revealed it was the Pies\u2019 leaders that drove Perryman\u2019s negating role to \u201cgo after\u201d Wanganeen-Milera<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI went to \u2018Pez\u2019 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 \u2018Pez\u2019 and I won\u2019t share exactly what he said but he was pretty excited about doing the job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Daicos didn\u2019t draw his usual tag from Marcus Windhager, with Hugo Garcia at times following around the Pies star.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t to the intense level we\u2019ve seen from taggers in the past as Daicos was largely allowed to run free and produce game highs in disposals (41) and score involvements (11). <\/p>\n
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The 23-year old said they didn\u2019t plan for Windhager to go to him but were ready to \u201cexploit\u201d any extra attention that came his way.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, we didn\u2019t think he would. They\u2019ve tagged in the past and we feel like we\u2019ve been able to exploit it,\u201d Daicos added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe prepared as if he wasn\u2019t going to and it didn\u2019t come, but I had Garcia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s something we\u2019ll continuously feel like we can exploit, if opposition want to come after one of our players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you saw that, if they\u2019re going to be selfish tagging and not help our with their teammates, we\u2019ll chip the ball around and take time off the clock.\u201d<\/p>\n
The win saw Collingwood begin its 2026 campaign on a perfect note and silence the doubters around an ageing list, at least for now, with veterans Scott Pendlebury and Jack Crisp (both 26 disposals) among their leading disposal getters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that talk is there \u2014 and we respect it and understand where it\u2019s coming from \u2014 but we know the work we put in,\u201d Daicos continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the youth we have coming through and how strong that is also.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you just saw Scott Pendlebury, \u2018Sidey\u2019 and Crispy\u2019s games tonight, I don\u2019t think you\u2019d be saying we\u2019re going to fall off anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Daicoses combined for 77 disposals. And Jordan De Goey looked back to his explosive best with three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,684,10133,10143,3499,8002,262336,2105,69035,42717,27725,262337,647,31770,677,262083,2963,262076,1820,19083,94288,85,1122,26889,660],"class_list":["post-527718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-daniel-pockett","tag-final-siren","tag-game-highs","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-hugo-garcia","tag-jack-crisp","tag-jordan-de-goey","tag-leading-disposal-getters","tag-melbourne","tag-negating-role","tag-oceania","tag-pies-silence-critics","tag-ross-lyon","tag-ross-weighs-in","tag-score-involvements","tag-scott-pendlebury","tag-secret-weapon","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527718","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=527718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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