AFL live updates round six: Collingwood and Port Adelaide to clash at MCG

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Your view: Who wins, Magpies oregon Power?

Collingwood had a shaky commencement to their play and travel retired of their bye 2-3, portion Port Adelaide person been flying, having dropped conscionable the 1 crippled this twelvemonth to Melbourne successful circular 3 (by 7 points).

You’d deliberation this would mean the Power would beryllium favourites contiguous but no, that’s the Magpies, who are conscionable favoured to triumph the match.

We bash cognize the Pies are often lifted erstwhile playing successful beforehand of their location crowd, and we expect the Magpie Army to beryllium precise vocal today.

So, what’s your view? Who wins today, the Magpies oregon the Power?

1.36pm

Teams are out, nary precocious changes

There are nary precocious changes to either broadside today. The sub for Collingwood is Reef McInnes and for Port Adelaide it’s Jed McEntee.

The teams person tally retired and are finishing their last lukewarm ups. Not agelong now.

First bounce astatine 1:45pm.

1.28pm

Your view: Who wins, Magpies oregon Power?

You’d deliberation this would mean the Power would beryllium favourites contiguous but no, that’s the Magpies, who are conscionable favoured to triumph the match.

We bash cognize the Pies are often lifted erstwhile playing successful beforehand of their location crowd, and we expect the Magpie Army to beryllium precise vocal today.

So, what’s your view? Who wins today, the Magpies oregon the Power?

1.23pm

Chelsea Roffey’s large milestone

Today, Chelsea Roffey volition enactment up for her 300th crippled for Collingwood and Port Adelaide’s clash, conscionable the 8th extremity umpire and archetypal pistillate to ever execute the feat.

Roffey was the archetypal pistillate to extremity umpire a expansive last successful 2012, betwixt Sydney and Hawthorn, and has adjudicated 16 finals.

Here, she talks to this masthead astir however hard she had to enactment astatine the opening of her career, and the other unit she felt to correspond her sex arsenic the lone pistillate extremity umpire successful the league.

“Some of the earlier hurdles, man, I had to enactment beauteous hard to marque definite that I was ... acceptable and capable to clasp my ain ground,” said Roffey.

Roffey volition extremity umpire her 300th AFL lucifer connected Saturday.

Read much astir Chelsea’s vocation here.

1.19pm

Good afternoon

Good day and invited to our unrecorded blog for a monolithic Saturday of footy.

It each kicks disconnected with Collingwood and Port Adelaide’s clash astatine the MCG. Then Carlton and GWS volition spell head-to-head astatine Marvel Stadium earlier Brisbane and Geelong combat it retired and West Coast and Fremantle airy up Optus Stadium for the Perth derby.

So, large time then.

Let’s get to it, shall we?