The 93,373 strong crowd that filled the MCG for Thursday's ANZAC Day blockbuster was the third highest home and away attendance in VFL/AFL history.
It was the 10th time in the league's 116 year history that more than 90,000 had attended a game.
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Of the 10 games that have attracted a crowd of more than 90,000, eight have involved Collingwood, four of which were ANZAC Day games between 2007 and 2013.
Nine of the 10 games were played at the MCG. The one exception was the Hawthorn v Collingwood match on the Queen's Birthday in round 11, 1981, when 92,935 fans crammed into Waverley Park.
As noted in Stats Central, Thursday's crowd means that 34-year-old recruit Ben Hudson has played in front of a total of 247,577 fans (an average of 82,525 per game) in his first three games for Collingwood.
To put that into perspective, in his 161 games at Adelaide, the Western Bulldogs and Brisbane, the biggest crowd he had played in front of was 78,245 for the Bulldogs against St Kilda in the 2009 Preliminary Final.
That he has not played in front of a crowd of less than 72,254 in the past three weeks speaks volumes for the strength of the Magpie Army.
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