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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 ...
The 2018 Collingwood Football Club season was the club's 122nd season of senior competition in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club also fielded its reserves team in the VFL and a women's team in the AFL Women's competition.
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.
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.
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 ...
In September 2017, Shuey kicked a goal after the siren against Port Adelaide to win the first elimination final at Adelaide Oval. It was the first after-the-siren goal in extra time in AFL history. [21] [22] Shuey won the 2018 Norm Smith Medal for his brilliant performance against Collingwood in the AFL Grand Final, recording 34 possessions and ...
In the 2018 Grand Final, he kicked two goals during the third quarter and took many contested marks while playing in Collingwood's loss. [28] He also dominated in its one-point elimination final win against West Coast in the 2020 AFL finals series. [29] Cox received special dispensation from the AFL to wear prescription sunglasses in competition.
In the 2018 season, despite another injury crisis, Buckley still managed to coach Collingwood to their first Grand Final since 2011. Collingwood lost that Grand Final to the West Coast Eagles by a margin of 5 points with the final score West Coast 11.13 (79) to Collingwood 11.8 (74).