Collingwood Football Club

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Collingwood Football Club

Names
Full name	Collingwood Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Magpies, 'Pies, Maggies, The Woods, Black 'n' Whites, The Woodsmen, The Flatties
Motto	Floreat Pica
Season 2009
Top goalkicker	Jack Anthony (50)
Best & Fairest	Dane Swan Most Disposals = Dane Swan (769)
Club Details
Founded	1892
Colours	Black and      White
Coach	Michael Malthouse
Captain(s)	Nick Maxwell[1]
Ground(s)	Melbourne Cricket Ground Yarra Park Melbourne (Capacity: 100,000 capacity)
	Docklands Stadium Melbourne (Capacity: 55,000 capacity)
Other information
Official website	www.collingwoodfc.com.au
Guernsey:

Collingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League.

The players wear black and white striped guernseys, similar to the colours of a magpie; emblazoned with the magpie emblem and the motto "Floreat Pica" ("Flourish Magpies", or "May the Magpies prosper!").^[2]

The club traditionally represented the working class inner Melbourne suburb of Collingwood; however it has now moved its training and administration base to Gosch's Paddock and the Lexus Centre at Olympic Park in Melbourne. They moved their home games from their traditional suburban home ground, Victoria Park, to the much larger Melbourne Cricket Ground from 2000.

Traditional Melbourne suburban rivalries Essendon^[3], Richmond and Carlton^[4] remain fierce. Collingwood has gained interstate rivals, particularly in Port Adelaide and Brisbane, but has retained the reputation in the national competition as the "team everybody loves to hate".^[5]

Collingwood have consistently attracted much higher than average crowds and to their games than other Victorian clubs in the league. In 1970, 121,696 spectators watched Collingwood and Carlton contest the Grand Final, the record attendance for a football game of any code in Australia. Collingwood currently boasts 44,462 members^[6] and the second largest membership base of the 10 Victorian clubs. As a result, several of the league's annual blockbuster matches, including the Anzac Day clash and the Queen's Birthday Clash feature Collingwood. Due to the club's crowd pulling power, on several occasions the AFL has been accused of favouring Collingwood when scheduling the fixture to maximise the league's attendance figures.^[7][8][9]

In the past, a large proportion of Collingwood supporters were Roman Catholics and were known as "The Catholic Club" in years gone by.^[10] The average crowd at Collingwood home games in 2007 was 54,898.

The noted Australian playwright David Williamson scripted The Club, a play inspired by the internal politics of Collingwood, although "the club" is never actually specified in the play or film. A film version was made in 1980 and features Collingwood players in speaking and non-speaking roles.^[11][12]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Formation and early years 1.2 Recent history 1.3 Membership 2 Off field 3 Rivalries 4 Records 5 Current playing list 5.1 Squad changes for 2010 6 Individual awards 6.1 Best and Fairest 6.2 Brownlow Medal winners 6.3 Champions of the colony 6.4 Leigh Matthews Trophy winners 6.5 Coleman Medal winners 6.6 Norm Smith Medal winners 6.7 E.J Whitten Medalists 6.8 Mark of the Year winners 6.9 Goal of the Year winners 6.10 Anzac Day Medal winners 6.11 Jason McCartney Medal winners 6.12 Bob Rose-Charlie Sutton Medal winners 6.13 All Australians 6.14 Australian International Rules Representatives 7 Notable records 7.1 Records set by players 8 Team of the Century 9 Captains 10 Club song 11 Collingwood in the VFA/VFL 12 Collingwood in popular culture 13 See also 14 References 15 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Formation and early years

The Collingwood Football Club was born on the cusp of one of the world's worst depressions in February 1892^[13]. Collingwood played its first game in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the premier football competition at the time, against Carlton Football Club on 7 May 1892^[14]. The club won the VFA premiership in 1896.

In 1897, Collingwood, along with fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy, Melbourne, St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon, South Melbourne and Geelong split from the VFA and formed the VFL (Victorian Football League). Despite being the youngest club it did not take long for the Magpies to establish themselves on the new football landscape.

During the 1920s and 1930s Collingwood was the most successful club and, by 1936, it had won 11 premierships in the first 40 years of the VFL competition. The club achieved many things including winning a record four premierships in a row from 1927 to 1930, an undefeated season in 1929, a Brownlow medalist and the longest ever serving coach, Jock McHale, who played for Collingwood from 1902 to 1921 and coached from 1912 to 1949.

