Collingwood will pay tribute to one of its all time greatest coaches in Michael Malthouse this weekend with a lap of honour around the MCG at half time of Saturday night’s clash against Richmond.
 
Malthouse coached Collingwood for 286 matches between 2000 and 2011 and led the club to its 15th premiership against St Kilda in 2010.
 
Malthouse’s 286 matches in charge see him ranked second on the list of Collingwood games coached. He finished 14 matches ahead of 1958 premiership coach Phonse Kyne and 428 adrift of league icon Jock McHale.

He was the 17th man to coach the club, and with a total of 664 matches across three clubs. He coached more league matches than any other man in history aside from McHale (with 714).
 
Malthouse coached Collingwood to 163 victories to finish with a 57.34 per cent winning record and took the club to eight finals series where it won 13 of its 22 matches.
 
Malthouse oversaw the club’s remarkable return to its rightful place as a footballing powerhouse. After a very successful stint at the West Coast Eagles, he arrived at Collingwood when it was at the lowest ebb in its history, finishing last with only four wins in 1999.
 
In 2000, his first season, he coached the young Magpies to five successive wins to begin the season. Within three years, he oversaw the club’s stirring charge to the 2002 Grand Final in which it came within nine-points and a modicum of luck from a premiership against the powerful Brisbane Lions.
 
After the club was again defeated by the Lions the following year, Malthouse led a rebuild that saw the seamless transition from the Nathan Buckley era to the current one led by players such as Scott Pendlebury, Dale Thomas and Travis Cloke.
 
Although it missed the eight in 2004 and 2005, Collingwood rebounded to play in the next six finals series under Malthouse, culminating in the 2010 premiership against St Kilda. Malthouse became Collingwood’s fifth VFL/AFL premiership coach and only the sixth coach in VFL/AFL history to coach in a drawn Grand Final.

The 58-year-old left the club after last year’s Grand Final loss to Geelong following an historic deal in 2009 that saw Malthouse sign on to coach two more seasons before handing the reigns over to the current incumbent Nathan Buckley.
 
He remains heavily involved at the game’s highest level via his commentary on Channel Seven and Radio 3AW.
 
Mick Malthouse - Coaching Record

Footscray (1984-1989)
Coached: 135
Won: 67
Lost: 66
Drawn: 2
Winning Record: 50.37%
 
West Coast Eagles (1990-1999)
Coached: 218
Won: 156
Lost: 85
Drawn: 2
Winning Record: 65.61%
 
Collingwood (2000-2011)
Coached: 286
Won: 163
Lost: 121
Drawn: 2
Winning Record: 57.34%
 
Total (1984-2011)
Coached: 664
Won: 386
Lost: 272
Drawn: 6
Winning Record: 58.58%
 
Premierships
3 (West Coast 1992; West Coast 1994; Collingwood 2010).
 
Grand Finals
8 (West Coast 1991; West Coast 1992; West Coast 1994; Collingwood 2002; Collingwood 2003; Collingwood 2010; Collingwood 2010 (Replay); Collingwood 2011).
 
Finals
50 (Footscray 3; West Coast 25; Collingwood 22).
 
Debut (Collingwood)
Round 1 2000 v Hawthorn at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
 
Collingwood 20.20 (140)
Hawthorn 13.8 (86)
 
Goals - A.Rocca 4, Buckley 3, Johnson 3, Adkins 2, Michael 2, Williams 2, Burns, Fraser, O’Bree, S.Rocca
Best - Buckley, A.Rocca, Ukovic, O’Bree, Adkins.
 
Final game (Collingwood)
Grand Final 2011 v Geelong at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
 
Collingwood 12.9 (81)
Geelong 18.11 (119)
 
Goals - Cloke 3, Krakouer 3, Sidebottom 2, Ball, L.Brown, Johnson, Wellingham
Best - Pendlebury, Johnson, Tarrant, Sidebottom, Shaw.
 
*Note - Leon Davis, Ben Johnson and Chris Tarrant were the only players to have played in both Malthouse’s first and last games as coach of Collingwood.