Matthew Lloyd believes Collingwood’s struggles this season come down to an overreliance on their star players.
The Magpies picked up their second win of the season last week against North Melbourne, with Darcy Moore and Jordan De Goey starring.
Despite the dominance from the pair at either end of the ground, they only managed a three-goal victory against a winless team.
Lloyd believes Collingwood has too many passengers who don’t find enough of the ball.
“Well done to Jordan De Goey and well done to Darcy Moore because when you’re under pressure, I don’t like people saying ‘who did you beat’, but I think the bottom end for Collingwood, it’s amazing how many players have seven or eight touches,” Lloyd told Sportsday.
“There’s too many of them week in and week out and it puts so much pressure on those top-end players.
“Very few kids come in and have 20 disposals, but it’s more the Will Hoskin-Elliott’s, Josh Thomas, Tyler Brown, Callum Brown, those boys, they get 10 or 12 touches every week and I think there’s too many.
“Then the kids get six or seven and suddenly you have eight or nine players not giving much which is why Collingwood is currently a bottom three side on the ladder.”
The Magpies had nine players who had less than 15 disposals against the Kangaroos, though Darcy Cameron, Brody Mihocek and Jordan Roughead are key position players.
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