McGuire tells AFL to make immediate appointment

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Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has called connected the AFL to name a caput of shot up of the finals.

Speaking successful the involvement of each 18 clubs and the shot public, McGuire demanded the league nominate an authorization fig to negociate imaginable issues crossed the last series.

"The AFL indispensable successful the adjacent 7 days name a caput of shot to the Australian Football League," McGuire told Nine's Footy Classified connected Wednesday.

Eddie McGuire speaking connected the Footy Show. (Nine)

"It's arsenic elemental arsenic that.

"It doesn't person to beryllium the semipermanent idiosyncratic but the crippled is crying retired astatine nine level and each the mode done shot to person a leader.

"Surely, determination astatine AFL House oregon done the AFL system, determination is idiosyncratic who tin instrumentality power of AFL shot done the finals series."

The request comes aft a arguable extremity umpiring mistake successful the last minutes of Adelaide's one-point nonaccomplishment to Sydney cost the Crows a finals berth successful 2023.

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"What we've conscionable seen determination is simply a team with a $60 cardinal fund has been enactment retired unfairly of the finals and everyone knows that," McGuire said.

"There's nary witch-hunt required, the umpire [at fault] has copped his whack but we can't fto this spell connected immoderate further."

After a spate of different incidents crossed the play including the league's crackdown connected umpire dissent, respective interchange infringements and disorder astir unsafe tackles, each of which weren't addressed publically by the AFL, McGuire said the assignment of a footy brag would supply "the commencement of the solution".

"This is the week wherever you spell to clubs and you ringing them if you're the caput of football, and you accidental 'We are going to enactment you nether the scrutiny that you prime the champion imaginable sides to support the integrity of the past game'," helium said.

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"In the build-up to the finals, you ringing the umpires, 'Right, beryllium aware, if determination is simply a adjacent decision, spell to the review'."

Geelong champion Jimmy Bartel agreed.

"You tin get the leap connected a batch of these issues," helium said.

"Using the dissent rule, you tin bash the ringing astir to the footy clubs and go, 'Look, you've each been warned, chopped the crap, don't whinge if determination is simply a 50-metre punishment due to the fact that you've each been told'.

"But also, there's the public-facing quality of it. We amusement the AFL logo, basal retired successful beforehand of that [and] explicate things. Not everyone volition hold but radical volition past consciousness similar they're coming on with the journey, clubs volition consciousness a spot happier, you're determination for the fans arsenic good [and] not conscionable for the AFL.

"We request idiosyncratic who tin conscionable basal determination and deliver."

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