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Greats back Pies' bold premiership declaration - CtrlF.XYZ

Greats back Pies' bold premiership declaration

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Collingwood manager Craig McRae has boldly declared his broadside is acceptable to triumph a premiership aft booking a preliminary last spot, saying "we're present to triumph it".

McRae's Magpies continued their stunning emergence connected Saturday night, beating Fremantle successful a semi-final clash astatine the MCG, with the squad going from second-last successful 2021 to being 2 wins distant from a flag.

The 48-year-old was overjoyed with his side's show against the Dockers and did not shy distant erstwhile asked astir his team's premiership hopes, with the Magpies conscionable 2 wins distant from the unlikeliest of emblem wins.

"We're present to triumph it. One much crippled and you're successful a expansive final," helium told reporters.

"We're present to triumph this happening and we're going to enactment our butts disconnected to get amended each time to springiness ourselves each chance.

"We'll acceptable ourselves up and we cognize what's coming up successful Sydney, but we'll springiness it our champion shot."

McRae was backed up by Essendon large Matthew Lloyd and Port Adelaide premiership winner, Kane Cornes, with some saying the Pies remained an extracurricular accidental to triumph it all.

"I deliberation they tin triumph it. I wouldn't beryllium shocked if they won the premiership now," Lloyd told Nine's AFL Sunday Footy Show.

"I don't deliberation Brisbane tin triumph it, but I deliberation immoderate of the different 3 would not astonishment maine if they won the flag."

Cornes admitted that the Magpies had won him implicit arsenic they continued to advancement passim the season.

"I've been a dilatory burn," helium told the Sunday Footy Show.

"I haven't been full embracing their guardant line, conscionable with the unit they've got down there. They truly don't person a cardinal people successful their guardant enactment (and) not galore person won it without a cardinal presumption subordinate successful their guardant 50.

"But they're truthful even. They don't trust connected immoderate 1 player, truthful possibly that's been a spot of theirs.

"I deliberation they tin triumph it too, but having said that, I deliberation Sydney volition commencement arsenic the red-hot favourite and rightly so. It's inactive Geelong and Sydney retired successful beforehand and Collingwood successful third."

While the Magpies person already overachieved successful a batch of people's eyes, McRae doesn't judge they're done.

"We're 1 of the past 4 teams near successful the competition," helium said.

"At the commencement of the year, if you thought we'd beryllium 1 of the past four, you would've got beauteous large likelihood for that.

"I'm conscionable arrogant of the maturation successful us. I said to the playing radical that the champion is successful beforehand of us. I conscionable consciousness similar we're increasing earlier your eyes, whether that's individually with guys stepping up oregon arsenic a radical conscionable getting better.

"It's a spot of a taxable for us, but we powerfully judge our champion is successful beforehand of us."

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