It will have been 1750 days since Collingwood’s last loss to the Western Bulldogs when the two teams run out onto Etihad Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs, in partnership with Slater & Gordon, will honour former player Robert Rose’s contribution to sport and raise funds and awareness for people living with disability as the two teams battle it out for the Robert Rose Cup.

Match Details
Collingwood v Western Bulldogs
Round 13
Sunday 15 June 2014
Etihad Stadium, 3.20pm (AEST)

Head-to-Head (since 1925)
Collingwood: 106
Western Bulldogs: 42
Drawn: 1

Past Five

Round 12 2013
Collingwood 15.9 (99)
Western Bulldogs 9.11 (65)

Goals – Collingwood: Cloke 5, Elliott 2, Blair, Dwyer, Jolly, Kennedy, Martin, Pendlebury, Seedsman, J.Thomas
Western Bulldogs: Giansiracusa 2, Stringer 2, Boyd, Griffen, Liberatore, Murphy, Stevens

Disposals – Collingwood: Swan 38, Pendlebury 35, Lumumba 30, Sidebottom 24, Martin 22, Shaw 22
Western Bulldogs: Boyd 32, Griffen 32, Talia 30, Murphy 28, Liberatore 26

Brownlow: 3. D.Swan (Coll), 2. S.Pendlebury (Coll), 1. T.Cloke (Coll)

At Etihad Stadium

Round 6 2012
Collingwood 16.8 (98)
Western Bulldogs 11.11 (77)

Goals – Collingwood: Cloke 2, Goldsack 2, Shaw 2, Sinclair 2, Dawes, Fasolo, Lumumba, Reid, Sidebottom, Swan, Wellingham
Western Bulldogs: Giansiracusa 3, Griffen 2, Higgins 2, Boyd, Hargrave, Lake, Wood

Disposals – Collingwood: Pendlebury 34, Beams 33, Buckley 30, Sidebottom 29, Swan 29
Western Bulldogs: Griffen 33, Cross 31, Boyd 28, Hargrave 24, Liberatore 24, Murphy 24, Sherman 24

Brownlow: 3. S.Pendlebury (Coll), 2. R.Griffen (WB), 1. D.Beams (Coll)

At Etihad Stadium

Round 6 2011
Collingwood 15.15 (105)
Western Bulldogs 8.9 (57)

Goals – Collingwood: L.Brown 4, Sidebottom 3, Krakouer 2, Ball, Blair, Cloke, Dawes, Dick, Didak
Western Bulldogs: Sherman 3, Cooney, Jones, Picken, Gilbee, Grant

Disposals – Collingwood: Shaw 31, Sidebottom 28, Swan 28, Krakouer 26, Wellingham 26
Western Bulldogs: Boyd 26, Cross 26, Griffen 26, Murphy 23, Sherman 18

Brownlow: 3. S.Sidebottom (Coll), 2. D.Swan (Coll), 1. R.Murphy (WB)

At the MCG

Qualifying Final 2010
Collingwood 17.22 (124)
Western Bulldogs 8.14 (62)

Goals – Collingwood: Sidebottom 3, Swan 3, L.Brown 2, Didak 2, Pendlebury 2, Cloke, Davis, Dawes, Jolly, D.Thomas
Western Bulldogs: Griffen 2, Hall 2, Higgins 2, Giansiracusa, Hahn

Disposals – Collingwood: Swan 39, D.Thomas 32, Johnson 31, Pendlebury 30, Maxwell 24
Western Bulldogs: Griffen 34, Boyd 29, Cross 28, Giansiracusa 20, Hargrave 19, Hudson 19, Murphy 19

At the MCG.

