GWS Giants threatened to overwhelm the Pies but Craig McRae’s team seized the moments to win through
ll year, Craig McRae has spoken about “taking the stairs”. He was in London over summer and saw a man at a Tube station eschew the escalator and bound up the steps. McRae photographed it, sent it to his players and has used it as a hook all year. It’s a variation on” speech at half-time in the 1989 grand final. McRae even had the entire playing list and staff running the stairs at the MCG prior to the Boxing Day Test. He took them to the top of the Shane Warne Stand.
They certainly took the stairs last night. They did it the hard way. It was the most nerve-shredding of finishes. They were in all sorts of trouble in the second quarter. The visitors had set up a giant wall across half back and the Pies just couldn’t circumvent it. Toby Greene was in menacing touch, bringing dead balls to life, and even sharking Mason Cox’s tap for his second goal.
And so, in a marvellous mess of a finish, it was the same moment on repeat – scunge it forward, outnumber, force another stoppage, buy a few more seconds. It’s precisely what the Giants did to them four years ago.
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