Buckley: Ball-use was “awful”

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COLLINGWOOD coach Nathan Buckley says last night's thrashing from Fremantle will put senior Magpies under immediate selection pressure.

The Magpies coach lamented some "awful" ball-use as the Dockers kicked 15 goals to Collingwood's three after quarter time in the 70-point rout.

Buckley commended his young ruck pairing of Jarrod Witts and Brodie Grundy but said other senior players who had underperformed would feel some early-season heat.

"It has to," Buckley said of the selection pressure.

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"When there's such contrast in the way that you perform from quarter to quarter it puts heat on everyone.

"We will more than likely sit at the bottom of the ladder with our percentage at the end of Round 1, but we will be four points away from the top.

"It's a loss, a poor loss, but we don't wrap the season up.

"We've clearly got some players that performed really well … but we just didn't have enough support.

"There weren't enough troops or weight of numbers for long enough, so yeah the heat goes on if you don't perform.

"Players and coaches and administers alike."

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The Magpies were without key forwards Ben Ren Reid and Jesse White due to calf injuries, but Buckley said the pair could have played in three or four days' time and were expected to be available for their Round 2 clash against Sydney in a fortnight.

Surprisingly, the club opted to leave out experienced big men Quinten Lynch and Ben Hudson.

But Buckley stood by the decision, saying Gundy and Witts "broke even at worst" against Aaron Sandilands.

"What would he (Hudson) have changed?" Buckley said.

"Grundy and Witts I thought they competed really well against (Aaron) Sandilands."

Buckley said missed chances in attack cost the team a "three or four goal lead" at quarter time, after dominating the early midfield battle.

He said the players could take some encouragement out of the first quarter performance, but urged the players to maintain that standard for longer in games.

"The churning in the guts that we are all feeling at the moment is not something you just ignore," he said.

"We had the game on our terms, we were pretty happy at quarter time with how we approached it.

"We did not take our chances and we could not have spent more time on that over the off-season in regards to set shot goal kicking and conversion.

"The message (to players at game's end) was we had 30 minutes of footy that worried the grand final side, worried the premiership favourites throughout the year.

"But if we are going to be a good side we have to do that for longer."

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