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Nick Watson may be one of the shortest players in the game next season, but he hasnt let his size hinder him in what has been a standout draft year

I unwittingly caught part of Eddie McGuire and Jimmy Bartel’s podcast last week. Fifteen minutes in, McGuire, yet again, went into defending Collingwood’s infamous…

Port Adelaide faces Collingwood as a sporting rival on Saturday for the 36th time in AFL company, back at the MCG where it all began in 1997. A football legend who has lived each side of the black-and-white divide knows both clubs can find strength in sharing their common backgrounds.

Watching that Sydney versus Collingwood preliminary final unfold for three quarters, I could only think what I’ve thought so often before: we’re just not…

This Thursday night, the Brisbane Lions will mark the 20th anniversary of the second of their hat trick of premierships when they welcome Collingwood…

Oakleigh Chargers coach Jason Davenport believes the pair are the best players in the draft.

The good and the bad from your club's performance this weekend.

2018 preliminary final Mason Cox will forever be the hero, but this was surely Buckleys greatest accomplishment as the Magpies stopped what appeared to be an unstoppable Richmond. The Tigers say they had hit the wall and learnings from 2018 have helped them time their run for the past two premierships, but for Collingwood it was a preliminary final upset for the ages. Buckley had gone from zero to hero, leading Collingwood to a grand final only 12 months after most in the football world suspec...

Collingwoods salary cap mystery A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size One of football’s biggest mysteries – well, at least as far as I’m concerned – is how Collingwood tangled up their salary cap as they did. Given Collingwood’s terrible start to the 2021 home-and-away season, we’ve seen some in the media – such as Gerard Whateley and Kane Cornes – now revisit Collingwood’s 2020 trade debacle...

The greatest Magpies of the last 50 years A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size As the countdown to the AFL season 2021 continues and as a Magpies tragic, I thought I would take a trip down memory lane and assemble a best Collingwood team since 1970, a year that sends shivers down the Magpies’ collective spine. I have played some players out of position in order to hopefully put the best talent on the mythic...