Get your seats to Saints v Magpies<\/a><\/p>\nInjury-prone key forward\u00a0Dan McStay\u00a0(hamstring) was also moving particularly well \u2013 albeit with the rehab group \u2013 while\u00a0Beau McCreery\u00a0(off-season foot surgery) was charging up and down the sidelines, alongside\u00a0Reef McInnes\u00a0(ACL).<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, it was\u00a0Nick\u00a0and\u00a0Josh Daicos\u00a0who caught the eye in the main group, the former gliding through the midfield and the latter creative off half-back.<\/p>\n
Nick and Josh Daicos at Collingwood training in January, 2026. Picture: Collingwood FC<\/p>\n
In promising signs for the Pies, injury-riddled pair\u00a0Jordan De Goey\u00a0and\u00a0Jamie Elliott\u00a0were looking secure, the former playing exclusively through the midfield for the entire session.<\/p>\n
Ex-Swan\u00a0Jack Buller\u00a0will be looking to add to his 10 AFL games in 2026 \u2013 particularly after the departure of Brody Mihocek to Melbourne \u2013 and the key forward was presenting well at the footy, pushing high up the ground as a connecting mark.<\/p>\n
Fellow tall\u00a0Charlie West\u00a0had a few nice moments, while the old firm of\u00a0Scott Pendlebury\u00a0and\u00a0Steele Sidebottom\u00a0controlled proceedings inside and outside the contest respectively. The former skipper also spent some time at half-back.<\/p>\n
Scott Pendlebury at Collingwood training in January, 2026. Picture: Collingwood FC<\/p>\n
Billy Frampton\u00a0was in strong intercepting form on the last line of defence, while the ruck was contested between\u00a0Darcy Cameron\u00a0and the yet-to-debut fourth-year\u00a0Oscar Steene.<\/p>\n
Billy Frampton and Darcy Cameron at Collingwood training in January, 2026. Picture: Collingwood FC<\/p>\n
Tew Jiath\u00a0laid some crunching tackles throughout the training session, and provided some nice run off half-back, and draftee midfielder\u00a0Tyan Prindable\u00a0bobbed up a few times in the centre and showed some promise.<\/p>\n
Collingwood had a clear focus on forward handballs, at one point running a drill from the centre of the field to the goal line comprised entirely of moving the ball by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan De Goey\u00a0played exclusively through the midfield for the entire match sim session Jordan De Goey and Steele…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-434655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434655","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=434655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}