Separated by just the intersection at Hoddle Street and Victoria Parade in Melbourne's inner east, Richmond and Collingwood might as well be worlds apart.
The Magpies and reigning premiers Tigers have battled out grand finals, fought poaching wars in the 1980s, and more recently Collingwood stopped Richmond's chance of becoming back-to-back premiers by knocking them out of the competition in a preliminary final in 2018.
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