Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse is confident the Magpies will strip fit and fresh for Monday's Queen's Birthday clash with Melbourne coming off a nine-day break.

Malthouse said it's always fraught having to officially name a team for Monday on the Thursday before the match, but he expects the Pies to line up as selected, including veteran forward Anthony Rocca who was a late withdrawal from last week's clash with West Coast because of his chronic ankle problems.

Malthouse said Mother Nature had been kind to the club in recent weeks.

"We haven’t had a traditional late-May/June," he said.

"I don't think there's been one breath of wind and there's been no rain; it hasn’t been overly cold and it hasn’t been overly taxing as far as the conditions you train in or play in."

"So it hasn't taken a lot to bring the players up, whereas in the past it can be bitterly cold and wet."

Malthouse said the biggest sin Collingwood could commit in the lead-up to Monday's match would be to underestimate lowly the Demons who have won the past four Queen's Birthday encounters.

"Melbourne have had an indifferent last month, but they challenged Hawthorn where we couldn’t and that makes them dangerous," he said.

"Any side that can do what we didn't I highly rate. They fell away last week but sometimes with young kids it's hard to hold them up all the time."

"But they've still got some wonderful players and if they get up and they bring the kids in with them, big fight."

Malthouse said he understood what Andrew Demetriou was getting at on Friday morning when the AFL CEO declared the Demons need to pull a crowd of around 70,000 to demonstrate their entitlement to an ongoing role on Queen's Birthday.

"We'd all be disappointed if on Anzac Day we only filled half the stadium … and these games are there to promote massive crowds because our game really does revolve around that," Malthouse said.

"Empty shells just don't do much for our game."

"Melbourne know that this is a wonderful opportunity from twofold - they've got a good record against us and financially it's a windfall."

"You don't have to be a Rhodes Scholar to work out that the more people that go the better it is for Melbourne."