This time last year, Collingwood was sitting at 2-9 in 16th place on the ladder in Nathan Buckley's final season in charge.
They would go on to finish 17th, the team's worst-ever placing. Regime change came to Collingwood with the arrival of Craig McRae, but just like at Hawthorn, most pundits had the Pies likely to finish in the bottom four or five teams in 2022.
