In season 2015, Collingwood diehard Steve Fahey will be taking fellow supporters on a trip down memory lane as he revisits some of the match ups that define our recent history with our opponents.

This week, Steve looks back at his favourite wins over the pride of South Australia.

It’s time to look at our best wins against the Adelaide Crows.  We have enjoyed a good record against the Crows, particularly in the finals, so there are a few contenders, despite their relative newness to the competition. I will work my way up to what I consider our best win.

The 2002 Preliminary Final was memorable for multiple reasons.

It was our first final in Melbourne since 1992, having played our only finals since then (1994 and Qualifying Final 2002) interstate.

Down memory lane: Brisbane.

Nathan Buckley returned to the team after several weeks out with an injury and helped us move to our first Grand Final since 1990 in a game that all Pies are fond of remembering, with the possible exception of Jason Cloke, who mistook Tyson Edwards’ head for the footy and whacked it hard in a marking contest, earning an enforced holiday on the biggest day of the season.

This game was also memorable for what most Pies players said was the loudest crowd noise they ever played in front of, with the success-starved partisan crowd lifting the team after we trailed in the first half.

The 2009 Semi-Final was also memorable; the game in which a last gasp free kick and goal to Jack Anthony gave us a win.

After trailing by 29 points at quarter-time and 26 points at half-time, we stormed to the lead in the third quarter before the Crows got their noses back in front in a heart-stopping last quarter.

VIDEO: Jack Anthony's magic moment.

An 18-year-old Steele Sidebottom was best on ground in his debut season, enhancing the reputation he arrived with as a big game player after having kicked a lazy ten in the TAC Cup Grand Final the year before.

Of course, he further enhanced that reputation the following September (and October!).

Also notable was the 2003 home and away game at Footy Park (round seven) in which we also overcame a significant deficit to win the game with a goal after the siren to Chris Tarrant, who kicked his fourth after Bucks whacked it forward at the 31 minute mark.

After being runners-up the previous season, our early season from was patchy and we headed to Adelaide with three successive losses.

At the six-minute mark of the last quarter we looked like making that four, trailing by 22 points before storming to the lead with five successive goals before the Crows regained the lead.

But for me, our best win against the Crows was the 2008 Elimination Final.

This was a roller-coaster of a season, having high hopes after our gallant 2007 Preliminary Final loss, but adjusting to life after the retirements of Bucks, Jimmy Clement and Paul Licuria, who won a combined total of ten Copeland Trophies.

The rollercoaster threatened to be derailed after the Heath Shaw-Alan Didak car fiasco, which saw them both suspended for the remainder of the season, but we managed to sneak into the finals for a knockout final at Footy Park.

With the skipper Scott Burns injured and Shaw and Didak suspended, we took an inexperienced team which included the likes of Ryan Cook, Shannon Cox, Jack Anthony and John McCarthy well as very young Chris Dawes, Nathan Brown, Tyson Goldsack and rising superstars Scott Pendlebury and Dale Thomas.

In a see-sawing first half most of the goals were kicked at one end, and after leading well at quarter-time we got smashed in the second quarter and trailed by 24 points before Dane Swan kicked the last two goals of the half to steady a very wobbly ship.

The second half revealed a team with both grit and a future as we ran all over them to win by 31 points.

This game was most significant for this playing group, many of whom became premiership players two years later.

It was also one of the finest career games for soon-to-be-captain Nick Maxwell, who showed his leadership credentials in being best on ground playing an uncharacteristic run-with role on the Crows’ gun midfielder Scott Thompson (and kicked two goals, including one from outside 50).