Any voices of discontent about Collingwood remain external ones with Magpies president Eddie McGuire and his board set to be re-elected unopposed.
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Nominations for the club board closed on Tuesday afternoon with no-one seeking to challenge McGuire's bid for another three-year term, which will see him enter his third decade in charge of the Pies should he serve his full term. McGuire has led the Magpies since late 1998.
Collingwood endured a difficult 2016, with the Magpies president heavily criticised for comments about holding Fairfax Media football writer Caroline Wilson under water.
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The club also attracted criticism for the timing of its appointment of new football director Graeme Allan while he was being investigated by the AFL for his role in the Lachie Whitfield drug-test-dodging affair, which later saw Allan plead guilty and accept a 12-month suspension.
McGuire had also publicly speculated about stepping down as president of the club after last year's shattering loss to Carlton. The popular president said at the time he briefly wondered after that loss to an arch foe whether he had more to give the club.
"You question yourself. You have done this for 18 years, can you go through it again? Have you got any more ideas? And I look at myself and I go ... a lot of the things that I brought to Collingwood when I first came in have been taken away from me now with equalisation," he said on radio at the time. McGuire said his family's encouragement made him quickly scotch those thoughts.
Board member Mark Korda will also be re-elected unopposed at the club's AGM on February 27..