Collingwood Player Reports

Luke Ball
14 touches and 5 marks plus 3 tackles... left hamstring cramp in Q3 and was mothballed in an effort to get him right for next week

Leigh Brown
The hardest working and most effective big man on the ground... 15 possessions and 7 marks with 7 tackles plus 1.0
Brown also had 11 hit outs.

Scott Pendlebury
Had a sensational Q1 to set up the Collingwood win... 24 disposals and 7 tackles plus 2.0
Pendlebury also had 3 marks.

Travis Varcoe
Trying to get dangerous on Maxwell... 2.0 from 19 touches and 4 marks with 3 tackles

Nick Maxwell
Geelong trying to keep him honest with Varcoe on him... 14 disposals and 7 marks
Maxwell also had 2 tackles.

Dane Swan
Head to head with Ablett jnr... 33 touches and 4 tackles with 7 marks and 2.1

Alan Toovey
Stood Chapman when he was forward... 11 disposals and 11 tackles
Toovey also had 4 grabs.

Alan Didak
Tagged by Corey... 1.3 from 28 possessions and 6 marks

Ben Johnson
22 disposals and 8 marks with 2 tackles and 1.0

Brent Macaffer
13 possessions and 5 marks on Josh Hunt
Macaffer added 5 tackles and kicked 1.1.

Ben Reid
Has Podsiadly... 9 marks and 13 touches

Steele Sidebottom
2.1 from 14 disposals with 3 tackles
Sidebottom also had 4 grabs.

Darren Jolly
18 hit outs and 4 possessions
Jolly also had 3 tackles.

Jarryd Blair
8 possessions and 5 tackles
Blair added 2 marks and 0.1.

Dayne Beams
16 possessions and 5 marks
Beams added 2 tackles and 1.1.

Geelong Player Reports

Cameron Ling
Looked slow as treacle... couldn't go with any Pie mids so played forward a lot... 29 possessions and 5 tackles plus 0.1... lots of garbage time stuff
Ling also had 2 marks.

Cameron Mooney
Booted 1.1 from 9 disposals on Nathan Brown... no Cat big man got into the game at all tonight

Jimmy Bartel
15 handballs among 29 possessions with 4 tackles and 5 hit outs... also 1.0 very late in Q4
Bartel also had 6 grabs.

Tom Hawkins
Thrashed by Leigh Brown around the ground... 12 hit outs and 8 possessions with 5 tackles

Gary Ablett jnr
Head to head with Swan... 40 touches (24 by hand) and 4 tackles with 3 marks and 0.1

Matthew Scarlett
Allowed to be loose in defence... 21 possessions and 10 marks

Harry Taylor
Surprisingly started on Dawes... 16 possessions and 6 marks

Brad Ottens
15 hit outs and 5 tackles plus 1.0
Ottens also had 5 disposals.

Joel Corey
Tagging Didak... 30 possessions
Corey contributed with 2 marks, 3 tackles and 3 hit outs.

Tom Lonergan
Chasing Cloke... 7 possessions
Lonergan also had 3 marks.

Corey Enright
17 possessions and 4 tackles
Enright also had 2 marks.

Joel Selwood
21 touches and 8 tackles
Selwood added 5 marks and kicked 0.1.

Darren Milburn
19 touches and 6 marks
Milburn also had 2 tackles.

David Wojcinski
17 touches
Wojcinski added 4 marks and 2 tackles.