FIND out what’s being said about the club in the major daily newspapers on Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Herald Sun
Magpies duo expose defender
By Mark Robinson
IT WAS Operation Rivers and it worked. Whoever snared Jared Rivers as an opponent had to isolate him close to the goalsquare and try to expose his lack of height, weight and strength. Travis Cloke did it in the first half, booting five goals in a bombastic marking and goalkicking display. He was Wayne Carey-esque in the second quarter, in particular, kicking four goals and monstering and manoeuvring Rivers like the tough guy at a primary school picnic. For 18 minutes in that quarter, Cloke was extraordinary to behold, eventually forcing Demons coach Dean Bailey to make the change. James Frawley was peeled off Chris Dawes to go to Cloke and Rivers was peeled off the ground. They talk of the loneliness of the long-distance runner, but as Rivers made his way to the interchange on the MCC wing yesterday, with the crowd in front of him decidedly unforgiving, there was no lonelier person at the MCG. Bailey took the punt, Rivers took the fall.
We overdid the handball - Bailey
By Bruce Matthews
MELBOURNE coach Dean Bailey said his players dismally failed the test on the big stage at the MCG. Bailey admitted his developing Demons were exposed in every area of the game as ruthless Collingwood thumped them by 88 points. "It was an extremely poor effort in front of a large crowd on a really important day for us," he said. "We were very disappointing today. "We came here today off a good win last week and the confidence that we grew was a really good motivating factor to play well today. "So we sit here very disappointed with the effort. "It's not good enough. Regardless of last week's result, you get measured on the following week and we were very, very poor today on all the key areas of the game."
The Age
Demons fail to heed their coach's warning
By Jesse Hogan
MELBOURNE celebrated loud and long after its round-11 33-point win against Essendon. Yesterday, the Demons were handed a black-and-white reality check. And while coach Dean Bailey had warned his players during the week of the dangers of complacency - it fell on deaf ears and Collingwood handed out an 88-point thrashing at the MCG. Competent efforts from the Demons in the first and third quarters, in which the Magpies outscored them by only a goal, were offset by the reigning premier's dominance in the second and fourth quarters. At one stage, the Demons went 50 minutes without a goal, while their concession of eight last-quarter goals without reply ensured they finished with their biggest loss of the season. ''There was a lot for us to play for today, an enormous opportunity … We sit here very, very disappointed with the effort. It's not good enough. Regardless of last week's result, you get measured on the following week,'' he said. ''We were very, very poor today in all the fundamentals of the game. We coughed the ball up, we didn't win enough contested possession and . . . the inside-50 count was all one-way traffic unfortunately.''
Trav's Territory makes its mark for Pies
By Michael Gleeson
FOR the brutality of the contest there was an elegant simplicity about Collingwood's game that established its humbling win yesterday - win the contest and kick it long to Travis Cloke. More Trav's Territory than Pagan's Paddock. The first component of that game was theoretically harder than the second. Winning the contest meant winning in the middle of the ground, and this was a Collingwood side without Dane Swan and Darren Jolly in Arizona and Dale Thomas the highlight of the radio pre-match - not post-match - interviews. In their stead, Sharrod Wellingham filled the breach in the manner of James Kelly assuming Gary Ablett's role at Geelong, Luke Ball and Jarryd Blair were damaging rotating in the middle and forward and Leon Davis was the most creative force in the game. Thus Collingwood was able to win the ball and execute the first part of its plan. The second part - Cloke marking any ball sent vaguely his way - was almost a fait accompli. Cloke is in imperious touch. He dominated the contested marks last year but was popularly derided because of his goal kicking. This year he is set to smash the contested marking records and is also kicking better, having booted 29.17. Cloke is the most intimidating force in the game at the moment and humbled Melbourne yesterday. He had five goals to half-time, all on the hapless Jared Rivers.
