Jamie Elliott Biography

Jamie Elliott recommits to Collingwood until at least the end of 2025 after signing a new three-year deal with the Magpies.

Jamie Elliott could be sidelined for up to 12 weeks after he hurt his AC joint in their upset loss to West Coast at Marvel Stadium when Jamaine Jones crunched him in a tackle early in the last quarter.

Jamie Elliott is off the 2021 free agency list after quietly triggering a third year on his contract that will keep at Collingwood until the end of 2022.

Jamie Elliott decides to stay at Collingwood and signs a new two-year deal with the Magpies.

"As a free agent, Jamie had some thinking to do but his importance to us, his role in the team and the support of the Collingwood environment were always clear," Collingwood list manager Ned Guy said.

"We share with Jamie the view that he is on the cusp of a strong new phase in his career. That his next 100 games could be better than his first 100, which were very good. We were very pleased to get last night's call."

Jamie Elliott is spotted visiting Brisbane's facilities the day after Collingwood's best and fairest awards.

Melbourne is dangling a three-year deal in front of brilliant Collingwood forward Jamie Elliott as it attempts to lure the goalkicker out of the Magpies.

Collingwood is not giving up hope that Jamie Elliott will shun rival interest and extend his contract with the club.

Elliott, who is one of this year's most sought-after unrestricted free agents, has attracted a host of rival interest – with Melbourne and Hawthorn among the clubs leading the charge for his signature.

"Jamie has never wanted to engage until he was playing some sort of decent football. For whatever reason that came later in the season," Elliott's manager Adam Ramanauskas said.

"So the talks have only really just started a couple of weeks ago."

Jamie Elliott has been ruled out of the clash with St Kilda at the MCG on Saturday with yet another hamstring issue.

"It's not a serious thing in terms of what Jamie's been through but, given his history, we'll treat that very precautionary and just see how he goes in the next week or so," Collingwood football manager Geoff Walsh said.

Darcy Moore and Jamie Elliott fly to Germany to receive world-class specialist treatment on hamstring injuries that ruined their 2018 campaigns.

They will consult Bayern Munich head doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, regarded as one of the world's leading experts in hamstring injuries.

Jamie Elliott successfully undergoes right hamstring surgery and is expected to be fit for day one of pre-season.

"We thought it's probably wisest to tip him out of training right now, get it fixed and undergo a long, steady rehab process," Collingwood football manager Geoff Walsh said.

"We won't see Jamie for the rest of the year."

Jamie Elliott has been dealt yet another setback after re-injuring his left hamstring in the VFL.

Playing against North Melbourne, a dejected Elliott walked from the field at the 22nd minute of the final term after laying a strong tackle that won him a free kick.

Jamie Elliott's wretched run with injury has continued, with the Collingwood star lasting less than 15 minutes in his return to footy with a hamstring injury.

Lining up in Collingwood's VFL team after four weeks on the sidelines because of a hamstring issue, Elliott sat on the bench for the entire first quarter, with the Magpies managing his workload.

He started on the ground in the second term before limping into into the rooms.

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has defended the club’s medical processes despite having three key players racing against time to be fit for the start of the 2018 season.

Jamie Elliott (ankle) and Levi Greenwood (knee) had delayed surgery after injuries dating back to last season, while Alex Fasolo suffered a shoulder injury at the start of pre-season.

In each case the Pies initially went down the rest and recuperation path before eventually opting for surgery.

"You can be aggressive with surgical intervention, but it’s for the doctors and physios to decide what the right course of action is," Buckley said.

Scans reveal that Jamie Elliott will require ankle surgery and won't return to training until late January.

"The injury was one Jamie played with late this year," Magpies football manager Geoff Walsh said in a statement.

"The recommendation post-season was that with a spell from the rigours of playing and training the ankle would heal.

"Unfortunately the healing process has been slower than expected and surgery is now appropriate."

Jamie Elliott is arrested and fined for being drunk in a public place after he was caught urinating in a wheelie bin in North Melbourne early last Sunday morning.

Elliott is on leave and will return to the club on Monday, November 20, when the club will talk to him further.

Jamie Elliott says he has become increasingly conscious of his posture to avoid a recurrence of the back problems that kept him sidelined in 2016.

"I try not to overthink about it, but every day I am thinking about my position: How I am sitting? Is this a bad thing for it? Is it a good thing for it? All those little things," Elliott said.

"Stay mobile, don't sit for too long, don't get stuck sitting on the couch, and make sure my posture [is correct] and not slumping too much. That's a brief explanation of it."

Will Hoskin-Elliott says he has thrived under the guidance of Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley.

"He's not just worried about the footy side of things. He wants to know you as a person and who you are outside of footy," Hoskin-Elliott said.

"I get along really well with him. Most of the boys are exactly like me, they get along really well with Bucks.

