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Scott Pendlebury accused his teammates of not working hard enough in Collingwood's Anzac Day loss to Essendon. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images
COLLINGWOOD acting captain Scott Pendlebury last night accused his team of "cheating" at vital stages of yesterday's Anzac Day loss to Essendon, a defeat compounded by the likely season-ending knee injury to defender Alan Toovey.
The Magpies came within 11 points of the Bombers early in the final term, but were no match when it mattered most as Essendon stormed home to win by 46 points before the third highest home-and-away crowd in VFL-AFL history.
Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley also blamed work-rate for the way in which the Bombers were able to overpower his team with six of the last seven goals - mirroring the Magpies' last term collapse to Hawthorn in Round 3.
A frustrated Pendlebury said: "They (Essendon) burnt us pretty badly by playing honest football. We started cheating."
"In the last 15 minutes the forwards and mids ... left our backs with guys everywhere and six guys can't defend nine.
"The alarming thing is how quickly we can get blown out of the water once the game seems to be over."It is not just this year, it was last year in the finals (against) Sydney and Hawthorn."
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Buckley agreed with Pendlebury, saying the final-term fadeouts were a "disturbing" trend that would be addressed.
"It looked like work-rate to me," Buckley said.
"If you isolate that last quarter and just looked at the numbers around the contests, at pivotal times when the ball went Essendon's way, we just didn't have enough numbers there.
"We would have had two or three blokes spectating and not working hard enough to get across."
Buckley denied that Collingwood had been too Travis Cloke-centric with their delivery into attack.
But he said the power forward, who kicked 2.3 and had little impact, needed to find a better balance between his best and worst performances.
"I think 'Clokey' spilled probably five or six opportunities that he gobbled up last week," Buckley said.
"You are not going to have career-best games every week, but you have got to find an elevated minimum level."
Travis Cloke misses a shot at goal. Picture: Alex Coppel Source: Herald Sun
Buckley lamented the loss of Toovey, who went down after attempting to turn with only five minutes left on the clock.
"Anyway you cut it, he is going to be a loss for us ... the docs are saying it is a likely ACL rupture," he said.
"'Toovs' is a fantastic competitor. Against our values, he would nearly stand No.1 amongst his peers as the guy who is most dependable."
Buckley would not be drawn on two free-kicks to Tom Bellchambers and Scott Gumbleton late in the third term that resulted in goals to Essendon, quelling some of the Collingwood momentum before three-quarter time.
"They were pretty close one-on-one contests that could have gone either way. We lost them - so be it," he said.
Buckley said he would not make decisions about possible inclusions for Friday night's game against St Kilda until after tonight's VFL game against Bendigo.
The Magpies' VFL side will include the likes of Darren Jolly, Luke Ball (in his comeback game), Andrew Krakouer, Ben Johnson and Alan Didak.
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