With their end-of-season meetings complete, all Collingwood players will now be on leave until early November.

One group of players will return to begin pre-season training on Wednesday 6 November while the remainder of the playing list will return on Monday 18 November.

Collingwood’s pre-season will begin after the Free Agency and trade periods finish (on 21 October and 25 October respectively). The 2013 National Draft will be held on Thursday 21 November at the Gold Coast Convention Centre.