Collingwood Magpies AFL 2025 Team Preview, Predictions & Player Movement

Jeremy Darke

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Last updated: 20 Feb 2025

Jeremy Darke 20 Feb 2025

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Collingwood Magpies predicted to finish 8th in the 2025 AFL season.
Pies had a solid offseason, recruiting two-time All-Australian Dan Houston and Harry Perryman.
Nick Daicos a strong contender for the Brownlow Medal.

Collingwood Magpies predicted to finish 8th in the 2025 AFL season. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Collingwood Magpies AFL 2025 Team Preview, Predictions & Player Movement

Collingwood Magpies AFL 2025 Team Preview, Predictions & Player Movement
Where the Collingwood Magpies finish in 2025: 8
Projected Win total: 12
Best Contender for Brownlow Medal: Nick Daicos
What’s to like
What’s NOT to like
Collingwood Magpies Offseason Player Movement
Collingwood Magpies Predicted Round 1 Squad

Where the Collingwood Magpies finish in 2025: 8

It was a tough premiership defence for the Pies in 2024, suffering the championship hangover, along with a long list of injuries, which included former Brownlow medallist Tom Mitchell missing most of the season with a plantar fascia issue and Nathan Murphy to career-ending concussion.

Collingwood were off the mark in the middle stages of the season, but finished 2024 with 4 wins from their last 5 matches and missed out on the AFL Finals on percentage. The Pies leaked a lot of points in 2024 but have bolstered their defence in the offseason with two-time All-Australian Dan Houston and Harry Perryman.

If the Pies stay fit, which is easier said than done, they are expected to return to finals footy in 2025.

Projected Win total: 12

Collingwood enters the 2025 season as the oldest club with an average age of 26.3 years old. Along with that tag, they are also the most experienced with an average games per player at 102.1.

Injuries hurt the Pies in 2024 but their experience came through in the end with a strong finish to the year. Collingwood will struggle with absences in the squad once again and are predicted to have a similar win percentage as they did in 2024, finishing with 12 wins again in 2025.

Best Contender for Brownlow Medal: Nick Daicos

Nick Daicos placed second in Brownlow voting in 2024 with 38 votes, the most of any Collingwood player in the 3-2-1 voting system. His runner-up finish was one better than his third place in 2023 where he tallied 28 votes.

At just the age of 21 years old, Daicos is destined to win the Brownlow, sooner rather than later and if the trend follows after his third then second place finish, 2025 could be the year were he takes his first (of likely many) Brownlow medals.

What’s to like

Under Craig McRae, Collingwood have been a force and their pressure on the ball carrier wins them possession, loading into their ability to attack quickly after an intercept. With the Daicos brothers in everything, moving the ball quickly in transition the Pies are hard to stop once they get going.

If they can recreate the intensity and pressure they had in 2023, the Pies could even snag a few more wins than they did in 2024.

What’s NOT to like

Age is the issue in Collingwood and their ability to stay on the park. The older brigade of Collingwood players looked their age in long patches in 2024 and they are now one year older in 2025.

The season of the Pies will rely heavily on their ability to recover and take care of themselves.

Collingwood Magpies Offseason Player Movement

Joel Cochran (No.47 draft pick), Will Hayes (No.56 draft pick), Dan Houston (trade, Port Adelaide), Tim Membrey (delisted free agent), Harry Perryman (free agent, Greater Western Sydney), Charlie West (No.50 draft pick)

OUT

Aiden Begg (delisted), Jack Bytel (delisted), Josh Carmichael (retired), Josh Eyre (delisted), Nathan Kreuger (delisted), Nathan Murphy (retired), John Noble (trade, Gold Coast), Joe Richards (trade, Port Adelaide)