4 Points: Pivotal moments on which the grand final turned


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Collingwood has played in more grand finals than any AFL club. They have lost more grand finals than any AFL team. They have been here before, they know this pain, or variations on it.


At the post-mortem function at the Exhibition Centre on Saturday night (it’s an appropriate term, post-mortem, for there is a funereal touch about these grand final loser events) the acceptance was that West Coast were the better team, that Collingwood had gone further than they could rightly be thought reasonable given what they confronted this year, but still they were achingly close to pinching a flag and missed their chance.


Sinking feeling: Magpies Taylor Adams and Mason Cox react after Luke Sheed kicks the winning goal for West Coast in the Grand Final.

Sinking feeling: Magpies Taylor Adams and Mason Cox react after Luke Sheed kicks the winning goal for West Coast in the Grand Final.


Photo: Wayne Ludbey

The regret will deepen. Collingwood fans are haunted by the ghosts of grand finals, there was a catalogue of moments where the game was lost that will revisit them in dark moments:


What’s the rush?


Tom Langdon could have rushed the ball over the line in the first quarter and didn’t. Langdon was, with Taylor Adams, Collingwood’s best player but this was a bad error. He kept the ball alive on the Eagles goal line and it shaved Willie Rioli’s boot as it passed over the line for the Eagles first goal. Had the behind been rushed at that point two minutes from the first break there is every chance the Eagles go in at quarter time goalless.


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