"He cares for us as people as well as footballers. He's a real caring bloke."

Jamie Elliott is on crutches after injuring his ankle during a training drill.

"It happened pretty quick. When I went for the ball, (a teammate) behind me, he just fell into my leg a little bit. I don't know if I just cramped up but I'll know more from the scan that I just got," Elliott said.

"It feels OK, it doesn't feel like it's anything serious. We might just have to lay off it for a couple of days and see how it pulls up."

Collingwood captain Scott Pendlebury says the club feared that Jamie Elliott's back injury would spell the end of his AFL career.

Elliott is set to make an emotional return in Thursday night's JLT Community Series game against Essendon after being sidelined for all of 2016.

"I think everyone had concerns that he wasn't going to get back," Pendlebury said.

"He was pretty nervous at the time. Any time you have to go and have back surgery, it's pretty scary.

"Since day one of the pre-season, he's been back out here. You can just see the love of football he's got. He appreciates it that much more now that he's had 12 months out so we're looking forward to him coming back."

Jamie Elliott suspects he will shed a tear when he takes the ground for Collingwood's pre-season opener against Essendon.

Debilitating back problems that led to surgery forced the promising Magpie to miss all of last season and left him uncertain as to how this pre-season might play out.

"To be honest, I didn't know what was going to happen [with my injury]," Elliott said.

"I had good days and bad days. I still do, but I am finding a way to manage my back in terms of preparation and recovery leading into training sessions."

Nathan Buckley now concedes the major impact Jamie Elliott's absence in 2016 had on the team's fortunes, particularly in the first half of last season.

"It did put a hole in our offence. He has the potential to be a match-winner or a difference maker," Buckley said.

"There is less reliance on individuals than there has ever been but then at the same time you can't ignore the fact that individuals within the team plan [can] make or break you.

"Jamie is potentially one of those guys."

Collingwood is taking a cautious, "slow burn" approach to Jamie Elliott's recovery from a serious back ailment.

"Jamie's going well. It's going to be a slow burn until Christmas time," Magpies high performance manager Bill Davoren said.

"We're looking at the sixth of January as his main, overall re-entry point, but (we're) very happy with where he's at.

"He's still going to be need to be watched closely. It was a serious injury and one that needs to be respected, so we'll certainly keep our guard up as we move to Christmas."

Collingwood hopes star forward Jamie Elliott will return to full training by early January as he makes solid progress from back surgery.

The Magpies have been heartened by the advances the 23-year-old has made in the past month after having surgery in the middle of the season which coach Nathan Buckley described as "significant to put some support into a vertebrae".

"Right now he has been through hell and back for a young player who has really high aspirations about what he wants to be as a footballer and what he wants to provide to the club," Buckley said.

"We're quite bullish about where he can get to and he will probably be in full training [at the] end [of] December or [in] January, but we have got plenty of time to graduate his load so that we can give him every chance of getting back to full fitness."

Jamie Elliott is still hoping he can play football this season after back surgery.

Elliott hasn't lined up for a game in 2016 and went under the knife two weeks ago for an injury known as pars defect, which is a defect of the lumbar vertebra in the spine.

"Whether I can get that back in six weeks without having any pain, or do we go conservative and let it heal a little bit longer, just in case? So it's a hard one," Elliott said.

"We'll have to take it probably a couple of weeks at a time … but I'm not going to say that I can't play footy at the end of this year, because I know it's a possibility."

Jamie Elliott is almost certain to miss the rest of the season with the Collingwood forward set to have surgery on his troublesome back.

Elliott met with a specialist to determine the best course of action after he suffered a setback in his recovery from a back injury.

The specialist recommended surgical intervention, which is expected to sideline him for up to six weeks.

"The good news is that [the surgery] will be more anatomical in nature and not particularly invasive which when you’re talking about back surgery, that is good news," Magpies football boss Neil Balme said.

"It'll keep him out for about six weeks and then he should be fine to move on and we’ll see what happens from there."

Jamie Elliott suffers another setback on his troublesome back.

Elliott will visit a specialist to determine the best course of action and, if surgery is required, could miss the rest of the 2016 season.

"Jamie's recovery has been spasmodic," Magpies football manager Neil Balme said.

"Last week he felt a little uncomfortable with it and next week he will see a specialist with the aim of looking at what, if anything, more can be done to resolve this back issue."

Jamie Elliott could still be sidelined for up to two months, despite making progress over the past fortnight from a debilitating back injury.

Elliott was back out on the track and running repeat sprints on Tuesday, but the Magpies are still being extremely cautious with his return to the field.

"We think the long-term (prognosis) would have him [out for] 6-8 weeks but it could be 4-12. We won't see him in the next month, he's still got a lot of work to do to get back up to speed," Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley said.

