"Mick Malthouse gets it right, now for Geelong"
Mike Sheahan - Herald Sun
"IT WAS the 30-minute period that saved Collingwood's year. Ten minutes on the MCG, the other 20 in the changerooms at halftime."
"Mick Malthouse never hit panic button"
Mark Robinson - Herald Sun
"AN HOUR before the game on Saturday night, Mick Malthouse sat down his 22 players and told them how it was."
"'Pendles' hasn't given up on a spot against Cats"
Bruce Matthews - Herald Sun
"COLLINGWOOD'S classy midfielder Scott Pendlebury is doing everything possible to play against Geelong on Saturday night."
"Steve Johnson will play in the preliminary final against Collingwood"
Mark Stevens - Herald Sun
"AN EXPLOSIVE 40-minute training session by Steve Johnson on Friday convinced Geelong coach Mark Thompson that his superstar forward was ready to return."
"Selection posers for Cats, Woods"
Jake Niall - The Age
"FOR Geelong and Collingwood, decisions critical to their premiership campaigns loom at selection this week."
"Cats not so scary say Pies, with eyes on biggest prize"
Samantha Lane and Andrea Petrie - The Age
"COLLINGWOOD'S players are talking up their premiership chances and claim to have no fear of Geelong - the competition's dominant side of the past three seasons and the Pies' preliminary final opponent this Saturday night."
"O'Bree grabs chance to shrug off his worst"
Michael Gleeson - The Age
"SHANE O'Bree seldom attracts significant attention, good or bad."
"Pies found way to turn tables"
Michael Gleeson - The Age
"HEATH Shaw ran to the boundary in a rotation during the floundering second term."
"Spirit won't be enough to save the Magpies this time"
Rohan Connolly - The Age
"YOU'VE got to hand it to Collingwood. Time and again the Magpies respond when they're most seriously questioned, and the queries have seldom been more searching than at quarter-time on Saturday night."
"Collingwood's tactical triumph"
Stephen Rielly - The Australian
"AS coach, there was little Mick Malthouse could do as Jack Anthony prepared himself for the 45m kick that would send Collingwood into next Saturday's preliminary final against Geelong."
