After being made redundant by Collingwood following round one this season, former recruiter Matt Rendell has teed off on the club ahead of its Elimination Final against West Coast.
The former Fitzroy captain and St Kilda assistant coach, who was relegated to part-time before eventually bring dropped, declared the side's forward line up has "gone backwards" since reaching the Grand Final in 2018.
Speaking on SEN, Rendell said the Magpies have changed their attacking approach since their loss to West Coast in the 2018 decider.
"I was there seven years, I used to watch training all the time, it used to annoy the hell out of me – it was all defence, defence, defence and they wonder why they couldn't score much ... this year has been all defence and it's no secret that every one of their forward line players has gone backwards," he said.
"There's not one of them that has improved. People keep talking about Jordan De Goey – De Goey has had two good games all year. He hasn't improved at all.
"Every one of those players has gone backwards who kicked 40-odd goals (in 2018)."
He wasn't finished there, with Rendell also making the claim that Nathan Buckley's team is a "shell" of the 2018 side.
"Grundy made a really good comment in 2018," Rendell said.
"Someone asked him 'where's the improvement come from, what's happened' and he said in this quote, which I pinned on my board for two years, that 'we only talk about the positives now and we don't talk about the negatives'.
"He saw that as the only change. Well, clearly they've gone back to the negatives again because the team is a shell of 2018."
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