[edit] Recent history

The 1990 premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews and captained by Tony Shaw, had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon, the Magpies recording a 48 point victory and ending a 32 year premiership drought which included eight grand final losses and one draw.

After this, however, the club lapsed into a state of decline; their status as a potential powerhouse at the beginning of the decade was reduced with each passing season and the club ultimately earned a second wooden spoon in 1999. Within a few years, with a change of coach, playing list and club president, Collingwood reached consecutive grand finals in 2002 and 2003 losing both to the Brisbane Lions.

[edit] Membership

Year	Members	Finishing position
1984	16,313	3rd
1985	16,857	7th
1986	13,971	6th
1987	9,500	12th
1988	11,985	4th
1989	13,620	5th
1990	14,806	1st
1991	18,469	7th
1992	18,921	5th
1993	21,882	8th
1994	20,843	8th
1995	22,543	10th
1996	20,752	11th
1997	22,761	10th
1998	27,099	14th
1999	32,358	16th
2000	28,932	15th
2001	31,455	9th
2002	32,549	2nd
2003	40,445	2nd
2004	41,128	13th
2005	38,612	15th
2006	38,038	7th
2007	38,587	4th
2008	42,392	5th
2009	46,430	4th

[edit] Off field

Collingwood was one of the last clubs to abandon its traditional stadium, the famous inner-city Victoria Park. Collingwood now plays home games at the MCG. It now also has its headquarters situated in the former Glasshouse Entertainment Centre which is now called "The Lexus Centre". This building is also shared with the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS).

Collingwood continues to be financially viable through the loyal support of its huge following and numerous sponsors. After finishing 2nd in 2002 and 2003 the team fell to 13th and 15th (out of 16) in 2004 and 2005 respectively. This trend has plagued the club since the glory days of pre-World War II VFL football. Since 1958, the club has won only a single VFL/AFL Premiership (the inaugural AFL Premiership in 1990) making them one of the least successful clubs in the modern era. Despite this, the club still has won more individual games, more finals and made more grand-final appearances than any other Victorian club prior to the AFL.

On 9 March 2007, former Collingwood and Fitzroy defender Gary Pert was appointed the Magpies' CEO, seven weeks after Greg Swann departed for Carlton. In accepting the key Magpie post, Pert quit as a club director and as managing director of Channel 9 in Melbourne. In a press conference, it was stated that Collingwood has budgeted to turnover about $50 million this year. McGuire hopes the new administration will soon double that figure. "A finance administration review has come up with how we are going to turn Collingwood in to its next phase of its life", McGuire said. "What do we do to make ourselves go from a $45 million a year turnover business to a $100 million turnover business? "They sound like big figures but in 1999 we turned over $13 million, so that is where we are heading as a football club."

[edit] Rivalries

Collingwood is arguably a fierce rival of each of the other 15 teams in the competition, due to its name, supporters and history. Carlton is the club's most bitter arch rival, with Essendon not far behind. Following this, rivalries with Richmond and Melbourne have faded slightly of late due to the fact that the teams have not enjoyed onfield success at the same time; however, the feeling of resentment still lingers.The rivalry between the Magpies and Demons was at its hottest between 1955 and 1964, when the two played off in the Grand Final on five occasions, the Magpies managing to hold Melbourne from equalling the club's record of four premierships in succession from 1927-1930 in 1958. The club's two opponents in the themed Rivalry Rounds staged to date have been Carlton (2005-2006) and Richmond (2007-2008). In recent times, rivalries have been sparked with the new interstate clubs, including Port Adelaide, and Brisbane, though it can be argued that the Lions were still major adversaries of the Magpies in their guise as Fitzroy.

The rivalry with Port Adelaide stems from the fact that the Power were also known as the Magpies in their local SANFL competition before switching to the Power when fielding a team in the AFL in 1997 (the Port Adelaide Magpies remain in the SANFL today). Feelings were heightened when Port midfielder Kane Cornes 'flipped the bird' at Nick Davis following the Power's close fought five point victory over the Magpies at AAMI Stadium in round nine, 2002, only moments after Anthony Rocca had missed the opportunity to tie the scores. Jarrod Molloy and Brodie Holland remonstrated with Cornes after the match, with a feeling of hostility lingering after the two sides had left the field. Collingwood managed to pip the Power in the Qualifying Final later in the season in a boilover at the same venue, before repeating the dose at the MCG in the 2003 Preliminary Final, heating up the choking phenomenon directed at the Power. To add to the feeling between the two clubs, the off-field battle over Port's desire to wear Black and White stripes was a major talking point between 2002 and 2007, when a resolution was reached to the favour of Collingwood.

