Round 8 - Blues vs Collingwood at Preston City Oval

[MagpieBat]

Where and When:
1:10pm this Saturday at Cramer Street.

Broadcast:
TV - ABC1 in Victoria and Tasmania from 1:00pm. Replayed nationally at 2:30am on Wednesday June 5th. Available on iView during next week.

Internet - LiveChat at collingwood.fc.com.au; score updates and stats in this thread.

Team:
B: Oxley Heagney-Steart Sinclair
HB: Clarke Riddle Gault
C: Mooney Broomhead Yagmoor
HF: Paine Richmond Moloney
F: Hellier Grundy Mangoni*
R: Witts Collopy Ferguson
Int: Allan Gray Hine Corr Mitchem Wallace Hudson S. Williams Boland

Where They Sit:
Blues: 6th (4 wins, 2 losses, 141.83%)
Collingwood: 7th (4 wins, 3 losses, 126.29%)

Last Time They Met:
Round 4, 2012 at Preston City Oval
Northern Blues 13.13.91, def by
Collingwood 15.8.98

Head to Head (since 2008):
Played: 9
Blues: 7
Collingwood: 2

How They Fared Last Week:
Northern Blues - BYE

Collingwood 18.14.122, def
Essendon 17.11.113

Over to you...

[Dave The Man]

I am Defintally going Saturday to the Game. Only Reason I would not go is if it's Poring with Rain

[Fire Up]

go to the preston market (over the road) get lunch there and then watch the pies win!

better food at market then at the ground

[MagpieBat]

The ressies team...

Collingwood
B: Oxley Heagney-Steart Sinclair
HB: Clarke Riddle Gault
C: Mooney Broomhead Yagmoor
HF: Paine Richmond Moloney
F: Hellier Grundy Mangoni*
R: Witts Collopy Ferguson
Int: Allan Gray Hine Corr Mitchem Wallace Hudson S. Williams Boland

[MagpieBat]

And the Scum...

Northern Blues
B: Duigan M. Watson Laidler
HB: Davies Visser Joseph
C: Temay Collins Buckley
HF: A. Gianfagna Rowe Dale
F: Menzel Meese Dorman
R: Hampson Lambert Bransgrove
Int: Wilson Yelland Ballard* McCarthy Lincoln Dirago Taglieri Soncin Totevski

[Dave The Man]

Hell Yeah Grundy named at FF. Really looking forward to watching him Play.

We won this game last year and hopefully do it 2 seasons in a Running

[Fire Up]

Hell Yeah Grundy named at FF. Really looking forward to watching him Play.

We won this game last year and hopefully do it 2 seasons in a Running

just because he is named at FF, doesnt mean he will start there. most likely will start on bench.

[Dave The Man]

Hell Yeah Grundy named at FF. Really looking forward to watching him Play.

We won this game last year and hopefully do it 2 seasons in a Running

just because he is named at FF, doesnt mean he will start there. most likely will start on bench.

Doubt he be on the Bench

[woftam]

Hell Yeah Grundy named at FF. Really looking forward to watching him Play.

We won this game last year and hopefully do it 2 seasons in a Running

just because he is named at FF, doesnt mean he will start there. most likely will start on bench.

Doubt he be on the Bench

Dave he spent the entire first Quarter on the bench last week. They are easing him ino full fitness. No need to push him too hard too early.

[watt price tully]

just because he is named at FF, doesnt mean he will start there. most likely will start on bench.

Doubt he be on the Bench

Dave he spent the entire first Quarter on the bench last week. They are easing him ino full fitness. No need to push him too hard too early.

Yep, exactomundo.

[MagpieBat]

He may very well start on the bench. But he'll likely play the majority of his game time up forward as the deep target. Witts and (hopefully) Hudson will be doing the rucking in rotation.

Also, I'm surprised no one's noticed, but Ben Johnson is not in the team. Broken down again?

[jackcass]

He may very well start on the bench. But he'll likely play the majority of his game time up forward as the deep target. Witts and (hopefully) Hudson will be doing the rucking in rotation.

Also, I'm surprised no one's noticed, but Ben Johnson is not in the team. Broken down again?

Given the weather it wouldn't surprise me if Hudson didn't play. I know he thrives on these sort of conditions but the extra runner could be handy and it's more important that we get game time into Witts, Grundy, and Richmond.

Good pick up on Benny J.

[jackcass]

And the Scum...

Northern Blues
B: Duigan M. Watson Laidler
HB: Davies Visser Joseph
C: Temay Collins Buckley
HF: A. Gianfagna Rowe Dale
F: Menzel Meese Dorman
R: Hampson Lambert Bransgrove
Int: Wilson Yelland Ballard* McCarthy Lincoln Dirago Taglieri Soncin Totevski

Don't know enough about their VFL listed players to know for sure but still a pretty handy side with Duigan, Watson, Laidler, Davies, Joseph, Buckley, Rowe, Menzel and Hampson with senior experience. Should make for a cracker of a game.

[MagpieBat]

He may very well start on the bench. But he'll likely play the majority of his game time up forward as the deep target. Witts and (hopefully) Hudson will be doing the rucking in rotation.

Also, I'm surprised no one's noticed, but Ben Johnson is not in the team. Broken down again?

Given the weather it wouldn't surprise me if Hudson didn't play. I know he thrives on these sort of conditions but the extra runner could be handy and it's more important that we get game time into Witts, Grundy, and Richmond.

Good pick up on Benny J.

Well, if the latest rumours are true, re Cloke, Witts could very well be playing, which means that Huddo just has to play tomorrow. There's no way Grundy can ruck a full game coming straight off an extended layoff with back issues.

As the others said, he has to be eased back into full fitness.

[Dave The Man]

Weather Forecast Poor Tommorow. So might not go but If I can I will sure go.