collingwood has been in a grand final six times.
collingwood has been in a grand final six times.
how many times has collingwood been in a grand final?
six
the colliwobbles refers to the collingwood football club's failure to win premierships from the years 1958 to 1990 in which the collingwood football club which had been the most successful team for the first 60 years of the vfl. following their famous upset against melbourne in 1958, collingwood went on to lose the next 8 grand finals, including a hat trick of losses in 1979,1980 and 1981. grand final losses in 1960,1964,1966,1970,1977,1979,1980 and 1981 often in close tight matches where collingwood were leading only to let the opposition club to get back into the game and win it, famously in the 1970 grand final collingwood led by 44 points at half time against carlton, for the blues to steamroll back into the game in the second half to snatch the game by 10 points. the term collywobbles was first coined by lou richards. the curse supposedly was buried in 1990 after collingwood ended there 32 year long drought by defeating essendon, however the collywobbles still curse the collingwood football club during september with both collingwood premierships since 1958 in 1990 and 2010 having been won in october, with collingwood losing 4 of the 6 grand final they have appeared in since 1990, all occurring in september these being 2002,2003,2011 and 2018.
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recruited to the magpies in 2000 by collingwood president eddie mcguire, malthouse coached collingwood to the finals in eight out of his twelve seasons as coach including grand final appearances in 2002, 2003, 2010 (twice) and 2011. in 2010, after the first drawn afl/vfl grand final since 1977, collingwood claimed premiership success with a resounding 56-point win over st kilda in the replay. this was the club's biggest ever win in a grand final and the first since 1990. in july 2009, mcguire produced a succession plan in which malthouse was to hand over the coaching reins to club legend nathan buckley at the end of the 2011 season. in 2011, malthouse guided collingwood to another grand final against the geelong cats. after the dramatic three point win over hawthorn in a preliminary final, he was shown on tv in tears in the coach's box after his side came from 17 points down at the final change to book their place in malthouse's fifth grand final as collingwood coach and his eighth overall. collingwood lost the 2011 afl grand final to geelong by 38 points. the game was his final one as collingwood coach. malthouse advised that he would not be taking on the position as director of coaching at collingwood after the loss and that he had made this decision six weeks earlier. in addition, while coaching collingwood, malthouse spent time as a guest media commentator for sen 1116.
mick malthouse