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Find your frequency hereTrade talk: Collingwood contract standoff causing dressing room angst
SEN • August 10th, 2025 4:36 pm
Sam Edmund has provided an update on the contract situation surrounding a range of out-of-contract Magpies.
In recent weeks, a number of Pies veterans have reportedly initiated conversations surrounding their futures, with several first-team players running down the final year of their current contract.
Given the Pies’ confirmed interest in further recruitment and the club’s ageing list, Edmund has reported that a selection of players may be looking elsewhere, while the club’s core unit appears likely to remain put.
“The Collingwood players are so interesting,” Edmund told SEN Crunch Time.
“So much has been said around this space – the disgruntlement and the like. (Scott) Pendlebury, (Steele) Sidebottom and (Jeremy) Howe are all going to stay.
“(Brody) Mihocek I think will get there (to re-sign). His management is overseas at the moment, and there is some wrestling over tenure.
“Jamie Elliott has been offered a two-year deal but absolutely has the temptation – as he has done in the past – to get back to Queensland where his family are.
“He spent a lot of time there as a child, the Gold Coast actually haven’t got to the position yet where they’ve tabled any sort of offer, it’s just what Jamie wants to do with the rest of his career as a free agent. Two-year offer to stay, I’m told it’s a solid offer.”
Outside of their veterans, the Magpies' star ruckman has caused a stir within the walls of the club, with interest from WA causing a halt in negotiations.
“Then there’s the Darcy Cameron contract standoff, if I can call it that,” Edmund continued.
“If there is some angst in the playing group, I’m led to believe it’s tied to this guy and the empathy for him as one of the most popular players in that dressing room.
“If you are going to say that that playing group has that disgruntlement, it’s pertaining to this, rather than Jack Silvagni. The veterans on that playing list, they love the fact that their club is ambitious to try and get an established player in Jack Silvagni, because it means they’re in the window, and they can keep going.
“If they were restarting again, that would spell trouble.”
Winning just one of their last five, the Magpies have fallen off their perch atop the AFL ladder, with the Adelaide Crows awaiting next Saturday night.
