{"id":72980,"date":"2021-05-19T09:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T09:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=72980"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:57:14","slug":"mcguire-denies-involvement-in-presidential-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=72980","title":{"rendered":"McGuire denies involvement in presidential coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie McGuire<\/a> has denied any involvement with a reported presidential coup at Collingwood, urging the two men involved to do what is best for the club.<\/p>\n

McGuire's departure<\/a> has caused mass upheaval at Collingwood, with list manager Ned Guy and board member Alex Waislitz both leaving the club in recent months.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>MORE: <\/strong>McGuire reveals fear over re-emerging Magpies 'ghosts'<\/a><\/p>\n

After being unveiled as McGuire's successor, Mark Korda has already been forced to hose down explosive reports of a coup<\/a> being orchestrated by former Nine executive Jeff Browne.<\/p>\n

Browne's friendship with McGuire has resulted in many joining the dots and suggesting that McGuire is behind the move, but the long-time president said he was "bewildered" by the very suggestion.<\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

"People like to get the clicks and there's just been people who don't ring me and ask me to be perfectly honest," McGuire told Nine News Melbourne.<\/p>\n

"It's as simple as this: I was president for 23 years at the club I love, I gave my heart and soul to the place and I stepped aside, and that's it. I support the Collingwood Football Club, I want it to do well and I've got nothing to do with anything. <\/p>\n

"We've been very good friends for a long, long time, but I've got nothing to do with anything that Jeff's doing as far as anything to do with the Collingwood Football Club."<\/p>\n

McGuire has previously warned against a coup and once again urged Browne and Korda to find a middle ground.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"I don't think coups are great at all, no, I've said that in the past," he said.<\/p>\n

"If there is going to be something then those two men, Mark Korda and Jeff Browne, need to sit down and work out what's best for the Collingwood Football Club.<\/p>\n

"I did do that 23 years ago with Kevin Rose and we came up with a pretty successful plan where we didn't have an election for 23 years. <\/p>\n

"As a result of that, it's probably the strongest financial club in the league alongside the West Coast Eagles. There's a lot of good things from stability."<\/p>\n

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