The second of the AFL Round 1 matches on Easter Sunday is between North Melbourne Kangaroos and Collingwood Magpies. The opening bounce is at 4:40pm local time with the match being played at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne. Away team the Collingwood Magpies are the current favourites in the market. View our preview and teams for the match between North Melbourne Kangaroos and Collingwood Magpies.

Round: Round 1 4:40 PM March 31, 2013
Stadium: Etihad Stadium
Weather: 18° Mostly Sunny

Odds:

North Melbourne Kangaroos $2.55 vs Collingwood Magpies $1.50 at Sportsbet Australia

North Melbourne Kangaroos $2.65 vs Collingwood Magpies $1.48 at Luxbet Australia

Preview:

North Melbourne’s round 21 win over Collingwood last season broke an extraordinary run of dominance by the Magpies, in which they won the teams’ four clashes from 2009-11 by an average 80.5 points. The Roos ran Collingwood ragged through the midfield in last year’s clash and stretched its defence with their three-pronged forward line of Drew Petrie, Lachlan Hansen and Robbie Tarrant. However, North has previously struggled to contain Collingwood’s elite midfield, with Scott Pendlebury and Dane Swan in particular having run amok. This game will give us an insight into whether North can further bridge the gap to the competition’s top teams this year, and whether Collingwood’s disappointing finish to 2012 was an aberration.

• NORTH MELBOURNE 

• 3 Ryan Bastinac
• 4 Liam Anthony
• 5 Ben Jacobs
• 6 Lachlan Hansen
• 7 Jack Ziebell
• 8 Daniel Wells
• 9 Andrew Swallow
• 10 Ben Cunnington
• 11 Michael Firrito
• 12 Lindsay Thomas
• 13 Leigh Adams
• 16 Scott D. Thompson
• 17 Nathan Grima
• 18 Shaun Atley
• 19 Sam Wright
• 20 Drew Petrie
• 22 Todd Goldstein
• 23 Kieran Harper
• 25 Robbie Tarrant
• 26 Taylor Hine
• 28 Will Sierakowski
• 34 Jamie Macmillan
• 38 Majak Daw
• 41 Aaron Mullett
• 43 Sam Gibson

• COLLINGWOOD 

• 2 Jordan Russell
• 3 Brent Macaffer
• 5 Nick Maxwell
• 6 Tyson Goldsack
• 8 Harry O’Brien
• 9 Martin Clarke
• 10 Scott Pendlebury
• 11 Jarryd Blair
• 16 Nathan Brown
• 17 Dayne Beams
• 18 Darren Jolly
• 19 Jamie Elliott
• 20 Ben Reid
• 21 Quinten Lynch
• 22 Steele Sidebottom
• 24 Josh Thomas
• 26 Ben Johnson
• 28 Ben Sinclair
• 32 Travis Cloke
• 34 Alan Toovey
• 36 Dane Swan
• 39 Heath Shaw
• 40 Paul Seedsman
• 41 Sam Dwyer
• 45 Jack Frost