He launched a passionate response after being accused of his “ridiculous” and “hypocritical” defence of a Magpies star.
McGuire has since come under fire for protecting Sidebottom so passionately, given on April 29 he called for $100,000 fines and season-long suspensions for players found guilty of breaching protocols and putting the AFL season in jeopardy.
“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,” McGuire said on the“That was at a situation, what was that, April 29, when people were locked up. I think it was the“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.
“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 … they didn’t go that hard. “The bottom line is Steele Sidebottom and Collingwood accepted the decision so there’s no hypocrisy in that at all.”McGuire continued: “I still believe that they should have come out, the AFL, and made it very, very onerous any suspensions or penalties that were there.
Darcy suggested footy fans are questioning why McGuire would use such strong language about previous breaches and call for serious penalties, but say he is “proud” of the way Sidebottom copped his punishment on the chin.
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