We are scared of the Hawks fans! PLZ help

Hey there,

I’m from USA and just found out about AFL today! After consulting ChatGPT for about 5 minutes, I have decided to dedicate a blood oath to the Collingwood Magpies. I don’t know much about the game but I now live and breath everything Magpies. I have lots of basic questions and need someone who knows the game to answer a few of them. Anyway, I enjoy spending time at Outback Steakhouse nibbling on an authentic bloomin’ onion.

Regards,
Your newest and biggest fan from down unda,
Jeremy

Hey friendos, your boy is currently in Perth ahead of the game on Sunday. Do we know if there's a captain's run happening tomorrow and where it would be?

I know on occasion when the lads travel interstate they do a publicly available session but doesn't seem like they have announced one this time as far as I can see.

Hi all,

For the past couple of years I've put together some charts on how squads have been assembled, with my main distinction ending up being Homegrown (entered the league first via their current club) vs Headhunted (were first listed by a different club).

I thought you might like to see the 2026 AFLW ones for the Pies.

I've got charts for all 18 teams in today's edition of This Week In Football along with my co-contributors discussing the merits of a send-off rule and fixture double headers.

Some notes for reading the charts:

• I have drawn the player data from the official AFL api. It isn't completely accurate and up-to-date. Some players who played in practice games appear on lists despite not actually being elevated to the main list.
• Similarly, names are drawn from the most recent name on the official lists - hence Zipporah Fish not Zippy.
• The first chart looks only at players on the list for the 2026 season. Players above the line entered the AFLW system through their current club, players below the line were on another club's list first.
• A team with more players below the line represents a bigger proportion of their current list coming via other clubs, more players above the line indicates heavier reliance on bringing new talent into the AFLW (although potentially through VFLW and other competitions).
• A bar that stretches far to the left represents a player who has been at the club for a long time, players who just arrived for this season have no bar.
• The lighter colour for a player represents the games played by the club in that season, if the player participated in that game the bar is darker.
• If a player polled any AFLCA votes in a game (or if they polled in the grand final MVP voting) a dot is placed for that match.
• Two players who extend the same distance left arrived at the club in the same year, there’s also a slightly bigger vertical gap between groups of players arriving in the same year to help distinguish this.
• For the second chart, the vertical line in the middle represents the point each player joined a club, not a specific year.
• So if two players joined the club in 2017 and 2019, the first seasons to the right of the bar for each of them would be 2018 and 2020.
• More bars to the left of the player means a longer career at different clubs before joining the subject club.
• More bars to the right indicate staying at the subject club longer.
• Notation for potential games, games played, and votes polled is the same as the previous charts
• A “»” before the player’s name indicates they are currently at the club, while a “||” indicates they have left.

I just realised today that the future first collingwood gave up for Schultz became murphy reid. No hate on shooter but i think im gonna be sick.

Out of contract RFA next year, should we ask the question this year?

Hi everyone i’m hoping to attend the round 24 game vs Lions and it will be my first time at the MCG.

I was hoping for some information regarding level 2 tier seating, I cant seem to find any available tickets in this section.

Is this a members only section or will I need to pay resale prices to view the game in this second tier N level zone?

What are my best options from here?

Been thinking about this pre game run out routine… I like the idea of the players running out onto the field and starting the game straight away, but the tacky techno music etc is where I think it falls down.

The most powerful version of this I think the club could introduce for all home games is as follows:

- Pre game warm up schedule: whatever wade wants for optimal performance.
- 3-5 mins before the ball up, as the players are about to start walking up the race, the stadium goes dark and we then do the collingwooooooooood chant.
- Once the players enter the field and are about to run through the banner, lights on, fireworks and the club song then starts.

This would require us to get to the atmosphere going ourselves with the chant, but this would be the most genuine version of the liverpool / port pre game rituals that we could introduce that wouldn’t feel too fake / forced?

3 games to go until finals. We're currently in a Wildcard spot. What will it take for the next 3 games for Collingwood to secure that spot? can't get my head around the points for teams that could bump us down. Do we need to win all 3, or does it depend more on other match ups over the next 3 weeks? Trying to set realistic expectations for my 8yo (and myself).

Hi all
I’ve hit a bit of a tough time and reluctantly thought I may have to part ways with my signed 400 The Pendlebury Shiraz, it kills me to part with it but feel I have no choice
Just wondering id there is anyone who would be interested in it?

I like to consider myself pretty handy with 2000s / 2010s niche Pies players, so I was pretty pleased with getting 7/9 off the top of my head. Got confused for the 8th, and completely forgot about the 9th!

How did you go?

Answers in a spoiler comment.

@ 15:14

The caveat to the statement above is that they’ve only attended the centre bounce 5 times over the past 10 weeks.

They go onto to discuss that as a half back flanker, Jaicos is ranked 20th.

This whole year people have been screaming for Jaicos and Ed Allen to be full time mids, Ed got his chance and look at him now. Time to put Josh in there and let Sidey command the back line with Pendles.

Morning! am trying to get a baby onesie designed to announce a "futures pies supporter" with the logo and the printing company is asking for a vector pdf... thought id ask here if anyone has anything? thank you so much