Mick Malthouse has taken challenge with Craig McRae’s exuberant celebration of a Jack Ginnivan free kick in a little bit of pleasant hearth between Collingwood coaches.
Malthouse, who led the Magpies from 2000 to 2011, successful one premiership but additionally shedding two grand finals to McRae’s Brisbane Lions, didn’t like what he noticed from McRae on the sidelines as Collingwood secured the minor premiership with a 70-point win towards Essendon on Friday night time.
The second occurred within the third quarter with the Magpies main by 10 targets. Ginnivan was tackled excessive by Mason Redman and awarded a free kick, prompting McRae to lift each fists within the air.
“I’m not sure about the coach on the bench doing that,” Malthouse mentioned. “You’re just baiting your player up.
“Let the players play with their emotions, but that there to me all it does is signify that you think he doesn’t get enough frees.”
McRae was seemingly remembering the free kick that was famously not given when Redman tackled Ginnivan across the neck final season.
It led to widespread outrage the Magpies teenager was being discriminated towards and noticed McRae instructed by Essendon nice Matthew Lloyd and present St Kilda coach Ross Lyon to do extra to defend his participant publicly.
It looks as if McRae is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t, however the criticism will imply little after the Pies completed in prime spot on the finish of the minor spherical for the primary time since Malthouse’s final season.
Collingwood put a listless Essendon to the sword with a blistering first half and survived the match with no recent damage issues.
Jamie Elliott was subbed out after his two-goal first half however the Magpies weren’t involved after a corky for the star ahead, whereas Collingwood’s midfield and defence regarded their finest for greater than a month in a welcome return to type.
Jordan De Goey, Jack Crisp and Josh Daicos all produced highly effective and assured performances because the Magpies rediscovered their finest ball motion, they usually adjusted the tempo of the sport at will, significantly in an eight-goal first quarter the place Essendon barely entered its ahead line.
It was the perfect quarter of Ginnivan’s profession as he amassed 9 disposals, two tackles and two targets as he cemented his standing as a finest 22 participant for the Magpies.
After virtually two months out of the crew he has performed the previous three weeks and McRae hailed his willpower.
“I strongly believe it came down to his training standards. There was a real shift,” he mentioned.
“At VFL he wasn’t playing above the level – and then he got busy with his training. For a month there he was our best trainer and (had) a real intensity to what he was doing. And he wasn’t getting rewarded for it but he just stuck at it and then the opportunity presented and on nights like tonight he shows what he’s capable of.”
But with Beau McCreery getting back from suspension within the qualifying closing, a tricky choice looms for McRae.
Ginnivan, McCreery and Bobby Hill have solely began in the identical facet on six events this season, most lately in spherical 12 towards West Coast.
Malthouse mentioned on the ABC he thought solely one among Ginnivan and Hill might play and the opposite be used because the sub in finals.
– with NCA NewsWire’s Edward Bourke
Source: www.news.com.au
