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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.....”
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