McGuire's public plea amid painful AFL feud

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Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has issued a nationalist plea aft his successor moved to extremity the achy "prison bars" feud.

McGuire and his Port Adelaide counterpart David Koch engaged successful a long-running stoush implicit the Power's tendency to wear the club's accepted striped guernsey, which bares a beardown resemblance to the Magpies' achromatic and achromatic strip.

Under McGuire's watch, Collingwood lone allowed Port Adelaide to deterioration the jumper doubly since entering the AFL successful 1997 - successful 2003's practice round, and successful 2020 for the Power's 150th day celebrations.

But with McGuire present gone, Magpies brag Jeff Browne has fixed the greenish airy for Port Adelaide to deterioration the guernsey successful the Adelaide Oval showdown connected April 1 against the Crows.

When the announcement was made past week, Koch couldn't assistance but instrumentality a sly excavation astatine his aged sparring spouse McGuire.

"Collingwood president Jeff Browne and main enforcement Craig Kelly person been outstanding to woody with during these discussions," Koch said successful a connection announcing the caller truce.

McGuire had the accidental to respond connected Monday's 3AW is Football podcast, and is intelligibly inactive passionate astir the issue.

"In Adelaide the property are sycophants implicit there, they bash immoderate they similar for the section sides, and successful Melbourne thing that gees up Collingwood supporters is clickbait, and they spell with it," McGuire told his co-host Jimmy Bartel.

Eddie and Cornes look disconnected connected situation bars jersey

"No 1 ever had immoderate interest for the Collingwood supporters who bought that jumper, who stayed with that jumper, who didn't merchantability that jumper, and person worn it from the precise archetypal game, and I find that a spot sad.

"Good luck to them, I would person thought achromatic and teal was a bully compromise.

"One portion of proposal for them - driblet the 'prison bars' reference, I deliberation it's a truly atrocious notation successful the existent manner that we're each in, I don't deliberation it's bully for the demographic we're each progressive in.

"Go backmost to what it primitively was, and that was the piers of Port Adelaide, it had thing to bash with situation bars."

McGuire besides took purpose astatine Port Adelaide CEO Matthew Richardson, who told media the tendency to deterioration the "prison bars" has thing to bash with generating profit.

Richardson did, through, successful the aforesaid condemnation suggest helium was hoping to merchantability a fig of merchandise arsenic a effect of Collingwood's decision, which made McGuire scoff.

"I won't accidental he's lying, but I wouldn't accidental helium is telling the truth," helium laughed.

Collingwood and Port Adelaide spell caput to caput successful circular two. The AFL play begins this week.

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