Collingwood Football Club season 2006

This article covers the 2006 season of the Collingwood Magpies AFL team.

= News =Pre-Season
*Shane Woewodin is delisted by Collingwood. Woewodin was a former Brownlow Medallist. He was not picked up by a club in the Pre-Season draft.
*Collingwood attends a high-altitude training camp in Arizona, United States for two weeks.
*Dale Thomas is picked up by Collingwood at no.2 in the 2005 NAB Draft.February
*President Eddie McGuire has been appointed CEO of Channel Nine. He will have to give up as host on several TV shows, but has said he will remain as president of the club, despite having to live in Sydney.
*Sean Rusling injures his shoulder on the Community Camp in Northern Sydney. He is expected to miss around 2 months of action.
*Collingwood wins first game of the NAB Cup against St Kilda in fine style, winning in extra time. Fraser Gehrig missed a shot on goal after the siren to draw the match, therefore, as a knockout competition winner was decided in extra time.March
*Captain Nathan Buckley plays his first game of the year during a NAB Challenge match played at Princes Park.
*Rookie Harry O'Brien is promoted to the senior list for the injured Sean Rusling
*Six players were inducted into the club's Hall of Fame. They were Charlie H. Pannam, Darren Millane, Harold Rumney, Des Healy, Bill Picken and Mick McGuane.April
*No.2 draft pick Dale Thomas makes his debut against Adelaide at the Telstra Dome
*Collingwood win their first game of the year in Round 2 against Hawthorn
*Dale Thomas receives the Rnd 2 AFL Rising Star nomination.
*Collingwood defeat Essendon in the annual ANZAC Day clash, in front of more than 92,000 fans in the return to the MCG
*Ben Johnson wins the ANZAC Day Medal for best on ground
*Chad Morrison was fined $20,000 by the club for drink driving, where the club's sponsorship with the TAC came under fire.May
*Heath Shaw receives the Rnd 5 AFL Rising Star nomination.
*Collingwood sit 1st on the ladder after Rnd 6
*The club is fined a massive $200,000 by the TAC after the Morrison incident
*Collingwood beat Geelong by 102 points in Rnd 8 at the MCG
*Rhyce Shaw makes his comeback to the side after his season ending knee injury in 2005June
*Scott Pendlebury makes his debut against the Brisbane Lions at the MCG
*Blake Caracella suffers a career-ending neck injury, sustained in a clash with Brisbane Lions player Tim Notting. Experts said he was lucky not to become a quadriplegic.
*Collingwood beat reigning premiers Sydney at Telstra Stadium.July
*Dual best and fairest Paul Licuria 'rested' for West Coast Eagles match.
*Goal-sneak Leon Davis fractures left ankle
*Chris Tarrant and Ben Johnson involved in brawl outside a Port Melbourne hotel, leaving one man in injured.August
*Chris Tarrant and Ben Johnson are fined $5000 by the club for breaking team rules.
*Blake Caracella announces his retirement, coming after his neck injury sustained in Rnd 10
*Sam Iles makes his debut against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium
*A bronze statue in the honour of Bob Rose is revealed outside the Lexus Centre
*Forward Alan Didak receives excess media attention, after he was kicked out of a club for a dispute with his girlfriend.
*Alan Didak kicks winning goal with seconds remaining against Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium
*Alan Didak makes a controversial bump on former team-mate Heath Scotland. The tribunal throws the case out.
*Chad Morrison retiresSeptember
*Heath Shaw finished third in the AFL Rising Star.
*Collingwood finish 7th, after being defeated by the Western Bulldogs in the first elimination final.
*Brodie Holland suspended for 6 weeks after a hit on Brett Montgomery in the elimination final. Holland's appeal had failed.
*Alan Didak wins his first All-Australian selection.October
*Alan Didak wins the Copeland Trophy from James Clement and Ben Johnson, coming 24 hours after he was involved in an incident with a taxi driver.
*Collingwood trades Chris Tarrant to Fremantle in exchange for Paul Medhurst and a first-round draft pick.
*Collingwood delist Cameron Cloke, Jason Cloke, David Fanning, Brent Hall, Adam Iacobucci and Julian Rowe.November
*The club re-visits Arizona for another pre-season high-altitude camp.
*Tristen Walker is delisted by the club, the seventh player chopped.

References

= Playing List 2006 =
Nathan Buckley will be the 2006 captain, this being his 7th season as the skipper of the Pies. Collingwood had delisted several players last season, including Brownlow Medallist Shane Woewodin, and traded Richard Cole to Essendon. They had picked up several young players, including priority/first round draftees Dale Thomas and Scott Pendlebury in the 2005 NAB Draft. With the high amount of senior players departed in 2005, both Ben Davies and David Fanning got elevated to the Senior List.

Senior list

NAB Challenge

Home and Away

:"For results, see 2006 Australian Football League season"