Collingwood vs Bulldogs

Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs face off at Marvel Stadium. Follow along with our live blog for all the big moments and post-game reactions.

I feel like we’ve been able to play our brand inconsistently throughout games and I feel like we’ve been in most games of the year, and today I felt like we brought it from the start and we were able to sustain it for a bit. For us to play defensively the way we did, it was first-class defence. Checkers looks sore tonight and he’s had to carry a lot of the load for the group. A couple of weeks and we’ll see him back. We have a lot of work to do around that. I know it’s been talked about that we haven’t started the way we wanted to but, yeah, good win tonight. We lost a little territory from it and lost a lot of contests. But out of necessity and needing a second ruck opportunity at AFL level, we started to play him forward and pinch him at the ruck at state league level and then he started kicking goals. You’ve had it taped up most of the year. It was a poor start wasn’t it by us and an exceptional start by them. Buku as a young fella played a lot of his junior games as a forward. Through hardship and change, opportunities are created so it’s good to see some of the boys who haven’t played a lot of AFL footy play really critical roles.

Treloar, key forward Aaron Naughton, Josh Dunkley and exciting newcomer Buku Khamis all kicked three goals each for the Bulldogs. Match Stats ...

In a concern for the Bulldogs, Naughton appeared troubled by a knee injury for most of the game and hobbled to the bench late in the final quarter. Treloar now has a 2-0 record for the Bulldogs playing Collingwood after he was controversially traded out of the Magpies at the end of 2020. Collingwood steadied after the first quarter onslaught to remain in the contest until midway through the third term before the Bulldogs again pulled away to lead by 46 points at the final break and prevail 14.15 (99) to 7.9 (51).

THE WESTERN Bulldogs are one step closer to getting their season back on track, defeating Collingwood by 48 points under the roof at Marvel Stadium.

Henry continued to present, and kicked another behind in the first term, before having another couple of shots at goal in the second quarter for one behind and another no score. It was a ‘What could have been?’ type of night for young Collingwood forward Ollie Henry. After missing his first shot early in the game, Henry marked 30 metres out from goal but passed the ball to Jordan De Goey, with the Pies messing up the chance and it being whisked to the other end for a Bulldogs goal. Injuries have made for some opportunities in the Bulldogs’ line-up and Khamis is taking his inside the club’s forward line. They kicked the first six goals of the game and opened up a 39-point lead over the Pies before Collingwood had registered its first goal. Smith will be well and truly leading the Bulldogs’ best and fairest after nine rounds but will also have likely picked up a few Brownlow Medal votes as his ascent continues with a full-time midfield role. In all of the Dogs wins this year – over Sydney, North Melbourne, Essendon and the Pies – he has been important and could have a breakout year in Brownlow voting.

The Western Bulldogs' AFL season is back on track after an early blast set up a vital and convincing 48-point victory over Collingwood at Marvel Stadium.

Magpies defender Jack Madgen looks set for a long stint on the sidelines after hurting his shoulder in the second quarter and was subbed out for Finlay Macrae. The night started in tough fashion for Collingwood after captain Scott Pendlebury was a late withdrawal through illness. Treloar now has a 2-0 record for the Bulldogs playing Collingwood after he was controversially traded out of the Magpies at the end of 2020.

Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs face off at Marvel Stadium. Follow along with our live blog for all the big moments and post-game reactions.

The AFL's controversial umpire dissent rule has once again come under scrutiny following a couple of “ridiculous” decisions during Friday evening's clash ...

“They’re giving instructions to the umpires so let’s not be hard on them either. There’s a difference between abuse and players showing emotion in the moment.” We had a base line. Need to get our heads around this properly.— Andy Maher (@AndyMaherDFA) May 13, 2022 If you see the arms go up, that is some form of dissent but it’s hard to expect players to completely turn off the emotion as soon as the whistle goes.” Still a 50m penalty. Speaking on Fox Footy, Hawthorn legend Jason Dunstall argued: “I thought De Goey in particular was a little bit stiff because he was about to go off and then literally harnessed himself back in and then actually stopped but you could see initially he was about to throw the arms up. Now it’s hard to know where we are again.” It’s great to help umpires, but punishing players for marginal stuff like we’ve seen tonight isn’t fair on them. A similar incident too place in the fourth quarter when Collingwood forward Jordan De Goey threw his arms in the air after tackling Josh Dunkley, only for the Bulldogs to be awarded a 50m penalty. The AFL’s controversial umpire dissent rule has once again come under scrutiny following a couple of “ridiculous” decisions during Friday evening’s clash between the Western Bulldogs and Collingwood at Marvel Stadium. The AFL’s controversial umpire dissent rule has once again come under fire following a couple of “ridiculous” decisions on Friday evening.