Opportunity plays an instrumental role in the development of a career, a fact that is even more true when it comes to AFL players. Watching our younger stars flourish throughout the season was one of the more enjoyable stories that ran parallel to our overall success, but when you end up sitting triumphantly at the…
Getting The Nod
What a great concept the rookie list is, giving players a second chance after the disappointment of missing out on draft day whilst simultaneously kick-starting an inner drive which may have otherwise remained dormant. At Collingwood we’ve had great success in this regard, with our premiership squad being comprised of six players – our captain…
2010 Draft Wrap
The excitement of the national draft can be somewhat tamed when your club has traded out of the early rounds. That might be true to some degree, but it doesn’t apply when you’ve just won the premiership and your recruiting manager is Derek Hine. Collingwood headed into this year’s draft with live picks 45, 46,…
Salute: 2010 Retirees
Whilst the end of the 2010 AFL season saw the Magpies bring home their 15th premiership, it also raised the question as to which of our aging players would call it a day. It takes more than the final starting line-up to win a premiership, a fact that was not forgotten by Nick Maxwell and…
Trade Week Wrap
It’s an interesting proposition heading into a trade period when you have just won a premiership. It’s even more interesting when the trade period came before a draft that had already been heavily tapped by one of the new expansion teams. With our first round pick designated at #25, well after the Gold Coast took …
2010: The Year That Was
When Collingwood was bundled out of the 2009 premiership race by an all-conquering Geelong outfit destined for its second premiership in three years, you would have been forgiven as a Collingwood supporter for wondering whether we were actually making ground on that elusive 15th premiership. We had come so close to toppling an emerging Geelong…