Fight fire with fire Bellamy told NSW to silence big-mouth Hodges

The game itself was technically flawed with a high rate of dropped ball but put this down to the heavy hits and the expectation of them.

Bulldogs and Magpies borrow a little from each other to add missing pieces of the jigsaw

CLOSE but no cigar is a popular phrase that has carried just a little more resonance for the Western Bulldogs and Collingwood these past few years.