This is the 29th ANZAC Day clash between the Pies and the Dons. In case you were born after the mid-1990s and are not a close follower of football history, the V/AFL has played games on this day long before these two clubs made the fixture theirs in 1995.
What are your memories of that game?
I was on a school camp in Victoria’s High Country and didn’t know the result until our teachers told us via radio (remember, this was well before the days of the smartphone and the widespread use of the internet) at the end of the day, firstly that it was a draw, and there was crowd of nearly 95,000.
Collingwood filmed a piece a few years back reminiscing that game, which featured Nathan Buckley as a player and former Hawthorn champion turned media pundit Dermott Brereton in the black and white.
