AFL 2021 Round 20: The Team

AFL 2021 ROUND 20 COLLINGWOOD v WEST COAST Time & Place: Saturday July 31, 4:15pm AEST MCG TV: Fox Sports Weather: Min 10 Max 19 Chance of rain:80% 5-10mm Wind: N 22kph Betting: Collingwood $2.35 West Coast $1.60

FB: [3] Isaac Quaynor, [23] Jordan Roughead, [37] Brayden Maynard

HB: [25] Jack Crisp, [44] Jack Madgen, [38] Jeremy Howe

C: [32] Will Hoskin-Elliott, [2] Jordan De Goey, [16] Chris Mayne

HF:  [24] Josh Thomas, [14] Darcy Cameron, [33] Jack Ginnivan

FF: [35] Oliver Henry, [41] Brody Mihocek, [5] Jamie Elliott

FOLL: [4] Brodie Grundy, [22] Steele Sidebottom, [13] Taylor Adams

I/C: [8] Trent Bianco, [9] John Noble, [18] Finlay Macrae, [21] Trey Ruscoe

EMG: [15] Max Lynch, [28] Nathan Murphy, [1] Jay Rantall, [43] Anton Tohill

IN: Chris Mayne, Jeremy Howe, Josh Thomas, Will Hoskin-Elliott

OUT: Anton Tohill (Omitted), Caleb Poulter (Omitted), Mason Cox (Medi-Sub), Nathan Murphy (Omitted), Scott Pendlebury (Injured)

Round 20 Collingwood v West Coast AFL.com.au STEELE Sidebottom will replace Scott Pendlebury as Collingwood captain against West Coast on Saturday before the top job is rotated for the remainder of the season.  Pendlebury will sit out the rest of the campaign with a fractured leg he sustained against Port Adelaide last week in what could prove to be his last match as skipper.  The gun veteran is poised to sign a one-year extension for 2022, however has previously flagged the prospect of finishing his career without the title as captain.  Sidebottom and his fellow vice-captains Taylor Adams and Jeremy Howe, who will play his first game since round five, will share the mantle for the final three matches after this weekend.  The high-flying defender first injured his hamstring against the Eagles in Perth before he was sent for surgery to remove scar tissue in the hamstring that was aggravated while pushing for a return in May. Interim coach Robert Harvey defended the decision to play Howe for the last month of the season with the Pies out of finals contention.  "From his point of view, he really is a great leader so he wants to get back and help this group with four games to go, he feels he can really help that," Harvey said on Thursday.

Collingwood boardroom brawl lands in Supreme Court Herald Sun A bid to force a spill of the Collingwood board has landed in the Victorian Supreme Court. In a dramatic escalation of the Magpies’ board fight, former club solicitor Francis Galbally has lodged a Supreme Court application aimed at expediting the staging of an extraordinary general meeting. Galbally’s lawyers are seeking orders for Collingwood to hand over a copy of the club’s register of members, needed to validate the signatures of thousands of supporters gathered to trigger a spill of the Mark Korda-led board. A hearing before a judge of the Supreme Court could be held within weeks. In an affidavit signed by Galbally, Collingwood is accused of breaching section 173 of the Corporations Act in refusing to disclose its membership register. “I have become increasingly concerned about the governance and overall direction of the club,” Galbally says. Further Reading Who Killed Collingwood? Inside Story Of Pies' Downfall Part 1 Part 2