Under the guidance of coach Craig McRae the Magpies have come a long way as a team and a club in a relatively short period of time
They won it with a mix of role players, discards, begoggled Texans, old hands and generational superstars. They all had a distinct role, and they all executed it to perfection. But more than anything, it
needed a spark, and every time Brisbane’s small forwards threatened to rip the game away, Hill bobbed up. We hadn’t talked about Collingwood like that for a long time. On and particularly off the field, we were sick of them. In the depths of Covid, the club was riven. The playing list looked ordinary. Nathan Buckley often speaks about what went wrong in 2020 and 2021. He says they had the best pre-season imaginable after they’d blown the 2019 preliminary final. But then the pandemic hit. He insists Collingwood bore the brunt more than most clubs, and that the staff cuts hit especially hard.
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