Coach rips Magpies stars for 'acting like a loser'

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By Chris De Silva and Emily Patterson

Collingwood manager Craig McRae was not impressed by the absorption of his players astatine the last siren arsenic Geelong ran distant victors 11.12. (78) to 10.12. (72) to unafraid a location preliminary final.

Several shattered Magpies stars slumped to the MCG turf erstwhile the siren confirmed Geelong's win, prompting McRae to statement his broadside arsenic "losers" successful a stinging assessment.

"We privation to enactment similar winners. The siren goes and there's fractional a twelve guys laying connected the ground," McRae said successful his post-match property conference.

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"For maine that's not a winner. That's acting similar a loser.

"We're present to triumph this thing, we've fixed it everything we've got to get to this clip of the twelvemonth and you privation to springiness it your champion shot.

"We mislaid the game, but we're not losers. There is simply a difference."

Asked to grow connected his post-game speech with his side, McRae revealed his hardline bid to the group.

"I said that for the beingness that I'm sitting successful this seat - possibly barring a expansive last - if we don't win, don't laic connected the ground," helium said.

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"Don't prevarication connected the ground."

Collingwood had won 12 of their past 13 games and hadn't succumb successful a adjacent brushwood since circular 5 against the Brisbane Lions.

Despite coming heartbreakingly adjacent to avoiding adjacent week's elimination final, McRae said the self-belief that the broadside had built implicit the play would transportation through.

"We person large content successful what we're doing," helium said.

"Again, that's result stuff, but the grounds that we contiguous to our players, there's a batch of reasons wherefore we're sitting here.

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"I cognize there's a bounce of the shot this mode and a acceptable changeable aft the siren present and there, and those things person got america to this point.

"But there's a batch of worldly that we've done down the scenes. It gives america large content successful that we beryllium successful this position."

The Magpies volition play the victor of the Freo Dockers and the Western Bulldogs.

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