Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board

I wasn’t aware Rhyce was at North (thought still in Syd)

Anyways he’s interim coach replacing Brad Scott

Excellent. While he's doing that, he's not slipping over uselessly on the flanks for us in a Grand Final.

And by doing so he's potentially sacrificing his own chance at becoming a senior coach one day. On the other hand, this may position himself as an in-demand assistant, having acquired some senior coaching experience.

He’ll still get out-coached by his brother but he may not be outplayed by him, this time.

David wrote:... Didn’t even realise that he’d gotten into coaching...

Rhyce was the one who recommended Sam Murray to us... Well, maybe to everyone, not just us.

Rhyce has won the last two Assistant Coach of the Year awards (2018 & 2017).

Good luck to him, except against us of course.

Nek Minit

I think I'm right in saying that Rhyce Shaw was the first Collingwood captain to not wear #1. He preferred to retain #23, which he wore with distinction.

Yes he did slip over in the 1st Q of the 2003 Grand Final, giving Alastair Lynch a goal. What a nice thing to be remembered by. Most of the team were duds that day and got well-beaten by a team that had injured players, such as Nigel Lappin. Rhyce was a terrific player for Collingwood and I'm glad he finally played in a premiership. It's just unfortunate that it wasn't for us. Apart from 2003 his finals record was excellent.

Rhyce Shaw captain? Don't remember that!

I think he has Rhys mixed up with Ray or Tony Shaw?

Yes, Ray wore 23.

“I’m a bit qwercky “ says Rhyce

Harrysz wrote:I think I'm right in saying that Rhyce Shaw was the first Collingwood captain to not wear #1. He preferred to retain #23, which he wore with distinction.

Yes he did slip over in the 1st Q of the 2003 Grand Final, giving Alastair Lynch a goal. What a nice thing to be remembered by. Most of the team were duds that day and got well-beaten by a team that had injured players, such as Nigel Lappin. Rhyce was a terrific player for Collingwood and I'm glad he finally played in a premiership. It's just unfortunate that it wasn't for us. Apart from 2003 his finals record was excellent.

Shaw more or less spudded it up for most of his 9 seasons at Collingwood before going to the Swans. Probably, facing football mortality made him pull his finger out because he was a more solid (and consistently available) player there than at Collingwood. He played under 100 games for us in 9 years, left at 27 and then played almost 150 for the Swans. I don't at all remember him as a "terrific player" at Collingwood - rather, I remember him as a guy who played a few good games amongst a lot of average or poor ones.

For a player with such an underwhelming record as a young player, he had surprising longevity. He played more than half his senior games after he turned 28. Since he started in our senior team before he turned 19, that's a little surprising. It was also good physical luck for him - many great medium-sized players are pretty-much physically done by the time they're 28.

He may prove to be a fantastic coach - many of the most famous coaches were only average footballers at best - but we don't need to re-write history about his Collingwood playing record. He was one of many players whose game at Collingwood, taken over his career with us, was consistently way less than the sum of its parts.