Among the new clubs at this time were the Collingwood Warriors, Carlton, Northern Spirit and Parramatta Power.

* Collingwood Warriors S. C. of the National Soccer League

* Collingwood Warriors

Nevertheless, they still managed to battle their way to a 6th successive grand final with wins over Footscray by 8 points in the first semi final and Collingwood by 2 points in the preliminary final.

John Crawley managed a resilient 68 but was bowled by Paul Collingwood who was to finish with 3 – 33.

Brisbane demolished Collingwood from start to finish, although Buckley still managed to gain 24 disposals.

Richmond's shield logo from 1977 to 1988Richmond won its last premiership with a then record-breaking margin of 81 points over arch-rivals Collingwood in 1980.

Those of the Mozart Concertos K. 453, 466, 482, 491 & 503 ( G major, D minor, E-flat major, C minor and C major ) are particularly outstanding, especially the last three with the inspired, powerful conducting of John Barbirolli, Lawrance Collingwood and Josef Krips respectively, in 1935, 1937 & 1946.

Results on the field were slow in coming, with Collingwood finishing 16th, the last position (" wooden spoon "), in his first year in charge.

Important influences on Collingwood were the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile and Guido de Ruggiero, the last of whom was also a close friend.

* Collingwood Football Club-in 1999 played their last game at Victoria Park in Collingwood and moved to the larger and more central Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Collingwood finished the season last, only the second time in their history ( the other being in 1976 ).

The character was the last pick in the 2004 AFL national draft, and yet to get a game for his new club Collingwood.

Collingwood eventually finished with six for 31, taking Khaled Mashud and Mashrafe Mortaza as well, Mortaza bowled with the last ball of his 10-over-spell-to become the first person in ODI history to make a century and take a six-wicket-haul.

They improved from last in 1980 to fifth at the end of the home-and-away season in 1981, securing their finals berth with an upset win over Collingwood and then beating Essendon in the Elimination Final before failing by the narrowest of margins in the First Semi against the Magpies.

He was recalled to the England squad for the last match of the 2005 Ashes series after taking 60 wickets for Lancashire in 2005, once again as a replacement for the injured Jones, but all-rounder Paul Collingwood was selected for the team.

Vikram Solanki was out in the next over for 9, caught by Hussey off McGrath, and on the last ball, Collingwood was caught by for 46.

Collingwood eventually finished with six for 31, taking Khaled Mashud and Mashrafe Mortaza as well, Mortaza bowled with the last ball of his 10-over-spell-to become the first person in ODI history to make a century and take a six-wicket-haul.

In 1896 two teams were ranked equal on each of the stipulated premiership criteria ; and, so, in the last year of their participation in the VFA competition, Collingwood and South Melbourne played a hastily arranged, previously unscheduled elimination match in order to determine the premiership.

The match was tied until the last moments, with Collingwood winning by 6 goals to South Melbourne's 5 goals.

Essendon would win only three matches and draw one ( against wooden spoon contenders Carlton ) for the entire season, but one of those was against finals-bound rivals and arch-enemy Collingwood in round 19 in a win that would ultimately cost the Magpies a top four berth that season.

Essendon's other win in the 2006 season was against bitter-rivals ; but this win was significant as it denied Collingwood a top-four finish at the end of the season.

* There was a lot of bad blood between Collingwood and North following a torrid engagement in the previous season

* In the 6 June 2007, second season, eleventh episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, the possibility of Tinky Winky being homosexual was parodied when the Chaser's tested the Peel Hotel ( in Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia )' s gaydar ( the hotel's Peel dancebar was given the right to ban heterosexual patrons ) with a Tinky Winky costumed figure that acted in a stereotypical homosexual fashion.

In a remarkable season, Carlton languished with a record of 3 – 6 after nine weeks, but won ten of the remaining eleven home-and-away matches to finish fourth ; Carlton then comfortably beat in the first semi-final, overcame a 28-point deficit in the final quarter to beat Collingwood in the preliminary final, then beat South Melbourne in the notoriously brutal and violent Bloodbath Grand Final.

The 2009 season saw Collingwood finish inside the top four for the first time since 2003, but in the qualifying final were beaten by minor premiers St Kilda convincingly.