Brisbane, meanwhile, first registered on Collingwood's rivalry list in 1999, when they thumped the Magpies in the final fixture at Victoria Park. A tense three-point victory over the reigning premiers in front of a packed Colonial Stadium in round 8, 2002 took the Magpies to the top of the league table. Hostilities were renewed in that season's Grand Final, the Lions holding off a brave Collingwood by nine points on a wet afternoon. The situation became even more prominent the following season, when the two clubs clashed on four occasions. The Lions staved off the Magpies at the Gabba in round four before thrashing them in Heritage Round in round 19. Collingwood got its own back in the Qualifying Final, when Alan Didak broke the deadlock late in the final term, with two superb goals from the boundary line. However, it was the Lions who had the final say, walloping Collingwood in the Grand Final. This match was so tense that one Sydney-based Magpies fan even suffered a stroke during the 3/4 break. In 2004's Grand Final, Brisbane, playing against Port Adelaide, threatened to equal Collingwood's record of four premierships in a row, resulting in many Collingwood fans being forced to put aside the Port Adelaide rivialry on the day, even wearing the Black and White colours in temporary support of Port.

The Lions battered and bruised the injury-riddled Magpies throughout 2004 and 2005, but Collingwood got its own back in round 10, 2006, (obviously only a moot point after Bribane's defeat of Collingwood in the 2002 and 2003 Grand Finals) six Nathan Buckley goals breaking the Lions backs under the Saturday night lights of the MCG. The night signalled the end of Blake Caracella's playing career, crunched by former teammate Tim Notting in the second term, very nearly paralysing the Magpie forward. After Collingwood won its first match in Queensland since 1995 in round 9, 2007, the Lions again had the final say, Jared Brennan's seven goals piloting a 15-goal pasting of the Magpies in round 17.

Games between Collingwood and Geelong have become highly anticipated since 2007. In round 15 Geelong beat Collingwood by 16 points in a high-quality match. In the Preliminary final, however, Collingwood surprised many when they came within 5 points of the eventual premiers. During the match Geelong forward Cameron Mooney was awarded an just goal after Collingwood defender James Clement was controversially said to have deliberately knocked the ball out of play. Collingwood took revenge the next year, however, when they thrashed Geelong by 86 points- 20.14 (134)- 7.6 (48) and handed Geelong their only loss of the year to deny them equalling the record of going undefeated for a regular season. This record remains solely with Collingwood in 1929.

[edit] Records

Premierships:

VFA: (1)

1896

VFL/AFL:

• Seniors: (14)

1902 1903 1910 1917 1919 1927 1928 1929 1930 1935 1936 1953 1958 1990

• Reserves: (7)

1919 1920 1922 1925 1940 1965 1976

• Under 19s: (4)

1960 1965 1974 1986

• Pre-Season/Night Series Premierships: (1)

1979

• Lightning Premierships: (2)

1941 1951

• McClelland Trophy:(5)

1959 1960 1964 1965 1966

• Runners Up: (25) Record

1901 1905 1911 1915 1918 1920 1922 1925 1926 1937 1938 1939 1952 1955 1956 1960 1964 1966 1970 1977 1979 1980 1981 2002 2003

• Undefeated In the Home and Away Season

1929 *18 Rounds

• Wooden Spoons:(2)

1976 1999

[edit] Current playing list

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1 Leon Davis   2 Sean Rusling   3 John McCarthy   4 Alan Didak   5 Nick Maxwell (captain)   6 Tyson Goldsack   7 Paul Medhurst   8 Harry O'Brien   9 John Anthony 10 Scott Pendlebury 11 Shane O'Bree 12 Luke Ball 13 Dale Thomas 14 Anthony Corrie 15 Leigh Brown 16 Nathan Brown 17 Dayne Beams 18 Darren Jolly 19 Cameron Wood		20 Ben Reid 21 Sharrod Wellingham 22 Steele Sidebottom 23 N/A 24 Tarkyn Lockyer 25 Josh Fraser 26 Ben Johnson 27 Jarrad Blight 28 Ben Sinclair 29 Ryan Cook 30 Brent Macaffer 31 Chris Dawes 32 Travis Cloke 33 Brad Dick 34 Alan Toovey 35 Simon Prestigiacomo 36 Dane Swan 37 Luke Rounds 39 Heath Shaw		40 Josh Thomas 41 Simon Buckley 42 Club Number Retired 43 Jaxson Barham Rookies: 38 Scott Reed 44 Lachlan Keeffe 45 Tom Hunter 46 Tristian Francis 47 Jarryd Blair 48 Jack Carter 49 Thomas Young 50 Seamus McNamara NSW AFL Scholarship: N/A Michael Hartley N/A Josh Parsons N/A Nick Perry N/A Jarrod Witts N/A Adrian Yakimov

