2014 Home and Away Draw

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Collingwood's 2014 Home and Away Draw

Round	Date	Match	Venue	Time
1	Fri 14 Mar	Collingwood v Fremantle	Etihad Stadium	7:50 PM
2	Sat 29 Mar	Sydney v Collingwood	ANZ Stadium	7:40 PM
3	Sat 5 Apr	Collingwood v Geelong	MCG	7:40 PM
4	Fri 11 Apr	Richmond v Collingwood	MCG	7:50 PM
5	Sat 19 Apr	Collingwood v North Melbourne	MCG	1:40 PM
6	Fri 25 Apr	Collingwood v Essendon	MCG	2:40 PM
7	Fri 2 May	Carlton v Collingwood	MCG	7:50 PM
8		BYE
9	Thurs 15 May	Adelaide v Collingwood	Adelaide Oval	7:20 PM
10	Sat 24 May	Collingwood v West Coast	MCG	4:40 PM
11	Fri 30 May	St Kilda v Collingwood	Etihad Stadium	7:50 PM
12	Mon 9 June	Melbourne v Collingwood	MCG	3:20 PM
13	Sun 15 Jun	Collingwood v Western Bulldogs	Etihad Stadium	3:20 PM
14	Sat 21 Jun	Hawthorn v Collingwood	MCG	2:10 PM
15	Sun 29 Jun	Collingwood v Carlton	MCG	7:10 PM
16	Sat 5 Jul	Gold Coast v Collingwood	Metricon Stadium	4:40 PM
17	Sun 13 Jul	Essendon v Collingwood	MCG	3:20 PM
18	Sun 27 Jul	Collingwood v Adelaide	MCG	4:40 PM
19	Sun 3 Aug	Collingwood v Port Adelaide	MCG	4:40 PM
20	Sun 10 Aug	West Coast v Collingwood	Patersons Stadium	2:40 PM
21	Sun 16 Aug	Collingwood v Brisbane	MCG	7:40 PM
21	Sat 23 Aug	GWS v Collingwood	MCG	4:40 PM
21	TBC	Hawthorn	MCG	TBC

Please Note: All times are local to the city in which the game will be played.

A string of MCG games at either end of the season and several home games against traditional rivals highlight Collingwood's 2014 home and away fixture.
The Magpies will play 17 games in Victoria and their five on the road are well spaced out across the season.
Collingwood will also feature in the season opener for the first time since 2004 when it takes on the 2013 runners up, Fremantle, at Etihad Stadium under lights on Friday 14 March, and will be involved in the AFL's Thursday and Sunday night experiments later in the season.

AFL Analysis

CLUBS PIES PLAY TWICE: Adelaide Crows, West Coast Eagles, Essendon, Carlton, Hawthorn
PROS: Fourteen games at the MCG and only one of this year's top four twice in Hawthorn and its only game against Fremantle is in Victoria.
CONS: A tough start to the season with five of this year's top eight teams plus Essendon and North Melbourne (the best teams out of the eight) in the first seven games.
HIGHLIGHTS: Friday night season opener against last year's Grand Finalists will be a hot encounter at Etihad Stadium and the Sunday night blockbuster against Carlton in late June will be a television event. And, of course, Anzac Day against Essendon on a Friday afternoon.
TOUGHEST RUN: Collingwood's first seven rounds will define its season. If the Pies are ahead of the ledger after seven rounds they should make finals.
TRAVEL: Five games outside Victoria with the game against the Sydney Swans now in round two rather than its traditional mid-season slot.
GAMES AGAINST 2013 TOP 6: Eight. Plays Hawthorn and Carlton twice, the Sydney Swans away and Fremantle and Port Adelaide in Victoria. Geelong looms in round three.
GAMES AGAINST 2013 BOTTOM 6: Seven. West Coast twice and the Suns, St Kilda, Greater Western Sydney, the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne once. The Pies' first game against a bottom-six team from 2013 is against the Eagles in round 10.
WHAT PERT SAYS: "The fixture is good from an on-field perspective but in many ways not ideal commercially, with a number of our home games not scheduled in prime time. As a club we are comfortable with that as we work with the AFL on our role to be spreading the commercial benefits of the fixture as part of the equalisation strategy." – chief executive Gary Pert
WHAT AFL SAYS: A very tough start to the season but otherwise reasonable, meeting both Fremantle and Port Adelaide just once, and in Victoria. As usual, commercially sound although twilight games dominate the end of the season.