Collingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League.
The players wear black and white striped guernseys, similar to the colours of a magpie; emblazoned with the magpie emblem and the motto "Floreat Pica" ("Flourish Magpies", or "May the Magpies prosper!").
The club traditionally represented the working class inner Melbourne suburb of Collingwood; however i...
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Collingwood Football Club, officially nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League.
The players wear black and white striped guernseys, similar to the colours of a magpie; emblazoned with the magpie emblem and the motto "Floreat Pica" ("Flourish Magpies", or "May the Magpies prosper!").
The club traditionally represented the working class inner Melbourne suburb of Collingwood; however it has now moved its training and administration base to Gosch's Paddock and the Lexus Centre at Olympic Park in Melbourne. They moved their home games from their traditional suburban home ground, Victoria Park, to the much larger Melbourne Cricket Ground from 2000.
Traditional Melbourne suburban rivalries Essendon, Richmond and Carlton remain fierce. Collingwood has gained interstate rivals, particularly in Port Adelaide and Brisbane, but has retained the reputation in the national competition as the "team everybody loves to hate".
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