Twenty years ago to the game, Collingwood played the Brisbane Lions in a grand final after losing their best key forward the week before. Dan McStay is no Anthony Rocca, but his enforced absence has caused a ripple through the team.
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He was known for being a neat, composed and balanced player, a good accumulator who was an effective user and wise decision-maker. He was a player without deficiencies but the lengthy time out of the team or maybe the quality of teammates lulled you into forgetting how very good he is. The finals changed that. He is now genuinely among the elite mids of the competition., had a finals series, like Jeremy Cameron’s early finals, he’d like to have again.
This is a club that has always presumed it should be in finals. This is a team that should expect to do so next year. It has the nucleus of a team to win it all. Yes, the bottom six is thin, but the Blues can be top four again.
To go from there to a prelim was a breathtaking turnaround. It was on par with Kingsley at GWS inheriting a team that finished 16th and in his first season taking them from bottom four to top four.
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