Adelaide legend and former Collingwood assistant coach Ben Hart believes highly touted assistant Scott Burns will leave the club at the end of the season.
After playing 265 games for the Pies from 1995-2008, Burns moved to West Coast and became an assistant in 2009, and was one of the favourites for the vacant senior coaching role at the Eagles after John Worsfold stood down in 2013.
The job ultimately went to current coach Adam Simpson, and Burns moved to Collingwood and is now Nathan Buckley's assistant, although Hart says he won't be for much longer.
"There will be inevitable movement happening there, but I can tell you now that Collingwood assistant Scott Burns, who is in the middle of doing his Level Four [coaching], he will not be at Collingwood next year," Hart told Sportsday radio SA.
"He has agreed to terms and will be a coach at a rival club next year. He's done that off his own bat, because he could probably see the writing on the wall, so he will not be at Collingwood but will be coaching at a rival club next year.
"Not as a senior coach, but it will be at a club which will be able to help him get to that inevitable senior coaching job at some stage."
Hart and Burns worked together at Collingwood from 2014-2016, and the pair played a lot of football together as youngsters growing up in Adelaide.
Burns was one of six coaches-in-waiting who were accepted as part of the 2017 intake for the AFL's Level Four coaching accreditation course.
