Collingwood were staring down the barrel of defeat - trailing by 31 points and looking at a wobbly 2-4 start to the season. But an unlikely hero rose to the occasion to re-ignite the Magpies’ year.
A deep breath, extra time-off and an unlikely hero have not only levelled out Collingwood’s flailing season, but have the born-again Magpies hurtling towards an in-form Essendon for a mouth-watering Anzac Day clash.
It was Will Hoskin-Elliott who rose to the occasion, literally, plucking a hanger in the Collingwood goal square when the Magpies needed a spark. He then kicked the goal that ignited his teammates and the Collingwood crowd.From that moment forward, the pressure metre flicked definitively back in the Magpies’ favour, and they turned a five goal deficit into a 42-point victory.
On the back of Hoskin-Elliott’s soaring heroics and continued link-man role, Collingwood were able to shut down Port’s full-ground movement and start taking territory of their own. “We’ve got a pretty simple formula, really - let’s just get the ball going and then turn up and then have fun doing it. And there was some energy built through that.McRae was quick to praise the efforts of role players Lipinski and Hoskin-Elliott, who is out of contract this year and continues to play for his career.“He’s done a lot of jobs for us over a long period of time, and we wanted him to go forward today and play a bit taller and it’s pleasing because he takes his marks.
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