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TRAVIS Cloke's dad David was right about one thing this week—- Collingwood's use of the ball and its forward 50m entries still needs some work.
Yes, the Magpies were brave in running down the Eagles, despite losing key defenders Nathan Brown and Jack Frost during the game, but that shouldn't disguise the fact that Nathan Buckley's team still has a bit of work to do.
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Part of that comes back to Collingwood's big forwards, who couldn't get warm for so much of yesterday's match.
Jamie Elliott couldn't hang onto this big marking attempt. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: News Corp Australia
It was left to a batch of small forwards—- Jarryd Blair kicked three goals and Jamie Elliott scored two in the last term—- and a brave yet patched up back-line to somehow drag the Magpies across the line when the game looked in doubt.
Buckley forecast during the week that Cloke was just about ready to tear a game apart. This wasn't the game, and that will have to at least wait until next week against St Kilda.
But Cloke did managed to secure a solitary—– and important—– goal in yesterday's eight-point victory, the club's sixth of the season.
It's just that it took him the best part of two hours to nail it. That goal came at the 27-minute-mark of the final term, which gave the Magpies the breathing space it needed to hold on.
For much of yesterday, the man who almost won a Coleman Medal last year—- only inaccuracy and Jarryd Roughead beat him in 2013—- struggled to get his hands on the Sherrin, let alone look like scoring a goal.
Scott Pendlebury had 11 final-term possessions. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: News Corp Australia
For 56 minutes—- yes, that's almost a half of footy—- Cloke went without a possession.
His first touch came at the eight-minute-mark of the opening term, almost at half back, and then his second came from a mark taken at the 19-minute-mark of the same term.
Blanketed by Eagles defender Eric Mackenzie, Cloke had to wait until almost the 19-minute-mark of the third term before he again disposed of the ball.
In between that time, 3AW special comments man and former Essendon forward Matthew Lloyd mused: "Travis Cloke is running away from the footy at the moment."
Cloke's teammate Jesse White was one of Collingwood's 13 individual goalkickers yesterday.
Dayne Beams salutes a final-term goal. Picture: Wayne Ludbey AFLR1014 Source: News Corp Australia
That major came after he took in a grab 18 seconds after the first bounce.
White casually slotted it through the goal with such ease that it must have had Eagles coach Adam Simpson thinking the former Swan might be in line to cause him some grief.
He didn't. His next touch wouldn't come until the early minutes of the final term—– 72 minutes to be exact—- the best part of three quarters without an impact.
The Pies battled through most of the match, yet when it mattered their midfielders managed to step up and their defenders did a superb job in the absence of Frost and Reid.
It wasn't always pretty, but it was four points that was so desperately required when it could so easily have gone the other way.
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