ANZAC Day, the 25th of April, has become as revered as any date on the Australian and New Zealand calendar. It’s the day that we, as Australians, remember those who fought for us, and honour their deeds and sacrifices. Since 1995, the Collingwood and Essendon football clubs have had the distinct honour of representing Australia’s
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“They won’t win a game all season”, that was the rather blunt prediction from Fox Sports commentator David King when assessing St Kilda’s chances in 2015. Two rounds in, and they’ve won a game. The Saints shocked many in the AFL world when on Saturday they travelled to the Gold Coast and dominated the media
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After such a long wait, round 1 of the 2015 AFL premiership season has been completed. After the nine games had been played it became apparent that once again Hawthorn stood out from the pack, with several other teams clambering to be in a group behind them. After just one round of games the most
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Footy’s back, and not a moment too soon as the AFL deals with the fallout from yet another drug controversy. It’s round one finally and this Saturday night Collingwood and Brisbane will open their home and away campaigns at the Gabba. Collingwood, the club caught up in the latest performance enhancing drug investigation, travels north
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The AFL season proper is fast approaching and this weekend the final round of the NAB Challenge, the AFL’s pre season format, will be played around Australia. At Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on Saturday night two clubs looking to improve on last season will clash, with Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs going head to head.
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Collingwood versus Carlton, It may well be the fiercest domestic sporting rivalry in Australian sport and this weekend another chapter will be added to it’s long history. The rivalry goes way back to the creation of the VFL but really got fired up during and after the 1910 VFL grand final when all hell broke
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Footy’s back, finally. On Thursday night in Launceston, Tasmania, the 2015 AFL pre season will officially get under way when Hawthorn hosts Collingwood in the opening game of the NAB Challenge. The revamped NAB Challenge no longer has a knock out component or even a final, but it still acts as a very important part
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SO IT’S COME DOWN TO THIS, after 21 games the Collingwood football club get one shot at qualifying for the finals, and it happens this Friday. It’s an easy equation for the Magpies really, win and then hope the Swans beat the Tigers on Saturday, and they will finish 8th and make their 9th consecutive
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Could it get any worse? That’s the question been asked in regards to Collingwood’s injury crisis and the answer may well be no. Last weekend the Pies started favourites in a matchup vs the lowly Brisbane Lions, only for everything that could go wrong actually going wrong. From late in the week until the final
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Ninth place, most say it’s the worst position to finish at the end of the AFL home and away season, and that’s exactly where Collingwood sit with three games remaining. You see, if you finish 9th you don’t play finals, but you also don’t get a particularly high draft pick, so it could just be
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