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No, it's not a newly-minted public holiday in our president's honour (although I'm sure you all wouldn't mind if it was). Rather, this is part of Fox Footy's January gimmick, after December's "Superstar Month". For the whole of January, they're turning the asylum over to the lunatics letting the presenters at Fox Footy get control of the programming for a day each, with this Saturday being Eddie's turn at the helm.
Here's what's on El Presidente's playlist:
12:00am: Round 10, 1998 - Collingwood vs Fremantle
Our last ever win at Victoria Park. And what a way to do it. Fremantle led all day, only for the Big Sav to win it off his own boot with his best ever haul of 11 goals. Buckley picked up 36 disposals, 13 clearances, 9 Inside 50s and kicked in for a goal himself, continuing his long line of dominant performances over the Dockers.
2:00am: Round 1, 2007 - Kangaroos vs Collingwood
Another come from behind win, this one over the Arden Street mob. What a difference a year made. In 2006, we thumped them by 10+ goal margins both times. On this occasion, we had to come from behind after trailing all day. Paul Medhurst played his first game in black and white and ended up our only multiple goal kicker. The infamous Shannon Grant poster game...
4:00am: Round 4, 1995 - Collingwood vs Essendon
The epic ANZAC Day draw that started it all. The only time one can be satisfied tucking a non-victory into a highlights reel. Big Sav kicked 9 and almost won it off his own boot, while Nathan Buckley made one of the few mistakes of his career, kicking to an outnumbered Rocca instead of going for goal himself in the dying seconds. Dermott Breretton makes a cameo in black and white and Brett James ended up our only other multiple goal kicker.
6:00am: Round 8, 2002 - Collingwood vs Brisbane
The classic thriller under the roof of Docklands (I forget what it was called back then. On purpose...) Buckley ended up with 31 disposals, 2 goals and 9 clearances in one of so many fine captain's games. Tarrant booted 5, Rocca and Ruuuuuuuuuuupert Betheras kicked 3 each, as we held off Brisbane in a game which marked that team's coming-of-age. Look out for Scott Cummings kicking the last of his six goals as a Magpie...
8:30am: 2002 1st Preliminary Final - Collingwood vs Adelaide
Our first finals win in Melbourne since that famous premiership, and Nathan Buckley's first finals win period, after missing that upset win over Port Adelaide a fortnight before (which I thought would have made for a better choice, but anyway...). Most famously remembered for Anthony Rocca's thumping goal in the third quarter from the edge of the centre square that lifted the MCG off its foundations, while Alan Didak kicked the sealer to send an entire fan base (and Peter Daicos up in the commentary box as well) into raptures. Listen out for the supporters in the stands singing the song in the final minutes, taking great care to not say the p-word in the lyrics...
11:00am: 2003 1st Preliminary Final - Collingwood vs Port Adelaide
Our other finals victory over the Power, a convincing win in the end coming two weeks after the insane pressure of that triumph over Brisbane (again, probably the superior choice, but this is McGuire's day). Paul Licuria led the disposals tally with 27, while Tarrant and Davis booted 3 apiece to lead the goals column. If only that's where the music had have stopped in 2003...
1:30pm: 2007 2nd Semi Final - West Coast vs Collingwood
The famous extra-time win over the reigning premiers. Another coming-of-age wing for both another young team and a young future champion in Dane Swan, who dominated with 38 disposals, 2 goals and 11 clearances. It was also a fitting swansong for a couple of old champs in Buckley and Clement, as they made that one last ill-fated lunge for that elusive premiership. One of the finest wins in the club's history...
4:00pm: 2009 1st Semi Final - Collingwood vs Adelaide
Who would have thought Jack Anthony would end up doing something memorable? Well, not him, for one. And especially not in a cut-throat semi final, needing a goal inside the final minute to win the game after having an absolute shocker of a game. And yet that's just what he did. The Crows jumped us early and we looked almost gone at quarter time, before bit-by-bit we reeled them in to go into the last change two kicks clear. They hit the front a couple of times, before Anthony had his 30 seconds in the spotlight. Dane Swan and Heath Shaw lead the disposals with 28 and 29 respectively, while an 18 year old Steele Sidebottom picked up 25 touches of his own and a team-high 10 tackles.
6:30pm: 2010 1st Preliminary Final - Collingwood vs Geelong
Oh, what a night. That first quarter, in particular. Pendlebury, BANG, GOAL! The Leigh Brown Gatting bounce. The "Emperor's New Clothes Moment" as Ben Johnson steps around Ling. One of the finest quarters of total Collingwood football you will ever see. The rest of the game was alright too, I suppose...
9:00pm: 2010 Grand Final Replay - Collingwood vs St Kilda
Only fitting that this should be the final game of the day. 20 years after we last touched the cup, we finally returned to the Promised Land. The Greatest Smother of All Time. Goldsack the most unlikeliest of first goal kickers. Dawes kicking a "Dawesome" goal. Wellingham and Swan roving Jolly brilliantly for storming forward 50 goals. Didak smothering with a ruined pec, re-gathering, snapping on the right and celebrating with a shimmy. Eddie McGuire in tears. And the 23rd player for Collingwood, a debutante by the name of Emblebury, pinched the Norm Smith from Pendles and Swanny...
