Patrick Dangerfield put the superhero cape on against the Pies, with the Geelong skipper reminding his coach of a legendary rugby player with his attack on the footy.

Dangerfield played as a near-permanent forward, recording 29 disposals for the match – 13 coming in the last quarter alone – as well as 17 contested possessions and a crucial final-term goal.

"Not just his last quarter – he just looked like (New Zealand rugby union international) Jonah Lomu there at one stage, like he's just really enjoying that part of the game," Chris Scott said. 

"I mean, he always has, and we know that's he's a threat – he's always been a threat forward – and he can attack the ball in the air, but the ground level stuff.

"I'm a bit biased, I like those players, the [Jordan] De Goey type players, that powerful, bull at a gate ones. It's good fun to watch them at the moment."

Collingwood coach, Craig McRae joked a pre-game incident may have spurred on Dangerfield.

"I stole his park before the game, and he wasn't that happy. I blame myself," McRae said.

"He's a bloody good player, isn't he? He's a battering ram. We had 20 broken tackles, or 15, and he was the most of them. He just beelines you and runs through you."

Scott said he couldn't repeat what was on his mind when Crisp had his shot after the siren to win the game.

"It was a game where you kind of expected something like that to happen. The holding the ball free kick in the middle added to the theatre of it, and get it forward and have a shot after the siren," he said.

"The one that was more frustrating was the mark in the goalsquare before that. I mean, we were fortunate, I think, to get away with the win in the end, the way the last two or three minutes played out. 

"Not fortunate before that, to get ourselves in that position, after being outplayed for a big part of the middle of the game, and the ability to hang in there and give ourselves a chance, that that was admirable. But, yeah, certainly not sort of sitting here thinking that the execution for the last three minutes was the reason we won the game."

Scott said ruckman Rhys Stanley requires scans on his hamstring injury, which saw the veteran pulled from the game at the first break.