News Eddie responds to Steele Sidebottom’s actions and suspension

[Wosh]

Perhaps todays events explain why Eddie looked so close to the edge and acted and spoke so bizzarely. He must have known worse was to come at the club.

 

[damicky]

Perhaps todays events explain why Eddie looked so close to the edge and acted and spoke so bizzarely. He must have known worse was to come at the club.

Collingwood in crisis

At least nobody will be talking about how badly we’re going

 

[Elite Master]

Wouldn't be supprised if Eddie spins the De Goey situation with how proud he was that De Goey wore a condom.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

Wouldn't be supprised of Eddie spins the De Goey situation with how 'proud' he was that De Goey wore a condom.

Lol!!!

 

[Ando727]

You could always blame the painkillers.

I heard Sidebottom was told by his doctor to take some "pain-killers", but he thought he said "brain-killers" - the rest is history.

 

[Ando727]

BREAKING NEWS: Channel 9 has obtained never seen before footage of Steele Sidebottoms Scotch fuelled early morning antics. Warning this may disturb some viewers into a disproportionate display of pride. Take it away Eddie..

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And with soundtrack:

 

[PowerForGood]

And with soundtrack:

Gold. (And one of my fav song vids ashamed to say)

 

[Ando727]

Gold. (And one of my fav song vids ashamed to say)

Same. It's totally not my usual style of music, but for some reason, this thing just really grooves - and the video is hypnotic.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

He didn't break any protocols until he did. Proud of him. What rubbish. And why support such rubbish. Ed is proud of Steele and now folk are proud of Ed. This is indeed bizarro world currently.

I feel sorry for Steele because this seems out of character, however, call a spade a spade Ed, he stuffed up, and we have reiterated the message to be vigilent within the club.

I feel like the overly aggressive defence of players who have clearly stuffed up off the field in a major way could be why we keep seeing these sort of scandals/incidents out of Collingwood. Jaidyn Stephenson last year was next level, but this goes back to Didak and Shaw's scaly mates getting them in trouble under Eddie's leadership and probably further for those with good memories.

 

[Shane Heard]

McGuire is a joke and an embarrassment to the CFC.

But who is going to pull him up?

No one. Cause Ed is the self appointed Emperor for life.

 

[tda20]

eddie is an absolute flog. flogging jack stevens over his stabbing signidicantly while defending and trying to minimise sidebums stupidity. news flash edward sidebum was responsible for his own actions while jack was the victim.

 

[AndrewShawble]

McGuire is a joke and an embarrassment to the CFC.

But who is going to pull him up?

No one. Cause Ed is the self appointed Emperor for life.

We need a change, 100%.

 

[The 747]

As another poster said, this is starting to remind me of John Elliot in his last years at Carlton. Elliot was a pretty effective president for a long time but everyone remembers the shitshow at the end more than the years before.

Question is, what is Collingwood once Eddie goes? All their brand is tied up with him.

 

[AndrewShawble]

As another poster said, this is starting to remind me of John Elliot in his last years at Carlton. Elliot was a pretty effective president for a long time but everyone remembers the shitshow at the end more than the years before.

Question is, what is Collingwood once Eddie goes? All their brand is tied up with him.

Please mate, completely agree it’s time to go but our brand isn’t tied up to him.

 

[The 747]

Please mate, completely agree it’s time to go but our brand isn’t tied up to him.

From an non Pies supporter's perspective it is, but we can agree to disagree.

 

[AndrewShawble]

From an non Pies supporter's perspective it is, but we can agree to disagree.

He’s the mouthpiece - and a poor one at that, and I appreciate he’s in headlines a lot.

But once he goes(IF and ideally someday very soon) we will just move on and have some change. He’s past it.

 

[AndrewShawble]

What I find shocking is on footy classified etc when they try and question him, he just bulldozes Lloyd or Caro etc and they cop it.

Would love to watch them calmly absorb his bull$4;t and then continue with a line of questioning that he himself would wheel out.

 

[Stopher]

What I find shocking is on footy classified etc when they try and question him, he just bulldozes Lloyd or Caro etc and they cop it.

Would love to watch them calmly absorb his bull$4;t and then continue with a line of questioning that he himself would wheel out.

It wouldn't surprise me if tomorrow's show rates particularly well. Lloyd went at him last week harder than I thought he ever would. Is he bold enough to back it up this week?

 

[AndrewShawble]

It wouldn't surprise me if tomorrow's show rates particularly well. Lloyd went at him last week harder than I thought he ever would. Is he bold enough to back it up this week?

I bloody hope so. I really like Lloyd in the media, he struggles to articulate himself sometimes, but he has some valuable insights and things to say.

He’s one of the few that isn’t completely intimidated by Eddie.

 

[BBC1967]

Is Eddie emotionally capable of being on AFL War Cabinet during COVID crisis? This does not include his obvious Conflicts.

 

[Juddernaut08]

This issue looking like nothing now in comparison to the JDG crisis.

What a nightmare, are they approaching Essendon doping levels of controversy?

 

[Veer Right]

This issue looking like nothing now in comparison to the JDG crisis.

What a nightmare, are they approaching Essendon doping levels of controversy?

Nope, Essendon bought the game into disrepute.

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

What a nightmare, are they approaching Essendon doping levels of controversy?

Not even close. That was a level above anything we've seen and hopefully will see again.

 

[Tugga27]

Ed just can't help himself.

Just shut the <deleted> up!

You can't defend the indefensible.

