David Cloke onslaught hits Tigers Travis Cloke boots seven goals in a dominant display as Collingwood come-from-behind to beat Richmond at the MCG. Travis Cloke kicks a goal from the boundary line against the Tigers Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: News Limited TRAVIS Cloke put his dislocated finger back in its place yesterday and put Richmond back in its with a stunning seven-goal haul. Cloke lifted Collingwood past the Tigers by 34 points in a highly-anticipated match at the MCG. The Magpies' 16.17 (113) to 11.13 (79) victory in front of more than 81,000 fans burst the Tigers' unbeaten bubble and showcased Collingwood's finals credentials on a day Richmond had desperately hoped to show their own. Cloke had injured his finger at training on match eve. But after two quarters of arm-wrestling, Cloke put Richmond in the tightest of half-nelsons in the third term. He booted the opening three goals of the quarter, then gave his side a 30-point buffer with a quality 50-metre goal from deep in the right forward pocket. "I thought he was huge," Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley said of Cloke. It's a great game by any standards, and I thought our ball use up the field helped our forwards find one-on-ones in the front half, and that's an important part of what we want to do. We took a step forward in that regard today. Cloke's monstering of the Tigers came in a run of eight unanswered goals to start the third term - the Magpies upping their tackling pressure and starving Richmond of the ball. Also pivotal for Collingwood were midfielder Dane Swan with 35 touches in his 200th game, and Steele Sidebottom with four goals - two in the third-term demolition. Collingwood's effort was made all the more meritorious with five of their best 22 missing through injury. But Magpies defender Nathan Brown might add to that list, with a groin injury sustained in the final term and just a five-day turnaround until their next game - the Anzac Day clash with Essendon. Jack Riewoldt booted three goals for the Tigers, who lost key defender Troy Chaplin when concussed by a teammate, and small forward Jake King to what appeared to be a hamstring injury. Richmond coach Damien Hardwick felt his side would learn from the defeat, praising Collingwood's pressure around clearances and their ability to deny the Tigers the ball for most of the third term. "We couldn't at any stage stop their momentum," Hardwick said of Collingwood's third-quarter rampage. The things we went into the game trying to achieve, we didn't achieve one of them. There's a number of areas we tried to deny Collingwood. None of them worked. If you bring the greater intensity to the contest, you generally win. We didn't bring it today. Goals: Collingwood: T Cloke 7 S Sidebottom 4 D Swan H O'Brien J Elliott M Clarke S Dwyer. Richmond: J Riewoldt 3 L McGuane 2 T Vickery 2 B Houli I Maric J King S Edwards. Best: Collingwood: T Cloke D Swan S Sidebottom J Blair M Clarke H Shaw B Reid. Richmond: T Cotchin B Houli S Grigg J Riewoldt B Deledio. Injuries: Collingwood: T Goldsack (replaced selected side by B Macaffer) N Brown (groin). Richmond: J King (leg) T Chaplin (concussion). Umpires: Simon Meredith, Jacob Mollison, Brett Rosebury. Crowd: 81,950 at MCG.