1. You already followed Collingwood in the AFL
2. Black and white are more synonymous with Collingwood than any other colour combination with any other team in Australia. You can't get more iconic or "unique" than that.
3. That's tradition. That's what footy clubs are made of. That's the culture of the game.
4. Buckley, Coventry, Daicos, Pendlebury. You're only naming players from the AFL, so I'm assuming you're only considering players from the VFL/AFL. In that case, Collingwood has an exponentially greater history.
5. I hate to say it, but Collingwood are building a damn good group of youngsters. De Goey, Scharenberg, Moore et al. are going to turn Collingwood around in the not too distant future.
6. Paul Seedsman
1. He's 11 and he's actually making this decision on his own for the first time instead of having it made for him
2. Totally irrelevant to his point
3. Plenty of people don't follow their families in terms of footy support.
4. Collingwood doesn't have a greater relevant AFL history. Fizzler is 11. He would just barely remember Buckley. The only history that really matters is the last decade or so. Before that nobody cares apart from the supporters of that particular team.
5. If this is a best youngsters race, Collingwood don't win it. It's not though.
6. Tom Jonas
People should follow the club they feel the belong to. That might not always be Port for Fizzler, but it's not Collingwood. He shouldn't be stuck with a team he doesn't care about because his dad supported them.
I'd be saying the same thing if he were a Port supporter defecting to Collingwood, by the way. I might also be calling him a treacherous campaigner, but you can change clubs as a kid. It's fine. As long as he isn't still deciding when he's 25, he can find his way.