Round 5 - Collingwood vs Sandringham at Olympic Park Oval

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
4:50pm this Saturday at our training base.

Broadcast:
Video - Streamed live via collingwoodfc.com.au and through the Collingwood FC smartphone app for iPhone and Android from 4:40pm.

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 4:40pm. 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: Kelly, Marsh, Viola
HB: Phillips, Brown, Gray
C: Hore, Sier, M Smith
HF: Goodyear, Wyatt, Golds
F: Collopy, Cloke, Hellier
R: Witts, Wills, MacAffer
Int: Knight, L Howe, Borthwick, Close, Alessi, Moloney, Indovino, Rambaldi, Hinkley*

Where They Sit:
Collingwood: 9th (2 wins, 2 losses, 0 byes, 74.16%)
Sandringham: 7th (2 wins, 1 loss, 1 bye, 118.39%)

Last Time They Met:
2nd Semi Final, 2015 at North Port Oval
Sandringham 15.14.104, def
Collingwood 14.13.97

Head to Head:
Played: 13
Collingwood: 4
Sandringham: 9

How They Fared Last Week:
Northern Blues 13.13.91, def by
Collingwood 14.16.100

Richmond 7.12.54, def by
Sandringham 16.15.111

Note:
- This game (which was originally set down for a 5:10pm start) will form the second act of a double header on Saturday afternoon. The AFL will finish at approximately 4:25pm, which will give Pies fans approximately 25 minutes to cross over to Olympic Park/Holden Centre before the first bounce in the VFL match at 4:50pm.

Milestone:
Nick Gray - 50 games



Over to you...

[Presti35]

Silly Sandringham. We've struggled with them in recent times?? Or am I thinking of someone else.

Gee I really miss the VFL!!

I get the feeling we wont be going in as favourites.

[MagpieBat]

We've certainly struggled against Sandy of late (but then we've struggled with a few teams in our short VFL history).

Of our four wins over the Zebs, two of them came under Gavin Brown in 2009 and 2010. Since then, we've lost seven out of the last nine, with our only other wins coming under Tapps in 2013 and 2015.

It's also gotten quite personal at times (their sniping tactics in the 2014 elimination final which started an all-in brawl still sticks out in my memory). Even our captain has acknowledged that we have a bit of a rivalry going with them.

Hopefully we can cobble together enough of a side to knock them off this week. Marsh hopefully back in, no carry-over players needed, guys like Witts and Aish and Goodyear back in, hopefully Ferguson and Close as well.

[MagpieBat]

Good to see (literally!):

[MagpieBat]

Team is out...

B 60. J Kelly 17. J Marsh 74. J Viola
HB 21. T Phillips 16. N Brown 61. N Gray
C 70. M Hore 35. B Sier 67. M Smith
HF 27. M Goodyear 47. D Wyatt 41. T Golds
F 54. J Collopy 32. T Cloke 53. J Hellier
R 15. J Witts 33. R Wills 3. B MacAffer
Int 72. W Knight 65. L Howe 63. G Borthwick 57. A Close 75. M Alessi 58. B Moloney 76. A Indovino 71. A Rambaldi
23P 66. D Hinkley

Witts and Marsh back in, we'll need them.

Goodyear also back from his Perth holiday.

Nick Gray holds his spot to play game #50. Reliable gap filler for Tapping over the years and had a decent game last week. Good on him.

Borthwick also named to return from injury. And Close returns from wherever he was on Saturday...

[MagpieBat]

[stui magpie]

Sitting on the social club deck with a beer a red and a smoke waiting for the game to start. Hope this one is better.

[MagpieBat]

Maybe the VFL players (and the coach) can teach the senior mob something about having pride in this jumper...

[stui magpie]

Players on the ground. No cloke

[MagpieBat]

Cloke not playing, neither is Wyatt...

[MagpieBat]

Magpies kicking to the Batman Avenue end.

This will be tough, but if there's a time to make a stand, it is NOW!

[MagpieBat]

Cook gets the first.

0-6

[MagpieBat]

Close out-bodies his man under a high ball in the goal square, picks it up, GOAL!

6 all

[MagpieBat]

Kreymborg marks out in front of Rambaldi, goes back and goes BANG from 49m 45d...

6-12

[MagpieBat]

Rushed to them...

6-13