Round 1 - North Ballarat vs Collingwood at Eureka Stadium

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
1:30pm this Sunday at the Northern Oval.

Broadcast:
Internet - LiveChat at collingwoodfc.com.au

Team:
B: Goodyear Reid Manteit
HB: Moore Armstrong Fasolo
C: Maynard De Goey Marsh
HF: Abbott Still Moloney
F: Borthwick* Cox Freeman
R: Witts Hellier Karnezis
Int: Wallin Gray Wills R. Pendlebury Collopy J. Williams Allan Wallace Taylor

Last Time They Met:
Round 1, 2014 at Victoria Park
Collingwood 11.19.85
North Ballarat 11.7.73

Head to Head:
Played: 11
Collingwood: 3
North Ballarat: 8

Trivia:
- This is the third successive year that Collingwood and North Ballarat have clashed in their first game of a VFL season.

- Collingwood's 3 wins against North Ballarat have all been scored during the last 5 encounters with the Roosters.

- Collingwood have never won a game at Eureka Stadium.

Over to you...

[Dave The Man]

[John Wren]

am looking forward to the start of the season. the preseason has felt never ending.

[swoop42]

Bizarre that we played a practice match against this side last week.

Who came up with that piece of scheduling?

[Dave The Man]

am looking forward to the start of the season. the preseason has felt never ending.

Would there be a Step-Up in Quality of the Games?

Be interesting how Moore goes in Regular Season Games

[KenH]

[John Wren]

Bizarre that we played a practice match against this side last week.

Who came up with that piece of scheduling?

winning on the weekend has given us a psychological advantage.

[John Wren]

am looking forward to the start of the season. the preseason has felt never ending.

Would there be a Step-Up in Quality of the Games?

Be interesting how Moore goes in Regular Season Games

the preseason games have been played at a reasonable intensity. lots of vfl players still competing for spots.

[Dave The Man]

Sunday 19 April
Summary

Min 3
Max 13
Shower or two clearing.
Cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers until evening. The risk of thunder and hail. Winds southwesterly 30 to 40 km/h tending southerly during the morning then tending southeasterly 30 to 35 km/h during the evening.

The Weather does not sound very Exciting

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/ballarat.shtml

[MagpieBat]

Sunday 19 April
Summary

Min 3
Max 13
Shower or two clearing.
Cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers until evening. The risk of thunder and hail. Winds southwesterly 30 to 40 km/h tending southerly during the morning then tending southeasterly 30 to 35 km/h during the evening.

The Weather does not sound very Exciting

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/ballarat.shtml

Cold, cloudy, windy and a good chance of rain.

Typical Ballarat weather, I would have thought...

[Dave The Man]

[thompsoc]

Bizarre that we played a practice match against this side last week.

Who came up with that piece of scheduling?

I fully agree!!!

[MagpieBat]

The first VFL team of the season is in!

Collingwood
B: Goodyear Reid Manteit
HB: Moore Armstrong Fasolo
C: Maynard De Goey Marsh
HF: Abbott Still Moloney
F: Borthwick* Cox Freeman
R: Witts Hellier Karnezis
Int: Wallin Gray Wills R. Pendlebury Collopy J. Williams Allan Wallace Taylor

http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=3542395

No Kennedy, still ill obviously.

Abbott back into the side.

13 potential debutants (in an official sense) in that team.

[John Wren]

good line up, who to omit?!

gray, williams, allan, taylor and wallin on the bench.

[jackcass]

Good to see Abbott back, nice to see Marsh named on a wing although still imagine he'll play in defense unless R Pendles assumes that role along with Reid and Moore.