[edit] Squad changes for 2010

Ins

• Darren Jolly (traded from Sydney for draft picks 14 and 46)
• Luke Ball (picked up from draft for draft pick 30)
• Simon Buckley (picked up from draft for draft pick 85)
• Josh Thomas (picked up from draft for draft pick 75)
• Ben Sinclair (picked up from draft for draft pick 62)

Rookie Ins

• Tom Hunter (picked up from rookie draft at selection 18)
• Jack Carter (picked up from rookie draft at selection 34)
• Seamus McNamara (picked up from rookie draft at selection 47)

Outs

• Chris Bryan (delisted)
• Danny Stanley (delisted)
• Marty Clarke (retired)
• Kevin Dyas (retired)
• Johnny Benell (delisted)
• Tobias Thoolen (delisted)
• Anthony Rocca (retired)
• Shannon Cox (retired)

[edit] Individual awards

[edit] Best and Fairest

[edit] Brownlow Medal winners

• Syd Coventry (1927)
• Albert Collier (1929)
• Harry Collier (1930 tied)
• Marcus Whelan (1939)
• Des Fothergill (1940 tied)
• Len Thompson (1972)
• Peter Moore (1979)
• Nathan Buckley (2003 tied)

[edit] Champions of the colony

^{[dubious – discuss]}

• Bill Strickland (1896)
• Dick Condon (1898)
• Fred Leach (1900)
• Ted Rowell (1902)
• Dick Lee (1910, 1915)
• Syd Coventry (1927, 1929)
• Gordon Coventry (1933)
• Harry Collier (1936)
• Jack Regan (1938)

[edit] Leigh Matthews Trophy winners

• Darren Millane (1990)

[edit] Coleman Medal winners

• Ian Brewer (1958)
• Peter McKenna (1972, 1973)
• Brian Taylor (1986)

[edit] Norm Smith Medal winners

• Tony Shaw (1990)
• Nathan Buckley (2002)

[edit] E.J Whitten Medalists

• Gavin Brown (1989,1997)

[edit] Mark of the Year winners

• Billy Picken (1976)
• Peter Daicos (1980)
• Chris Tarrant (2003)

[edit] Goal of the Year winners

• Peter Daicos (1990)
• Mick McGuane (1994)
• Leon Davis (2008)

[edit] Anzac Day Medal winners

• Chris Tarrant (2001)
• Mark McGough (2002)
• Ben Johnson (2006)
• Heath Shaw (2007)
• Paul Medhurst (2008)

[edit] Jason McCartney Medal winners

• Anthony Rocca 2003
• Ben Johnson 2004
• Chris Tarrant (2006)
• James Clement (2007)
• Tarkyn Lockyer (2009)

[edit] Bob Rose-Charlie Sutton Medal winners

• Ben Johnson (2008)
• Dane Swan (2009)

[edit] All Australians

• Gavin Brown (1991, 1994)
• Nathan Buckley (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003)
• James Clement (2004, 2005)
• Leon Davis (2009)
• Alan Didak (2006)
• Tony Francis (1991)
• Des Healey (1953)
• Nick Maxwell (2009)
• Mick McGuane (1992)
• Peter McKenna (1972)
• Paul Medhurst (2008)
• Peter Moore (1979)
• Geoff Raines (1985)
• Michael Richardson (1983)
• Bob Rose (1953)
• Chris Tarrant (2003)
• Dane Swan (2009)
• Len Thompson (1972)
• Terry Waters (1969)
• Ricky Watt (1969)

[edit] Australian International Rules Representatives

• Gavin Brown (1990)
• Nathan Buckley (1998), (1999 - captain)
• James Clement (2002)
• Alan Didak (2004)
• Scott Pendlebury (2008)
• Dale Thomas (2008)

[edit] Notable records

• Greatest winning margin: 178 points R4, 1979 (VP) - Collingwood 31.21 (207) v St Kilda 3.11 (29)

[edit] Records set by players

• Most matches: Tony Shaw - 313 (1977-1994)

• Most consecutive matches: Jock McHale - 191 (1906-1917) - VFL record until 1943

• Most goals kicked in a match: Gordon Coventry - 17 goals 4 behinds (R12, 1930, VP)

