{"id":40110,"date":"2025-08-02T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40110\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:55:10","slug":"matthew-lloyd-urges-collingwood-to-look-after-their-own-after-brody-mihocek-rejects-contract-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40110\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lloyd urges Collingwood to look after their own after Brody Mihocek rejects contract offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon<\/a> champion Matthew Lloyd<\/a> has urged Collingwood<\/a> to “look after (their) own”, following reports that key forward Brody Mihocek has rejected a one-year contract offer from the club. <\/p>\n

The 32-year-old has kicked 263 goals across 153 games for the Magpies and has been one of the great rookie draft finds of the last decade.<\/p>\n

Lloyd believes it’s on the Pies to do what it takes to keep Mihocek, before making bigger trade period splashes. <\/p>\n

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Brody Mihocek of the Magpies celebrates a goal.\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Magpies have been linked to Carlton defender Jack Silvagni, reportedly offering him a four-year deal. They also handed GWS defender Harry Perryman a six-year deal in last year’s trade period.<\/p>\n

Lloyd believes they should do right by the club “stalwart”. <\/p>\n

“Collingwood has to be careful. They do a lot right, but you’ve got to look after your own,” Lloyd told 3AW.<\/p>\n

“Offering a one-year contract to a stalwart like him when in the same breath they’re trying to bring in Jack Silvagni on a four-year deal, I know they’re different age demographics.<\/p>\n

“But what Mihocek has done for Collingwood, he wouldn’t cost you a lot of money, but you give him two years to make him feel like he’s worthy.<\/p>\n

“The last thing you’d want is to lose Mihocek. If I was a Pies fan, I’d nearly rip the doors down as much as Carlton fans will if Silvagni leaves, if Mihocek was to leave.<\/p>\n

“They’ve got to be careful to look after the guys who do the job for them.”<\/p>\n

Collingwood has quite a few contract calls to make on veteran players, though most appear to be sticking around.<\/p>\n

The likes of Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom, Jeremy Howe, Tom Mitchell, Will Hoskin-Elliott, Mason Cox, Jamie Elliott and Mihocek are all in their 30s and out of contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon champion Matthew Lloyd has urged Collingwood to “look after (their) own”, following reports that key forward Brody…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-40110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}