Eddie McGuire gives lengthy eight-minute defence over hypocrisy claims over Steele Sidebottom

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has given a rambling eight-minute justification about why his views on Steele Sidebottom’s COVID-19 ban were not hypocritical.
On April 29, McGuire declared on Footy Classified that players who break the COVID-19 protocols should be hit with a $100,000 fine and suspended for the season.

But following Magpie Sidebottom’s four match ban last week, in which he was found half naked after a boozy night in Williamstown and taken home by police, the Magpies labelled the sanction “excessive, inconsistent with recent protocol breaches and contestable”.

Speaking on Triple M radio on Monday morning, McGuire gave an at times confusing account as to why those labelling him a hypocrite were wrong.
“Let me take you through it OK? No one seems to get nuances in this world and everybody wants to go for the gotcha and you’re a hypocrite and all the rest of it,” he said.

“What was that, April 29. I think it was the Fremantle Dockers blokes had had a party or whatever it was the situation there.

“I was involved and have been involved in the war cabinet, so I was intimately involved in how much money was at stake and how parlous the whole thing was.

“We weren’t playing at that stage, right, so we were talking about possibly going back into hubs and we were thinking forward into those sorts of situations.



“So (Matthew) Lloydy comes up with ‘Oh there’ll be other blokes who do it’, we know that there was going to be transgressions. My point was that the AFL, I believe, needed to go hard from the word go, OK? That’s what it was at that stage. The AFL for their own decision and right or wrong, I’m not saying they’re right or wrong, but they decided that they wouldn’t go that hard when we had a number of transgressions including people ending up in hospital etc, they didn’t go that hard.

“My point then, as going into that was, you really have to go hard on this to make sure the players, who maybe don’t read the papers or don’t get it sometimes … you go hard to set the tone. They (the AFL) didn’t set the tone in that situation. They gave one and two week suspensions.”

McGuire said the fact that the Magpies had accepted the Sidebottom sanction proved there was no hypocrisy.

“Last week what happened was Steele Sidebottom, he did something ridiculous and he got a four week suspension,” he continued.


“Compared to where the other suspensions were, it was and the point that was made in quotes ‘manifestly unjust’ is the term that’s used that you have to qualify for if you’re going to appeal at the Tribunal on the measure of people being suspended.

“The bottom line is Steele Sidebottom and Collingwood accepted the decision so there’s no hypocrisy in that at all.

“I still believe that they should have come out, the AFL, and made it very, very onerous any suspensions of penalties that were there. When it came to Steele Sidebottom’s time, we looked at it (and) compared to what the AFL had put the table of suspensions, it was on the heavy side.

“It is the most heavy of suspensions. In context of what we believe and where we were last week, we agree with it. I don’t understand the hypocrisy.”

 

[Woody15]

Ed just can't help himself.

Just shut the <deleted> up!

You can't defend the indefensible.

Eddie McGuire gives lengthy eight-minute defence over hypocrisy claims over Steele Sidebottom

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has given a rambling eight-minute justification about why his views on Steele Sidebottom’s COVID-19 ban were not hypocritical.
On April 29, McGuire declared on Footy Classified that players who break the COVID-19 protocols should be hit with a $100,000 fine and suspended for the season.

But following Magpie Sidebottom’s four match ban last week, in which he was found half naked after a boozy night in Williamstown and taken home by police, the Magpies labelled the sanction “excessive, inconsistent with recent protocol breaches and contestable”.

Speaking on Triple M radio on Monday morning, McGuire gave an at times confusing account as to why those labelling him a hypocrite were wrong.
“Let me take you through it OK? No one seems to get nuances in this world and everybody wants to go for the gotcha and you’re a hypocrite and all the rest of it,” he said.

“What was that, April 29. I think it was the Fremantle Dockers blokes had had a party or whatever it was the situation there.

“I was involved and have been involved in the war cabinet, so I was intimately involved in how much money was at stake and how parlous the whole thing was.

“We weren’t playing at that stage, right, so we were talking about possibly going back into hubs and we were thinking forward into those sorts of situations.



“So (Matthew) Lloydy comes up with ‘Oh there’ll be other blokes who do it’, we know that there was going to be transgressions. My point was that the AFL, I believe, needed to go hard from the word go, OK? That’s what it was at that stage. The AFL for their own decision and right or wrong, I’m not saying they’re right or wrong, but they decided that they wouldn’t go that hard when we had a number of transgressions including people ending up in hospital etc, they didn’t go that hard.

“My point then, as going into that was, you really have to go hard on this to make sure the players, who maybe don’t read the papers or don’t get it sometimes … you go hard to set the tone. They (the AFL) didn’t set the tone in that situation. They gave one and two week suspensions.”

McGuire said the fact that the Magpies had accepted the Sidebottom sanction proved there was no hypocrisy.

“Last week what happened was Steele Sidebottom, he did something ridiculous and he got a four week suspension,” he continued.


“Compared to where the other suspensions were, it was and the point that was made in quotes ‘manifestly unjust’ is the term that’s used that you have to qualify for if you’re going to appeal at the Tribunal on the measure of people being suspended.

“The bottom line is Steele Sidebottom and Collingwood accepted the decision so there’s no hypocrisy in that at all.

“I still believe that they should have come out, the AFL, and made it very, very onerous any suspensions of penalties that were there. When it came to Steele Sidebottom’s time, we looked at it (and) compared to what the AFL had put the table of suspensions, it was on the heavy side.

“It is the most heavy of suspensions. In context of what we believe and where we were last week, we agree with it. I don’t understand the hypocrisy.”

Lol.

Just waffling.