Round 2 - Collingwood vs Casey at Olympic Park Oval

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
12:10pm this Sunday at our training base.

Broadcast:
Radio - Streamed live on Collingwood Radio via collingwoodfc.com.au (at this portal) and through the Collingwood FC smartphone app for iPhone and Android from 12:00pm. Data usage and charges apply, including for Telstra customers.

Internet - LiveChat at collingwoodfc.com.au, score updates in this thread and on Twitter at @VFLPies.

Team:
B: Phillips Frost Aish
HB: Marsh Wyatt Golds
C: Crocker Goodyear Crisp
HF: Blair White Cox
F: MacAffer Wills Smith
R: Gault Greenwood Broomhead
Int: Viola M Smith Close Collopy Hellier Borthwick Kelly Moloney Howe Sier Ferguson Gray Hore*

Where They Sit:
Collingwood: 5th (1 win, 132.88%)
Casey: 1st (1 win, 511.43%)

Last Time They Met:
Round 15, 2015 at Victoria Park
Collingwood 12.11.83, def
Casey 9.6.60

Head to Head:
Played: 15
Collingwood: 4
Casey: 11

How They Fared Last Week:
Port Melbourne 10.13.73, def by
Collingwood 14.13.97

Casey 27.17.179, def
Frankston 5.5.35

NOTE:
- This game will form the first act of a double header on Sunday afternoon. The VFL will finish at approximately 2:50pm, which will give Pies fans half an hour to cross over to the MCG before the first bounce in the AFL match at 3:20pm.

Over to you...

[MagpieBat]

Change in the starting time, as announced on this week's episode of From Lulie Street (good to have them back, by the way). The game will now start at 12:10pm, which washes out to a finish time (assuming they stick to standard timing rules) of about 2:50pm.

So, about half an hour to change grounds.

OP updated...

[thompsoc]

Thanks for the info MB

[John Wren]

this was one of the games pencilled in for the mcg. i believe that there will be no mcg games this year.

[swoop42]

[MagpieBat]

Squad is out...

B 21. T Phillips 45. J Frost 14. J Aish
HB 17. J Marsh 47. D Wyatt 41. T Golds
C 39. B Crocker 27. M Goodyear 25. J Crisp
HF 11. J Blair 9. J White 46. M Cox
F 3. B MacAffer 33. R Wills 40. J Smith
R 44. C Gault 19. L Greenwood 29. T Broomhead
Int 74. J Viola 67. M Smith 57. A Close 54. J Collopy 53. J Hellier 63. G Borthwick 60. J Kelly 58. B Moloney 65. L Howe 35. B Sier 62. L Ferguson 61. N Gray
23P 70. M Hore

Extended senior bench named in this squad, as is custom.

Marsh named, hopefully he plays.

Hopefully Blair lines up as well...

[jackcass]

Good to see Viola back, I like the kid.

[3rd degree]

SIIIEEERRRR

[roar]

Marsh's hammy ok, after all? If true, that's the best news I have heard in a long time.

[jackcass]

[npalm]

I bloody well hope they are not taking a chance with Marsh's hammy this week. He can't afford another tear.
Hamstring tears never seem to heal 100%. And every new tear leaves a new point of weakness in the hamstring meaning the more you tear them the more Iikely you are to tear them again. Recurring hamstring problems have shortened plenty of promising careers.
If Marsh plays tomorrow and tears his hammy again I will spew up.

[MagpieBat]

Our opposition, with their AFL bench bolded (along with Jeff Garlett, who won't play because of late injury).

So, that's back to a 14 AFL-listed player count for them. And if they hold over an emergency or two, that could see them back to 12 or 13, which pretty much offsets our injuries, carry-over emergencies and the probable late withdrawal of Marsh...

B: Cam Pedersen, Colin Garland, Billy Stretch
HB: Josh Wagner, Jack Hutchins, Christian Petracca
C: Jack Grimes, Oscar McDonald, Viv Michie
HF: Jeff Garlett, Angus Brayshaw, Alex Neal-Bullen
F: Jayden Hunt, Tim Smith, Kody Wilson
Foll: Max King, Mitch White, James Munro
I/C (from): Sam Weideman, Angus Scott, Paul Pattison, Yarran Jaffer-Williams, Liam Hulett, Dean Terlich, Ben Newton, Jack Trengove, Bryce Rutherford, Declan Keilty, Connor Ambler

[stui magpie]

Going to be interesting to see if Cox runs out in the VFL.

I can't see why he was upgraded if we aren't going to play him in the AFL side.

[Pies4shaw]

To put pressure on Blair.

[MagpieBat]

Okay, so apparently White is into the seniors for Goldsack who is sick and Caff is the carry-over player. Ugh...

I'll be sitting this one out I'm afraid, so you'd be best advised to talk to Mattys123 over at the VFL Pies Twitter account if you want sitreps on players. I'll just be here in the studio, as it were, relaying the scores from the radio...