Official Club Stuff Introducing Collingwood Forever

[lukem]

Hi everyone,

We've got an official announcement about this new initiative coming up later on today, but we thought it was important to give you and the guys on Nick's the first look at it.

The club has launched a new website, forever.collingwoodfc.com.au, which celebrates our history - the players and the matches and the key events and untold stories.

As well as the staples, it also features the records of each club award (previously much of this information had never been collated), the history of Victoria Park, an interactive timeline dating back to 1892 and stories about the people and events behind the club.

This is project is unprecedented in Australia and is one of, if not the, biggest sporting club online museums in the world.

To view the site, head to http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/

It will be officially launched later on today, but we'd love you to check it out and tell us what you think. The site will continue to evolve as time goes by, so if you have any further information on a past player or story, be sure to let us know (forever@collingwoodfc.com.au is our email address).

Floreat Pica!

Luke

 

[Rusty22]

Hi everyone,

We've got an official announcement about this new initiative coming up later on today, but we thought it was important to give you and the guys on Nick's the first look at it.

The club has launched a new website, forever.collingwoodfc.com.au, which celebrates our history - the players and the matches and the key events and untold stories.

As well as the staples, it also features the records of each club award (previously much of this information had never been collated), the history of Victoria Park, an interactive timeline dating back to 1892 and stories about the people and events behind the club.

This is project is unprecedented in Australia and is one of, if not the, biggest sporting club online museums in the world.

To view the site, head to http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/

It will be officially launched later on today, but we'd love you to check it out and tell us what you think. The site will continue to evolve as time goes by, so if you have any further information on a past player or story, be sure to let us know (forever@collingwoodfc.com.au is our email address).

Floreat Pica!

Luke

amazing!

 

[scruffydog]

Fantastic stuff!

Loving some of the moustaches our older players were sporting!

 

[Rusty22]

There is a story about anything u can think of, so much information, ive learnt so many new things already.

 

[Vankri]

When the website states 'A total of 16 Premierships', are we claiming moral victory because the ball was out in the 1979 GF vs Carlton?

 

[lukem]

When the website states 'A total of 16 Premierships', are we claiming moral victory because the ball was out in the 1979 GF vs Carlton?

Nice spot! We've amended it to make it clear the tally reflects the VFA and the VFL (the site's looking to incorporate the history and people of the 1892-1896 era as best we can).

 

[neilk]

Found my Uncle:
http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/players/guy-moore/

 

[iGNITER]

Great work.

 

[vjknight]

Nice spot! We've amended it to make it clear the tally reflects the VFA and the VFL (the site's looking to incorporate the history and people of the 1892-1896 era as best we can).

is this now acknowledging fitzpatricks wish to have all VFA premierships added to clubs premiership tallies, despite eddies initial outrage ?

nice site.

 

[Scodog10]

Awesome stuff!!

 

[Premier Pies]

Simply brilliant!

 

[Rusty22]

Also another mistake it says, headline- Lou Richards retires after season 1995?

 

[lukem]

Also another mistake it says, headline- Lou Richards retires after season 1995?

Bang! Thanks Rusty, it's been amended, thanks for letting us know.

vjknight, re. the VFA/VFL, it's all separate from what was in the papers a few months. It's strictly CFC history

 

[Rusty22]

Bang! Thanks Rusty, it's been amended, thanks for letting us know.

vjknight, re. the VFA/VFL, it's all separate from what was in the papers a few months. It's strictly CFC history

no worries lukey, is there a part where it just shows old photos, or famous pies photos, my grandpa cant read, as he's half blind, and wants to look at pictures for his memory.

 

[Buena]

Great job! I can see myself completely burning the rest of the day at work by looking at this instead.

 

[lukem]

no worries lukey, is there a part where it just shows old photos, or famous pies photos, my grandpa cant read, as he's half blind, and wants to look at pictures for his memory.

It's a good idea, Rusty, and one we've got in mind. There are a heap of old photos scattered from down the years that we'll look to run in time (some of the things that. At the moment, I'd recommend scanning through a few of these stories - each has a different photo attributed to it, some of which none of us had seen before, or had been long forgotten. The award photos are arguably the best - there are some of Gavin Brown and a young Heath Shaw, Tony Shaw receiving an old award and Jarrod Molloy receiving the Millane Award from his mother in 2001. We'll keep working on it.

 

[millsy29gopies]

I love it

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

Hi everyone,

We've got an official announcement about this new initiative coming up later on today, but we thought it was important to give you and the guys on Nick's the first look at it.

The club has launched a new website, forever.collingwoodfc.com.au, which celebrates our history - the players and the matches and the key events and untold stories.

As well as the staples, it also features the records of each club award (previously much of this information had never been collated), the history of Victoria Park, an interactive timeline dating back to 1892 and stories about the people and events behind the club.

This is project is unprecedented in Australia and is one of, if not the, biggest sporting club online museums in the world.

To view the site, head to http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/

It will be officially launched later on today, but we'd love you to check it out and tell us what you think. The site will continue to evolve as time goes by, so if you have any further information on a past player or story, be sure to let us know (forever@collingwoodfc.com.au is our email address).

Floreat Pica!

Luke

Why did you tarnish this great site by putting this w***er on it?

Spoiler

http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/strauchanie/

 

[vjknight]

are you looking to include links to other websites that offer additional history, including collingwood, or it has to be strictly collingwood only ?

eg http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/R/?func=collections&collection_id=1081

a digitised collection of all football records.

 

[jmac70]

Looks fantastic. Great work.

 

[Betterthenbencoon]

Hey Luke, great site. Just a typo you might want to sort, the North Melbourne bit

http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/jason-mccartney-medal/

 

[lukem]

Hey Luke, great site. Just a typo you might want to sort, the North Melbourne bit

http://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/jason-mccartney-medal/

Onto it + amended. Thanks BTBC.

 

[Vicky Park]

This is a seriously good initiative by the club. As someone with a history degree (from the dim and distant past), a site like this is my idea of heaven. Please pass on congratulations to the club.

 

[anshell]

Just had a quick look at it.It seems like you could easily spend hours there looking up stuff from the past.A great initiative from the club.Well done Luke and to the club for putting this together.

 

[vjknight]

not wanting for a moment to pinch ideas from the arch rival, but the blueseum provides some alternative/additional approaches of info to display.
even if its just to show the list of recent updates to the database.