When Nathan Buckley's decade-long tenure as Collingwood coach came to an end midway through 2021, there was a silver lining for the club amid the painful exit of the club legend.
The AFL world was no stranger to the Daicos surname due to the exploits of Nick's famous father Peter, who had become immortalised at Collingwood as a member of the club's 1990 premiership side.
Daicos's arrival helped catapult Collingwood from second-last in 2021 to fourth in his first season in the AFL.
Daicos followed up his premiership by polling a ridiculous 38 votes in 2024, the most by any player in the league's history up until that point, only for that year's winner, Patrick Cripps, to poll 45.
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When Nathan Buckley's decade-long tenure as Collingwood coach ended midway through 2021, there was a silver lining for the club amid the painful exit of the club legend. That has not been the case with Daicos has proven to be inevitable from day one.
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When Nathan Buckley's decade-long tenure as Collingwood coach came to an end midway through 2021, there was a silver lining for the club amid the painful exit of the club legend.
Buckley's tenure had seen the Pies flirt with winning a premiership in 2018 and 2019 before failing, but by the time he wrapped up, Collingwood seemed well out of the premiership window.
The silver lining came in the form of a player who was yet to set foot on an AFL field: Nick Daicos, then a teenager described as a generational prospect years before he was eligible to be drafted.
The AFL world was no stranger to the Daicos surname due to the exploits of Nick's famous father Peter, who had become immortalised at Collingwood as a member of the club's 1990 premiership side.
You did not need to be a Collingwood fanatic to know about Nick Daicos, everyone around the game knew the kid was on the way due to his prolific exploits at the junior levels.
The weight of expectation that comes with the level of hype Daicos had as a draft prospect can prove crippling.
Daicos's arrival helped catapult Collingwood from second-last in 2021 to fourth in his first season in the AFL.
Collingwood fell one point short of a grand final appearance in Daicos's debut season, but went all the way in his second.
Daicos followed up his premiership by polling a ridiculous 38 votes in 2024, the most by any player in the league's history up until that point, only for that year's winner, Patrick Cripps, to poll 45.
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