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The 2018 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 2018. It was the 123rd annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2018 ...
In 2018, Collingwood fielded a team in the VFL Women's League for the first time. Most of Collingwood's AFL Women's list play for the club in the VFLW, though the majority of the team is made up of players who haven't been drafted to an AFLW club. [126] The team won the minor premiership, though would go on to lose in the preliminary final to ...
Lost Grand Final to Essendon 43–16 — Ted Rowell: 31 Dick Condon — [11] 1902 1902 VFL season: 1st Premiers: 15 2 0 Lost Semi Final to Fitzroy 64–48 Won Grand Final against Essendon 60–27 — Ted Rowell (2) 33 Bill Proudfoot — [12] 1903 1903 VFL season: 1st Premiers: 15 2 0 Won Semi Final against Carlton 27–23 Won Grand Final ...
Melbourne became the first side since Richmond in the 1927 Grand Final to not score a goal in the first half of a final. [ 27 ] Collingwood 's victory ended Richmond 's record 22-game winning streak at the MCG , which dated back to round 13, 2017.
Collingwood jumped from 13th in 2017 to 3rd in 2018, sensationally knocking out reigning premiers Richmond in the preliminary final before falling five points short after leading for most of the match against West Coast in the 2018 Grand Final, the senior team's 27th defeat in a Grand Final.
Collingwood suffered its worst Grand Final loss in history in 1980, losing to Richmond by 81 points, which, at the time, was also the worst in VFL history, and also lost by 50 points to Brisbane in 2003. The highest Collingwood grand final attendance was 121,696 in 1970 against Carlton (which also remains a league record for any VFL/AFL game ...
1: ^ Bob Rush stood in to perform the match day coaching duties in the 1930 Grand Final, including delivering the half time address, because regular coach Jock McHale was absent on the day of the game, having fallen ill with influenza days before the game. For many years, Rush was credited with having coached the game; but after a decision in ...
In the first half, Melbourne scored no goals, the first time this happened in a final since 1927. [12] This win sent West Coast into the 2018 AFL Grand Final against Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In the first quarter of the grand final, West Coast trailed by as much as 29 points, as Collingwood kicked the opening five goals.