Round 11 2010
Collingwood 17.11 (113)
Western Bulldogs 16.7 (103)

Goals – Collingwood: Davis 3, Didak 3, L.Brown 2, Wellingham 2, Beams, Cloke, Fraser, Jolly, Lumumba, Pendlebury, Swan
Western Bulldogs: Hall 4, Minson 3, Cooney 2, Hill 2, Boyd, Grant, Lake, Moles, Stack

Disposals – Collingwood: Swan 35, Pendlebury 33, Ball 29, D.Thomas 28, Didak 25
Western Bulldogs: Boyd 36, Cooney 28, Cross 28, Harbrow 27, Gilbee 21

Brownlow: 3. M.Boyd (WB), 2. S.Pendlebury (Coll), 1. L.Davis (Coll)

At Etihad Stadium.

Stats and figures
- Matches between Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs have been rare in recent years. It’s four years since the two clubs met more than once in the regular season.

- Collingwood generally plays only a handful of games at Etihad Stadium each year. More often than not, one of them is against the Bulldogs. Since the venue opened in 2000, the two clubs have met at the ground on 15 occasions, of which the Magpies have won 10. The Pies have not lost to the Dogs at the Docklands since round 22, 2009.

- The last time the two sides met at a ground other than Etihad Stadium or the MCG was at Princes Park on Easter Saturday, 1998. In front of 26,518 fans, the Magpies yielded against the Preliminary Final-bound Bulldogs on a sunny Melbourne afternoon. Shane Watson was Collingwood’s leading goal kicker with three, while Graham Wright was the only Magpie to collect more than 20 disposals. The match was notable for the debut of a 17-year-old Chris Tarrant who kicked one goal from seven disposals.

- The two clubs first met at the Western Oval in 1925. A crowd of 9,000 packed out the ground to watch the Magpies storm to a 44-point victory over the ‘Scrays. Gordon Coventry kicked five goals. He would kick another 83 in his next 15 games against the Dogs.

- Collingwood and Footscray found themselves locked on 10.11 (71) after four quarters in wet conditions out at Waverley Park in round 12, 1995. The Bulldogs led by 22-points at three quarter time but were swamped by Leigh Matthews’ Magpies with five goals to two in the final term. All Brownlow votes went the way of the Dogs; Sav Rocca (four goals) and Nathan Buckley (29 disposals) were among Collingwood’s best. The match was the only draw between the two clubs.

A foot in both camps
Players to have worn both jumpers over the years include George Bisset (166 games for Footscray, 41 games for Collingwood), Richard Osborne (51 games for the Footscray, 16 games for Collingwood), Tyson Lane (19 games for the Bulldogs, 42 games for Collingwood) and Josh Mahoney (19 games for Collingwood, 16 games for the Bulldogs). Jon Ballantyne (20 games in the No. 50 for the Bulldogs and nine for Collingwood) and Todd Curley (three games as a Magpie in 1994 and 115 for the Bulldogs from 1996-2001) also spent time at both clubs throughout the 1990s while key forwards Steven Pitt and Tom Davidson were both listed by the Bulldogs but never played senior football. Tom Young, a current Bulldog who last played in round six, played nine games for the Magpies between 2011 and 2012.

Injury List
Collingwood
Jesse White (finger) – test
Nick Maxwell (calf) – 1-2 weeks
Patrick Karnezis (hamstring) – 2-3 weeks
Ben Sinclair (hamstring) – 2-3 weeks
Nathan Freeman (hamstring) – 3 weeks
Quinten Lynch (broken leg) – 3-4 weeks
Matthew Scharenberg (feet) – 4 weeks
Corey Gault (broken collarbone) – indefinite
Nathan Brown (shoulder) – season

Western Bulldogs
Matthew Boyd (hamstring) – test
Josh Prudden (hamstring) – 1 week
Tory Dickson (ruptured pectoral) – 5-6 weeks
Clay Smith (AC joint) – 6-7 weeks

Next Five Weeks
Collingwood
Round 14 – Hawthorn at the MCG
Round 15 – Carlton at the MCG
Round 16 – Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium
Round 17 – Essendon at the MCG
Round 18 – Adelaide at the MCG

Western Bulldogs
Round 14 – Port Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval
Round 15 – Melbourne at Etihad Stadium
Round 16 – Geelong at Simonds Stadium
Round 17 – Gold Coast at Cazaly’s Stadium
Round 18 – Essendon at Etihad Stadium