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News Eddie responds to Steele Sidebottom’s actions and suspension

Is Sidebottom’s 4 week suspension fair?

  • Yes 4 weeks is spot on

    Votes: 135 56.5%
  • No, 2 weeks would have been fair

    Votes: 37 15.5%
  • He should only have gotten one week

    Votes: 8 3.3%
  • He should lose the vice captaincy

    Votes: 29 12.1%
  • He should have got 5+ weeks

    Votes: 50 20.9%
  • He’s been made an unfair example of, we should have sympathy for players in the current enviro

    Votes: 5 2.1%

  • Total voters
    239

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Getting so drunk you're apparently staggering around almost naked is bad enough. Multiple deliberate and obvious breaches of what would be (to them as it would have been explained to them) pretty straight forward rules which threaten the viability of the competition this year, and therefore probably thousands of jobs. What if wells was found positive and gave it to Steele, who spread it to the club and then the rest of the competition? It wasn't a mistake, he deliberately broke the rules pretty badly and it was pre planned, which Dunn knew which is why he bailed. That is plenty to lose the vice captaincy over. What kind of example does that set to the younger players, other than as long as you're a good enough player you're fine to do whatever.

After Eddie's tirade when a couple of Melbourne nobodies broke the rules, I'd have thought he would agree. Then again, he is a Collingwood player so bad behaviour is acceptable.

Eddie and Steele are seperate issues.

We need a new president, maybe that’s part of it.

There was also a Richmond player that missed a game, a player good at breaking tackles had a big night with a former Eagles ruckman. Got dobbed in by and ex GCS player now at the tigers. Lucky the police didn’t pick him up!
 
That one-man board meeting he held on Classified last week was illuminating.

Anybody else sit on that board Ed?
There was numerous:
Eddie McGuire the commentator.
Eddie McGuire the TV Host.
Eddie McGuire the club President.
Eddie McGuire the journalist
Eddie McGuire the Disk Jockey
and Eddie McGuire the larrikin from Broadmeadows
 
Eddie and Steele are seperate issues.

We need a new president, maybe that’s part of it.

There was also a Richmond player that missed a game, a player good at breaking tackles had a big night with a former Eagles ruckman. Got dobbed in by and ex GCS player now at the tigers. Lucky the police didn’t pick him up!
Making things up doesn't help your 'argument'
 

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As an ex binge drinker, who was capable of blacking out but still functioning whilst blacked out, there is nothing odd in Steele's account. I was thinking it could have been much worse. Indeed if it had been me, it would have been. The sins and troubles I have caused under the bewitchment of alcohol are long.

I am more perplexed by Ed's sober responses.
Nice try
 
I don't understand how Eddie can say that the AFL didn't necessarily "go hard" when Ollie Wines got a week for a social distanced media interview over a fence? I'd say that's a decent punishment for a low risk offence in terms of shutting down the AFL.

So of course multiple breeches while plastered is gonna get more than 1 week. That's much higher risk.
Remember dopey Eddie called for breaches to be met with "season long suspensions" however he left off the part of 'unless of course it was a Collingwood player.'
 
What a complete tosser, imagine his baying if it was another club - does anyone remember him bleating about Jack Stevens?
Just listened to Eddie again. One word - DELUSION. If he genuinely believes what he said then heaven help Collingwood FC.........”Steele didn’t break any protocols until he was in a situation where he knew he broke them”! WTF? God help us!
 
How much of a petulant baby did he look like on Footy Classified last night? Caro, to her credit, because he is a powerful bully, just smashed him. He is incapable of taking criticism, and retorts like a 5 year old. He is never in the wrong in his mind. Just a deplorable human being.

not a fan of Eddie in his mix of roles and the way he goes about things, but Christ was Carro annoying.
 

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Just listened to Eddie again. One word - DELUSION. If he genuinely believes what he said then heaven help Collingwood FC.........”Steele didn’t break any protocols until he was in a situation where he knew he broke them”! WTF? God help us!

Its like listening to Donald Trump, hard to work out if he is trying to confuse the listeners or he himself is confused or both.
 
Eddie and Steele are seperate issues.

We need a new president, maybe that’s part of it.

There was also a Richmond player that missed a game, a player good at breaking tackles had a big night with a former Eagles ruckman. Got dobbed in by and ex GCS player now at the tigers. Lucky the police didn’t pick him up!
Name number cowards castle.?
 

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Eddie and Steele are seperate issues.

We need a new president, maybe that’s part of it.

Eddie obviously loves Collingwood, probably more so than anyone.

He possibly could be an epic president if he let go of his other conflicts of interest.
It just (fairly imo) puts him into the firing line and opens up Collingwood to a greater level of criticism and analysis.

The more he pushes his agenda and interests the more there will be a pushback against it.
 
Eddie obviously loves Collingwood, probably more so than anyone.

He possibly could be an epic president if he let go of his other conflicts of interest.
It just (fairly imo) puts him into the firing line and opens up Collingwood to a greater level of criticism and analysis.

The more he pushes his agenda and interests the more there will be a pushback against it.


He's been President for more than 20 years, he aint changing his style. It's getting worse.

He's been unreal, would be great if a better option to step forward and lead us into the next phase.
 

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