Dual All-Australian Kane Cornes says Collingwood’s system “backfired” throughout Saturday’s shock loss to Hawthorn, suggesting Sam Mitchell’s Sixteenth-placed aspect has proven a blueprint on easy methods to beat the premiership favourites.
It got here in a contest Nick Daicos was blanketed by Hawks tagger Finn Maginness, limiting the Brownlow Medal favorite to an all-time low 5 disposals – albeit a recreation he was unable to complete as a consequence of a knee knock – and marking simply the third time within the 20-year outdated’s glittering 45-game profession he’s had fewer than 20 disposals in a match.
Daicos is now set to bear scans to place him doubtful for subsequent Friday evening’s conflict with Geelong, whereas it wasn’t the one harm blow for the Magpies to emerge from a grim day, with senior coach Craig McRae suspecting Nathan Murphy suffered a low-grade syndesmosis situation however downplayed considerations round Tom Mitchell (thigh).
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It marked consecutive losses for Collingwood for the primary time since Round 9 final 12 months – and simply its fourth loss this season – regardless of sitting two video games clear on the prime of the ladder forward of clashes with the Cats, Lions and Bombers earlier than finals.
And talking on AFL Media’s The Round So Far, Cornes believes extra groups ought to look to deploy a tagger given the success of Maginness’ lockdown position on Daicos, who was even moved to full-forward in a determined plea to get him concerned within the recreation.
“I can’t believe we have 44 spots on an AFL list, and Hawthorn is really the only team with a dedicated tagger,” the Port Adelaide nice stated.
“You must get one or develop one because you need one at some stage. It’s not every week, but he’s shown the importance of this.
“Hats off to Finn Maginness because people were saying through three quarters of this season this man is untaggable. Well that’s rubbish and more teams should try and do the same.”
Cornes additionally questioned the Magpies’ lack of consideration to Hawks skipper James Sicily, who was finest afield in a commanding efficiency in defence with 37 disposals, 19 marks and three purpose assists.
And Cornes thinks it finally mirrored how McRae’s aspect backing in it’s personal system confirmed vulnerabilities in its recreation.
“They let (Sicily) do as he pleased … we saw how much time St Kilda put into James Sicily last week after he got a hold of them earlier on in the year,” the 300-gamer added.
“Collingwood gave him no respect and there was just a little bit of arrogance about the way Collingwood went about it. I didn’t think they helped Daicos anywhere near enough and they knew that tag was coming days out.
“Collingwood’s system is all about sticking to their own system, today that backfired.
“I just wonder whether there is now evidence of a blueprint on how to beat the Pies – stop them intercepting the ball in their defensive half, guard the corridor, match them in the midfield so you can give your forwards an opportunity because their defenders are vulnerable and bring that ferocious pressure.”
Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell in the meantime lauded the dedication of Maginness after the tagger turned the primary to convincingly shut Daicos out of a recreation.
Mitchell stated the Hawks’ midfield dominance was the important thing to executing the tag, as their 18-3 centre clearance demolition meant Daicos couldn’t win the ball despite the fact that Maginness didn’t stand on him till after centre bounces through the 32-point win on the MCG.
Maginness now has the 2 greatest run-with scalps of the season after he held GWS star Josh Kelly to 6 disposals in spherical 17, and Mitchell stated a dream state of affairs can be permitting the cardio beast to give attention to a single opponent every week.
“Finn will leave no stone unturned in getting his job done … unfortunately, quite often this year we haven’t been able to let him do his best job because of other problems in the game,” he stated.
“We can’t retain the ball in our front half, we can’t put enough pressure on the opposition, we can’t win centre bounces … there’s always something else that’s causing us trouble.
“In the coaches’ box it’s a nightmare – it’s not an easy thing to do, and you compromise other parts of your game … we decided not to compromise centre bounce by putting (Maginness) in there, and that worked well. It certainly worked for us, but it’s not to say it would work again next time.”
Collingwood coach Craig McRae stated he was compelled to surrender on the positional shift heading into the final quarter, as he thought the transfer was contributing to a disconnect which had additionally dogged them within the earlier loss to the Blues.
He stated the necessity to help Daicos who signed a bumper six-year deal this week, on the sector to assist him break the tag was mentioned pre-game, however he must “watch the tape” to know whether or not extra ought to have been completed by his teammates.
“In the end you go we’re actually tying ourselves in knots here trying to find a place for Nick, and it’s actually disconnecting other parts of our game, so in the end we just went with what we knew,” he stated.
“We like to think we look after each other quite well … I think the disconnection between our game has just gone off the last couple of weeks.
“We’ll look deeper into that, but I think we’ve had great pride in our connection over the last 18 months, and (Saturday) wasn’t that.”
McRae stated the Magpies would wish to “find out quickly” what has impacting areas of their recreation together with stoppages, the place they have been soundly overwhelmed 18-3 at centre bounces.
Asked if the back-to-back losses could possibly be necessary for the Magpies to mount a profitable finals marketing campaign, McRae stated that was his hope.
“I live in that world where I’d like to think so … I’m an optimistic guy, I look for the good in things,” he stated.
“The last couple of weeks, there are a lot of parts of our game that just don’t look the same as what they have, but this is a long journey.
“We learnt a lot (from the Blues loss), there was so much we learnt last week and presented it to the players, and we learnt a bit more this week.”
Meanwhile, Mitchell stated the emphatic win was one other “step forward” for his younger aspect, singling out ruckman Ned Reeves after he dominated within the air for 39 hit-outs, laid 5 tackles and kicked a purpose.
-With NCA NewsWire
Originally revealed as Great rubbishes ‘untaggable’ Daicos claims amid scathing evaluation of Pies’ shock loss to Hawks
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