Round 13 - Footscray vs Collingwood at Whitten Oval

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
1:00pm this Saturday at The Kennel.

Broadcast:
Internet - LiveChat at collingwoodfc.com.au, full video replay available on Monday. Score updates in this thread and on Twitter at @VFLPies

Where They Sit:
Footscray: 7th (6 wins, 4 losses, 2 byes, 148.63%)
Collingwood: 6th (7 wins, 3 losses, 2 byes, 104.83%)

Team:
B: Armstrong Scharenberg Marsh
HB: Wallin Seedsman Young
C: Manteit Greenwood Karnezis
HF: Gault Abbott Goodyear
F: Cody* Cox Kennedy
R: Grundy Gray Dwyer
Int: Blair Hellier Taylor J. Williams Moloney Greenhough R.Pendlebury Close Sinclair

Last Time They Met:
Round 3, 2015 at Victoria Park
Collingwood 16.4.100, def
Footscray 14.12.96

Head to Head:
Played: 2
Footscray: 1
Collingwood: 1

How They Fared Last Week:
Footscray 21.15.141, def
Northern Blues 5.8.38

Collingwood 11.12.78, def
Sandringham 10.8.68

Trivia:
- This will be the first time that the Collingwood VFL team has played at the Whitten Oval.

Milestone:
Ben Moloney - 50 games



Over to you...

[John Wren]

50th vfl game for ben moloney.

[MagpieBat]

50th vfl game for ben moloney.

So noted, JW.

Looking at the records, I think Lachie Wallace is the next in line amongst our VFL list boys to reach the 50 game mark, correct? Which, at the earliest, would fall on Round 20 vs Port Melbourne...

[John Wren]

^ lachie had played 37 games up until the start of the season. tim allan could have possibly played his 50th game this year - also on 37 games at the start of the year.

interesting to note that the great dane swan has played 42 vfl games.

[MagpieBat]

^ lachie had played 37 games up until the start of the season. tim allan could have possibly played his 50th game this year - also on 37 games at the start of the year.

interesting to note that the great dane swan has played 42 vfl games.

Yep, Wallace started on 37 games, but has played another 5, so he's on 42. Allan is on 39 (2 games this year).

Somehow I don't think Swan will make it to 50 VFL games...

[Dave The Man]

Weather Sounds like Crap for Saturday

[perthmagpie]

I'm gonna take a guess at the team after hearing no change in seniors:

This assumes Reid, Freeman and Goldy are not playing but Armstrong, Abbott and Greenwood are along with the three emergencies.

Scharenberg Marsh Sinclair
Young Pendlebury Armstrong
Seedsman Greenwood Goodyear
Manteit Gault Dwyer
Cox Abbott Karnezis

Grundy, Moloney, Kennedy
I from: Wills, Wallace, J.Blair, Gray, Borthwick

[John Wren]

Weather Sounds like Crap for Saturday

cor blimey dave.

[John Wren]

I'm gonna take a guess at the team after hearing no change in seniors:

This assumes Reid, Freeman and Goldy are not playing but Armstrong, Abbott and Greenwood are along with the three emergencies.

Scharenberg Marsh Sinclair
Young Pendlebury Armstrong
Seedsman Greenwood Goodyear
Manteit Gault Dwyer
Cox Abbott Karnezis

Grundy, Moloney, Kennedy
I from: Wills, Wallace, J.Blair, Gray, Borthwick

pendlebury marsh armstrong
sinclair scharenberg wallin
young greenwood seedsman
karnezis gault blair
cox abbott dwyer
grundy moloney kennedy
williams, hellier, goodyear, gray, manteit

the bench is always a lottery but i'd expect at least hellier, goodyear and manteit to be named.

[Jezza]

We're playing well at the moment but Footscray are a good pretty good side themselves. Expect a tight contest this Saturday.

Having Greenwood, Grundy, Seedsman and Dwyer in the side should provide us the edge in terms of experience.

[Dave The Man]

We're playing well at the moment but Footscray are a good pretty good side themselves. Expect a tight contest this Saturday.

Having Greenwood, Grundy, Seedsman and Dwyer in the side should provide us the edge in terms of experience.

They are the Reigning Premiers

[MagpieBat]

We're playing well at the moment but Footscray are a good pretty good side themselves. Expect a tight contest this Saturday.

Having Greenwood, Grundy, Seedsman and Dwyer in the side should provide us the edge in terms of experience.

They are the Reigning Premiers

Whom we beat earlier this year. They are weaker this time around, we are arguably as strong, if not more so, as last time.

True, their home ground is a b-tch to play on, but their winning record there against top 8 teams is underwhelming (2 from 5 games vs top 8 teams at Whitten Oval since coming back into the competition).

I'm actually growing more confident of getting them this time around...

[Kosh]

Weather Sounds like Crap for Saturday

Good Grief..not again.

Will have to wear my thermals...

Looking forward to the game. I'm with Bat. I think that we have a good chance. My only concern is that this will be our 3rd tough outing in a row & they had a walk in the park last week.

Hopefully Greenwood will be back.

[John Wren]

B Armstrong Scharenberg Marsh
HB Wallin Seedsman Young
C Manteit Greenwood Karnezis
HF Gault Abbott Goodyear
F Cody* Cox Kennedy
R Grundy Gray Dwyer
Int Blair Hellier Taylor J. Williams
Moloney Greenhough R.Pendlebury Close
Sinclair

grundy won't play now. hoff might come in. moloney and hellier are locks and sinkers.

[MagpieBat]

And the home team...

Footscray Bulldogs

B Dale Cordy R. Smith
HB Prismall Russell Jamieson
C Biggs Kelly Darley
HF Greenwood Campbell Austin
F W. Hayes Fort Crameri
R Cordy Jong Pearce
Int Keras Coughlan* Grabowski Fogarty Iaccarino Barry Sharp Buchanan Huxtable

Trust Jong and Kelly to make a return from injury against us. Oh well.

11 AFL-listers for them, if my math is correct...?

Nice to see Jordan Russell playing against his old team again. Hopefully he puts in a vintage 2013 performance...