The re-signing of Steele Sidebottom, Taylor Adams, Jack Crisp and Adam Oxley adds four key components of Collingwood’s growing list.

All four expressed faith in the direction of the playing group being currently built by coach Nathan Buckley and the club’s list management team headed by Derek Hine.

They are not alone.

Collingwood now has a remarkable 13 players committed to the Magpies until the end of 2018.

They come from a number of different paths. Sidebottom, Scott Pendlebury, Jordan De Goey and Matt Scharenberg are high draft picks who began at the Holden Centre with the highest of expectations.

Crisp, Adams, Adam Treloar, Levi Greenwood and James Aish are players who have chosen Collingwood as a destination in the trade-period.

Darcy Moore is a father-son selection, Brayden Maynard and Tom Langdon were picked in the middle stages of their drafts while Oxley has worked his way from the rookie list to reliable defender. 

The 13 of 2018 cover all areas of the ground. The midfield is already stacked with talent, three years before the first drop-punt has even been kicked.

There is still plenty of football to be played before we get there, but here is a snapshot of what Collingwood will look like in 2018.

13 – Number of current players who have committed to Collingwood until the end of 2018. They are:

  • Steele Sidebottom – until the end of 2021
  • Adam Treloar – until the end of 2021
  • Scott Pendlebury – until the end of 2020
  • Jordan De Goey – until the end of 2019
  • Darcy Moore – until the end of 2019
  • Brayden Maynard – until the end of 2019
  • Jack Crisp – until the end of 2019
  • Taylor Adams – until the end of 2019
  • Levi Greenwood – until the end of 2018
  • James Aish – until the end of 2018
  • Adam Oxley – until the end of 2018
  • Tom Langdon – until the end of 2018
  • Matthew Scharenberg – until the end of 2018

24.9 – The average age of the 13 signed players in 2018.

  • Oldest: Scott Pendlebury – 30 years old
  • Youngest: Brayden Maynard – 22 years old

24.1 – The average age of Collingwood’s list when it beat St Kilda in the 2010 Grand Final.

  • Oldest: Ben Johnson – 29 years old
  • Youngest: Steele Sidebottom – 19 years old

66 – The amount of home and away games between now and the end of the 2018 season. Potential milestones include:

  • Steele Sidebottom – 200 games, currently 143
  • Levi Greenwood – 100 games, currently 82
  • Adam Treloar – 100 games, currently 79
  • Taylor Adams – 100 games, currently 61
  • Tom Langdon – 100 games, currently 41
  • Jack Crisp – 100 games, currently 40
  • James Aish – 100 games, currently 32

2018 – While much remains unknown, the following world events will also occur in 2018:

  • Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea
  • Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia
  • Mars will make its closest approach to earth since 2003
  • The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is expected to become the tallest building in the world (at 1km in height)