Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley had a similar sentiment as his team now prepares for a trip to Perth and an elimination final against West Coast. 

The Magpies were outmuscled by Port around the ball and now face an Eagles outfit that smashed them by 66 points at Optus Stadium in round eight.

Buckley said quarantining in Western Australia for a second time – this time for seven days – would not be a problem. 

"It doesn't hurt," he said. 

"We'll be familiar with the accommodation, Joondalup again, we'll be familiar with the ground we trained at.

"Outside of that, we're travelling to play a game of footy, an elimination final."

Buckley said the Eagles would be pretty confident coming up against his team after the match earlier in the season. 

"One thing I won't be doing is looking back at how we played that game," he said.

"We played a long, long way from where we have for the majority of the year.

"If we're using that as a checkpoint, I'm happy for others to do it, but we won't be."