COLLINGWOOD'S 11-goal blitz in the final quarter of its 43-point win over Adelaide at Etihad Stadium on Sunday contained an extraordinary number of highlights.

There was Dale Thomas' 50m torpedo goal, Leon Davis' big grab over Crows youngster Matthew Wright, and there was Chris Tarrant's straight kick from near the boundary line, which was followed by him tugging his jumper in a joyous celebration.

But Andrew Krakouer's spectacular mark was something else.

Watch Krakouer's mark on YouTube here.

It happened like this. In the first minute of the final term a long kick came into the Collingwood forward line.

Magpie Dayne Beams and Crow Luke Thompson made contact with each other as they prepared for the ball to land in their vicinity.

Then, from the side, came Krakouer. He took a couple of steps and leapt onto Thompson's shoulders, before stretching his arms towards the roof and cleanly marking the ball.

While he missed his shot at goal, his teammates were in awe of the performance after the game.

"I was on the bench and I jumped up and cheered as if I was one of the supporters," midfielder Sharrod Wellingham said.

"It was an amazing screamer. It was pretty happy to see that."

Wellingham compared Krakouer's mark to the one taken by another indigenous player, West Coast's Ashley Sampi, in a game against Melbourne at the MCG in 2004.

"As far as hang-time and leverage off the bloke in front of him, it was very similar," he said. "It was unbelievable."

Not long after Krakouer's big leap, the Magpies slipped 23 points behind as Adelaide looked on track to score an upset victory.

However, the reigning premiers responded to the challenge by booting 11 unanswered goals.

"I feel a bit relieved, to be honest," Wellingham said. "We really didn't play very good football in the first half, but we then showed a lot of character.

"The coaches said to us in our post-game meeting that we'd showed a bit of a pride and a bit of character and they were really happy with that."

Wellingham was unable to put his finger on the real reason for Collingwood's poor opening to the game.

"I think it was the early start," he joked, making reference to the start time of 1.10pm. "We'll have to scrap those ones.

"We were all still half asleep. In all seriousness, that start is obviously something we'll look at during the week.

"We'll try to find out what we were doing wrong and try and fix it."

While Collingwood didn't show its best form until the last quarter, Wellingham put the turnaround down to a robust half-time team meeting.

"We talked about getting back to playing good, hard footy," he said. "We needed to get our head over it and win some contests.

"It was a conscious decision to have a red-hot crack at it and we were really pleased with how things turned out in the second half."