ST KILDA coach Alan Richardson will be one of 45 former players and staff from the 1990 premiership team inducted into the Collingwood Hall of Fame on Wednesday night as the Magpies honour the people who helped break a famous flag drought.

The 1990 outfit will become just the fourth Collingwood team honoured in such fashion, following the 1929, 1953 and 1958 sides.

Richardson was unlucky to miss the 1990 Grand Final after failing a brutal fitness test conducted by then coach Leigh Matthews, who tested Richardson's injured shoulder with a quick bump as he left the track.

Shane Kerrison replaced Richardson, who had played 18 games that season, and performed well in the decider.

Richardson played 114 games for the Magpies from 1987-96. Coleman medallist Brian Taylor and popular defender Ron McKeown were also unlucky to not make the team in 1990, led by coach Matthews and skipper Tony Shaw.

The latter was brilliant during the finals series and won the Norm Smith Medal.

Sadly, Darren Millane, who held the ball as the siren went to signal the Magpies' first flag for 32 years – breaking a sequence of nine Grand Final appearances without victory – died a year later in a car accident.

The Magpies did not win another flag for 20 years after that victory and did not win a final for 12 seasons until the 2002 qualifying final. The induction will take place at Collingwood's season launch.

The Magpies will also induct Ted Rowell, who played 189 games between 1901-1915, receiving a champion of the colony award, leading the club's goalkicking twice and coaching the club from 1907-08.