Pies anything but cold as they bow out in style

2019 was a year to forget for the famous club, but 2020 will be one to remember for plenty of reasons.

At times the Pies played brilliant football this season and even though they missed out on the chance to extend their time in the competition further, today’s efforts would have lost them no fans.

Love them or love to hate them, Collingwood have a list at their disposal now that can punish oppositions coming out of contests, setup attacks with a solid short passing game and have shown the ability as a group to think their way through difficult situations before executing counters.

As the coach Steve Symonds said post-match:

“We’ve got to a point where we’ve developed enough that we’re actually talking about scenarios in the game, which is really good progress for us... we’ll use that to drive us for next year.”

Skipper Steph Chiocci was similarly proud of the work put in by her charges.

“I think this is one of the first times I’ve had a real confidence and belief in our group. It’s no disrespect to our past, but it’s more so just what we’ve built here – we’re really feeling like a family.”