With a grand final appearance in 2018, a preliminary final last year and the 2020 season sitting precariously, Collingwood's premiership window looks to be creeping closer to the padlock.
Their list is not getting any younger, with many of the Magpies' top end talent either in or edging toward the autumn of their careers.
Undoubtedly, the aim of professional football teams is to win silverware and goals must be kicked to do so.
Collingwood's tall forward stocks are headlined by Mason Cox, a man recently foreign to the code, Brody Mihocek, a mature-aged recruit originally selected as an intercept defender, and Darcy Cameron, the former Swan more recognised as a ruckman.
The attacking mosquito fleet of Stephenson, De Goey, Elliot and the like have served the Pies often and admirably in the past, but their output on the scoreboard this season doesn't make for pretty reading.
If Collingwood are serious about adding to their premiership tally with this list, then it is time they bite the bullet and get the cheque book out for a tall forward.
Whether a realistic option or Pie in the sky, here are the names that should be on the Woodsmen's shopping list.
Though before you begin dreaming Collingwood fans, this is contingent on your club making room in their salary cap, meaning some of your favourites may be out the door.
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1. Jeremy Cameron
The man who should undoubtedly be number one on the Pies' hit list - star Giant Jeremy Cameron.
Set to enter restricted free agency at the end of the season, Collingwood should throw the kitchen sink and then some at the reigning Coleman medallist if they're fair dinkum about winning another flag.
Collingwood targeted Tom Lynch two years ago with an offer that you imagine would've been in the neighbourhood of $850,000 plus a season, so there could be an avenue in their salary cap.
While he won't come cheap and will have no shortage of rival suitors, should a Darcy Moore or Jordan De Goey decide leave the Pies, it could free up the necessary funds to launch a big-money offer.
Despite being slightly down on form this season, Cameron could anchor the Pies at full forward for the majority of the decade to loom as the ideal pickup.
