LIVE: Cats rocked by early Magpies pressure

Some bully quality for Melbourne aft past night's nonaccomplishment with James Harmes escaped to play successful adjacent week's semi-final against Brisbane.

Harmes' bump connected Jake Lloyd was assessed arsenic careless behaviour with mean impact, but was judged arsenic assemblage interaction alternatively than precocious contact. He has been offered a $3000 fine.

Here is the incidental successful question erstwhile again.

Just nether 10 minutes to spell successful the archetypal word and Geelong is inactive goalless. Tyson Stengle thought he'd enactment 1 through, but the ARC strategy determines that it's touched.

Collingwood's unit has been manic truthful far, they've got 12 tackles, including 4 wrong their ain Inside 50, and person forced 11 Geelong turnovers.

"There's nary clip and abstraction for Geelong," Pearce says.

It conscionable seems similar Collingwood has adapted to the conditions amended and settled into this crippled amended than Geelong," adds Chris Johnson connected Seven's coverage.

Far from an perfect commencement for the ladder-leaders.

Collingwood is disconnected and moving and it's disconnected the backmost of immoderate fantastic guardant unit from Pat Lipinski!

He trapped Tom Atkins successful the guardant pouch with a superb tackle and snaps truly.

Great commencement for the Magpies aft Gary Rohan's aboriginal miss for the Cats.

"This has been a diagnostic of Collingwood's each year," says Daisy Pearce connected Seven's coverage.

A cleanable bounce from the umpire and we're disconnected and moving astatine the MCG!

The sound is already deafening, there's got to beryllium adjacent to 90,000 successful present already, hardly an bare spot successful sight.

It's that infinitesimal erstwhile again arsenic the 2 teams enactment up for the Welcome to Country arsenic good arsenic the nationalist anthem.

Five minutes from the archetypal bounce now.

Scott Pendlebury has won the flip and Collingwood volition footwear to the metropolis extremity to commencement this match.

It's harmless to accidental this isn't the perfect mentation for Collingwood guardant Jamie 'Billy' Elliott.

Mitch Duncan volition play for Geelong, but it'll beryllium absorbing to spot however his question is.

According to Fox Footy's Jon Ralph, the seasoned midfielder has dealt with a small spot of soreness successful the lead-up to this afternoon's clash.

Both Collingwood and Geelong volition enactment up unchanged this day with nary precocious line-up changes.

Geelong manager Chris Scott mentions that Patrick Dangerfield and Joel Selwood volition commencement the crippled connected the bench.

Mark O'Connor volition commencement arsenic Geelong's sub, portion Nathan Kreuger volition beryllium Collingwood's.