Craig McRae set his players an unusual task at their final training session of 2022. Ten months later, the Magpies are premiers.
They were the one set of steps coach Craig McRae had deliberately not spoken about 10 months earlier when he set the tone for the 2023 season with a special training session at the MCG.
McRae got his players to run up the steps at the top level of the Shane Warne Stand for 30 minutes in their last training session of 2022. Then he told them the meaning behind the exercise.
Collingwood needed to “take the steps” to realise their flag dreams and not take any shortcuts like an elevator or escalator.
He had got the idea from a London tube station when he saw a commuter climbing steps instead of the escalator like everyone else.
In a pulsating first half of the grand final, Collingwood and Brisbane had gone step-for-step, with just one goal separating…
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