Collingwood has lost four of their last five and for the first time since April, they have dropped out of the top four.

Injuries are mounting and time is running out to get things right before finals, but Dermot Brereton has urged Pies fans to take a breath.

He feels they are more than capable of turning things around, despite last night’s big loss to Richmond.

“I’m not doomsday on Collingwood,” Brereton told SEN’s Crunch Time.

“I’m looking within and I think it’s all rectifiable.

“Now, can they get back to what they were late last year, debatable, that’s personnel that’s going to help them get there as well.

“The amount of times in my mind’s eye I’m thinking of Jack Crisp fumbling the ball when it’s handballed out to him, I’m thinking of all the blast kicking away from stoppages.

“They won the clearances, but they blast kicked it and the one thing Richmond would put up on their board and say they want from the opposition is blast kicks from the stoppages.

“That is rectifiable.

“Yes so much has to go right, yes they have to get personnel back, but I’m not as much of a doomsdayer on Collingwood as even a lot of their supporters seem to be.”

Mason Cox has come under heavy criticism for his form in the second half of this year, but Brereton believes he started to show some touch late in the loss to the Tigers, taking a few big marks.

“Mason Cox, I’m not as hellbent on tearing him down as other people because he gets his hands to the ball. He clunked a few late in the game and I am still a big believer in you tend to start the next week how you finished the last week and his hands came very good late last night,” he said.

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