By Roger Vaughan
May 26th 2008 @ 6:36am
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McGuire, Arocca have on-air spat over jumpers
The always-emotive AFL issue of clash jumpers has prompted a heated on-air debate between Collingwood president Eddie McGuire and North Melbourne chief executive Eugene Arocca.
The obvious twist to their spat is that Arocca left his job as Collingwood chief operations officer in January to take a role with the Kangaroos.
At the heart of the dispute [...]
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The Wounded Tiger said | May 26th 2008 @ 10:19am | Report comment
The entire thing is a farce, and it shows that the AFL is still willing to let Collingwood bully the rest of the league. It’s really simple: unless Collingwood wear a jumper that doesn’t clash with North’s, they should forfeit their rights to any premiership points in the match. Anything less than that is a pathetic caving in to the bullying of McGuire and co. I like Eddie, but his sense of entitlement in this area is arrogant to say the least.
Michael C said | May 26th 2008 @ 4:02pm | Report comment
Yep –
it’s Collingwood being fair track bullies – they know North can’t afford to run the risk of a $100K fine.
And, for Eddie to say they support the extra funding to North – - well, if they didn’t, then they might have to relinquish Anzac day to the general pool – - or to give up a few of their cushy Friday night games – - – as, North Melb were required to do after pioneering Friday night in the VFL/AFL when no one else wanted to go near night footy regularly for premiership points.
However – - out of all this, I actually prefer our ‘heritage’ jumper, the royal blue with the white V. I reckon it looks great.