Round 18 - Collingwood vs Geelong at Olympic Park Oval

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
10:45am this Saturday at Collingwood Headquarters.

Broadcast:
Internet - Score updates in this thread, via FlashScore, through the VFL website and on Twitter at @VFLPies.

Team:
B: 31. J. Ramsay, 35. S. McLarty, 48. L. Tardrew
HB: 60. J. Kelly, 57. A. Close, 63. M. Hore
C: 61. N. Gray, 53. J. Hellier, 64. C. Lane
HF: 69. J. Blair, 9. J. White, 16. C. Mayne
F: 27. K. Kirby, 23. L. Keeffe, 47. G. Borthwick
R: 45. M. Lynch, 36. B. Sier, 67. M. Smith
Int: 55. R. Pendlebury, 65. L. Howe, 58. K. Beveridge, 49. M. Chippendale, 70. J. Turner, 62. A. Indovino, 54. J. Collopy, 66. D. Hinkley
23P: 71. A. Mastromanno

Where They Sit:
Collingwood: 8th (8 wins, 8 losses, 2 byes, 97.30%)
Geelong: 12th (6 wins, 10 losses, 2 byes, 85.04%)

Admission:
FREE!

Last Time They Met:
Round 12, 2017 at Kardinia Park
Geelong 7.8.50, def by
Collingwood 11.10.76

Head to Head:
Played: 19
Collingwood: 13
Geelong: 6

How They Fared Last Week:
Collingwood 19.14.128, def
North Ballarat 6.5.41

Geelong 12.12.84, def
Richmond 11.11.77

The Race For The Frosty:
- Kayle Kirby (Collingwood): 39 goals
- Jordan Lisle (Port Melbourne): 38 goals
- Dylan Conway (Port Melbourne): 35 goals
- Ben Lennon (Richmond): 34 goals
- Bayley Fritsch (Casey): 32 goals

Note:
- As you have probably worked out, this match will serve as an off-Broadway prelude to the clash between the senior sides from the same two clubs across the Jolimont Yards at the MCG. The VFL match will finish at approximately 1:20pm, leaving fans about an hour to get from the inhospitable terraces of Olympic Park to the glorious surrounds of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

- For those who have not amended their VFL fixtures in the last couple of months, no your eyes are not wrong. This match was originally scheduled for 5:10pm as a twilight encore feature, but was changed to the morning at Collingwood's apparent request.

Over to you...

#KickItToTheKirb

[paulie]

Will be getting to this one my first VFL game for the year.I have backed the 2nds this week in a double with the Melbourne storm to both win their respective premeirships call me a crazy fool but got on for $100 to $11220.

[MagpieBat]

[MagpieBat]

Magpies kicking to the Olympic Boulevard end, as the rains tumbles down.

I'm not there today, thank goodness. But mattys123 is, so between the two of us, we've got you covered for scores. The weather, on the other hand...

[MagpieBat]

Ramsay is the carry-over player...

[MagpieBat]

Behind to the Cats opens the account for the visitors...

0-1

[MagpieBat]

Bevo!

Kye Beveridge gets us on the board with the first of the day! Conditions will suit the smaller players...

6-1

[MagpieBat]

Behind to the Cats from a Black set-shot...

6-2

[On the March]

Early start Bat - lets hope its a great day! Love your passion.

[MagpieBat]

Behind to Keeffe who, along with Kirby, is playing from the emergencies if you've just joined us...

7-2

[MagpieBat]

Early start Bat - lets hope its a great day! Love your passion.

Cheers, OTM.

In this case, however, the passion was not enough to get me down to Melbourne today. I do have an excuse, though - scheduling conflicts.

[MagpieBat]

Cats hit the front...

7-8

[MagpieBat]

Another behind to them.

Cunico it was who snapped that goal...

7-9

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Cats peppering the goals...

7-10

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Behind to us...

8-10