Trade and draft review: Pies fiddle while fans burn
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Much has been written about Collingwood’s dumpster fire of a trade period. Relationships were forever fractured.
The list manager was thrown to the media wolves. The coach had more position changes than Carlton in the 1970 grand final. Now the president has conceded that his time is up (well, this one has).
To put it succinctly, the Pies entered a firestorm of unexpectedly high total player payments, after using 39 players in 2020 and having back-ended some big contracts, which combined with the Covid-enforced salary cap reductions put the list management team in an invidious position.