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| Shawly Heath Will Be Captain. |
 admin writes, "For the first time ever, in an AFL/VFL pre-season Grand Final, Geelong tackle Collingwood at Telstra Dome Etihad Stadium."
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And although the ‘bean-counters’ at the AFL would have loved to have seen Carlton meet the ‘Pies this Friday, a record crowd is still expected to watch what should be a bruising and close encounter.
Collingwood have been keenly waiting to play Geelong for some silverware since their narrow loss to the Cats in the 2007 Preliminary Final.
Collingwood further cemented their belief that they had Geelong’s measure after they tackled their way to a huge win over them during the Home & Away season in 2008.
Although Geelong have won two Pre-season Premierships (1961 & 2006), they have also been defeated in five others (1957, 88, 89, 87 & 2004). Collingwood have only had one victory (1979) and two losses (1980 & 2003), although Collingwood supporters believe that the farcical 1980 result should have been reversed or a ‘no-game’ called. This was the game that the controlling umpire, Ian Robinson, did not hear the Final siren and allowed Malcolm Blight to kick the ball to Kerry Good after it sounded. This resulted in a goal to North Melbourne and they won by less than a goal.
One interesting fact is that the two teams that Geelong have defeated in their victories are North Melbourne & Adelaide. These are the same two clubs who have defeated Collingwood in their losses.
And we at AustralianRulesFootball.com.au are expecting Collingwood to win on Friday, especially after we were advised of a rumour of a secret shock tactic that the Collingwood match committee have devised.
It is rumoured that Collingwood are dumping Nick Maxwell as captain on Friday and are expected to name Heath Shaw as the new skipper. And it makes perfect sense to us.
Nothing against Nick Maxwell, but how many captains with his surname have captained Collingwood to a Premiership? None.
But the last two Premierships have had a Shaw at the helm. Ray in 1979 and Tony in 1990.
In fact Collingwood should be taking this concept further by changing all of the listed and rookie players names by Deed poll to Shaw.
Josh Shaw, Tarkyn Shaw, Dane Shaw…every Magpie a Shaw!
Imagine how handy this would be. Every player would be a potential premiership captain, and if the REAL captain was injured or out of form it wouldn’t matter because all of the leadership group would be a Shaw.
If only the Club had changed Nathan Buckley’s name by deed poll to Nathan Shaw then who knows what would have happened in the two Grand Finals they lost to the Brisbane Lions.
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Posted on Mar 10, 2009 15:30pm.
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Shawly you cannot be serious!
Although I guess if they did that, they would be a Shaw thing to win the 2009 Premiership, thats for Shaw!!!
-- , Mar 19, 2009 06:33pm
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