Brownlow a short stopover as Nick Daicos continues rewriting AFL history books
- When Nathan Buckley's decade-long tenure as Collingwood coach came to an end midway through 2021, there was a silver lining for the club amid the painful exit of the club legend.
- Buckley's tenure had seen the Pies flirt with winning a premiership in 2018 and 2019 before ultimately failing, but by the time he wrapped up, Collingwood seemed well out of the premiership window.
- The silver lining came in the form of a player who was yet to set foot on an AFL field: Nick Daicos, then a teenager touted as a generational prospect years before he was eligible to be drafted.
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- When Nathan Buckley's decade-long tenure as Collingwood coach came to an end midway through 2021, there was a silver lining for the club amid the painful exit of the club legend.
- Buckley's tenure had seen the Pies flirt with winning a premiership in 2018 and 2019 before ultimately failing, but by the time he wrapped up, Collingwood seemed well out of the premiership window.
- The silver lining came in the form of a player who was yet to set foot on an AFL field: Nick Daicos, then a teenager touted as a generational prospect years before he was eligible to be drafted.
Sources: ABC Australia