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Hill, 26, who had been on leave from the club for two months as he dealt with personal issues, was expected to be back at the club\u2019s headquarters as soon as Monday. <\/p>\n
But he was in attendance today, according to SEN\u2019s Sam Edmund. <\/p>\n
\u201cHill today walked back in the doors at Magpies HQ for the first time in months in another significant step towards a return to the game,\u201d Edmund wrote on X on Thursday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe reunion with teammates, coaches and staff was not about training, but reconnecting with the club on his path back to football.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Norm Smith medallist hasn\u2019t appeared at senior level since Round 21, 2025, when he was the substitute in a loss to Brisbane.<\/p>\n
Hill also sustained a hamstring injury in the pre-season, which hampered his progress.<\/p>\n
Hill is contracted to Collingwood until at least the end of the 2030 AFL season.<\/p>\n
ROOS SIGN EX-BASKETBALL TALENT<\/p>\n
The Roos announced Brewer\u2019s signing on Thursday. <\/p>\n
The 195-centimetre 20-year-old, who hails from Tasmania, played college basketball for Sacramento State and Idaho State University. <\/p>\n
Brewer has ties to Kangaroos rebounder Colby McKercher, with the Launceston Junior Football Club product having represented Tasmania at the under-12s level alongside the left-footer. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are really pleased to welcome Lachy to the club and give him the opportunity to bring those elite attributes back onto the footy field,\u201d list boss Brady Rawlings said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLachy has spent the last few years in a high-pressure college environment in the US, so we have no doubt he will bring a high level of professionalism to our young group. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe his physical profile, combined with his previous football background, gives him a great platform to develop within our system at Arden Street.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘Swans Year of Redemption’ | 04:06<\/p>\n
\u2018TIGHTENED HIS LEASH\u2019: HAWKS COACH ON GINNI\u2019S TACTIC TALK<\/p>\n
Polarising Hawthorn forward Jack Ginnivan might be a bit more tight-lipped the next time he\u2019s asked for tactical input on a podcast. <\/p>\n
Coach Sam Mitchell reined in Ginnivan after he spoke openly about the Hawks\u2019 tactical mindset in certain game situations on the Titch & Ginni Show with former AFL star Tom Mitchell.<\/p>\n
Discussing Carlton\u2019s play last season with Mitchell, Ginnivan explained how teams such as the Hawks might\u2019ve taken advantage of the Blues. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf they win it, and they do go long into the forward 50, let\u2019s just say Hawthorn, on the outside, are ready to bang to the open side, and Carlton might be stuck skinny,\u201d he said on the podcast, pointing at a whiteboard with magnets. <\/p>\n
\u201cJack, for all the bravado that you see, he is a real footy head. He loves footy, he loves watching it, he loves dissecting it,\u201d Mitchell told media in his weekly press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI use him on gameday regularly for tactics on how we want to go about different parts of our game. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to help him toe the line on \u2018how much of our plans do you need to actually give, Jack?\u2019 So, I just tightened his leash a little bit \u2026 make sure he\u2019s giving away something to keep the fans interested, but not so much that he can help opposition teams beat us. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe gave me a cheeky smile (when I approached him to discuss it) and nodded his head like \u2018I know exactly what you\u2019re talking about, coach\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hawthorn goes into Thursday night\u2019s blockbuster MCG bout with Sydney as favourites, with superstar Swans Errol Gulden and Isaac Heeney absent due to injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobby Hill has reportedly returned to Collingwood headquarters as he eyes a return to senior footy. Meanwhile, North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2095,64,63,689,272229,126243,485,724,157540,45723,13482,1127,272231,272236,8401,272230,2041,2067,677,15705,272232,272234,149495,668,272233,7184,85,272235,2801,14355,2614],"class_list":["post-550192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-basketball-prodigy","tag-brady-rawlings","tag-california","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-player","tag-football-background","tag-footy-field","tag-fox-footy","tag-high-pressure-college-environment","tag-idaho-state-university","tag-jack-ginnivan","tag-launceston-junior-football-club","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-opposition-teams","tag-played-college-basketball","tag-podcast-commentary","tag-podcast-comments","tag-press-conference","tag-real-footy-head","tag-sacramento","tag-sports","tag-tactic-talk","tag-tasmania","tag-tom-mitchell","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550192","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=550192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}