Collingwood’s victory over Port Adelaide on Saturday night saw the Magpies register several impressive records.
Final score
Collingwood: 6.5 12.12 16.16 23.21 (159)
Port Adelaide: 0.1 1.2 2.2 3.3 (21)
The 138-point margin was Collingwood’s third greatest winning margin in its history.
Collingwood’s greatest winning margins
178 points v St Kilda, Rnd4, 1979 (Victoria Park) - Collingwood 31.21 (207) v St Kilda 3.11 (29)
147 points v Essendon, Rnd14, 1971 (Victoria Park) - Collingwood 30.20 (200) v Essendon 7.11 (53)
The round 20 win was the club’s 11th consecutive win with the streak commencing in round nine against Adelaide. If the Magpies are successful against the Saints on Friday night, it will be just the fifth time in the club’s history it has won 12 consecutive matches or more.
Consecutive wins
20 SFR, 1928 - Rnd18, 1929
17 R5, 1903 - Rnd2, 1904
14 Rnd12, 1953 - Rnd5, 1954
12 Rnd2, 1905 - Rnd13, 1905
12 Rnd12, 1910 - Rnd2, 1911
The Magpies also handed the Power its biggest loss in the club’s 15 seasons of AFL.
Port Adelaide’s biggest losing margins
138 points v Collingwood, Rnd20, 2011 (AAMI) - Collingwood 23.21 (158) to 3.3 (21)
119 points v Geelong, GF, 2007 (MCG) - Geelong 24.19 (163) to 6.8 (44)
It was Collingwood’s greatest winning margin over Port Adelaide, 59 points more than when the two sides played in round one of the 1997 season, the Power’s first match in the national competition.
Rnd1, 1997 (MCG) - Collingwood 26.10 (166) v Port Adelaide 13.9 (87) The recent margin of victory saw the Magpies’ percentage rise to 186.06 percent, a climb of 10.25 percent.
The club’s 1902 premiership side holds the record for the highest percentage at the end of the home and away season with 199.5 percent and an undefeated record (15 wins).
Since the inception of the AFL in 1990, West Coast holds the record for the best percentage with 162.2 percent in 1991 and Geelong sits next best for its 2008 efforts (161.8 percent).
Collingwood’s 15th premiership saw the side finish with 141.68 percent, their highest total since 1966 (157.2 percent).
The Magpies need to kick 285 points or average 72 points in its last four games to score its single-season highest total in history to surpass the 1980 side’s 2501 total points (126.7 percent).
