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McGuire goes on tirade about ugly acts

...“I mean, seriously, if you’re going to stop that, there’s only one way. I keep saying this and I said it last week – and I’ll get into trouble for it again here – but you’ve got to have a fair dinkum penalty.”

“If you want to get rid of it, it’s a week. If you want to have everyone do what we always do in football – and that is go hard and then do nothing – then we’ll just keep going and it’ll keep going.

“Fines are useless.”

The Collingwood supremo then took aim at soccer after a tongue-in-cheek question from Kangaroos legend David King about whether his views would be the same if a Magpies player was at the centre of the controversy.

"I get sick of hearing this stuff, because I say things, I put them up to the AFL then the AFL makes the decision,” McGuire said.

"We’re suddenly in prime time in Queensland and we go ‘what’s all this stuff? That’s not Australian rules football.’ And then, you have a look and blokes are diving on the ground now.

“So everything we hated about soccer, we’re bringing into the game. We’ve got blokes diving, we’ve got little cheap shots – that’s not what our game’s about. So if you want to knock it on the head, knock it on the head.

“Now if our guys (Collingwood players), do it (on Thursday) night, they’ll say ‘oh he’s a hypocrite’ again. No, I’m straight up. I was straight up right from the word go of what should happen.”

King and McGuire both agreed that taunting opposition players or giving them a cheap shot when they make a mistake is a bad look for the game, with the former saying it's up to the coaches to eradicate the practice.....”

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl-eddie-mcguire-soccer-criticism-collingwood-president-slams-cheap-shots-054821461.html

I’ve seen nba players dive 

He said nothing basically but that made the headline. Seriously who cares the fat fuck

And we don't call it aerial ping pong and pay out on the other codes when we get the chance?

We do have that problem in our game - do something about it or wear the comments. Our game deserves ridicule for the diving and acting.

Nothing to see here, move along.

who on here hasnt been disgusted with floparli's diving?

He is right diving/play acting is a massive problem in AFL now it is something that has been rampent in football since the dawn of the sport. 

Most western nations HATE diving but South/Central America see diving as part of the game - difference is AFL isnt played anywhere other then Aus professionally so no one cares about it 

Dont get me wrong Eddie says some dumb **it but this isnt one of them 

How is that a brutal swipe?

He is saying AFL is becoming like soccer.

Not that I agree with this claims but more like "Eddie McGuire's ignorant admission that AFL is now like soccer"

Anybody that doesn’t hate diving in soccer is a minority- but no game is perfect. Will never forget that french lucas hernandez prick for faking so many head knocks and shoves against Aus at Russia 2018! pro cheaters should be ridiculed 

HHHHHmmmmm

Just on AFL's cough cough international game with the Irish ...

11 players per side,
round ball,
Football [for AFL types soccer] goals posts with nets
A Goal Keeper
No bumping and shoulder charges.
Rectangle field 

Now

We introduce diving... or acknowledge it anyway...

Come on .....AFL you are almost there.... 

Lol

VAR eradicated diving for a penalty. Hopefully it won't make its way back in the game now.

Why is this even thread/getting any attention at all lol

It’s weird that APFCA potentially wanting to own Jets and Mariners has received 2 comments on this forum in comparison to this thread.

Some of the greatest divers at the Olympics played Afl. No doubt.
I'm going to call Eddie a bad word ...Expansion!!!
Don't stop me!!!
Now again another lot of bad words...Second Division!!!
So there, want more Eddie??

Who cares what "bogan" Eddie says about the real football in a few more years he'ii be of no revalance at all except when he quits as Collingwood  as President & only has his memories then he will shut up  eddie from someone who has been putting up with the Melbourne bogans for 73years get lost eddie............;.;.;charliecat  

Just like most of the people in South America, and many many millions around the world, I LOVE smart players using their brains to influence the referee.

I used to tell my players to accentuate the contact and make sure the referee saw it if they were in or near the penalty box.

This is part of football.

If you don't like it, go watch Aussie Rules with Eddie!

”When you bite someone ALWAYS make sure you demonstrate to the referee how much the opponents skin hurt your teeth”

More reasons for VAR.

Weak as piss.  Scum dive. 

6 week bans for diving and shot out of a cannon if I was in charge.

Maybe stick to AFL or NRL then.

There's a reason divers in soccer are held in such contempt.  Yes a few countries at the arse end of the world think it's OK to con the ref but everywhere else thinks it's a fucking joke.

Are you happy with this?  



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c17aeF7JxAg

Short answer. Yes.
Smart player.

Does that mean brilliant players like Messi are dumb players because they don’t dive? 🤔 Twisted stuff 

But then he'd still see versions of it. Where to then?

This isn't a NEW issue in Aerial Ping Pong, it's been going on for decades!

They have been "copying" everything Football does for more than a hundred years.......................................except VOLUNTEER to fight for Australia freedoms, during the First World War that is, LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!........................................the f**king cowards.

The AFL do have an obsession about our sport don't they? Rent free.

It has been going on for years in Aussie rules, Ii remember Allen Aylet doing it for North Melbourne whom I supported.

I've never understood the over the top reaction against simulation by some Australians.  But now I do understand it-it really has nothing to do about the simulation per se, but just another reason to hate the game.  "Sockah players are weak as piss diving c---ts"

So effective has it been some football fans are falling for it and getting infected by the disease.

Its not "weak".  Its cheating.  Same as about a dozen other ways players cheat.

At least Eddie is being consistent about his dislike for it, but he didn't let us forget about those diving sockah piss weak scum, did he?