{"id":74706,"date":"2026-08-18T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/74706\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:07:14","slug":"collingwood-make-big-call-for-brisbane-lions-clash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/74706\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood make big call for Brisbane Lions clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Collingwood will be without defender Isaac Quaynor for their clash with Brisbane, while Pat Lipinski and Harry Perryman have been held back for another week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Locked into a wildcard spot, the Magpies face a dilemma about how they approach Friday night&#8217;s clash with the Lions at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Due to finishing in the seventh to 10th bracket, Collingwood don&#8217;t earn a week off heading into finals and will need to carefully manage their players this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Quaynor suffered a minor glute injury in Saturday night&#8217;s thrilling draw against Hawthorn and has been ruled out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lipinski (calf) and Perryman (hamstring) were in contention to return, but won&#8217;t take on the Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jeremy Howe (arm), Brayden Maynard (shoulder) and Steele Sidebottom (illness) will be assessed after training on Wednesday to decide whether they return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Collingwood could opt to rest other players despite the AFL warning clubs against doing that in a memo sent by football boss Greg Swann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Lions have listed co-captain Hugh McCluggage (calf) as one week and will be a chance to be back for their first final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At Port Adelaide, star Jason Horne-Francis has a broken toe and will miss the Power&#8217;s season-closing match against Essendon on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Butters\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aap.com.au\/d4dfb1717f824d92f3e9b466d73d6aad.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The in-demand Zak Butters is next to no chance of playing for Port Adelaide against Essendon. (Joel Carrett\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite pushing hard for a likely farewell match at Port, Zak Butters is almost no chance of returning to play the Bombers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Butters is almost certainly leaving Port during the trade period with the Western Bulldogs, Collingwood, Geelong and Richmond fighting hard for his services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bombers ace Sam Durham has been ruled out of taking on the Power due to &#8216;general soreness&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If Essendon lose they will claim their first wooden spoon since 2016, giving them the No.1 pick in this year&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a bitterly disappointing year on the field, Gold Coast will finish off their season without star recruit Christian Petracca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former Melbourne star has an injured foot and won&#8217;t feature in the Suns&#8217; dead-rubber against St Kilda on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood will be without defender Isaac Quaynor for their clash with Brisbane, while Pat Lipinski and Harry Perryman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108694,99,12381,108693,58489,108692,524,396,9246,515],"class_list":["post-74706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-brayden-maynard","tag-brisbane","tag-collingwood","tag-harry-perryman","tag-isaac-quaynor","tag-pat-lipinski","tag-port-adelaide","tag-steele-sidebottom","tag-the-lions","tag-zak-butters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}