collingwood (14-7) vs essendon (13-8) mcg friday night
collingwood secure 2nd place with a 16 point win over essendon meaning essendon will have to travel the first week of the finals. collingwood (15-7) host birsbane saturday night at the g in the quaifying final. essendon (13-9) travel to play freo friday night at subiaco in an eliminaton final.
COLLINGWOOD: 3.3, 5.7, 9.9, 12.11 (83)
ESSENDON: 1.3, 6.7, 8.9, 9.13 (67)
GOALS: Collingwood: Buckley, Rocca, Woewodin 2, Fraser, Lonie, O’Bree, Tarrant, Burns, Cole.
Essendon: Haynes, Lloyd, Solomon 2, McPhee, Jacobs, McVeigh.
BEST: Collingwood: Buckley, O’Bree, Cloke, Licuria, Burns, Cole, Woewodin.
Essendon: Hird, Fletcher, Jacobs, J Johnson, Rioli, Hille, Solomon, Haynes.
geelong (6-1-14) vs st kilda (11-10) skilled stadium saturday afternoon
in a dead rubber as neither team could make the finals geelong end st kildas run by 19 points. geelong (7-1-14) and st kilda (11-11) have to wait till next year to play again.
GEELONG: 0.2, 4.7, 9.11, 12.12 (84)
ST KILDA: 2.3, 3.6, 5.7, 9.11 (65)
GOALS: Geelong: Ablett 3, Kelly, S Johnson, Gardiner 2, Sanderson, Wojcinski, Graham.
St Kilda:Jones 2, Gehrig, Powell, Blake, Harvey, Thompson, Fisher, Voss.
BEST: Geelong: Ablett, Scarlett, Chapman, Street, Harley, Kelly.
St Kilda: Riewoldt, Harvey, Jones, Hamill, Powell, Goddard.
melbourne (5-16) vs sydney (13-8) mcg saturday afternoon
sydney sneak into the top 4 with a 34 point win over melbourne. sydney (14-8) play port on the road sunday in a qualfying final. melbourne (5-17) missed the finals losing their last 8.
MELBOURNE: 3.1, 5.4, 6.5, 9.6 (60)
SYDNEY: 1.2, 3.5, 6.9, 14.10 (94)
GOALS: Melbourne: Neitz 2, Williams 2, Brown, Green, McDonald, Thompson, Yze
Sydney: O’Loughlin 5, Davis 3, Schneider 2, Crouch, Mathews, O’Keefe, Williams
BEST: Melbourne: Thompson, Carroll, Jolly, McDonald, Bizzell, Rigoni
Sydney: O’Loughlin, Mathews, Fosdike, Kirk, J.Bolton, Goodes, Davis
bulldogs (3-1-17) vs brisbane (13-1-7) telstra dome saturday night
brisbane finish 3rd giving the bulldogs the wooden spoon by 14 goals. brisbane (14-1-7) face collingwood at the g saturday night in a qualyfing final. bulldogs (3-1-18) claim the wooden spoon.
WESTERN BULLDOGS: 4.1, 7.3, 11.7, 13.8 (86)
BRISBANE LIONS: 7.2, 13.4, 19.8, 26.14 (170)
GOALS: Western Bulldogs: Darcy 4, Croft, Brown 3,Giansiracusa, Birss, McGuinness.
Brisbane Lions: McGrath 6, Lynch, Hart 4, Akermanis, Lappin, Bradshaw 2, Brown, Charman, Keating, Power, Black, Johnson.
BEST: Western Bulldogs: Hahn, Darcy, Smith, Johnson, Birss, Kretiuk.
Brisbane Lions: Power, Hart, Lappin, McGrath, Black, White.
west coast (12-2-7) vs freo (13-8) subiaco saturday night
freos finals debut will be a home final after a 14 point win over west coast in the derby. freo (14-8) host essendon friday night in an elim final. west coast (12-2-8) travel to play adeliade saturday afternoon in the other elim final.
FREMANTLE: 4-2, 4-6, 9-9, 14.12 (96)
WEST COAST: 4-2, 7-4, 12-10, 11.16 (82)
GOALS: FREMANTLE: Medhurst 3, J Longmuir 2, Farmer, Hasleby 1, Bell, Pavlich, Sandilands, T Longmuir, Walker, Simmonds
WEST COAST: Matera 2, Gardiner, Cox, Kerr, Sampi 1, Wirrpunda, McDougall
BEST: FREMANTLE: Sandilands, Hasleby, Bell, McPharlin, Hayden
WEST COAST: Kerr, Cox, Braun, Cousins, Fletcher
port (17-4) vs adeliade (13-8) Aami stadium sunday
port beat the crows by 16 points in the showdown. port (18-4) host sydney sunda yin the qual final. adelaide (13-9) host west coast saturday afternoon in an elim final.
