Weโre going through each side and predicting their best 22 for the 2020 season.
Today, weโve looked at the potential best 22โs of Collingwood, Essendon and Fremantle.
Collingwood
B: Jeremy Howe, Jordan Roughead, Tom Langdon
HB: Brayden Maynard, Darcy Moore, Jack Crisp
C: Tom Phillips, Scott Pendlebury, Steele Sidebottom
HF: Josh Thomas, Brody Mihocek, Jaidyn Stephenson
F: Jamie Elliott, Mason Cox, Jordan De Goey
FOLL: Brodie Grundy, Adam Treloar, Taylor Adams
I/C: Chris Mayne, Dayne Beams, Callum Brown, Will Hoskin-Elliott
Discussion: Collingwood will be looking to make another deep run into September after they fell at the penultimate hurdle in 2019.
After a heartbreaking five-point grand final loss to West Coast in 2018, the Pies appeared to be in the box seat to make back-to-back grand final appearances for the first time in almost a decade, but it wasnโt to be as they were unable to come-from-behind against GWS who proved to be too strong.
But going into 2020, the Pies have one of the best lineups in the competition and will undoubtedly be aiming to be in the thick of the action come the pointy end of the season.
Dayne Beams will be welcomed back into the fold after he took time off with mental health which ended his 2019 season, while the re-signing of Jamie Elliott further bolsters their already potent forward line.
A notable absentee from the line-up is Levi Greenwood, who suffered a season-ending ACL injury in the Piesโ Qualifying Final win over Geelong, but he is one who will definitely be in the mix whenever he makes his return in 2020.
The Pies bolstered their ruck stocks through the addition of former Swan Darcy Cameron in the trade period, while James Aish was squeezed out in an attempt to keep their current crop of players under the salary cap โ as well as making room for what is expected to be a large contract offer to ruckman Brodie Grundy.
