I always laughed how Collingwood was classed as a team that rebuilt from youth like Geelong and the Saints. They have so many players from other clubs it ain't funny. Buckley, Rocca, O'Bree, Licuria, Clement, Holland, Wakelin, Woewodin, McKee,... Only Tarrant and possibly Fraser and Lockyer have come through from the draft for them. They are an average side that is well drilled in the basics of modern footy (unlike us) yet needs their best 22 on the field to make the finals like most sides in the comp. Geez even we pumped them!
When the Pies were up the top of the ladder the past two years I'd reckon they would have gotten away with their gibes at the AFL the past week or so. Now that they have fallen back to the ranks of mediocrity the AFL are putting them back into their place