With Collingwood up by 58 points at half time against Essendon last Friday night came a few flips to the team sheet.
One of them was Scott Pendlebury forward.
So Pendles – as he told Jay Clark on the Jock & Journo podcast – went deep forward in the third term, knowing he didn’t really have it in him.
“I thought, well I don’t have the pace to get away from guys here, and I don’t have the jumping ability, so I’ve got to outsmart,” he laughed.
It didn’t quite come off.
As Jamie Elliott put pretty succinctly when he came to the bench shortly after…
THE ADVICE JAMIE ELLIOTT GAVE PENDLES:
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