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Sidebottom set to exit, one of Pendlebury and Howe makes sense
Soon, before the season’s close, Collingwood are expected to announce that their two-time premiership great Steele Sidebottom will retire.
For several weeks, the signs have pointed to Sidebottom finishing at Collingwood this year. After a stellar first half of 2025, when he was close to All-Australian standard, there has been a gradual ebbing of performances on the field for the distinguished 35-year-old.
Sidebottom is said to be comfortable with the prospect of finishing his career, which will fall shy of the 400-game mark (370 now), according to sources familiar with his situation.
The positions of Scott Pendlebury – the AFL’s games record holder and one of Collingwood’s immortals – and the remarkable veteran aerialist Jeremy Howe are yet to settled on by the players or the Magpies as August beckons.
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Steele Sidebottom is tipped to retire at the end of the 2026 season, and he’s not the only Collingwood legend who could either leave or hang up the boots.
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Collingwood champion Steele Sidebottom expected to retire at season’s end after glittering career
Collingwood champion Steele Sidebottom is expected to part ways with the Magpies at the end of the season.
The two-time premiership great has played 370 games in 18 years at the Magpies and had been in good form early this year, having come off a stellar season in 2025.
But patchy form since his 31-disposal effort against GWS in Round 3 has pointed towards a potential end of the road for the 35-year-old.
Sidebottom’s likely retirement will see him fall short of the extremely rare 400-game mark.
The classy midfielder collected 35 disposals to win last year’s Anzac Day Medal in a performance that wound the clock back, and came seventh in the club’s 2025 best and fairest.
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