{"id":81797,"date":"2025-08-20T06:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81797\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:49:10","slug":"collingwood-flag-star-calls-time-on-afl-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81797\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood flag star calls time on AFL career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collingwood premiership player Will Hoskin-Elliott has announced he will retire at the end of the AFL <\/a>season.<\/p>\n

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The 31-year-old, who started his career as an inaugural GWS player, was a key member of the Magpies’ 2023 flag triumph.<\/p>\n

But he faces a fight to break back into the Pies’ line-up for the upcoming finals series, after being dropped for last week’s loss to Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Hoskin-Elliott, who has played 242 AFL games, on Wednesday told teammates and staff of his decision to hang up his boots.<\/p>\n

“I’m proud and honoured to call myself a Collingwood player and I have loved my time in the black and white,” Hoskin-Elliott said.<\/p>\n

Collingwood premiership player Will Hoskin-Elliott has announced he will retire at the end of the AFL season.\u00a0Daniel Pockett\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“I leave with incredible memories, lifelong friendships and I can’t wait to see what the rest of this season holds for us.<\/p>\n

“Running out in the black and white, alongside my teammates, with the Magpie Army behind us, is so special.<\/p>\n

“The feeling of hearing ‘Collingwood’ echo around the MCG, knowing we have such incredible fans, is what makes me so proud to play for Collingwood.”<\/p>\n

Hoskin-Elliott started his career with GWS in 2012 and spent five seasons with the expansion club before switching to Collingwood.<\/p>\n

Regarded as a team player, the versatile goal-kicker became an important part of the Magpies’ teams under coaches Nathan Buckley and Craig McRae.<\/p>\n

He kicked a career-best 42 goals in 2018, when the Pies lost the grand final, and played 23 of a possible 26 games in the run to the 2023 premiership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood premiership player Will Hoskin-Elliott has announced he will retire at the end of the AFL season. Editor’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-81797","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\/81797","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=81797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}