Collingwood have reportedly approached Port Adelaide’s General Manager to take over the club.

The story was broken Monday night on Channel Nine’s Footy Classified, Caroline Wilson detailing the concerns facing the Collingwood football club since their 2023 premiership.

Since last September, the club have experienced quite a tumultuous period at board level, with chairman Jeff Browne sharing his potential plan to step down, rumours swirling of a parting of ways with CEO Craig Kelly and Graham Wright taking extended leave, with talks of his exodus.

“Collingwood are very lucky Melbourne have come along,” Wilson said on Footy Classified.

“If I were to say after the premiership last year that, within a year, the chairman would announce he’s going in a very short time, the CEO was being investigated for a workplace incident, the head of footy would take a year off and then never come back. The person they put as list manager, Justin Leppitsch would be at odds (with recruitment)… you would say ‘what a fall from grace’.

“We know that Jeff Brown and his board are running the recruitment to try and reset the footy department… we can report tonight that the Port Adelaide football boss, Chris Davies has been approached by the Collingwood board to take over as head of footy.”

Kane Cornes highlighted how Port Adelaide footy boss, Chris Davies, is on the radar of more clubs than just Collingwood, but is happy at Port Adelaide.

Being South Australian, the appeal of Collingwood as the most famous sporting club in Australian may not sway Davies to rethink his future plans, but it is a grand opportunity nonetheless.

The Power will likely take no part in the discussion, especially as their side prepare for a potential premiership push, currently eyeing off Thursday night’s home Qualifying final against Geelong.