Preview Round 13: Collingwood v Western Bulldogs

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Collingwood v Western Bulldogs Sunday June 15, 3.20pm Etihad Fox Footy / 7mate 3.00pm Weather: Min 10 Max 16 Chance of rain 50%: < 1mm Wind: SW 29kph Betting: Collingwood $1.09 Western Bulldogs $7.50

It will have been 1750 days since Collingwood’s last loss to the Western Bulldogs when the two teams run out onto Etihad Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs, in partnership with Slater & Gordon, will honour former player Robert Rose’s contribution to sport and raise funds and awareness for people living with disability as the two teams battle it out for the Robert Rose Cup.

Head-to-Head (since 1925)
Collingwood: 106
Western Bulldogs: 42
Drawn: 1

Past Five

1. Round 12 2013: Collingwood 15.9 (99) Western Bulldogs 9.11 (65)
2. Round 6 2012: Collingwood 16.8 (98) Western Bulldogs 11.11 (77)
3. Round 6 2011: Collingwood 15.15 (105) Western Bulldogs 8.9 (57)
4. Qualifying Final 2010: Collingwood 17.22 (124) Western Bulldogs 8.14 (62)
5. Round 11 2010: Collingwood 17.11 (113) Western Bulldogs 16.7 (103)
   

Stats and figures

• Matches between Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs have been rare in recent years. It’s four years since the two clubs met more than once in the regular season.
• Collingwood generally plays only a handful of games at Etihad Stadium each year. More often than not, one of them is against the Bulldogs. Since the venue opened in 2000, the two clubs have met at the ground on 15 occasions, of which the Magpies have won 10. The Pies have not lost to the Dogs at the Docklands since round 22, 2009.
• The last time the two sides met at a ground other than Etihad Stadium or the MCG was at Princes Park on Easter Saturday, 1998. In front of 26,518 fans, the Magpies yielded against the Preliminary Final-bound Bulldogs on a sunny Melbourne afternoon. Shane Watson was Collingwood’s leading goal kicker with three, while Graham Wright was the only Magpie to collect more than 20 disposals. The match was notable for the debut of a 17-year-old Chris Tarrant who kicked one goal from seven disposals.
• The two clubs first met at the Western Oval in 1925. A crowd of 9,000 packed out the ground to watch the Magpies storm to a 44-point victory over the ‘Scrays. Gordon Coventry kicked five goals. He would kick another 83 in his next 15 games against the Dogs.
• Collingwood and Footscray found themselves locked on 10.11 (71) after four quarters in wet conditions out at Waverley Park in round 12, 1995. The Bulldogs led by 22-points at three quarter time but were swamped by Leigh Matthews’ Magpies with five goals to two in the final term. All Brownlow votes went the way of the Dogs; Sav Rocca (four goals) and Nathan Buckley (29 disposals) were among Collingwood’s best. The match was the only draw between the two clubs.

A foot in both camps
Players to have worn both jumpers over the years include George Bisset (166 games for Footscray, 41 games for Collingwood), Richard Osborne (51 games for the Footscray, 16 games for Collingwood), Tyson Lane (19 games for the Bulldogs, 42 games for Collingwood) and Josh Mahoney (19 games for Collingwood, 16 games for the Bulldogs). Jon Ballantyne (20 games in the No. 50 for the Bulldogs and nine for Collingwood) and Todd Curley (three games as a Magpie in 1994 and 115 for the Bulldogs from 1996-2001) also spent time at both clubs throughout the 1990s while key forwards Steven Pitt and Tom Davidson were both listed by the Bulldogs but never played senior football. Tom Young, a current Bulldog who last played in round six, played nine games for the Magpies between 2011 and 2012.

Next Five Weeks
Collingwood

1. Round 14 – Hawthorn at the MCG
2. Round 15 – Carlton at the MCG
3. Round 16 – Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium
4. Round 17 – Essendon at the MCG
5. Round 18 – Adelaide at the MCG