Terry Wallace has described the third quarter in Saturday night’s semi-final between Geelong and Collingwood as a “complete snore fest” and the “worst quarter of football” for season 2020.
The game was over as a contest at half-time when the Cats took a 54-point lead into the main break after a nine-goal-to-one first-half demolition.
Just three behinds were scored in what was an uninspiring third quarter with both clubs seemingly playing out time as the match fizzled out.
“Last week we witnessed the best of finals while on Saturday night we had to get through comfortably what I thought was the worst quarter of football for season 2020,” Wallace told SEN’s Dwayne’s World.
“The third quarter on Saturday night looked like neither side actually wanted to be there.
“I honestly think if it had of been cricket you would have had the two captains come together and they would have called it stumps and walked off the ground.
“What we had was a weird situation where uncontested marks had been bad enough in the first two quarters, but it soared to a massive 45 in the third quarter.
“Uncontested possessions had been bad enough in the first half, it went up again to 74 and most of that was back-half play where they were just keepings off … and what made it worse was the Pies really didn’t seem like they wanted to get the ball back and it just became a nightmare.
“So what did we end up with? A back-half game of keepings off where it ended up two points to one in a what was a complete snore fest.
“It was a disaster.”
Geelong’s 68-point win over the Magpies saw them book a date with Brisbane in Saturday night’s preliminary final at the Gabba.