"He would need to jump every hurdle between now and then without a hiccup and we can't guarantee that, given the nature of his injury."

Jamie Elliott will begin running next Monday, but concedes the timing of his return to the field is still unknown.

Elliott has been battling an ongoing back condition known as pars defect, and the club chose to take him out of training in late February to allow it time to heal.

"I've been de-loaded for about four weeks now, so I'll start running on Monday and it's just a week by week thing to see how it tracks and pulls up," Elliot said.

"It's a gradual build up, so it's hard to put an amount of weeks on it … I don't know when I'll be back."

Elliott said he had been dealing with constant discomfort.

"Some days are good and I don't feel it all and then there's other days where it stirs up a bit," he said.

"It's a lot to do with my posture. At the moment, it's really good so I don't see why I wouldn't get through next week with the running, so I'm pretty positive."

Jamie Elliott will miss Collingwood's season-opener against Sydney because of a bad back.

"We have decided we are going to take him out of the program for three or four weeks and not do the genuine footy stuff and let him settle," Magpies football manager Neil Balme said.

"We're pretty confident he'll be right to go again at that stage."

Jamie Elliot signs a three-year deal with Collingwood that will keep him at the club until the end of 2018.

"I couldn't see myself anywhere else," Elliott said.

"It's basically my second family and I hold it really close to my heart … I just love it here," he said.

"When I first came here I was shy country kid and didn't really come out of myself, but now I am just so comfortable with where I'm at and playing footy how I used to play it."

Jamie Elliott is confident he is over the worst of his hamstring issues, but says it is something he will have to monitor throughout the season.

"I've had to manage it (the hamstring issue) throughout the whole pre-season, but I haven't had too many issues where I've missed sessions," Elliott said.

"Hopefully I can manage it through the season and it won't give me any grief.

"I'm pretty confident that I won't miss games because of it, so hopefully it stays like that."

Jamie Elliott has been awarded the No.5 jumper for 2015, the number worn by two of the Magpies' past three captains.

Elliott mentioned his hope to wear the number to Maxwell at a party post-season and the wheels were set in motion.

"It's a big number and it's a huge privilege to get it," Elliott said.

Entering his first injury-free pre-season Jamie Elliot says he hopes to break into the Collingwood midfield rotation in 2014.

"It's one of my ambitions to play midfield at some stage," Elliott said.

"I've got to look after my body and I've got to be honest with the physios and fitness staff so I can just manage myself.

"So far my body's holding up as good as it has been so I don't feel like a 60-year-old playing footy at the moment, I feel like I'm 21, so hopefully it stays that way and I stay injury free."

Justin Koschitzke says a two-match suspension for his off-the-ball hit on Collingwood youngster Jamie Elliott does not mean his career is over as suggested by media experts including former Essendon skipper Matthew Lloyd.

"I'm by no means done as a lot of people out there are jumping to some conclusions and saying," Koschitzke said.

"I've still got the year to go, we're still very young in the year and other people are going to get their chance.

"I'll be working pretty hard to get back out there and put the red, white and black on again and finish the year off on a positive note."

An incident involving St Kilda's Justin Koschitzke that left Magpie Jamie Elliott dazed during the second quarter of their round 6 clash at Etihad Stadium drew an angry response from sidelined Magpie Dayne Beams via Twitter.

"Fairly weak that by Justin Koschitzke," Beams tweeted before deleting his tweet.

Jamie Elliott and Jarrod Witts sign new deals to stay at Collingwood for two and three years respectively.

"Jamie, with almost 20 games under his belt now, is becoming one of the bright young players in the competition," Collingwood football manager Geoff Walsh said.

After a solid debut season in 2012, Jamie Elliott knows his spot is under threat until he becomes a better goalsneak.

"Playing the games I did last year means there is always expectations on how I am going to go this year, but it's more I have got a lot of expectations on myself so I have just got to dig in and do what I can do and hopefully that is enough," Elliott said.

"I can't have just one strength and it can't just be for marking so I have got to add more things to my game so tackling and forward-line pressure is one.

"I've seen myself as just a marking forward but I have got to add another part to my game - crumbing and finishing my work inside 50."

Jamie Elliott makes his AFL debut for Collingwood at Football Park with 1 disposals (a kick), a mark and 2 tackles in a 26-point win over Adelaide.

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has awarded small forward Alex Fasolo the No. 1 jumper for 2012.

Fasolo will have to relinquish his current No. 35 jumper to new draftee Jamie Elliot in keeping with the Magpies' tradition of giving that jumper to the club's first round draftee.

"Bucks wants me to have No.1, so hopefully I'll carry that well and I'm happy to be wearing it," Fasolo told the Herald Sun.

"I would have loved to have kept 35, but I guess we couldn't break tradition. That's all right, I'm sure Jamie Elliott will carry it well."