You’ve never got this Collingwood team beaten. No lead is enough. You know they’ll keep coming. They’ll close like the Grim Reaper, as per Gerard Whateley’s superb call last year. They’ll mow you down with cold relish, as Essendon found out yet again on Tuesday.
The Bombers were 28 points the better at the final break. But it was still too close for comfort. There were more than 95,000 people at the MCG, and every one of them knew what was coming. For Essendon people, it was that sense of impending doom. For Collingwood players and supporters, it was that now familiar feeling: We’ll be right. We’ve seen this movie before. Like Chautauqua at Randwick, we’ll pin the ears back and steam home over the top of them.
