COLLINGWOOD 12.6 (78) d ADELAIDE 11.8 (74)
Star Magpie Jordan De Goey kicks while being tackled by Crow Ben Keays.Credit: Getty Images
KEY POINTS
QUAYNOR’S DESPERATION SAVES THE DAYCollingwood players have made a point of recognising big defensive moments with exaggerated celebrations. Part of it looks comical to the outside but it shows that the one percenters matter.None mattered more than Isaac Quaynor’s desperate smother in the closing minutes of the game. It sent a ball that would have been heading deep inside the Crows’ forward 50 ricocheting back the other way. Fortune would have it, the ball landed advantageously for the Pies, who through Jack Crisp, were able run the ball through the centre and kick long to Jordan De Goey. De Goey, as you would expect for a player of his quality, calmly slotted what proved to be the winner from about 35 metres out. All this would not have been possible without Quaynor’s desperate act.
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