After a slow start to the 2012 season in which Collingwood lost two of their first three matches, the Magpies have since steadied and currently sit on 15 wins and 6 losses their largest win this season has been against the GWS giants by 120 points

Collingwood unexpectedly beat the Power in the Qualifying Final that season, also at AAMI stadium.

They went on to lose the match by 57 points, and would only register 3 more wins for the season ( one of those was against eventual premiers the Sydney Swans by one point, who coincidentally had a one point win against Collingwood the round before ), eventually finishing 12th.

After the 1896 season, eight of the thirteen clubs broke away to form the Victorian Football League ( VFL ): Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne.

" Matthews was sacked as Collingwood coach after the 1995 season following an unsuccessful season finishing 10th.

* During the 1973 season, 42, 610 attended the first interstate match at the ground ( between Victoria and Western Australia ) and a record 60, 072 attended the second semi-final between Carlton and Collingwood.

His 2003 season was his best for Collingwood as he was an All-Australian forward, playing all 22 games plus three finals.

After Geelong were eliminated from the preliminary finals to Collingwood, at the conclusion of the 2010 season, on 4 October 2010, Thompson announced his retirement and resignation as Geelong coach effective immediately, his reason being that he was " bombed out " after a decade at the helm.

* 15 July – Essendon becomes the first VFL / AFL team to being a season with nineteen consecutive wins, beating Collingwood in 1929.

In 1950 Kyne was appointed coach of Collingwood and took the field seven times that season before becoming a non-playing coach from 1951 onwards.

The season culminated in a record win over Collingwood in the 1980 Grand Final, when Weightman had twenty possessions.

After playing 124 VFL games for the Kangaroos, between 1968 and 1976, he moved to Collingwood in 1977, but only played four games, retiring from the VFL that season.

The town has one current player, Darren Jolly now playing at Collingwood Football Club recruited from the Sydney Swans at the end of the 2009 AFL season.

In his first season with Collingwood, the Magpies were eliminated by the West Coast Eagles by two points in Perth.

An illustration of Víðarr stabbing Fenrir while holding his jaws apart ( 1908 ) by W. G. Collingwood, inspired by the Gosforth Cross

A depiction of Víðarr stabbing Fenrir while holding his jaws apart ( 1908 ) by W. G. Collingwood, inspired by the Gosforth Cross.

Switzer lived in the town in 1954 while briefly married to Collingwood Grain heiress Dian Collingwood.

Leading the windward column in Victory was Nelson, while Collingwood in Royal Sovereign led the second, leeward, column.

Wealthy new suburbs like South Yarra, Toorak, Kew and Malvern grew up, while the working classes settled in Richmond, Collingwood and Fitzroy.

The middle classes lived in detached villas on large blocks of land, while the working class lived in reasonably comfortable cottages in the northern and western suburbs, and older areas like Fitzroy and Collingwood became slums.

Victoria Street forms the southern boundary to Abbotsford ( with Richmond ); Hoddle Street forms the western boundary ( with Collingwood ); the Eastern Freeway forms the northern boundary ( with Clifton Hill ) while the Yarra forms the eastern boundary with Kew, in Boroondara.

Amongst the others, Daniel Oliver and Arthur Henfry would later support evolution, while Cuthbert Collingwood became an opponent.

Settling in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, he worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists, notably Frederick McCubbin.

The Colliwobbles: Between 1959 and 1989, the Collingwood Football Club, which was the league's most successful club to that point ( 13 premierships, while the next-best had only 10 ), lost all eight Grand Finals it appeared in, many of which they were favoured to win.

A number of successes while engaged on active service in the Mediterranean over the following 18 months brought Hoste to the attention of Lord Collingwood, who sent him into the Adriatic Sea.

In 1890, while working in a Collingwood shoe factory, he bet his entire savings on Carbine, the winner of the Melbourne Cup.

Wren died in 1953, a month after suffering a heart attack while witnessing his team Collingwood win the VFL grand final.

There he captained the 1st XI, and subsequently the Durham University 1st XI while studying at Collingwood College, and captained both the England Under-15 and England Under-19 teams.

Following Ruskin's death Collingwood continued to help for a while with secretarial work at Brantwood, but in 1905 went to University College, Reading and served as professor of fine art from 1907 until 1911.