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Finals in Port's sights after thumping Sydney
Port Adelaide forwards Connor Rozee and Charlie Dixon have slotted three goals each in a 47-point thumping of Sydney which lifts the Power into the AFL's top eight.
Port replace home-town rivals Adelaide in eighth spot after a vital 15.13 (103) to 7.14 (56) triumph on Saturday at Adelaide Oval.
The Power — level on wins with Adelaide and 0.3 per cent ahead — will keep the finals-bound ladder position should the Crows lose on Sunday to reigning premiers West Coast.
Port led Sydney by 15 points at half-time and booted three unanswered goals in less than four minutes early in the third term to effectively seal the win.
Rozee's classy finishing was a highlight while Todd Marshall, Cam Sutcliffe and late inclusion Ollie Wines each kicked two goals.
Port's defence, led by Darcy Byrne-Jones (28 disposals) and co-captain Tom Jonas (25 touches), was supreme while Paddy Ryder and Peter Ladhams ruled the rucks for a 49-24 hitout dominance.
Sydney's Jake Lloyd was the standout for his side, earning 30 disposals including 10 rebounds from his defensive 50m area, and teammate Oliver Florent gathered 29 touches.
Daniel Menzel, Tom Papley and Isaac Heeney kicked two goals apiece. But the Swans remain anchored in 15th spot.
After Heeney marked 20 seconds into the game and converted, the Power took command.
But Port, despite enjoying ruck control and a favourable 9-1 free-kick count, led by just six points at quarter-time.
The Power outscored Sydney three goals to one in the second term for their 15-point half-time buffer.
The home side, before 29,568 spectators, produced a rapid three-goal burst early in the third quarter to create a 34-point break.
The depleted Swans didn't throw in the towel but the nearest they came thereafter was 22 points late in the third term, before Port kicked clear in the last.
Pies keep top four hopes alive with win over Demons
Collingwood remains in the hunt for a top-four AFL finish after consigning Melbourne to more misery with a 17-point defeat at the MCG.
Midfield leaders Scott Pendlebury and Steele Sidebottom were the key architects of Saturday's 10.10 (70) to 7.11 (53) victory, which lifted the Magpies to fourth on the ladder.
Pendlebury finished with 23 disposals and two goals, Sidebottom gathered 28 touches and Brody Mihocek booted four majors.
Melbourne kicked the last four goals of the game but it was too little, too late.
Demons fans were again left tearing their hair out after another lacklustre, turnover-laden performance by last year's preliminary finalists.
Adding to the Demons' woes, Steven May suffered another hamstring injury on return from a fortnight on the sidelines.
The key defender, playing his eighth game for the season, landed awkwardly in a fourth-quarter marking contest and limped off clutching his left hamstring.
Collingwood also went a man down late in the game when Josh Daicos (concussion) was ruled out.
Simon Goodwin's men have managed just five wins this season — all against teams in the bottom half of the table — and their latest capitulation reinforced just how far they have fallen, despite now having most key players back from injury.
With Mason Cox (torn retina) having been ruled out for the rest of the season, the Pies swung Jordan Roughead to a ruck-forward role.
But Mihocek stood tall as the key man up forward, comfortably outmatching Demons opponent Jake Lever.
Neither side looked to have turned up during a scrappy first term in which the first goal, courtesy of Melbourne's Harrison Petty, arrived at the 25-minute mark.
The class of Christian Petracca and the Dees' forward pressure gave them the edge early but from the moment Pendlebury finally opened Collingwood's account nine minutes into the second term, Melbourne was left for dead.
Pendlebury's classy finish in traffic was the first of four straight Collingwood majors, all stemming from Melbourne turnovers.
The Demons' problems were manifold and often self-inflicted, beginning with the acres of space bizarrely afforded to Magpies playmaker Sidebottom — a player whose vision and creativity has long made him a target for opposition taggers.
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