Round 13 - Williamstown vs Collingwood at Point Gellibrand

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
2:00pm this Sunday at the Williamstown Cricket Ground.

Broadcast:
Video - Streaming LIVE on the VFL YouTube channel and the the VFL website and through the VFL smartphone app for iPhone and Android from 1:45pm.

Radio - Streaming LIVE on VFL Radio at this link, on digital radio SEN 2, through the Red Time Sport iPhone app and through the VFL smartphone app for iPhone and Android from 1:45pm.

Also broadcasting on Casey Radio 3SER on 97.7FM in south-east Melbourne and streaming live via this link, through this console and via the TuneIn Radio app for iPhone and Android.

Internet - Score updates in this thread, via FlashScore, through the VFL website, through the VFL smartphone app for iPhone and Android and on Twitter at @VFLPies.

Team:
B: 44. J. Madgen, 28. N. Murphy, 67. M. Smith
HB: 9. S. Murray, 51. M. Hore, 43. A. Oxley
C: 34. T. Brown, 17. C. Brown, 54. A. Gallucci
HF: 53. J. Hellier, 47. G. Borthwick, 61. S. Hetherington
F: 63. C. Wellings, 45. M. Lynch, 50. A. Woodward
R: 23. S. McLarty, 33. R. Wills, 18. T. Varcoe
Int: 58. K. Beveridge, 69. J. Blair, 49. M. Chippendale, 52. E. Le Grice, 60. N. Sing, 59. J. Starcevich, 56. S. Tahana, 48. L. Tardrew
23P: 70. S. Ralph

Admission:
- Adult: $10
- Concession/Pensioner: $5
- Children 15 & under: FREE!

Getting There:
Car
- Located at the intersection of Morris Street and Battery Road, Williamstown. Limited parking available immediately inside, outside and near the oval.

Public Transport
- Take Werribee railway line service to Newport railway station, change to the Williamstown railway line service and take to Williamstown railway station. Short walk across the station footbridge and Railway Terrace then down Morris Street to the ground.

(PTV Journey Planner)

Where They Sit:
Williamstown: 7th (6 wins, 4 losses, 2 byes, 120.79%)
Collingwood: 6th (6 wins, 4 losses, 2 byes, 121.96%)

Last Time They Met:
Round 13, 2017 at Victoria Park
Collingwood 10.10.70, def by
Williamstown 20.10.130

Head to Head:
Played: 18
Williamstown: 15
Collingwood: 3

How They Fared Last Week:
Williamstown - BYE

Collingwood 10.12.72, def by
Northern Blues 11.10.76

The Month Ahead:
Williamstown - Collingwood (H), Port Melbourne (A), Blues (A), Footscray (H)

Collingwood - Williamstown (A), Werribee (H, Victoria Park), BYE, Essendon (A)

Trivia:
- Collingwood have never won a game at Point Gellibrand Oval. In seven attempts across two incarnations in this hybrid competition (2000 and since 2008), the Magpies have visited the Williamstown Cricket Ground and come away empty-handed every single time, with an average losing margin of 43.3 points. Owing to the vagaries of fixturing, however, this will be the first time Collingwood has played at Williamstown since Round 16 of 2015.

Over to you...

[Pies4shaw]

[Dave The Man]

Glad it's the Stream Game

[masoncox]

Every time I go there it is freezing cold with wind.
I think we have lost every time I went.
Still I like the position next to the beach.
Always hot food with a beer to be had.
So it is football in winter

[watt price tully]

When and Where:
2:00pm this Sunday at the Williamstown Cricket Ground.
........

Trivia:
- Collingwood have never won a game at Point Gellibrand Oval. In seven attempts across two incarnations in this hybrid competition (2000 and since 2008), the Magpies have visited the Williamstown Cricket Ground and come away empty-handed every single time, with an average losing margin of 43.3 points. Owing to the vagaries of fixturing, however, this will be the first time Collingwood has played at Williamstown since Round 16 of 2015.

Over to you...

Cheers for that.

Do you think Collingwood VFL can do better than Sandringham did recently?

[Pies4shaw]

No. No Blair, no Collingwood.

[Jezza]

Every time I go there it is freezing cold with wind.
I think we have lost every time I went.
Still I like the position next to the beach.
Always hot food with a beer to be had.
So it is football in winter

Must be the coldest place to attend footy anywhere in Victoria.

[MagpieBat]

The team for Mission Impossible, the Siege of Fort Gellibrand...

Collingwood

B: 44. J. Madgen, 28. N. Murphy, 67. M. Smith

HB: 9. S. Murray, 51. M. Hore, 43. A. Oxley

C: 34. T. Brown, 17. C. Brown, 54. A. Gallucci

HF: 53. J. Hellier, 47. G. Borthwick, 61. S. Hetherington

F: 63. C. Wellings, 45. M. Lynch, 50. A. Woodward

R: 23. S. McLarty, 33. R. Wills, 18. T. Varcoe

Int: 58. K. Beveridge, 69. J. Blair, 49. M. Chippendale, 52. E. Le Grice, 60. N. Sing, 59. J. Starcevich, 56. S. Tahana, 48. L. Tardrew

23P: 70. S. Ralph



In: J. Starcevich, T. Varcoe, S. Tahana, A. Woodward, K. Beveridge, A. Oxley

Out: B. Crocker, B. Sier

A much-valued return by Travis Varcoe from a hamstring injury, an unexpected return by Jackson Starcevich from a PCL injury, and most importantly, a massively welcome back return by Alex Woodward from his umpteenth knee reconstruction!

[watt price tully]

Congratulations to Woodward. Gutsy effort.

[Spazza]

Quoted from Collingwood Web page......
Former Hawthorn midfielder Alex Woodward will play his first game in Collingwood's VFL team when the Magpies take on Williamstown on Sunday.

Woodward, who played two AFL games during a luckless five-year stint with the Hawks, was the VFL Pies' key signing in the lead-up to their 2017 campaign.

However, he suffered his fourth serious knee injury in his third game in black and white.

The 25-year-old, who won the 2014 Liston Trophy for the best and fairest player in the VFL, has been building his fitness while acting as Collingwood's AFL runner during the first half of the season.


All the best to this young man after a frustrating career thus far. He's determination is remarkable Good luck Alex on Sunday against Willy.

[inxs88]

Great effort and resilience. Imagine if he was best on ground first up?

[Jezza]

All the best to Woodward on his long-awaited return.

Can't help but admire his resilience and persistence to come back.

[MagpieBat]

Do you think Collingwood VFL can do better than Sandringham did recently?

So long as the rain holds off, yes.

We'll struggle to get near Willy, though...

[MagpieBat]

OP has been updated with a few extra goodies. Namely, our team sheet, a YouTube portal for the video stream and links for the radio call being provided by local Casey radio station 3SER. Usually they do Casey's games, except when the Demons are the TV game (which they are this week). As such, we get 3SER's services as an alternative way to follow the game. So, if you're out and about and can't watch, you can listen instead!

[Presti35]

Is Starcevich any chance of making it into the AFL?