Demons fall to Cloke and swagger
By AAP
A CAREER-BEST six-goal haul by power forward Travis Cloke has helped Collingwood cruise to an 88-point thrashing of Melbourne. The Magpies made light of the absence of midfielders Dane Swan, Dale Thomas and Dayne Beams and ruckman Darren Jolly at the MCG yesterday in front of a crowd of 75,998. It leaves Collingwood's three-point loss to unbeaten Geelong in round eight as their only defeat this season, while Melbourne's struggle to string together respectable performances continues. Cloke single-handedly matched Melbourne's goal tally, with his dominance in the air highlighting what Melbourne lacked. The Demons started brightly, kicking two of the first three goals of the match. But the Magpies took over, booting the last two goals of the first term and outscoring Melbourne 6.1 to 1.3 in the second quarter to build a commanding 38-point half-time lead. Cloke had five goals by then, including four in the second quarter. He was far too big and strong in marking contests for starting opponent Jared Rivers, who was replaced by James Frawley nearing half-time.
Out of the shadows
By Greg Baum
DRIVING to the MCG yesterday, Sharrod Wellingham's girlfriend, Aimee, ''put it on'' him in the same sort of terms that the Melbourne Football Club faithful - also then descending on the ground in eager numbers - put it on their team. ''It's a great opportunity for you this week,'' she said. For Wellingham, the opportunity was to step in to the boots vacated by Dale Thomas and Dane Swan - one suspended, the other merely a long way up, in Arizona - and demonstrate that the Collingwood machine is greater than the sum of its finely engineered parts. For the Demons - in the last of three successive high-profile fixtures in a row, on a day they identify as one of their most important in any year - it was the opportunity to affirm to themselves and to their fans that they are more serial than one-week wonders. It was no contest. Wellingham had 37 touches - 20 contested - the most prodigious game of his career, to lead the Magpies to a 15-goal humiliation of Melbourne in the most anti-climactic match of the season.
The Australian
It’s a Queen’s Birthday bashing
By Courtney Walsh
IT was supposed to be a contest at the MCG yesterday. Collingwood, after all, was missing some elite talent in the annual Queen's Birthday clash with Melbourne. Dane Swan was breathing thin air in Arizona with the club's premier ruckman in Darren Jolly. A suspended Dale Thomas had swapped the black-and-white stripes for a pin-striped suit. A string of premiership players were missing through injury. Melbourne, too, had much to play for, as coach Dean Bailey noted darkly last night. Coming off perhaps its best win of the season over Essendon, it held an opportunity to draw level on wins with the eighth-placed Bombers. A scene was set. Only last year the two sides had played out a draw on this very stage. It was, instead, a rout. An 88-point embarrassment in front of almost 76,000 people."It was an extremely poor effort. Very disappointing," Bailey said. "There was a lot to play for, an enormous amount of opportunity. It is not good enough. We were very, very poor in all the key areas of the game."
Demons' consistent inconsistency becoming familiar
By Stephen Rielly
MELBOURNE turned back time yesterday, suffering the sort of heavy defeat the side last took in the first rebuilding year of coach Dean Bailey's time, in 2008. Bailey described the 88-point mauling from Collingwood as "extremely poor" and an embarrassment before almost 76,000 fans on what is the club's biggest home and away encounter of the season. Not since Hawthorn humbled a then bedraggled Melbourne by 116 points late in 2008 has a defeat of such magnitude been inflicted on a Bailey-coached side. He bemoaned Melbourne's pattern of inconsistency, where his side could account for Essendon one week and capitulate the next. The Demons produced just three scoring shots in the second half yesterday, with the game played for long periods exclusively in Collingwood's forward half of the ground. The inside-50 count was outrageously skewed Collingwood's way, 74-34. "Our inconsistency doesn't build any confidence at all," Bailey said. "We came here today off a good win last week. The confidence that we grew out of last week's game was really important, a really good motivating factor to play well today. We sit here very, very disappointed with the effort and it's not good enough."
