Editing Collingwood Football Club (section)

===1920s and 1930s: Four consecutive premierships===
[[File:Jock Mchale.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Jock McHale coached the club to four consecutive Grand Final victories]]
Collingwood was the most successful Victorian club of the 1920s and 1930s, appearing in 13 out of a possible 20 Grand Finals during the period.<ref>{{cite web |title=Premiership Teams – East Perth FC |url=http://www.eastperthfc.com.au/history/premiership-teams |access-date=20 September 2020 |website=East Perth Football Club |language=en-US}}</ref> Collingwood were premiers six times during this time, including four consecutive premierships between 1927 and 1930, a VFL record, and two consecutive premierships in 1935 and 1936. The club's coach during this period was [[Jock McHale]], who served as coach from 1912 to 1949. Collingwood also had three [[Brownlow Medal]]lists during the period, with [[Syd Coventry]] winning in 1927, [[Albert Collier]] in 1929 and [[Harry Collier]] in 1930. The club's ruthlessly successful period later earned the club the nickname "The Machine". American journalist and author Sam Walker included the Machine team in his book ''The Captain Class'', which listed some the author's greatest teams in the history of world sport.<ref name=Hello12>{{cite web|url=https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/machine-named-among-worlds-best-ever-sporting-teams/|title=Machine named among world's best ever sporting teams|work=forever.collingwoodfc.com.au}}</ref>

The Collingwood team of 1927–30 not only achieved four straight premierships, but did so with a winning percentage of around 86% across the four seasons, and an average winning margin of about five goals. In 1929 they also became the only team in history to go through a home-and-away season undefeated.<ref name=Hello12/> Collingwood remains the only club in the history of the VFL/AFL to have [[List of VFL/AFL premiers|been declared premiers]] on four successive occasions.