Brent Macaffer is a Collingwood

Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

 footballer in the Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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. He was recruited in the 2006 AFL draft

2006 AFL Draft

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Macaffer is one of a string of players to have been recruited by Collingwood from Gippsland

Gippsland

Gippsland is a large rural region in Victoria, Australia. It begins immediately east of the suburbs of Melbourne and stretches to the New South Wales border, lying between the Great Dividing Range to the north and Bass Strait to the south...

. Despite his small stature, Macaffer led the TAC Cup U/18 goalkicking in 2006, and was named at full forward in the Team of the Year. Macaffer has good pace and can push up the ground to play in different positions.

Macaffer won the Joseph Wren Award for Best Collingwood VFL

VFL

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 player) in 2008, along with former Collingwood player Justin Crow

Justin Crow

Justin Crow is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Australian Football League .Crow was recruited from the Oakleigh Chargers of the TAC Cup, but from Doncaster originally. In 2004 he made just one AFL appearance, in Collingwood's round 19 win over Fremantle at...

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