Round 1 bolters, crucial role tweaks and injury setbacks<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ll also have Jakob Ryan coming through the ranks now, and Pendles will probably come and play half-back \u2014 plus Billy Frampton who\u2019s a big boy, Josh Daicos and Reef McInnes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a really good bunch of young and older boys that have been playing together for quite some time now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really like the backline, but if I need to be called up to the midfield for a little bit of a spurt, I\u2019m happy to do that. But I\u2019m pretty content with where I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
After winning their most recent flag in 2023 against Brisbane, the club went oh so close to making another grand final last September, before being overrun by the Lions in a 29-point loss in a preliminary final.<\/p>\n
The co-vice-captain admitted it was a difficult loss to process, but that the disappointment had already shaped the club\u2019s approach this summer.<\/p>\n
Tasmanian Devils aiming for VFL finals | 01:48<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty hard to digest. We got to work a lot when we came back (from our break), we did watch a few clips,\u201d Maynard revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are certain areas of our game where we\u2019re going to be a lot more physical and stronger in that part of the game. I\u2019m really looking forward to seeing that, because against Brisbane I felt we gave up too many \u2018easy\u2019 goals than we wanted in our forward line.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith new coaches coming in, we\u2019re probably going to have to adjust our game a little bit. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve always got to adjust your game year in, year out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Collingwood\u2019s match simulation against the GWS Giants can be watched live on Fox Footy from 11am on Friday, February 20, nine days before their only official pre-season clash against North Melbourne at Mars Stadium in Ballarat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star defender Brayden Maynard says his Collingwood side remains firmly premiership focused, with a glowing endorsement of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[233553,3443,638,235224,170575,64,63,689,55,639,49927,37346,3237,235226,3239,10133,10143,233498,235222,171540,5334,2105,147322,233579,10132,233545,14362,235227,218846,235225,647,677,235228,19095,82581,37618,3418,235223,1124,85,14355,660],"class_list":["post-456611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-aami-community-series-live","tag-adelaide","tag-afl","tag-age-recruiting-process","tag-angus-anderson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ballarat","tag-brayden-maynard","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-candid-flag-admission","tag-carlton-blues","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-crucial-role-tweaks","tag-experienced-group","tag-final-selection","tag-finals-berth","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-injury-setbacks","tag-jakob-ryan","tag-jeremy-howe","tag-joel-cochran","tag-lachie-sullivan","tag-list-path","tag-match-simulation","tag-mature-age-recruiting","tag-melbourne","tag-oceania","tag-play-senior-footy","tag-preliminary-final","tag-preliminary-final-loss","tag-premiership-push","tag-sam-swadling","tag-senior-core","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-tom-mitchell","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456611","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=456611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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