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AFL by Al Paton Premium Content Forget Sleepy Hollow. Welcome to millionaires row. Picking players from the team your barrack for in your KFC SuperCoach side is a fun part of the game, but Geelong supporters might need to take out a second mortgage to afford all the Cats superstars in 2021. Geelong has the highest collective value of any side, with the full squad coming in at almost $14.5 million - well above the $10 million KFC SuperCoach salary cap. The ...

Who is the next captain of Collingwood? By 2021-01-19T15:12+11:00 Collingwood has only had six captains since 1987, with their leaders often serving long and successful stints at the helm. Those six include Scott Burns, who only served in the role for a year in 2008 as the transitional leader between Nathan Buckley (1999-2007) and Nick Maxwell (2009-2013). Scott Pendlebury has skippered the club since 2014 and despite now being 33, hasn’t shown many signs of slowing down. Nick Dal Santo want...

The top ten Collingwood fictions going around A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size I might be a gripe, but I try to be an honest gripe. That’s why the fictions that get pushed as part of the Collingwood narrative irritate me. Already memories have faded. Everything’s going swimmingly at Collingwood. There is nothing to see here. Blah, blah. I might’ve covered some of this stuff here and there, I might’...

The Adam Treloar mystery A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size While we might be three months removed from the 2020 trade period, Collingwood’s bewildering efforts still occupy my mind. In pondering them, what’s intrigued me is how Collingwood’s view of Adam Treloar continued to evolve (or devolve). Collingwood famously wooed Treloar to the club throughout 2015. Treloar spurned Richmond, and felt Collingw...

Eddie McGuire picked the right time to exit as Collingwood AFL president after many highs and lows Posted ThuThursday 17 Eddie McGuire would be described as an AFL club president who knew his audience. ( Print text only Cancel At one of Eddie McGuires early annual general meetings as Collingwood president the executive was being grilled about the clubs performance by impatient fans and a well-known shareholder advocate. Sensing the growing dissent, McGuire seized the microphone and reminded th...

Mick McGuane rates every AFL team’s midfield from 1-18 AFL by Mick McGuane Premium Content Subscriber only Geelongs ability to win the ball and use it effectively from inside the contest to outside the contest has the Cats boasting the premier midfield of the competition, according to former Collingwood and Carlton player Mick McGuane. The Pies premiership player and dual All-Australian ranks the Cats engine room at No.1 in the league. McGuane based hi...