Medhurst	23	A. Rocca	27	N. Maxwell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	9	N. Malceski	31	B. Kirk (c)	3	J. McVeigh
	5	N. Buckley (c)	17	S. Burns	43	M. Clarke	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							16	D. Jolly	41	E. Barlow
HALF-FORWARD							24	J. Bolton	10	P. Everitt
	5	R. O'Keefe	19	M. O'Loughlin	4	B. Mathews	37	A. Goodes	12	N. Fosdike
	38	T. Goldsack	30	H. Lumumba	39	H. Shaw			13	A. Schneider
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	28	J. Crouch	1	B. Hall	2	N. Davis
	24	T. Lockyer	14	S. Wakelin	8	J. Clement
BACK
Sydney							Coach: Paul Roos

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:03
	COLL	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	05:21
	SYDN	Nick Malceski goal	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	07:04
	COLL	Travis Cloke goal	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	08:54
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	10:30
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	2.1.13	-	1.2.8	12:09
	COLL	Travis Cloke behind	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	14:30
	COLL	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	1.2.8	15:52
	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh behind	2.3.15	-	1.3.9	19:36
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	2.3.15	-	1.4.10	20:37
	COLL	Josh Fraser behind	2.4.16	-	1.4.10	21:57
	COLL	Alan Didak goal	3.4.22	-	1.4.10	22:38
	COLL	Dale Thomas behind	3.5.23	-	1.4.10	23:36
	COLL	Scott Pendlebury goal	4.5.29	-	1.4.10	24:21
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	5.5.35	-	1.4.10	26:50
	COLL	Sean Rusling goal	6.5.41	-	1.4.10	30:40
Q2	SYDN	Brett Kirk goal	6.5.41	-	2.4.16	02:15
	SYDN	Nick Davis goal	6.5.41	-	3.4.22	05:49
	COLL	Sean Rusling behind	6.6.42	-	3.4.22	08:06
	COLL	Leon Davis goal	7.6.48	-	3.4.22	11:05
	COLL	Paul Medhurst behind	7.7.49	-	3.4.22	12:30
	COLL	Sean Rusling goal	8.7.55	-	3.4.22	14:47
	COLL	Sean Rusling behind	8.8.56	-	3.4.22	19:24
	SYDN	Nic Fosdike goal	8.8.56	-	4.4.28	21:14
	SYDN	Adam Schneider goal	8.8.56	-	5.4.34	23:27
	SYDN	Rushed behind	8.8.56	-	5.5.35	24:59
	SYDN	Nick Davis goal	8.8.56	-	6.5.41	26:20
	COLL	Rushed behind	8.9.57	-	6.5.41	27:30
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	8.9.57	-	7.5.47	29:08
Q3	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	8.9.57	-	8.5.53	01:22
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	9.9.63	-	8.5.53	03:15
	COLL	Dane Swan goal	10.9.69	-	8.5.53	05:20
	COLL	Sean Rusling goal	11.9.75	-	8.5.53	07:05
	COLL	Rushed behind	11.10.76	-	8.5.53	08:49
	SYDN	Barry Hall behind	11.10.76	-	8.6.54	10:45
	COLL	Travis Cloke goal	12.10.82	-	8.6.54	13:11
	SYDN	Paul Bevan behind	12.10.82	-	8.7.55	18:19
	SYDN	Jude Bolton behind	12.10.82	-	8.8.56	20:00
	COLL	Rushed behind	12.11.83	-	8.8.56	21:08
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	13.11.89	-	8.8.56	24:12
	COLL	Tyson Goldsack behind	13.12.90	-	8.8.56	26:25
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	13.12.90	-	9.8.62	27:11
Q4	COLL	Travis Cloke goal	14.12.96	-	9.8.62	01:10
	COLL	Paul Medhurst behind	14.13.97	-	9.8.62	02:20
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	14.13.97	-	10.8.68	03:40
	COLL	Nathan Buckley goal	15.13.103	-	10.8.68	05:37
	COLL	Paul Medhurst goal	16.13.109	-	10.8.68	06:59
	SYDN	Nick Malceski goal	16.13.109	-	11.8.74	08:51
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	17.13.115	-	11.8.74	10:31
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	17.13.115	-	11.9.75	11:42
	COLL	Leon Davis behind	17.14.116	-	11.9.75	14:57
	COLL	Rushed behind	17.15.117	-	11.9.75	15:33
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	17.15.117	-	12.9.81	16:40
	COLL	Anthony Rocca goal	18.15.123	-	12.9.81	21:54
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	18.15.123	-	13.9.87	23:58
	COLL	Travis Cloke behind	18.16.124	-	13.9.87	25:35
	COLL	Dale Thomas behind	18.17.125	-	13.9.87	26:27

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