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Collingwood started slowly against Adelaide the following week, trailing at three-quarter times before kicking 11 goals in a row to win the game by 43 points in a 55-point turnaround after three-quarter times. Collingwood then faced West Coast at the MCG comfortably winning the game by 52 points, with Dale Thomas getting 30 disposals and 2 ...
Crowds of 72,157 and 88,180 were recorded between both home-and-away games, with Richmond winning both times, until Collingwood unexpectedly pulled off a massive upset in their finals game, smashing Richmond in the preliminary final in front of a crowd of 94,959, which caused the rivalry to reach its highest point since 1980.
Collingwood suffered its worst Grand Final loss in history in 1980, losing to Richmond by 81 points, which, at the time, was also the worst in VFL history, and also lost by 50 points to Brisbane in 2003. The highest Collingwood grand final attendance was 121,696 in 1970 against Carlton (which also remains a league record for any VFL/AFL game ...
The Collingwood Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Founded in 1892, the club played five seasons in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning one premiership in 1896
1: ^ Bob Rush stood in to perform the match day coaching duties in the 1930 Grand Final, including delivering the half time address, because regular coach Jock McHale was absent on the day of the game, having fallen ill with influenza days before the game. For many years, Rush was credited with having coached the game; but after a decision in ...
The rivalry is regarded by some as one of the most historic and significant in Australian sport. [1] [2] [3]To date, Carlton and Collingwood have played each other 266 times in the VFL/AFL, with the ledger currently in Collingwood's favour (133 wins to Carlton's 129) and 4 draws. [4]
Collingwood’s 1929 season was extremely successful. They won all 18 games of the home-and-away season, the only club to achieve the feat as of 2024; Gordon Coventry became the first player to kick 100 goals in a season (124 in total), and Albert Collier won the Brownlow Medal.
Daicos debuted with the Collingwood Football Club in Round 4, 1979, against St Kilda, in what was, at the time, the largest winning margin in VFL/AFL history (179 points). [1] He went on to play 250 games (for 549 goals) with the Magpies until his retirement in 1993, and he won a premiership with them in 1990 ; he kicked Collingwood's first ...