by Tom McConville | Jan 18, 2018 | Media-Updates
EVEN by her own admission, Sarah Dargan is an “underdog” in Collingwood’s group of draftees and recruits. The forward was a bolter in last year’s NAB AFL Women’s Draft, selected at pick 20 despite not being invited to the NAB AFLW combine or...
by Tom McConville | Jan 18, 2018 | Media-Updates
IT’S 5.30pm on a Friday afternoon and Jack Crisp is sitting beside his phone waiting to fly home from the Gold Coast. His Collingwood teammates are catching a flight the following day but Crisp has booked an earlier ticket because he misses his little girl. She is...
by Tom McConville | Jan 16, 2018 | Media-Updates
MELBOURNE ruckman Max Gawn says he has no problem with teammates taking their safety concerns directly to their union rather than the leadership group, after a player-led push saw the Demons’ pre-season camp cancelled last month. A commando-style “torture...
by Tom McConville | Jan 12, 2018 | Media-Updates
He may have been selected with one of the last few picks in last month’s NAB AFL Draft, but new Bulldog Callum Porter would have to be in the top few for highly-decorated junior careers. The Gippsland Power product, who was selected with pick No.74 by the Dogs,...
by Tom McConville | Jan 11, 2018 | Media-Updates
IT’S TAKEN six years for Brody Mihocek’s name to be called in an AFL draft, but he can expect a much shorter wait to make his Collingwood debut, according to his former coach Gary Ayres. Mihocek, a 25-year-old Tasmanian defender, was picked up by the...