COLLINGWOOD star Dane Swan admits his side faces an enormous mental challenge to get itself up for a second grand final in as many weeks.

The Pies led for 95 per cent of Saturday's drawn match at the MCG, however inaccuracy in front of goal and wasted chances may have cost them the opportunity to claim their first premiership since 1990.

Scores were locked at 68 apiece when the final siren sounded, and Collingwood and St Kilda will return to the ground next week to decide the 2010 flag.

After the huge build-up of the past seven days, Swan said the real battle may be fought in players' minds this week.

"There's no doubt the emotional level [will make it] hard to come up for next week," Swan said after the game.

"Both sides are going to be fine physically - it's just going to be the mental battle that is going to be the tough one.

"I'm pretty tired ... I'm emotionally pretty drained but come tomorrow this will be sort of pushed back and we'll be ready to go."

Swan was unsure if his teammates would find it harder to pick themselves up, given they controlled the game for much of the first half.

"That's where the coaching staff will come and sift through it and we'll go through the positives and negatives," he said.

"There's no doubt we certainly had chances to win that game but then you can sort of flip it and say, 'Well, we were lucky to get back [to] even'."

Collingwood led by 24 points at half time on Saturday after dominating the inside 50 count in the second term.

Swan said it was a missed opportunity to have not led by more, but that St Kilda could feel the same way after coughing up its six-point lead late in the final term.

"You can flip [it] and say on the positive side we are getting shots at goal. Hopefully this was our bad one today and ... we turn it around and kick 14.9 [instead of 9.14]," he said.