1st Elimination Final - Collingwood vs Essendon

[MagpieBat]

When and Where:
2:10pm this Sunday at the Port Melbourne Cricket Ground, aka the North Port Oval.

Broadcast:
Television - Channel 7 LIVE into Victoria from 2:00pm. Streamed LIVE through the 7Plus website (at this link) and 7Plus Live smartphone app for iPhone and Android from 2:00pm. Replay available on the 7Plus website.

For Australian viewers outside Victoria, in order to watch you may need to make use of a VPN service. No assurances of quality, reliability or consequences is made. User discretion is advised.

Radio - Live on 1116 SEN from 1pm, streaming on the SEN website and through the SEN app for iPhone and Android.

Internet - Score updates in this thread, at the VFL website, via FlashScore and on Twitter at @VFLPies.

Team:
B: 31. F. Appleby, 6. T. Goldsack, 44. J. Madgen
HB: 34. T. Brown, 51. M. Hore, 67. M. Smith
C: 43. A. Oxley, 53. J. Hellier, 50. A. Woodward
HF: 11. J. Blair, 23. S. McLarty, 26. J. Daicos
F: 39. B. Crocker, 1. A. Fasolo, 40. J. Smith
R: 45. M. Lynch, 17. C. Brown, 33. R. Wills
Int: 47. G. Borthwick, 49. M. Chippendale, 54. A. Gallucci, 61. S. Hetherington, 60. N. Sing, 56. S. Tahana, 48. L. Tardrew, 63. C. Wellings
23P: 55. T. Jok

AFL Player Eligibility:
- Because Collingwood is playing in the AFL Finals series but has the bye weekend off, any AFL-listed player who did not play in AFL Round 23 is eligible to play in this VFL final.

Getting There: (PTV Journey Planner)
Car
- Located at the corner of Williamstown Road and Ingles Street, Port Melbourne. Parking immediately outside and around the ground along Williamstown Road, Ingles Street, Woodruff Street and Bertie Street, as per signage (parking around the Ingles Street wing entrance will be limited due to the TV broadcast vehicles/equipment).

Public transport
- Take the Route 109 tram (Port Melbourne - Box Hill) to North Port light rail station. Short walk up Raglan Street to the ground.

- Take the Route 235 bus (City - Fisherman's Bend via Williamstown Road) to the Ingles St / Williamstown Road stop right outside the ground.

Admission: (Pre-sale Ticketing)
- Adult: $15
- Concession/Pensioner: $10
- Children 15 & under: FREE!

Collingwood membership will not provide for entry.

Entry is through the ticket gates on either Williamstown Road or Ingles Street. Pre-sale entry through Gate 1 (Williamstown Road), general admission through Gates 2 and 3 (Williamstown Road) and Gate 4 (Ingles Street). Fans are advised to arrive at least an hour early. Gates open from midday. No EFTPOS available. No dogs permitted.

Where They Finished:
Collingwood: 5th (12 wins, 6 losses, 3 byes, 133.44%)
Essendon: 8th (9 wins, 9 losses, 3 byes, 121.42%)

Last Time They Met:
Round 16, 2018 at Windy Hill
Essendon 11.6.72, def by
Collingwood 14.14.98

Head to Head:
Played: 10
Collingwood: 6
Essendon: 4

How They Fared Last Week:
Collingwood 18.14.122, def
Sandringham 8.11.59

Essendon 12.6.78, def
Northern Blues 9.10.64

The Form Lines:
Collingwood - Box Hill (Away, Lost), Port Melbourne (Away, WON), Frankston (Home, WON), Sandringham (Home, WON)

Essendon - Port Melbourne (Away, Lost), Geelong (Away, Lost), Footscray (Home, WON), Northern Blues (Home, WON)

The Stakes:
- The winner advances to the 1st Semi Final, to play the loser of the 1st Qualifying Final between Richmond and Williamstown, at North Port Oval next Saturday or Sunday. The loser, as the name of the game suggests, is eliminated.

Trivia:
- This will be Collingwood's sixth consecutive finals campaign and their second in as many years under Jared Rivers as coach.

- This will be the first time that Collingwood and Essendon have met in a VFA/VFL finals series.

Over to you...

[MightyMagpie]

[MagpieBat]

Essendon, due to the fact that their seniors are not playing finals, will only have access to players that qualify under the rules I posted one topic up.

