Tom Phillips and Brodie Grundy were among Collingwood's leading ball-winners in the narrow loss to Greater Western Sydney at the MCG on Saturday evening.
Phillips finished with 32 disposals, 10 marks and a goal.
Grundy, who had to shoulder the bulk of the rucking load after Ben Reid was a late withdrawal and Darcy Moore suffered a hamstring injury, ended the game with 20 disposals, 45 hit-outs and two goals.
Pies skipper Scott Pendlebury was another key performer. On a day when he had to act as fill-in ruckman at times, the gun midfielder racked up 30 disposals, six inside-50s and one hit-out.
Playing across half-back, Matt Scharenberg also won plenty of the ball in his first AFL game for the season.
Take a closer look at all the major stat categories in the table below, as provided by Champion Data.
| Player | K | H | D | M | HO | FF | FA | T | G | B | AF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21. Tom Phillips | 21 | 11 | 32 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 131 |
| 10. Scott Pendlebury | 11 | 19 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 118 |
| 38. Jeremy Howe | 19 | 8 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 108 |
| 13. Taylor Adams | 6 | 19 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 82 |
| 22. Steele Sidebottom | 11 | 13 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 96 |
| 8. Tom Langdon | 15 | 9 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 77 |
| 7. Adam Treloar | 8 | 16 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 90 |
| 12. Matthew Scharenberg | 13 | 10 | 23 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 93 |
| 14. James Aish | 14 | 9 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 102 |
| 24. Josh Thomas | 9 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 65 |
| 25. Jack Crisp | 13 | 7 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 85 |
| 9. Sam Murray | 11 | 9 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
| 4. Brodie Grundy | 7 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 45 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 127 |
| 14. Lynden Dunn | 7 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 62 |
| 37. Brayden Maynard | 7 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 62 |
| 35. Jaidyn Stephenson | 8 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 57 |
| 17. Callum Brown | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 48 |
| 18. Travis Varcoe | 8 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 61 |
| 32. Will Hoskin-Elliott | 5 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 58 |
| 39. Ben Crocker | 10 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 51 |
| 30. Darcy Moore | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 36 |
| 29. Tim Broomhead | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
