Round 2 - Essendon vs Collingwood at Windy Hill

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
11:42am this Sunday at Napier Street.

Broadcast:
TV - Channel 7 in Victoria from 11:30am.

Internet - LiveChat at collingwoodfc.com.au; score updates in this thread.

Where They Sit:
Essendon: 9th (0 wins, 1 loss, 98.80%)
Collingwood: 13th (0 wins, 1 loss, 56.25%)

Team:
B: Moore Maynard Young
HB: Goodyear Marsh Manteit
C: Armstrong Taylor Fasolo
HF: Abbott De Goey Moloney
F: Witts Karnezis Borthwick*
R: Cox Freeman Hellier
Int: J. Williams Allan Monkhorst Wallin Gray Wills R. Pendlebury Collopy Still

Last Time They Met:
Round 18, 2014 at Victoria Park
Collingwood 11.16.82, def
Essendon 9.11.65

Head to Head:
Played: 4
Essendon: 0
Collingwood: 4

How They Fared Last Week:
Sandringham 12.11.83, def
Essendon 12.10.82

North Ballarat 11.14.80, def
Collingwood 6.9.45

Trivia:
- This will be only Collingwood's second meeting with Essendon at Windy Hill in this competition. The only encounter was in this same fixture 12 months ago, where Collingwood won convincingly. The Magpies will be looking to keep their flawless strike rate at this venue intact.

- This will be the second successive year Essendon and Collingwood's VFL sides have met on April 26th in a 'Day after ANZAC Day' clash.

Over to you...

[Pies4shaw]

It's tempting to stay home and watch on the TV but it was so much fan sitting in the Members' Stand last year and trolling the Essendon supporters that I'll probably get along again.

[Dave The Man]

Be interesting to see what Langford and Laverde go

[MagpieBat]

Adams likely back in the seniors, plus Young returning from injury and maybe Kennedy as well, means two extra AFL-listed players compared to last week (after accounting for Reid going down).

Depending on how many changes they want to make, Witts could go up against Giles in the ruck and Moore could end up taking McKernan.

[jackcass]

Gault broke his collarbone and Lynch his leg in the corresponding match last year unless I'm mistaken. No injuries (to our players) this year would be appreciated.

[jackcass]

[MagpieBat]

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[MagpieBat]

[3rd degree]

Should the Q Stick turn up to this game with a baseball bat?

[perthmagpie]

Was gonna go to this game again, but the weather forecast looks absolutely crap so I think I'll drive back to Yarrawonga after the G game and then watch on TV on Sunday. Really looking forward to the Vic Park game the week after with Scharenberg back and hopefully also Kennedy. Then I'm gonna go to the Bendigo game against Cats.

Hey Magpie Bat I appreciate you are like me and are also always counting the additions/subtractions of AFL players to the VFL team. Glory days would be if we ever got 18 or more listed players in a game! We did it once and smashed Geelong last year and then it wall went to sh*t from there. By the time we reached the final as you know we were a team of amateurs really.

[MagpieBat]

Collingwood
B Moore Maynard Young
HB Goodyear Marsh Manteit
C Armstrong Taylor Fasolo
HF Abbott De Goey Moloney
F Witts Karnezis Borthwick*
R Cox Freeman Hellier
Int J. Williams Allan Monkhorst Wallin Gray Wills R. Pendlebury Collopy Still

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Welcome back, Clinton.

Reid out, of course.

Still no Ben Kennedy...

14 AFL-listed players.

[MagpieBat]

And the opposition...

Essendon
B Browne Steinberg Edwards
HB Ferry* Gwilt Hardingham
C Marigliani Aylett Coghlan
HF O'Brien Pears Tipungwuti
F Polkinghorne Giles Heavyside
R McKernan Schroder Ashby
Int McKenna Laverde Fantasia Byrne Long K.Langford Kavanagh J.Merrett Freezer

[MagpieBat]

[jackcass]

Good to see Young back, mystery still surrounds Kennedy's disappearance.