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Friday night’s game between Hawthorn and Collingwood would have created little interest before the goings-on in Round 15.
However, last week Hawthorn had an honourable loss to the West Coast Eagles, going down by six points after Jamie Cripps kicked the sealer with only minutes left on the clock.
The Hawks had more scoring shots than the Eagles and looked much more a finals side than the dismal Magpies did in their capitulation against North Melbourne, so it’s now game on.
Overall Hawthorn has won only 40 per cent of their games against Collingwood, but in recent years they have proved to be the Pies’ nemeses, winning four of the past five matches. The Magpies are able to substitute Jamie Elliott for the injured Ben Reid, and an injury to Levi Greenwood means that exciting recruit Isaac Quaynor gets his first chance.
For Hawthorn, Ben Stratton, who has not scored a goal in his last 163 games – the longest consecutive run by any current player – returns, as does Mitchell Lewis.
Luke Breust will play his 200th game for Hawthorn, becoming the 33rd player to do so and drawing level with Ted Pool and Brad Sewell. Herbert Edwin ‘Ted’ Pool was a 165-centimetre rover who hailed from Kalgoorlie and in 1938 became the first West Australian to play 200 games. Hawthorn’s lack of success in the years that he played (1926 to 1938) meant he is one of only five players, and the only one from Hawthorn, who played 200 games without figuring in a VFL final. He won Hawthorn’s goal kicking in 1933. Brad Sewell, on the other hand, played in two premierships for the Hawks between 2003 and 2014 and won the best and fairest in 2007.
Ben McEvoy will also play his 200th game of AFL football, but his first 91 games were at St Kilda. Liam Shiels is only two games behind Luke Breust, so this week he’ll pass John Hendrie and join Des Meagher on 198 games.
For Collingwood, the injury to Ben Reid means he will not play his 150th game this week. Scott Pendlebury, however, will play his 292nd game, which takes him from equal 99th on the AFL all-time top 100 game players list with journeyman Peter Everitt to equal 96th with Anthony Stevens (North Melbourne), Matthew Boyd (Western Bulldogs) and Darren Milburn (Geelong).
Pendlebury’s game last week meant that the entry bar for top-100 status was raised from 290 to 291, thus resulting in Dean Cox, West Coast’s greatest game player, and Essendon dual Brownlow medallist Bill Hutchinson no longer rank among the AFL’s top-100 elite game players.
Recruited from Dampier, Dean Cox was a 204-centimetre ruckman who played for the Eagles between 2001 and 2014. He played in the 2006 premiership side and won many awards, including the club’s best and fairest in 2008.
Bill Hutchinson is considered one of the greatest rovers of all time, having won Essendon’s best and fairest seven times and finishing among the top three vote-getters in the Brownlow Medal on five separate occasions. Sadly, by the time the AFL awarded him his second Brownlow, he had died.
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