Magpies duo expose defender
By Mark Robinson
IT WAS Operation Rivers and it worked. Whoever snared Jared Rivers as an opponent had to isolate him close to the goalsquare and try to expose his lack of height, weight and strength. Travis Cloke did it in the first half, booting five goals in a bombastic marking and goalkicking display. He was Wayne Carey-esque in the second quarter, in particular, kicking four goals and monstering and manoeuvring Rivers like the tough guy at a primary school picnic. For 18 minutes in that quarter, Cloke was extraordinary to behold, eventually forcing Demons coach Dean Bailey to make the change. James Frawley was peeled off Chris Dawes to go to Cloke and Rivers was peeled off the ground. They talk of the loneliness of the long-distance runner, but as Rivers made his way to the interchange on the MCC wing yesterday, with the crowd in front of him decidedly unforgiving, there was no lonelier person at the MCG. Bailey took the punt, Rivers took the fall.
We overdid the handball - Bailey
By Bruce Matthews
MELBOURNE coach Dean Bailey said his players dismally failed the test on the big stage at the MCG. Bailey admitted his developing Demons were exposed in every area of the game as ruthless Collingwood thumped them by 88 points. "It was an extremely poor effort in front of a large crowd on a really important day for us," he said. "We were very disappointing today. "We came here today off a good win last week and the confidence that we grew was a really good motivating factor to play well today. "So we sit here very disappointed with the effort. "It's not good enough. Regardless of last week's result, you get measured on the following week and we were very, very poor today on all the key areas of the game."
The Age
Demons fail to heed their coach's warning
By Jesse Hogan
MELBOURNE celebrated loud and long after its round-11 33-point win against Essendon. Yesterday, the Demons were handed a black-and-white reality check. And while coach Dean Bailey had warned his players during the week of the dangers of complacency - it fell on deaf ears and Collingwood handed out an 88-point thrashing at the MCG. Competent efforts from the Demons in the first and third quarters, in which the Magpies outscored them by only a goal, were offset by the reigning premier's dominance in the second and fourth quarters. At one stage, the Demons went 50 minutes without a goal, while their concession of eight last-quarter goals without reply ensured they finished with their biggest loss of the season. ''There was a lot for us to play for today, an enormous opportunity … We sit here very, very disappointed with the effort. It's not good enough. Regardless of last week's result, you get measured on the following week,'' he said. ''We were very, very poor today in all the fundamentals of the game. We coughed the ball up, we didn't win enough contested possession and . . . the inside-50 count was all one-way traffic unfortunately.''
Trav's Territory makes its mark for Pies
By Michael Gleeson
FOR the brutality of the contest there was an elegant simplicity about Collingwood's game that established its humbling win yesterday - win the contest and kick it long to Travis Cloke. More Trav's Territory than Pagan's Paddock. The first component of that game was theoretically harder than the second. Winning the contest meant winning in the middle of the ground, and this was a Collingwood side without Dane Swan and Darren Jolly in Arizona and Dale Thomas the highlight of the radio pre-match - not post-match - interviews. In their stead, Sharrod Wellingham filled the breach in the manner of James Kelly assuming Gary Ablett's role at Geelong, Luke Ball and Jarryd Blair were damaging rotating in the middle and forward and Leon Davis was the most creative force in the game. Thus Collingwood was able to win the ball and execute the first part of its plan. The second part - Cloke marking any ball sent vaguely his way - was almost a fait accompli. Cloke is in imperious touch. He dominated the contested marks last year but was popularly derided because of his goal kicking. This year he is set to smash the contested marking records and is also kicking better, having booted 29.17. Cloke is the most intimidating force in the game at the moment and humbled Melbourne yesterday. He had five goals to half-time, all on the hapless Jared Rivers.
