Adelaide V Collingwood: 2025 Afl First Qualifying Final – Live

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Final teams are successful pinch nary precocious changes arsenic Beau McCreery is cleared to play for Collingwood. The speedy guardant made nan astir of nan pre-finals bye to retrieve from a ft rumor that he picked up erstwhile it was stepped connected during nan last round.

Adelaide sanction seasoned Brodie Smith arsenic sub successful their first last since 2017. Mid-season draftee Roan Steele is Collingwood’s 23rd player.

The Crows are boosted by nan return of young defender Max Michalanney arsenic he recovers from a hamstring strain, while Luke Pedlar had nan aforesaid rumor but will slot consecutive backmost into nan guardant line. Sid Draper and Billy Dowling are dropped from nan broadside that edged North Melbourne successful information 24, though nan astir notable absence is of people nan suspended guardant Izak Rankine.

The Magpies are backing youngster Wil Parker to play conscionable his ninth crippled successful spot of nan injured Jeremy Howe. Mason Cox has been recalled for his ninth crippled this play astatine nan disbursal of nan out-of-sorts Dan McStay, arsenic nan Pies shingle up their options successful an onslaught that could only find 8 goals from 71 wrong 50s erstwhile these sides met a fewer weeks ago.

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Hello and invited to unrecorded sum of nan qualifying last betwixt Adelaide and Collingwood at Adelaide Oval. It is less than 3 weeks since these aforesaid sides played retired a thriller that nan Crows won by 3 points to fastener successful a top-two decorativeness arsenic they return to finals for nan first clip successful 8 years.

The Magpies were nan early pacesetters this play arsenic they opened up a 14-2 grounds and sat connected apical of nan ladder for 13 weeks earlier nan Crows surged past them connected nan tally location to declare nan insignificant premiership. The Crows’ information 23 triumph was their first complete nan Pies since 2017 and snapped an 11-game winless streak, though that scary tally hides nan caller history betwixt these evenly-matched sides. While nan Pies built up a ascendant grounds complete nan Crows crossed 7 seasons, nan past six matches person been decided by a mixed 25 points.

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The Crows caput into nan last successful red-hot shape aft winning their past 9 matches, while nan Magpies will person appreciated nan week disconnected pinch nan pre-finals bye aft losing 5 of their past seven. The Pies tin astatine slightest move to wealthiness of experience, particularly successful finals, while only 7 of nan Crows’ named 23 person been to this shape before.

The victor coming will caput consecutive to a preliminary last on pinch hosting rights, while nan loser will request to bounce backmost successful a semi-final against GWS Giants aliases Hawthorn.

First bounce will beryllium astatine 7.10pm section clip successful Adelaide / 7.40pm AEST. I’ll driblet successful nan squad news shortly. Meanwhile, fto america cognize your thoughts and predictions – shoot maine an email aliases find maine @martinpegan connected Bluesky aliases X. Let’s get into it!