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Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has touched base with suspended pair Josh Thomas and Lachie Keeffe ahead of their impending return to the AFL club.Buckley has confirmed the Magpies remain committed to the duo who are nearing the end of two-year doping suspensions handed down last year by ASADA.When the bans - for taking illicit drugs laced with banned substance clenbuterol - became public last August, chief executive Gary Pert said it was incumbent on the club to provide a light at the end of the tunnel for them.Buckley revealed he had spoken to the players this week and confirmed they were both keen to resume their AFL careers, albeit on the clubs rookie list.Theyre tacking well, theyve been away overseas for the last four or five weeks and I believe theyve been staying in decent physical shape ... clearly, we dont get access to them until early December when theyre back, Buckley said.But for them now, you can only imagine the emotions theyve been through over the last couple of years and the fact thats coming towards a close where they get their opportunity to come back and prove themselves at AFL level again.Theres still a lot of work for them to do and were looking forward to them doing that, but they seem to be in good spirits.Keeffe, who has played 40 AFL games, will be 26 on his return to the club and Thomas, who has made 32 senior appearances, will be 25.They will remain as rookies and they will come on and have the opportunity to prove, through their training, their capacity to come up on to the senior list, Buckley said.That was the commitment we made to them a couple of years ago. , we stick to that, and hope that we are bringing in a couple of players that have played senior footy that can use that experience to assist us from 2017 onwards. 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Pearce talked of common passion, but has also advised Sevens boss Amor on selection dilemmas, given his own stewardship of Team GBs 2012 football side.Ive had a lot of conversations with Stuart Pearce about how he managed to bring that GB team together for London 2012, the challenges he faced in a short space of time, to bring the home nations together, said Amor. Stuart told me to smash the Team GB message with the players.He obviously had the difficult choice of not picking David Beckham, he chose Ryan Giggs instead. The biggest thing he said was hammer home that Team GB message, how big it is.Everyone you speak to says it doesnt matter what youve done in the past, theres nothing that compares to this, the Olympics, the size, the scale, the feeling. And the other thing he said was to try to enjoy the journey, because he said it goes by just like that, in a second.Weve tried to enforce that with the guys and theyve worked so hard so far.Amor is just as busy weighing final Rio selection as building excitement and ambition amoong his squad.dddddddddddd The former England Sevens star will not though be filling any quotas when that final squad selection comes around. Amor has insisted the top-performing players will be selected to travel to Brazil, irrespective of their nationality.Every British & Irish Lions tour squad selection is picked apart for the numbers representing each nation, but Amor claims there will be no need for any similar process for the eventual Team GB line-up.Amor will finalise his 12-strong squad selection on July 19, before the GB mens outfit face New Zealand, Kenya and Japan in group-stage action, starting on August 9.There has been no quota set, said Amor of the impending Team GB selection. As soon as I got the job I committed 100 per cent to sending the very best team we could possibly to the Olympics. That meant making some tough calls for resting and recovering the England guys, knowing we needed a squad of at least 24 going in.But now its about that blend and that balance, and thats what were trying to do in training, seeing who works well together. So it may not be the best individual players, it may be who works best with that particular player.So nothing to do with quotas, well send what we think is the best squad. ' ' '