“Has he got it in him from here?”
Bruce McAvaney pondered as Will Hoskin-Elliott stood 50-metres out on the SCG boundary line.
Collingwood trailed by one point and the new Magpie had a chance to turn the game on its head.
“What a moment this would be…”
In the following seconds, Hoskin-Elliott kicked one of the defining goals in Collingwood’s young season.
But it was only round three, and in the nine games since a number of Magpie teammates have put their hand up as a contender for our goal of the year to date.
When Adam Treloar bursts down the wing, you know something special is going to happen.
Scott Pendlebury has a similar knack of rising in the big moments.
And who could forget Daniel Wells truly announcing himself as a Collingwood player with a running goal in front of 87,685 people on ANZAC Day.
Hoskin-Elliott even added another quirky contender in round 11 when he chipped the ball into an oncoming Fremantle defender, only to gather his own loose ball and stream into an open goal.
They’re the moments that bring the Magpie Army to its feet, and we want to know the best of 2017 so far.
Watch above and then vote below to help decide our best goal from the first 12 rounds of the home and away season.