Meltdown lands Shaw on trade block

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HEATH Shaw's elimination final meltdown is likely to cost him his career at Collingwood with the Pies looking to trade him next month.

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Shaw still wants to stay at the Pies and is contracted until the end of 2015 but is being strongly linked to Sydney.

Crucial ... Heath Shaw gives away a silly free-kick. Source: Getty Images

That sets up a possible reunion with his brother Rhyce after four years together at the Pies, with Heath also having strong relationships with Jarrad McVeigh and Nick Malceski.

Collingwood's players and coaches have grown tired of Shaw's on-field behaviour, which cost the Pies a crucial goal for remonstration with Port Adelaide's Angus Monfries.

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The 27-year-old has always been a provocative and at times disruptive presence in team meetings but it is the on-field issues that are cutting deep.

Players are frustrated at his inability to play to team structures, with Shaw and captain Nick Maxwell often fighting about team tactics during games.

It is understood this week during his end-of-season meeting he made it known he needed to be given licence to play with flair.

His on-field issues have come at a time the Pies are keen to exercise zero tolerance in terms of discipline in all parts of the club.

The Pies would want a first-round pick for Shaw and he would have to agree to a trade, but there will no shortage of suitors come the trade period.

As one of the game's elite rebounding defenders interest in him would intense, including at Paul Roos' Melbourne.

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Shaw's `Rat Pack' teammates Alan Didak and Ben Johnson have already departed, with the Herald Sun reporting this week Dale Thomas is likely to depart.

Thomas' manager Paul Connors said the Blues - and other clubs - would meet with his client next week.

His odds of Thomas remaining at Collingwood narrow by the day, with Andrew Krakouer, Darren Jolly and Jordan Russell among six departures this week.

The Pies want to follow a path that has been forged by Fremantle and Port Adelaide, who have thrived by ensuring players stick to rigid on-field structures.

It comes as Collingwood, so often juggling one of the league's tightest salary caps, are developing a huge war-chest to go after talent.

Jolly and Heath Shaw would be on contracts approaching $400,000 and Ben Johnson and Alan Didak would have been on healthy wages.

It means they could save as $1.2 million in wage bills even before they decide whether to set free agent Thomas loose.

The Pies have not inquired about Shane Mumford despite speculation of a Shaw-Mumford swap.

But in good news for the Pies, Brent Macaffer will soon sign a two-year extension after fighting back from a knee injury and poor form to become the club's best tagger.

Father-son recruit Shaw debuted in 2005 and has an exceptional career at Collingwood, best remembered for his goal-saving smother on Nick Riewoldt in the 2010 premiership replay.

But while he pledged his commitment to the Pies last week, he admitted he couldn't change his behaviour.

"It's pretty clear-cut for me. I'm a Collingwood man and I've got two more years here if the body holds up,'' Shaw said.

"Obviously the conversations I've had with `Bucks' in the (heat of the) moment on the ground is similar to what I said about `Maxy' - it's all for the benefit of the team. Sometimes I get worked up if things aren't going well and I show it because I'm passionate about the club and passionate about winning.

"It's something I've tried to work on controlling for the past 10 years but it hasn't worked at all. So I don't think it's going to be changing any time soon."

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