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A stand-alone mid-week clash between the two invariably draws the eyeballs of a nation. This year, though, it s on a Sunday, squeezed in the mid-afternoon slot between two other games, and as an appetising football contest, dwarfed by the more recent construction of the Anzac Day eve Melbourne-Richmond clash.
The Demons are undefeated and sit second on the ladder, while the Tigers are fifth, having won three of the past four premierships. Collingwood and Essendon, meanwhile, are both 1-4 and sit 14th and 16th, respectively.
To top it off, on Monday, the Pies and Dons unveiled their special Anzac Day strips, which appeared to have been designed without one club talking to the other, both guernseys predominantly black and the prospect of a horrific and confusing jumper clash seemingly inevitable.
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Eddie McGuire has proven that he doesn’t have to be Collingwood president to come out swinging when defending the club.
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Footy Classified last week Sam McClure referenced that Collingwood’s list management had been a “debacle since about five years ago”.
McGuire immediately leapt to Collingwood’s defence, citing that Collingwood had come within a kick of winning the flag in 2018 and a kick within making another grand final in 2019 and had beat West Coast in a final last year in “one of the great wins of all time”.
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