The future has arrived.

Two of Collingwood’s draftees will play their first senior AFL games when the Magpies run out against Hawthorn at the MCG on Friday night.

Teenagers Darcy Moore (selection No. 9 in the 2014 National Draft) and Brayden Maynard (selection No. 30) have been named pull on the Black and White stripes for the first time.

The pair replaces the injured Tyson Goldsack (knee tendonitis) and Paul Seedsman, who has been omitted.

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The moment is laced with particular romance for Moore, who is the son of one of Collingwood’s most famous players.

His father, Peter, played 172 games for the club between 1974 and 1982, claiming the 1979 Brownlow Medal and captaining the side in the process.

Darcy, born in 1996, has made fine progress in the VFL during the first half of 2015. In five games, he has spent time at either end of the ground, settling at full forward in recent weeks where he posted three goals against Box Hill last Saturday.

Wearing his father’s old No. 30, Moore previously led the Oakleigh Chargers to the TAC Cup premiership last season.


Maynard, meanwhile, has quickly picked up the pace of life in the state league after arriving at the club with its third overall selection in last November’s National Draft.

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The youngest player at the Westpac Centre this season, Maynard has averaged 12.7 disposals and 2.8 marks across his first nine games.

Last week, he collected a career-high 24 disposals and took eight marks. This comes after he displayed his penchant for the contest, having laid six tackles in each of his first two games this season.

Maynard has been named as an emergency in three of the past four games, which illustrates how long he has been in the match committee’s thinking.

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The three emergencies are Seedsman, Ben Kennedy and Jonathon Marsh.

Collingwood v Hawthorn
Round 14 2015
Friday 3 July
MCG, 7.50pm

Collingwood
B: Tom Langdon, Nathan Brown, Marley Williams
HB: Alan Toovey, Jack Frost, Brayden Maynard
C: Adam Oxley, Dane Swan, Steele Sidebottom
HF: Jamie Elliott, Jesse White, Tim Broomhead
F: Jarryd Blair, Travis Cloke, Darcy Moore
Foll: Jarrod Witts, Jack Crisp, Scott Pendlebury
Int: Alex Fasolo, Taylor Adams, Travis Varcoe, Jordan De Goey
Emg: Ben Kennedy, Jonathon Marsh, Paul Seedsman

IN: Brayden Maynard, Darcy Moore
OUT: Tyson Goldsack (knee tendonitis), Paul Seedsman (omitted)
NEW: Brayden Maynard (18, Sandringham U18), Darcy Moore (19, Oakleigh U18)

Fast Fact
It is more than two years since two players made their league debuts alongside each other in Collingwood colours. You have to wind the clock back to round six, 2013, when Ben Kennedy and Jarrod Witts pulled on the Black and White for the first time against St Kilda at Etihad Stadium.