IF COLLINGWOOD'S forwards can't score they won't be in the line-up for long, as the Magpies look to hit the scoreboard more often in 2015.

Scoring dried up late last season, averaging less than 10 goals a game in the final eight rounds and they finished with the club's lowest points for total since the season extended to 22 games in 1970 (although its percentage was higher than it had been in nine of the years since then).

The Magpies missed Jamie Elliott, who kicked 33 goals, before the end of his season was interrupted by injury.

Key forward Travis Cloke had an average season by his standards, kicking 39 goals, but the only other Collingwood player to reach 20 goals was Jesse White.

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Buckley told AFL.com.au that players who are only strong in one dimension will find themselves struggling to get a game.

"We won't be playing players that only play one side of the ball and that includes purely defensive forwards. If they can't hit the scoreboard, they are not in our mix," Buckley said.

"We want to be a great transition side."

"You need a front six and even a midfield group that have got the capacity to hit the scoreboard," he said.

Buckley emphasised that Cloke was not Collingwood's entire forwardline although he knows the powerfully-built tall attracts more than his fair share of the ball.

"It's easy enough to say to 'Clokey' your running patterns need to fit in with the rest of the forwards and our midfielders need to stop just kicking it to you when you are 2 v 1 or 3 v 2 against, [but] we need forwards to step up," Buckley said.

Buckley claimed Pat Karnezis, Alex Fasolo, Travis Varcoe and Tim Broomhead all had the ability to make the opposition think, as Elliott did last season. 

"Elliott … is an elite player, a dangerous player who makes the opposition think twice about how they are going to set up their defence," Buckley said.

"We think we have got some [players with] damaging attributes that we can put around Trav (Cloke) so that we don't have to rely on him as much. So that when we do go to him he finds himself in more even numbered contests."

Jarryd Blair only kicked 12 goals in 2014 after an injury interrupted pre-season but he was a good scoring assist player, as well as a player who created forward pressure.  

Tyson Goldsack kicked 10 goals but played both forward and back. He was brilliant at creating scores from intercepts when up forward.

"Clearly [scoring] is a challenge for everyone," Buckley said. "[But] we need to score."