There were the giants, and there were the Giants. In a titanic contest, the team of the season prevailed over the team of the moment.
The Magpies had their army, but the Giants had their tsunami, and they made for a mighty preliminary final match.
Comical the aesthetics might have been, but for Collingwood, it was no laughing matter when they trailed by three goals early in the third quarter. At the beginning, Collingwood army’s chant was ominous. Then it was plaintive. Then it was urgent. Then it was euphoric. They’ve played in 11 preliminary finals in the past 22 years and won six. Last year, they lost a prelim by a behind, this year they won by that same irreducible margin. One-kick results have become their motif and hallmark.
Both are probably a couple of years ahead of where they might have hoped to be when they changed coaches, but Collingwood’s Craig McRae had a year’s start on the Giants’ Adam Kingsley. So nearly did he and the Giants leapfrog the Pies, but they were stopped mid-air. Footy is a game that does not stand still.
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