Which port adelaide player used to play for collingwood

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Up Next Autoplay. It was even stated that three Collingwood players would be traded to the Bears — two youngsters who were supposedly on the rise in Paul Williams and Troy Lehmann, as well as another unnamed Magpie player.

They forced Buckley to play the season with them, and what a season it was. He played 20 games, almost won the club best-and-fairest some suggest he should have and won the AFL Rising Star award. By , though, he would be a Collingwood player, and all of the hard work and bartering and trading from the Magpies would be worth it.

And Lehmann, and premiership player Craig Starcevich, would be the men who would make way, heading to the Bears in his place. He would not play in a premiership with Collingwood — despite his best efforts and a Norm Smith Medal — but that SANFL premiership would remain as one of the special moments of his life.

When the siren sounded, leaving Port Adelaide 56 points ahead, Buckley raised his two arms in triumph, as he would do so often later in Collingwood colours. Then, as it sunk in, Buckley was in tears as he celebrated with his teammates. Soon after he was presented with the Jack Oatey Medal, and in the rooms after the game, he heaped all of the praise on his teammates for the way in which they helped through a memorable year.

I prayed for rain and it brought everyone back to my pace. Buckley was captain of Collingwood when another young kid from the Port Magpies arrived at the club after being No. About Collingwood Forever.

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