Collingwood premiership coach Craig McRae never meant to reveal that his daughter had been born on the morning of the Grand Final.
The Magpies claimed the club’s 16th VFL/AFL Grand Final triumph and its first since 2010 in a scintillating 12.18 to 13.8 victory over the Brisbane Lions.
Speaking on Fox Footy’s AFL 360 on Monday night, McRae said he was still emotional about Maggie’s birth.“If you’re lucky enough to be a father and you have this baby in your hands and the tears and the appreciation for what my wife did and continues to do, and how special this moment is. “And then I thought ‘maybe I’ll tell the players’. So then I told the players and there’s footage of me going a bit silly in the room. And then after the game I’ve told the world and she goes ‘what happened?’.”But Mark Robinson asked if telling the players released some of the tension of playing in a Grand Final.
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