North Melbourne floated as potential third club for Collingwood veteran Jeremy Howe

7NEWS

19 hours ago

Mitch Cleary has floated the possibility that Collingwood veteran could finish his decorated AFL career at North Melbourne.
The high-flying defender's current contract expires at the end of this year and is yet to receive a new offer from the Magpies.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: North Melbourne floated as possible move for Jeremy Howe.
At 35, and among an ageing list at the Pies, Howe's future at the club is unclear.
But despite his current groin injury, which will see him sidelined for another week, the star interceptor is playing as well as he ever has, and warrants an AFL contract for next year, when he will turn 36.
Cleary said the Kangaroos could do worse than consider offering him one.
'Still no formal contract offer from the Pies,' he said on Tuesday night's episode of The Agenda Setters.
'I think, if I was North Melbourne, they've missed on Nathan Broad, they've missed on Brayden Maynard, I think he would be the perfect guy to go and nurture some of these young defenders.
'We've seen Will Dawson you've been big on in the last couple of months, Charlie Comben's still finding his feet — (he'd be perfect) to go and partner up as that third tall in defence for a year or two at North Melbourne.
'He is still, to this point, yet to receive an offer from Collingwood.'
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The 7NEWS Melbourne reporter still thinks Howe is more likely to stay at Collingwood, but thought it was worth noting that progress had yet to be made on a deal.
'They (Collingwood) are keen to a level, but there's still nothing formal yet, so I think that's going to be thrashed out over the next two or three weeks,' Cleary said.
Howe played 100 games for Melbourne before being traded to Collingwood at the end of 2015.
Speaking to Unfiltered this week, Howe opened up on the sickening arm break that sidelined him for most of the 2023 season, revealing how close he was to retiring.
Howe suffered the gruesome injury in the opening-round clash against Geelong, but it was the complications and infections after the surgery that almost forced him to walk away from the game.
The much-loved player detailed his immediate thoughts of the sickening injury to the low points of the recovery in a powerful episode of Unfiltered.
'The moment where I go upside down, I heard the snap before I hit a deck,' he tells Hamish McLachlan.
'And then once I got to the ground, I'm literally was laying there. Feels pretty painful ... Bruzzy (Brayden Maynard) comes over to pick me up, and then he's like 'oh f***' and I looked down my forearms facing the bench, but by the rest of my forearms up against my rib cage.'
'So it's snapped in four different places, and then my elbow tried to dislocate, chipped two bones in my elbow and snapped my AC joint at the same time.
'And they gave me a green whistle, and it did nothing. I had to wait for the ambos to get there before I could get pain relief.
'My dad was at the game. He came down. I was pretty much in tears, and I was shaking on the bed. I couldn't stop shaking, and I was like, whether I was in shock or they were trying to hold my arm but my legs are trembling.
'The chest is just shuddering, felt like I'm having pain attack. The pain was so significant, I've never felt like anything like it, it was like a blow torch to my arm.'