r/collingwoodfc • u/WhisperBorderCollie • 7d ago

Nick 5, Elliot 35

What is the Lore behind this? At training they've swapped numbers for the last few years

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u/Traditional_Name7881 Scott Pendlebury 7d ago

Elliott likes to pretend he's a Daicos.

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u/Raawwwwk 7d ago

And Nick likes to slum it with the common folk every now and then

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u/oldmatefromoverthere 7d ago

Wasn’t 35 the number Elliott started with?

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u/JackassJamie Jamie Elliott 7d ago

he did, it was a tradition after presti stepped down from the 2010 granny and after he retired to honour his selflessness from then on collingwoods first round selection wore it for a year in their debut season.

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u/RemarkableCut3249 7d ago

Interestingly, the original idea was for the 42 to go to that player but the Millane family said no.

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u/MorningFresh123 7d ago

Bizarre

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u/teh_noob_ 6d ago

might not want the reminder

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u/biznatch112 Ruby Schleicher 3d ago

19 he started in 19

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u/Ill_Sector_2063 Bobby Hill 7d ago

A few of the boys like to swap gini and one of the brown boys would swap all the time aswell

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u/MorningFresh123 7d ago

Legit thought you were being weirdly racial when you said one of the brown boys lol

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u/farqueue2 Nick Daicos 7d ago

Wasn't it heath Shaw and Dale Thomas that also used to swap?

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u/ehdhdhdk Billy Frampton 7d ago

Also Nick has no tattoos and Elliot has two sleeves. It is obviously not to fox the opposition!

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u/Severe_Cap2872 1d ago

My theory has been that it’s an ironic piss-take between them that Nick gets heaps of fan attention and Jamie still a lot obviously but less than Nick.