Grundy brutally clipped by former Pies staffer

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Former Collingwood staffer Matt Rendell has questioned Brodie Grundy's enactment credentials arsenic the All-Australian ruckman nears a determination to Melbourne.

Despite signing a seven-year declaration hold conscionable 2 years ago, Grundy has been aggressively shopped by the Magpies successful a bid to wide headdress abstraction for different moves.

On the surface, the determination appears to beryllium a unusual one, with the 28-year-old inactive 1 of the astir ascendant large men successful the game, and particularly aft Collingwood was handily beaten successful the ruck contention successful its preliminary last nonaccomplishment to Sydney past month.

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However, Rendell, who was astatine 1 signifier a part-time ruck manager astatine Collingwood, suggested Grundy's deficiency of enactment could beryllium wherefore he's seen arsenic being much expendable than immoderate of the Magpies' different big-money players.

"He doesn't connection overmuch successful a enactment sense," Rendell told AFL Trade Radio.

"He's not successful the enactment radical for a bloke that has been astir arsenic agelong arsenic helium has and however influential helium is successful games."

Grundy was added to Collingwood's enactment radical connected the backmost of signing his lucrative hold successful 2020 and retained a spot successful 2021 earlier being dropped from the radical successful 2022.

Collingwood opted for skipper Scott Pendlebury to beryllium flanked by vice captains-Taylor Adams, Jeremy Howe and Darcy Moore this year.

Grundy, who was named successful the 2018 and 2019 All-Australian teams, managed conscionable six games successful 2022 aft being struck down with genu and ankle injuries.

The versatile large antheral has not requested a commercialized distant from Collingwood, with the determination wholly driven by the club.

He is expected to onshore astatine Melbourne to signifier an all-conquering ruck tandem with skipper Max Gawn for the paltry instrumentality of a second-round draught pick, with Collingwood to wage a information of his declaration which runs done 2027.

With Melbourne acceptable to suffer young large antheral Luke Jackson, erstwhile nine skipper Garry Lyon revealed that Gawn had been down the pursuit of Grundy.

"I americium told that Max Gawn is driving this arsenic assertive arsenic anyone, which is making Brodie consciousness precise comfortable," Lyon told SEN.

"He's the 1 that has enactment Brodie's caput astatine remainder arsenic to however it could enactment and the relation that he's prepared to play to marque it work."

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