Footy Fix: The worst grand final rematch ever just proves the Pies have slightly fewer problems than Brisbane
It has been ten years since Australian cricket icon Ricky Ponting released his autobiography At the Close of Play, but there’s a passage that still resounds with me after all that time – and is a perfect metaphor, as it happens, for Collingwood’s win over Brisbane at the Gabba. Struggling for form, with the glory days seemingly well behind him and dealing with media scrutiny unlike at any stage in his glittering career, Ponting was inspired to one last great summer in 2011/12,...