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Collingwood coach Craig McRae insists Father Time isn’t catching up with Steele Sidebottom and Scott Pendlebury amid a 0-3 start to their AFL premiership defence. But he won’t rule out resting his veterans, or using one as the substitute, in Thursday’s crunch grand final rematch against the Brisbane Lions. Heat has come on 36-year-old Pendlebury and 33-year-old Sidebottom amid slow starts, but McRae backed the pair to deliver as the season wore on and games became more of a grind.
I don’t care how old you are, that’s a challenge,” McRae said. The coach noted he’d managed fellow veterans Will Hoskin-Elliott and Tom Mitchell and said “time would tell” whether he repeated that approach. Asked if Sidebottom would face Brisbane, McRae said: “I would hope to think so. He’s fit and available. “We’ll go to the match committee and he’s one of those that we talk about, that three games in 12 days might be a chance to give him a rest, or we’ll see what happens.
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