2011 Grand Final

The 2011 Grand Final was a spectical between top of the ladder teams Collingwood (1st) and Geelong (2nd) and was witnessed by a crowd of 99,537. The game was also a break from tradition because the Grand Final was held on the 1st of October instread of it usual place the last weekend of september, due to Cricket Austalia using MCG and other possible venues such as the SCG. there where many notible things in motion towards the Grand Final, Mick Malthouse was seeing out the last game of his coaching career, but new Geelong coach Chris Scott was hoping to win the big one in his first season as a coach.

Pre-Match
the Pre-Match Intertainment was quite intertaining with a display of past premierships and greats onto the MCG, but the big event that stood out was American Singer Meatloaf, which the AFL had spent big money securing his services, as it turned out meatloaf preformed badly singing off tune which has now resulted in fights in the media between the singer and the AFL.

1st Quarter
The first Quarter started well for the cats with a favorable win in the centre bounce which allowed Travis Varcoe to run to 50m and kick the first goal withing the first 15 seconds of the match, withing the next 5 miniutes Varcoe maneged to kick another to extend the cat lead to 2.2.14 - 0.0.0 but in the next 5 mins Travis Cloke kicked a monster goal and another goal after to inspire the pies to take the lead through Andrew Krakouer but only by 4 points. After a Steve Johnson kicking his first it became a contest to see who could win the 1st quarter, Luke Ball kicked the magpies back infront, before Joel Selwood alowing the Cats to win the 1st quarter.

4.2.26 Collingwood - 4.3.27 Geelong