Round 7 - Collingwood vs Williamstown 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.

Replay:
Q1 - http://magpi.es/22lgb9U
Q2 - http://magpi.es/1TDWFn8
Q3 - http://magpi.es/1TtBn7Y
Q4 - http://magpi.es/1sxgSQT

Team:
B: Golds, Marsh, R Pendlebury
HB: Goodyear, Hore, Williams
C: Phillips, Wills, Hellier
HF: Goldsack, Close, MacAffer
F: Wyatt, Cloke, Ferguson
R: Witts, Sier, Aish
I: Viola, M Smith, Lane, Moloney, L Howe, Borthwick, Gray, Kelly, Hinkley*

Where They Sit:
Collingwood: 9th (3 wins, 3 losses, 0 byes, 73.09%)
Williamstown: 2nd (5 wins, 1 loss, 0 byes, 177.81%)

Last Time They Met:
Round 16, 2015 at the Williamstown Cricket Ground
Williamstown 14.13.97, def
Collingwood 9.11.65

Head to Head:
Played: 15
Collingwood: 1
Williamstown: 14

How They Fared Last Week:
Geelong 6.8.44, def by
Collingwood 8.16.64

Williamstown 25.22.172, def
Northern Blues 3.11.29

Note:
- This game (which was originally set down for a 5:15pm 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 about 25 minutes to cross over to Olympic Park/Holden Centre before the first bounce in the VFL match at 4:50pm.

Trivia:
- Collingwood have not beaten Williamstown since the 2nd Semi Final of 2009. Or if you prefer, in 6 years, 8 months and 10 days by the time of the opening bounce...

- Following on from that, Collingwood's average losing margin against Williamstown over the 8 games since 2009 is 30.1 points.

- Should he take his place in the Collingwood side on Saturday, captain Jack Hellier will equal his predecessor Kris Pendlebury's games record of 69 matches as a VFL-listed Magpie. Congratulations, skip. Hellier is due to break Pendlebury's record in Round 9 against Werribee.

Over to you...

[Presti35]

It could be a rough day Pies fans.

[thompsoc]

Remember many cold and wet days down at Willy.
So glad it is up at our ground.
Going away this weekend so I will rely again on magpiebat.

[Dave The Man]

I can only go IF I can get a Lift home as I won't stay to end as Trains on Frankston line are too far apart.

Though good chance we will get Destroyed by a Very Very Very Good Williamstown side

Hate these Double Headers

[MagpieBat]

Team is out...

B 41. T Golds 17. J Marsh 55. R Pendlebury
HB 27. M Goodyear 70. M Hore 26. M Williams
C 21. T Phillips 33. R Wills 53. J Hellier
HF 6. T Goldsack 57. A Close 3. B MacAffer
F 47. D Wyatt 32. T Cloke 62. L Ferguson
R 15. J Witts 35. B Sier 14. J Aish
Int 74. J Viola 67. M Smith 77. C Lane 58. B Moloney 65. L Howe 63. G Borthwick 61. N Gray 60. J Kelly
23P 66. D Hinkley

Williams, Goldsack, Wills and Phillips all back, along with Ferguson from the VFL list. All very good returnees.

No Nathan Brown again. And still no Corey Gault...

[MagpieBat]

And our opposition...

Williamstown

B 8. P Faulks 31. D Fahey 17. J Charleston
HB 11. J Dorgan 33. T Currie 6. J Johnstone
C 10. L Masters 4. B Jolley 20. S Hetherington
HF 14. A Siposs 3. S Dunell 6. M Gibbons
F 23. B Bese 2. D Conway 21. A Anastasio
R 13. A Cordy 24. W Wheeler 1. E Carr
Int 7. N Sing 25. S Critchley 35. B Myers 49. N Meese 30. A Carr 18. J Greiser 15. B Bewley 37. T Curtis
23P 28. C Buykx-Smith

(*Gulp...*)

[John Wren]

[MagpieBat]

Big out for Williamstown, their best defender in Peter Faulks, who you would have thought would get Cloke...

[MagpieBat]

Doesn't look like Rupert Wills came up.

Okay, here we go, let's make this two from two, Pies!

[MagpieBat]

Aish keeps the ball inside the boundary, but can't bend the Batarang back around far enough...

1-0

[MagpieBat]

First goal to the Gulls, as the live stream gremlins get to work early...

1-6

[MagpieBat]

Close intercepts in the pocket, snaps... misses...

2-6

[MagpieBat]

'Gulls slice us open down the corridor from a Fwd50 stoppage, Heatherington (?) waltzes into an open goal...

2-12

[MagpieBat]

Stream's died again...

[MagpieBat]

Back-to-back-to-back goals to Witts and Cloke!

20-12