Collingwood were the underdogs, but outplayed Richmond, and West Coast laid waste to Melbourne in the other preliminary final
If there’s something that your boss, your barista and your mother will all have a say on this week, it will likely include the words “Mason Cox” and a ham-fisted reference to American Pie.
Before the first half of Friday night’s preliminary final was in the books, confidence was flowing from the 211-centimetre frame of Mason Cox, the former college basketballer from Flower Mound in Texas. As that energy flowed out he required also that it pour in, and when he took his third contested mark of the second quarter and kicked his third goal, that energy came back from 50,000 Collingwood supporters chanting “USA, USA!” It was evident this was no ordinary preliminary final (if there is such a thing).
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