• Most Best & Fairests: Nathan Buckley - 6 (1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003)

• Most matches as coach: Jock McHale - 714 (1912-1949)¹

• Most matches as captain/acting captain: Nathan Buckley - 162 (1999-2006)

• Most goals in a season: Peter McKenna - 143 (1970)

• Most goals by a single person: Gordon Coventry - 1299 (1920-1937) - VFL/AFL record until 1999

[edit] Team of the Century

Collingwood announced its team of the century on 14 June 1997, celebrating 100 years since the beginning of the VFL. Gavin Brown was added as the 4th interchange player in 2002, as when the team was named in 1997, only three interchange players were permitted on a team.^[15]

Collingwood Team of the Century
B:	Harold Rumney	Jack Regan	Syd Coventry (Captain)
HB:	Billy Picken	Albert Collier	Nathan Buckley
C:	Thorold Merrett	Bob Rose	Darren Millane
HF:	Des Fothergill	Murray Weideman	Dick Lee
F:	Phonse Kyne	Gordon Coventry	Peter Daicos
Foll:	Len Thompson	Des Tuddenham	Harry Collier
Int:	Tony Shaw	Wayne Richardson	Marcus Whelan
	Gavin Brown
Coach:	James "Jock" McHale

[edit] Captains

• This list comprises every captain of the club. This list doesn't include deputy captains filling in due to an injury to the named captain, but does include captains named after a player retires or steps down during the season.

Bill Strickland 1897 Bill Proudfoot 1898-99, 1901 Dick Condon 1899-1900 Lardie Tulloch 1902-04 Charlie H. Pannam 1905 Alf Dummett 1906 Arthur Leach 1906-08 Eddie Drohan 1908 Robert Nash 1908-09 George Angus 1910-11 Jock McHale 1912-13 Dan Minogue 1914-16 Percy Wilson 1917-18 Con McCarthy 1919 Dick Lee 1920-21 Tom Drummond 1922 Harry Curtis 1923 Charlie Tyson 1924-26 Syd Coventry 1927-34 Harry Collier 1935-39 Jack Regan 1940-41, 1943 Phonse Kyne 1942, 1946-49

Pat Fricker 1944 Alby Pannam 1945 Gordon Hocking 1950-51 Lou Richards 1952-55 Neil Mann 1955-56 Bill Twomey 1957 Frank Tuck 1958-59 Murray Weideman 1960-63 Ray Gabelich 1964-65 John Henderson 1965 Des Tuddenham 1966-69, 1976 Terry Waters 1970-71 Wayne Richardson 1971-75 Max Richardson 1977 Len Thompson 1978 Ray Shaw 1979-80 Peter Moore 1981-82 Mark Williams 1983-86 Tony Shaw 1987-93 Gavin Brown 1994-98 Nathan Buckley 1999-2007 Scott Burns 2008 Nick Maxwell 2009-

[edit] Club song

"Good Old Collingwood Forever" is the official anthem of the Collingwood Football Club. It is sung to the tune of "Goodbye Dolly Grey".

LYRICS: Good old Collingwood forever They know how to play the game (Two, three, four) Side by side they stick together To uphold the Magpies name (Cor blimey!)

See the barrackers are shouting As all barrackers should Oh, the premiership's a cake walk For the good old Collingwood!

[edit] Collingwood in the VFA/VFL

From 2000 to 2007 Collingwood was associated with the Williamstown Football Club. However, the desire by Collingwood to re-establish a VFL Collingwood side in 2007 saw the end of that association. As of 2008 Collingwood did just that and is the first AFL team to return fully to VFA/VFL competition. Home matches are played at Princes Park, with three to be played at Victoria Park in 2009.

The Collingwood Football club recently announced that they had reached an agreement with the Yarra City Council for the clubs VFL side to play all the home games at Victoria Park during their 2010 season.

[edit] Collingwood in popular culture

• David Williamson's 1977 stage play, The Club, was inspired by the backroom dealings and antics of the Collingwood Football Club; although Collingwood is never mentioned by name. The 1980 film version of the play — directed by Bruce Beresford and starring John Howard, Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy and Frank Wilson[1] — is set at Collingwood, and featured Collingwood players in speaking and non-speaking roles. The film was almost entirely shot on location at Victoria Park, both inside and on the actual oval.^[16]

[edit] See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to category:      Collingwood Football Club

• List of Collingwood players
• List of Collingwood Football Club coaches
• History of the Collingwood Football Club

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website of the Collingwood Football Club
• Nicks Collingwood Page

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