Demons fall to Cloke and swagger
By AAP
A CAREER-BEST six-goal haul by power forward Travis Cloke has helped Collingwood cruise to an 88-point thrashing of Melbourne. The Magpies made light of the absence of midfielders Dane Swan, Dale Thomas and Dayne Beams and ruckman Darren Jolly at the MCG yesterday in front of a crowd of 75,998. It leaves Collingwood's three-point loss to unbeaten Geelong in round eight as their only defeat this season, while Melbourne's struggle to string together respectable performances continues. Cloke single-handedly matched Melbourne's goal tally, with his dominance in the air highlighting what Melbourne lacked. The Demons started brightly, kicking two of the first three goals of the match. But the Magpies took over, booting the last two goals of the first term and outscoring Melbourne 6.1 to 1.3 in the second quarter to build a commanding 38-point half-time lead. Cloke had five goals by then, including four in the second quarter. He was far too big and strong in marking contests for starting opponent Jared Rivers, who was replaced by James Frawley nearing half-time.
Out of the shadows
By Greg Baum
DRIVING to the MCG yesterday, Sharrod Wellingham's girlfriend, Aimee, ''put it on'' him in the same sort of terms that the Melbourne Football Club faithful - also then descending on the ground in eager numbers - put it on their team. ''It's a great opportunity for you this week,'' she said. For Wellingham, the opportunity was to step in to the boots vacated by Dale Thomas and Dane Swan - one suspended, the other merely a long way up, in Arizona - and demonstrate that the Collingwood machine is greater than the sum of its finely engineered parts. For the Demons - in the last of three successive high-profile fixtures in a row, on a day they identify as one of their most important in any year - it was the opportunity to affirm to themselves and to their fans that they are more serial than one-week wonders. It was no contest. Wellingham had 37 touches - 20 contested - the most prodigious game of his career, to lead the Magpies to a 15-goal humiliation of Melbourne in the most anti-climactic match of the season.
The Australian
It’s a Queen’s Birthday bashing
By Courtney Walsh
IT was supposed to be a contest at the MCG yesterday. Collingwood, after all, was missing some elite talent in the annual Queen's Birthday clash with Melbourne. Dane Swan was breathing thin air in Arizona with the club's premier ruckman in Darren Jolly. A suspended Dale Thomas had swapped the black-and-white stripes for a pin-striped suit. A string of premiership players were missing through injury. Melbourne, too, had much to play for, as coach Dean Bailey noted darkly last night. Coming off perhaps its best win of the season over Essendon, it held an opportunity to draw level on wins with the eighth-placed Bombers. A scene was set. Only last year the two sides had played out a draw on this very stage. It was, instead, a rout. An 88-point embarrassment in front of almost 76,000 people."It was an extremely poor effort. Very disappointing," Bailey said. "There was a lot to play for, an enormous amount of opportunity. It is not good enough. We were very, very poor in all the key areas of the game."
Demons' consistent inconsistency becoming familiar
By Stephen Rielly
MELBOURNE turned back time yesterday, suffering the sort of heavy defeat the side last took in the first rebuilding year of coach Dean Bailey's time, in 2008. Bailey described the 88-point mauling from Collingwood as "extremely poor" and an embarrassment before almost 76,000 fans on what is the club's biggest home and away encounter of the season. Not since Hawthorn humbled a then bedraggled Melbourne by 116 points late in 2008 has a defeat of such magnitude been inflicted on a Bailey-coached side. He bemoaned Melbourne's pattern of inconsistency, where his side could account for Essendon one week and capitulate the next. The Demons produced just three scoring shots in the second half yesterday, with the game played for long periods exclusively in Collingwood's forward half of the ground. The inside-50 count was outrageously skewed Collingwood's way, 74-34. "Our inconsistency doesn't build any confidence at all," Bailey said. "We came here today off a good win last week. The confidence that we grew out of last week's game was really important, a really good motivating factor to play well today. We sit here very, very disappointed with the effort and it's not good enough."
