Lloyd's 'overkill' claim as Eddie makes booing plea

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Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has continued to propulsion backmost against the Magpies supporters who booed Lance Franklin astatine the MCG connected Sunday, declaring "there's a clip and place" for booing players.

But successful the caput of Essendon champion Matthew Lloyd, the absorption to the reception the Sydney megastar received has been "overkill".

"I was astatine the crippled watching ... When it happened, I went, 'Oh, geez, don't spell down this (path). Please ... conscionable don't'," McGuire said connected Nine's Footy Classified on Wednesday night.

"One, it's a superstar, and two, he's an Indigenous bloke. Just don't spell here, don't enactment your caput successful the lion's rima and propulsion its tail. There's a clip and place. So, I conscionable think, really, Indigenous players person copped capable implicit the travel that possibly you bash marque an exception. I cognize everyone says, 'Everyone's equal', but they haven't been adjacent implicit the journey.

Lance Franklin and Callum Mills permission the tract aft Sydney's decision to Collingwood astatine the MCG connected Sunday. (Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

"(Tom) Papley? Boo him each time due to the fact that of what helium did to Nick Daicos," McGuire added, alluding to Papley thumping the Collingwood young weapon successful the backmost connected Sunday.

"If Buddy had person cleaned idiosyncratic up oregon done something? Yep, just enough. If he's lining up for extremity and the scores are level, boo the hellhole retired of him.

"But I conscionable deliberation we request to halt targeting idiosyncratic radical due to the fact that I conscionable deliberation it's unsportsmanlike."

The booing of Franklin has dominated AFL sum this week, connected TV, vigor and websites, and successful newspapers.

Statements were besides released by Sydney, Collingwood and the AFL, with some clubs and the governing assemblage condemning the booing of Franklin.

Former Collingwood manager Nathan Buckley applauded the Magpies for the stance they took.

"I'm really, truly arrogant of the nine coming retired and making that statement," Buckley said connected Fox Footy's On The Couch connected Monday night.

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Lloyd argued connected Footy Classified connected Wednesday nighttime that the saga had attracted excessively overmuch attention.

"I deliberation excessively overmuch has been made of it passim the week," Lloyd said.

"It's a passionate game.

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"I took it (as), and a batch of Collingwood supporters said, 'He's a champion player, he's killed america a batch of times, we wanted to get nether his tegument and we'll bash it to the adjacent champion player'.

"So I deliberation it's been a spot of overkill."

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