As his players hammed it up after their grand final win, Collingwood coach Craig McRae shared a quiet moment with newborn Maggie and the premiership cup on Monday.
Two days after announcing his daughter’s birth to a crowd of more than 100,000 people at the MCG, Collingwood coach Craig McRae shared a quiet moment with newborn Maggie and the premiership cup on Monday.Maggie, less than three days old, was wrapped in a Magpie scarf and nestled in the cup, with her dad cradling them and beaming while wearing his premiership medallion.
McRae, 50, stunned the jubilant Magpie Army in the aftermath of the Pies’ four-point win over Brisbane in Saturday’s grand final by announcing from the stage that his daughter had been born at 7.45 that morning.The family shared some quiet time together away from the team’s Mad Monday celebrations. And not content with unseating Geelong as reigning AFL premiers, the Pies set about stealing the Cats’ mantle as back-to-back-to-back Mad Monday champions.Moore is better at intercept marking than archery, but he does come from a famous dynasty (Legolas is the son of the Elvenking Thranduil and, dressed in Mercedes gear as Formula 1 great Lewis Hamilton. Only six more flags and he can equal Hamilton as a seven-time champion.
Veterans Scott Pendlebury and Jeremy Howe were in full Peaky Blinders kit, complete with newsboy caps and suspenders. Mason Cox, the big American, arrived as a towering Tyrannosaurus.re-enacting the goal umpiring blunder that ended Adelaide’s finals hopes, and a fake Gerard Whateley tweet.
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