Steele Sidebottom hints Collingwood will play Hawks in Tassie

Collingwood star Steele Sidebottom may have jumped the gun on Friday with his comments about looking forward to coming to Tasmania.

"I'm pretty sure we're playing the Hawks over in Tassie," he said on SEN's Dwayne's World program.

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The AFL said pre-season details would be confirmed next week while Hawthorn and Collingwood representatives said they were waiting for the fixture to be finalised.

"They're expecting to play a pre-season game in Tasmania but are waiting for AFL approval which is likely to come early next week," a Hawthorn spokesperson said.

Collingwood last played in Tasmania in 2015.

They defeated the Hawks by 44 points in a pre-season game at UTAS Stadium.

It was the first time they had played on the Apple Isle since facing Melbourne in a pre-season match at North Hobart Oval in 2001.

The Pies lost to the Demons by 18 points in a rain-impacted encounter.

Collingwood have never played a home and away game in Tassie but almost did in 2021.

The Pies and Hawks were to meet at UTAS Stadium but the match was moved because of the coronavirus pandemic.

More COVID cases in Victoria and Tasmania's first case in more than 200 days led former Premier Peter Gutwein to shut the door on the game.

The match, which had been capped at 10,000 tickets, was instead played behind closed doors at the MCG.

The Hawks played Richmond in a pre-season match in Devonport in 2022.

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