{"id":351509,"date":"2025-12-16T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351509\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:38:11","slug":"mcrae-re-signs-with-magpies-for-another-two-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351509\/","title":{"rendered":"McRae re-signs with Magpies for another two seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig McRae has re-signed for two years, taking the Collingwood premiership coach through to the end of the 2028 AFL season.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made on the evening of the club’s annual general meeting.<\/p>\n

McRae, 52, secured his first senior coaching role at the Magpies and has been in charge since 2022.<\/p>\n

Collingwood made the preliminary final that season and the following year narrowly beat Brisbane for their first premiership since 2010.<\/p>\n

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After missing the finals last year, Collingwood lost their preliminary final this year to the Lions, who went on to win back-to-back premierships.<\/p>\n

“Craig has built a philosophy centred on connection, resilience and getting better every day,” club president Barry Carp said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Under his leadership, the club has reconnected with its people, honoured its history and brought the Magpie Army along the journey, highlighted by our unforgettable 2023 premiership.<\/p>\n

“Internally, Craig drives our family-first value and connection between players and staff while emphasising the importance of extending that connection with our 19th player — Collingwood members and supporters.”<\/p>\n

McRae was a three-time premiership player at Brisbane and worked in a variety of assistant coaching roles from 2007 before landing the main job at Collingwood.<\/p>\n

Also at the AGM, life memberships were awarded to 2023 premiership players Will Hoskin-Elliott, Jeremy Howe and Oleg Markov, as well as football department staffer Mick Dugina, who retired this year, and former player and board member Brian McKenzie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig McRae has re-signed for two years, taking the Collingwood premiership coach through to the end of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-351509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}