All times are, of course, Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Set your recorders and reminders accordingly...
Here's what's on El Presidente's playlist:
12:00am: Round 10, 1998 - Collingwood vs Fremantle
Our last ever win at Victoria Park. And what a way to do it. Fremantle led all day, only for the Big Sav to win it off his own boot with his best ever haul of 11 goals. Buckley picked up 36 disposals, 13 clearances, 9 Inside 50s and kicked in for a goal himself, continuing his long line of dominant performances over the Dockers.
2:00am: Round 1, 2007 - Kangaroos vs Collingwood
Another come from behind win, this one over the Arden Street mob. What a difference a year made. In 2006, we thumped them by 10+ goal margins both times. On this occasion, we had to come from behind after trailing all day. Paul Medhurst played his first game in black and white and ended up our only multiple goal kicker. The infamous Shannon Grant poster game...
4:00am: Round 4, 1995 - Collingwood vs Essendon
The epic ANZAC Day draw that started it all. The only time one can be satisfied tucking a non-victory into a highlights reel. Big Sav kicked 9 and almost won it off his own boot, while Nathan Buckley made one of the few mistakes of his career, kicking to an outnumbered Rocca instead of going for goal himself in the dying seconds. Dermott Breretton makes a cameo in black and white and Brett James ended up our only other multiple goal kicker.
6:00am: Round 8, 2002 - Collingwood vs Brisbane
The classic thriller under the roof of Docklands (I forget what it was called back then. On purpose...) Buckley ended up with 31 disposals, 2 goals and 9 clearances in one of so many fine captain's games. Tarrant booted 5, Rocca and Ruuuuuuuuuuupert Betheras kicked 3 each, as we held off Brisbane in a game which marked that team's coming-of-age. Look out for Scott Cummings kicking the last of his six goals as a Magpie...
8:30am: 2002 1st Preliminary Final - Collingwood vs Adelaide
Our first finals win in Melbourne since that famous premiership, and Nathan Buckley's first finals win period, after missing that upset win over Port Adelaide a fortnight before (which I thought would have made for a better choice, but anyway...). Most famously remembered for Anthony Rocca's thumping goal in the third quarter from the edge of the centre square that lifted the MCG off its foundations, while Alan Didak kicked the sealer to send an entire fan base (and Peter Daicos up in the commentary box as well) into raptures. Listen out for the supporters in the stands singing the song in the final minutes, taking great care to not say the p-word in the lyrics...
11:00am: 2003 1st Preliminary Final - Collingwood vs Port Adelaide
Our other finals victory over the Power, a convincing win in the end coming two weeks after the insane pressure of that triumph over Brisbane (again, probably the superior choice, but this is McGuire's day). Paul Licuria led the disposals tally with 27, while Tarrant and Davis booted 3 apiece to lead the goals column. If only that's where the music had have stopped in 2003...
1:30pm: 2007 2nd Semi Final - West Coast vs Collingwood
The famous extra-time win over the reigning premiers. Another coming-of-age wing for both another young team and a young future champion in Dane Swan, who dominated with 38 disposals, 2 goals and 11 clearances. It was also a fitting swansong for a couple of old champs in Buckley and Clement, as they made that one last ill-fated lunge for that elusive premiership. One of the finest wins in the club's history...
4:00pm: 2009 1st Semi Final - Collingwood vs Adelaide
Who would have thought Jack Anthony would end up doing something memorable? Well, not him, for one. And especially not in a cut-throat semi final, needing a goal inside the final minute to win the game after having an absolute shocker of a game. And yet that's just what he did. The Crows jumped us early and we looked almost gone at quarter time, before bit-by-bit we reeled them in to go into the last change two kicks clear. They hit the front a couple of times, before Anthony had his 30 seconds in the spotlight. Dane Swan and Heath Shaw lead the disposals with 28 and 29 respectively, while an 18 year old Steele Sidebottom picked up 25 touches of his own and a team-high 10 tackles.
6:30pm: 2010 1st Preliminary Final - Collingwood vs Geelong
Oh, what a night. That first quarter, in particular. Pendlebury, BANG, GOAL! The Leigh Brown Gatting bounce. The "Emperor's New Clothes Moment" as Ben Johnson steps around Ling. One of the finest quarters of total Collingwood football you will ever see. The rest of the game was alright too, I suppose...
9:00pm: 2010 Grand Final Replay - Collingwood vs St Kilda
Only fitting that this should be the final game of the day. 20 years after we last touched the cup, we finally returned to the Promised Land. The Greatest Smother of All Time. Goldsack the most unlikeliest of first goal kickers. Dawes kicking a "Dawesome" goal. Wellingham and Swan roving Jolly brilliantly for storming forward 50 goals. Didak smothering with a ruined pec, re-gathering, snapping on the right and celebrating with a shimmy. Eddie McGuire in tears. And the 23rd player for Collingwood, a debutante by the name of Emblebury, pinched the Norm Smith from Pendles and Swanny...
All times are, of course, Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Set your recorders and reminders accordingly...
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