Collingwood Football Club (VFL)

This article is about the Collingwood Football Club reserve team which participates in the Victorian Football League. For full information and history about the parent club and its AFL team, see Collingwood Football Club.

Collingwood

Names
Full name	Collingwood Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Magpies
Motto	Floreat Pica
2012 season
Best and fairest	Tom Sundberg
Club details
Founded	1892
Colours	Black      White
Competition	Victorian Football League
Coach	Tarkyn Lockyer
Captain(s)	Kris Pendlebury
Ground(s)	Victoria Park (capacity: 27,000)
Other information
Official website	Collingwood VFL
Guernsey:

Collingwood Football Club VFL team, nicknamed The Magpies and often referred to as the Collingwood Reseves, is an Australian rules football team which plays in the Victorian Football League. The team is a reserves team operated by the Collingwood Football Club, which fields its senior team in the Australian Football League.

History

Collingwood originally joined the Victorian Football Association (which later became the modern day VFL in 1996) in 1892. In 1897, Collingwood was one of the eight breakaway clubs to form the Victorian Football League (which later became the modern day AFL in 1990), and has fielded its senior team in that competition every year since.

The VFL/AFL operated a reserves competition from 1919–1991, and a de facto AFL reserves competition known as the Victorian State Football League operated from 1992–1999. The Collingwood Football Club fielded a reserves team in both of these competitions, allowing players who were not selected for the senior team to play for Collingwood in the lower grade.

In 2000, the VSFL merged with the modern day Victorian Football League. Since the merge, the senior grade of the VFL has accommodated senior teams from the VFL, reserves teams from the AFL, and affiliations between VFL and AFL clubs, in which VFL senior players and AFL reserves players compete in the same team.

Collingwood fielded a stand alone reserves team in the VFL in the 2000 VFL season. It finished 11th on the ladder, and the side at times included the likes of Gavin Brown, Gavin Crosisca, Shane Watson, Stephen Patterson, Ben Johnson, Rhyce Shaw and Ricky Olarenshaw. It played its home games at Victoria Park, with a handful of curtain raisers at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

In 2001, Collingwood entered into an affiliation with the VFL's Williamstown Football Club, which meant there was no separate Collingwood VFL team or reserves team for the first time since 1918. Collingwood ended its affiliation with Williamstown after the 2007 season, and re-established a stand-alone reserves team in the VFL in 2008. The reserves team has competed in the VFL since 2008.

Geelong is currently the only other AFL club to field a reserves team in the VFL.

The Collingwood VFL team is composed of both reserves players from the club's primary and rookie AFL lists, and a separately maintained list of players eligible only for VFL matches.

VFL performances

The Collingwood VFL team has not had any significant on-field success to date. The team has reached the finals twice, with its best finish a preliminary final appearance in 2009.^[1]

Honour board

Year	Finishing position	Coach	Captain	Best and Fairest	Leading Goalkicker
2000	11th	Michael Broadbridge, Brad Gotch Dean Laidley,	Rotating	Shane Watson	??
2008	12th	Gavin Brown	Nigel Carmody	Justin Crow Brent Macaffer	Brent Macaffer (38)
2009	4th	Gavin Brown	Damien Peverill	Ryan Cook	Chris Bryan (34)
2010	7th	Gavin Brown	Kris Pendlebury	Tom Young	Scott Reed (38)
2011	12th	Tarkyn Lockyer	Kris Pendlebury	Tom Sundberg	Brett Eddy

Club Records

Most Games Ryan Cook - 48 (2008-2010)

Most Goals Chris Dawes - 54 (2008-2010)

Draftees

• Liam Jurrah (Melbourne)

State Representatives

Jarryd Blair - 2010 Danny Nicholls - 2008 Kris Pendlebury - 2010

Home ground

Since 2010, the Collingwood VFL team has played home matches at Victoria Park, the traditional suburban home ground of the AFL senior team until 1999. Prior to 2010, the team had played its home matches at Princes Park, the traditional home ground of the Carlton Football Club, Collingwood's fiercest rivals in the AFL.

Guernsey

The Collingwood VFL team wears a mostly white guernsey with black vertical stripes on the front and lower half of the back, and a black number. The guernsey is the same as the clash guernsey of the Collingwood AFL team – the AFL team's primary guernsey is the same design in reverse colours, i.e. mostly black. This was worn in its match against Geelong in Round 18, 2011.

Sponsorship

The club announced on 10 April 2008 that a sponsorship deal had been signed with the mobile phone retailer Crazy John's to become the VFL team's major sponsor.^[2] Crazy John's had been a sponsor of the AFL team since 2001,^[2] and its logo appeared on the front and back of the club's VFL guernsey.^[2] The club also has a sponsorship deal with sports apparel manufacturer Adidas. In 2011, Blue Star Logistics took over from Crazy Johns to become major Sponsor.

References

1. ^ Bernard, Jonathon (24 August 2009). "VFL Magpies earn finals berth with massive win". collingwoodfc.com.au. http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/newsfeatures/news/newsarticle/tabid/5586/newsid/83318/default.aspx. Retrieved 24 August 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Collingwood goes 'Crazy'". collingwoodfc.com.au. 10 April 2008. http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/newsfeatures/news/newsarticle/tabid/5586/newsid/57714/default.aspx. Retrieved 22 March 2009. 

External links

• Official website of the Collingwood VFL Football Club
• Official website of the Collingwood AFL Football Club
• Collingwood Season 2008 VFL
• Collingwood Season 2009 VFL