Collingwood, on the other hand, can play anyone who did not play AFL today, along with those who are qualified under the aforementioned rules.

So, it is theoretically possible for Jeremy Howe and Adam Treloar to play next week, if that's what we wanted to do.

[MagpieBat]

CONFIRMED: Collingwood will take on Essendon in the 1st Elimination Final on SUNDAY September 2nd at 2:10pm at North Port Oval in a Channel 7 televised match.

[MagpieBat]

Okay, the OP is finally updated with a whole bunch of goodies. Broadcast deets, date and time, transportation, player eligibility, admission and ticketing, the usual stuff that nobody wants to read but everyone will ask...

[MagpieBat]

Quick public service announcement, everybody: the mods team have decided to move the thread for this week's VFL final over into General Discussion, in line with policy over the last few years, so as to help pass the time and tedium of the bye weekend.

Should the VFL team make it to week 2 of the VFL finals series, we will look to do the same with that game thread too, to create a 'whole of club' experience this September.

[MagpieBat]

COLLINGWOOD v. ESSENDON

1st Elimination Final

Sunday 2nd September 2018

Stannards Stadium (North Port Oval)

02:10PM (Channel 7)


Collingwood

B: 31. F. Appleby, 6. T. Goldsack, 44. J. Madgen

HB: 34. T. Brown, 51. M. Hore, 67. M. Smith

C: 43. A. Oxley, 53. J. Hellier, 50. A. Woodward

HF: 11. J. Blair, 23. S. McLarty, 26. J. Daicos

F: 39. B. Crocker, 1. A. Fasolo, 40. J. Smith

R: 45. M. Lynch, 17. C. Brown, 33. R. Wills

Int: 47. G. Borthwick, 49. M. Chippendale, 54. A. Gallucci, 61. S. Hetherington, 60. N. Sing, 56. S. Tahana, 48. L. Tardrew, 63. C. Wellings

23P: 55. T. Jok



In: J. Smith, J. Madgen, M. Chippendale, N. Sing, A. Oxley

Out: T. Cameron

[Number 35]

So Treloar cannot be picked now?

[MagpieBat]

He can, actually, by way of our seniors playing next week, if the conservative route is the one the club goes down.

[MagpieBat]

The Bombers team...

Essendon

B: 57. N. Hind, 36. M. Hartley, 30. B. Zerk-Thatcher

HB: 41. B. McNiece, 10. A. Francis, 14. J. Ridley

C: 77. H. Hocking, 19. K. Mutch, 20. J. Merrett

HF: 15. J. Green, 33. J. Laverde, 34. J. Long

F: 39. T. Mynott, 17. J. Stewart, 55. D. Younan

R: 38. S. Draper, 37. D. Clarke, 59. A. Heppell

Int: 61. W. Berry, 76. L. Collins, 68. N. Dixon, 64. J. Harrison, 54. K. Huntly, 79. J. McQueen, 70. J. Sheahan, 65. E. Sibbald

23P: 62. N. Lazzaro



In: L. Collins, D. Younan, J. Laverde, B. McNiece, A. Francis, N. Dixon, K. Huntly, E. Sibbald, J. Harrison

Out: J. Ottavi, J. Houlahan, A. Boyse, B. Laguda, J. Brown

[E]

interesting to see Madgen and Oxley out there. I suspect this is a bit of an audition. Madgen and Goldsack fighting for one spot and Appleby and Oxley perhaps fighting for the other.

I noticed that Murphy isnt picked. Does this mean he is a certainty to play finals?

[RudeBoy]

I'd say he might need a rest after his heavy recent workload. He'll probably be competing with Appleby for a spot in the seniors.

[swoop42]

Oxley is a pretty sure bet to be omitted for Howe so returning him to the VFL makes sense.

Madgen is a more interesting decision and I wonder whether playing him is more about increasing our odds of making it to week 2 of the VFL finals than an indication he's a definite omission against West Coast.

Our players returning from injury will certainly be aided if we can keep our VFL season going beyond this weekend.

[Boogie Knights]

Madgen playing makes sense also given his relative inexperience with the game... while he played it as a kid, he then went away from it to concentrate on basketball. Any game time he gets under his belt can only help in his learning curve and provide a stronger platform for the senior finals tilt.

[swoop42]

Playing Madgen will give us a good baseline to judge the performance of Goldsack at least and help determine whether he looks ready and capable of playing against West Coast.

This is of course assuming Goldsack also lines up in defence.