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Perryman was up to the challenge in both word and work rate, backing an excited response by holding \u2018Nas\u2019 to just 19 disposals.<\/p>\n
The negating role, a stark contrast to how the Saints handled Nick Daicos, played a heavy hand in the Magpies\u2019 12-point win on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Collingwood coach Craig McRae said the leaders wanted to \u201cgo after\u201d Wanganeen-Milera.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to Pez on Wednesday and the leadership group really pushed it, I am not taking ownership of that,\u201d McRae said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe leaders really pushed it, to set a bit of a target and go after him. I went to Pez and I won\u2019t share exactly what he said but he was pretty excited about doing the job.<\/p>\n
Harry Perryman (R) smothered the impact of St Kilda star Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera. (Photo by Michael Willson\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat maybe you do or don\u2019t understand in our game is that if you tag, it becomes a whole system thing, the whole team needs to be involved in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe played forward, he played back, he played mid \u2013 you need to evolve \u2013 we wanted Pez to go all the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that\u2019s chemistry to Pez, come out then push Jack Crisp into the midfield, there\u2019s all those layers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really proud of the group to support Pez in getting that job done, he\u2019s an outstanding player that young man and I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be the first or last to tag him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pies silence critics against Saints | 02:09<\/p>\n
Scott Pendlebury was another of the Magpies\u2019 needle-movers, dishing off a career-best five goal assists despite limited minutes on the ground.<\/p>\n
McRae avoided the credit for another crucial strategy and instead praised high performance manager Jarrod Wade for Pendlebury\u2019s influence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI repeat myself year after year, but (Wade) is the best I\u2019ve ever worked with,\u201d McRae said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a deliberate plan to do that, he\u2019s been studying the games and doing algorithms around the new rotations with five on the bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just thought Pendles was the guy, he\u2019d come on late in the first and late (quarter) in the second and then be fresh for the second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he had his career high score involvements for the game \u2026 Pendles is brilliant around those things, whatever the team needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just so calm on the bench, it\u2019s like having an extra coach on the bench. He received it really well.\u201d<\/p>\n
McRae stopped short of confirming whether Pendlebury was sore or if he would be managed in the same way against Adelaide next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarly in the year we\u2019ll hold a player back. We\u2019re working through it. Pendles did it really well tonight, it\u2019ll depend. We\u2019ve got a six-day break into Adelaide. We can\u2019t sit here and pat ourselves on the back too much, we\u2019ve got a pretty quality opposition coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s really pleasing to get the season off to the right note.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott Pendlebury was at his vintage best. (Photo by James Wiltshire\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
“It’s About to Boil Over!” | 01:04<\/p>\n
While Collingwood again enters 2026 with the oldest list in the competition and a narrative that it could be approaching a cliff, McRae highlighted the Pies\u2019 list is \u201cdifferent\u201d after losing a key chunk of experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just live what we\u2019ve got. Our experience is enormous, it is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut our list is different. The players not playing today, we don\u2019t have Mason (Cox), Tom Mitchell, Oleg Markov and Will Hoskin-Elliott, we\u2019re different. If you come watch us train, you\u2019ll see that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to need our whole list, we\u2019ve got a team that knows what to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you just never know, you tune your car up like the Grand Prix and you just don\u2019t know what he race is going to look like … you don\u2019t know what\u2019s in front of you, you can\u2019t control a lot of stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came here tonight not knowing, but we found out a bit that our system is pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Collingwood coach also confirmed they\u2019d changed their Copeland Trophy best and fairest voting system to reward \u201cextreme games,\u201d following Darcy Cameron\u2019s surprise win over Nick Daicos.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe changed the system. The system was needing to be changed to reward the extreme games,\u201d McRae added.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had an extreme game tonight, 40-odd touches.<\/p>\n
\u201cNick is just maturing so much in front of our eyes, he trains harder than anyone else. Same with Josh, he had an amazing game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to have a game plan that brings the best in our players.<\/p>\n
\u201cJosh and Nick are certainly players we want to give the ball to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood coach Craig McRae has opened up on the Pies plan to stop St Kilda star Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-527570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527570","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=527570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}