PORT ADELAIDE: 5.2, 6.6, 10.8, 14.10 (94)
ADELAIDE: 2.1, 8.3, 9.4, 12.6 (78)
GOALS: Port Adelaide: Pickett, Montgomery 3, S. Burgoyne, Dew 2, Wanganeen, Schofield, Kingsley, Stevens.
Adelaide: Johncock 3, Bode, Welsh 2, Carey, Edwards, McLeod, Burton, Goodwin.
BEST: Port Adelaide: Schofield, K. Cornes, Paxman, Carr, P. Burgoyne, Wanganeen.
Adelaide: Ricciuto, Bode, Edwards, Goodwin, Carey, McGregor.
richmond (7-14) vs hawthorn (11-10) mcg sunday
hawks hold off richmond by 4 points to finish 9th. hawthorn (12-10) and richmond (7-15) both missed the finals.
RICHMOND: 1.0, 7.1, 9.4, 11.8 (74)
HAWTHORN: 5.3, 9.5, 10.9, 11.12 (78)
GOALS: Richmond: Bowden 2, Richardson 2, Stafford 2, Coughlan, Ottens, Schulz, Tivendale, Zantuck
Hawthorn: Thompson 5, Barlow, Clarke, Lekkas, Rawlings, Ries, Smith
BEST: Richmond: Johnson, Coughlan, Ottens, Bowden, Tivendale, Richardson
Hawthorn: Crawford, Mitchell, Thompson, Ries, Barker, Smith
carlton (4-17) vs kangaroos (10-1-10) telstra dome sunday
kangaroos break carltons record set only 7 rounds ago for their biggest loss by 124 points in a match that had no impact on the finals. kangaroos (11-1-10) and carlton (4-18) both miss the finals. note despite losing by over 20 goals the leading goal kicker was a carlton player.
CARLTON: 1.4, 2.6, 4.8, 9.9 (63)
KANGAROOS: 5.5, 12.8, 22.11, 28.19 (187)
GOALS: Carlton: Fevola 5, Angwin 2, Camporeale, Koutoufides.
Kangaroos: Jones, Rocca 4, D.Motlop, Petrie, Harvey 3, Rawlings, Simpson, Burton, J.Clayton 2, Grant, Wells, King.
BEST: Carlton: Houlihan, Lappin, French, Fevola, Beaumont, McCormick.
Kangaroos: Simpson, D.Motlop, Colbert, Jones, Petrie, Harvey, Rocca, M.Stevens.
ladder
| Position | Team | M | W | D | L | For | Agst | %age | Points |
| 1 | Port Adelaide | 22 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 2229 | 1752 | 127.23% | 72 |
| 2 | Collingwood | 22 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 2259 | 1858 | 121.58% | 60 |
| 3 | Brisbane | 22 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 2295 | 1882 | 121.94% | 58 |
| 4 | Sydney | 22 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 2142 | 1862 | 115.04% | 56 |
| 5 | Fremantle | 22 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 2143 | 2078 | 103.13% | 56 |
| 6 | Adelaide | 22 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 2114 | 1754 | 120.52% | 52 |
| 7 | West Coast | 22 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2326 | 1982 | 117.36% | 52 |
| 8 | Essendon | 22 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 2190 | 1960 | 111.73% | 52 |
| 9 | Hawthorn | 22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 2011 | 1999 | 100.60% | 48 |
| 10 | Nth Melbourne | 22 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 2185 | 2223 | 98.29% | 46 |
| 11 | St Kilda | 22 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 2095 | 2187 | 95.79% | 44 |
| 12 | Geelong | 22 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 1819 | 2025 | 89.83% | 30 |
| 13 | Richmond | 22 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 1846 | 2078 | 88.84% | 28 |
| 14 | Melbourne | 22 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 1899 | 2344 | 81.02% | 20 |
| 15 | Carlton | 22 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 1784 | 2674 | 66.72% | 16 |
| 16 | Wstn Bulldogs | 22 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 2014 | 2693 | 74.79% | 14 |
finals week 1 matches
friday
freo v essendon S (N)
saturday
adelaide v west coast AAMI
collingwood v brisbane MCG (N)
sunday
port v sydney AAMI
Harrison’s world 