Richard Colless on ABC Grandstand Tonight

[ShockOfHair]

Maguire threatened Ireland over the Nick Davis trade? That was new to me.

Even if most of the interview isn't new to Swans diehards, it's new to most people. It's a good sign that Grandstand did it. As a generic sports programme they have a better sense of proportion about AFL than regular footy hacks.

[stellation]

Maguire threatened Ireland over the Nick Davis trade? That was new to me.

There was a lot of pain around that trade, from memory Collingwood were adamant they receive a first round draft pick for Nick and we certainly held the upper hand with a homesick kid (for once!). I think Malthouse stirred up trouble a little, as he is want to do, by suggesting that part of the trouble with the trade was Richard and Eddie not seeing eye to eye (which Richard then mocked at the time).

I do think it's moderately funny in retrospect given Eddie's bitching about GWS and nobody wanting to go there, because if GWS was around at the time I daresay Collingwood would have got a first round pick for him.

[ShockOfHair]

I do think it's moderately funny in retrospect given Eddie's bitching about GWS and nobody wanting to go there, because if GWS was around at the time I daresay Collingwood would have got a first round pick for him.

Good point, although Nick is a Cronulla boy...

[Ludwig]

I wonder if this interview will stir the pot again and have an effect on the Jesse White trade.

[ernie koala]

I wonder if this interview will stir the pot again and have an effect on the Jesse White trade.

Maybe a 2nd round pick, and an apology with a retraction, through all his media access points... For his bending of the truth re: COLA.

Now that's a trade I would like to see.... and hear! ..But I won't be holding my breath.

[Ludwig]

Maybe a 2nd round pick, and an apology with a retraction, through all his media access points... For his bending of the truth re: COLA.

Now that's a trade I would like to see.... and hear! ..But I won't be holding my breath.

A second round pick would be fair, but there are rumours that the Pies might trade that along with pick 10 for WCE's pick 6, which doesn't sound like a good deal for Collingwood to move up just 4 places. Also the 2nd rounder might be part of the Shaw-Adams trade.

It's more like Eddie to play hard and try to get White in the PSD. They've done well in their trading the past 2 years.

[top40]

There was a veiled hint that he would take legal action if the lies went too far - that bit about it is a thin line between 'slagging off' and defamation.

I am disappointed but entirely not surprised that Maguire received no sanction over the Adam Goodes incident. I've been listening to ABC's NRL radio broadcaster David Murrow in the last few weeks. Remember early this year he was caught out accidentally on air making a racist joke? And remember how he was suspended for several weeks (if not months(?)) by the ABC? I'm not defending Murrow, but I felt the penalty fitted the crime. He's served his time, so all is behind us now.

Eddie's comments about Adam Goodes were far worse, because they were personally directed, and because of the timing, just days after the MCG incident. And, unlike Murrow, Maguire knew he was on air.

Eddie's sanction......?

[MightyBloods]

We'll get pick 44 for White. West Coast will pass that pick on to Pies as part of the draft swaps. The swaps will land Yeo to West Coast, Shaw to GWS and Adams & White to Pies.

[Auntie.Gerald]

that is a stack of picks now we will look to trade methinks

[BillyRayCypress]

I wonder if this interview will stir the pot again and have an effect on the Jesse White trade.

Probably give us Pick 44 for him

[The Big Cat]

Did anyone see the second part of that Colless interview? Can't find it on the ABC website where the first half is located.

[Meg]

Part 2 of interview was played tonight. Two nice points made by Colless:

1. at the question of whether the Swans' recruitment of Franklin was a ploy to squash GWS, he laughed and said it would be a very expensive way to go about doing that.

2. again re Franklin and GWS - Franklin would not have come to play in Sydney if he had not got a contract with the Swans.

When asked more broadly re GWS, he showed no animosity towards them but in response to a direct question reiterated the Swans' belief that it would be very difficult for two AFL clubs to be successful in the Sydney market, unlike soccer where there had been an untapped market ready to embrace a second club.

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Did anyone see the second part of that Colless interview? Can't find it on the ABC website where the first half is located.

I expect it will go up on ABC site - usually takes a couple of hours for shows to get posted in my experience.

[The Big Cat]

I expect it will go up on ABC site - usually takes a couple of hours for shows to get posted in my experience.

Thanks Meg. Any mention of the "rift" with Roos?

[Meg]

Re Paul Roos - Colless explained that he had been asked 'if' Paul Roos was trying to recruit young players from the Swans Academy what would be his response. Colless said that he had foolishly given an answer to a hypothetical question. He said that he and Roos had now exchanged friendly emails but said that only Roos could answer whether their relationship was restored and that it would only be clear from a face-to-face meeting between them.

I suspect that there was a much longer interview than was shown. Pity would have been interesting to see/hear the complete piece. Colless's slow, measured style, where he stops to think before he responds, is not conducive to getting a lot into a short TV interview! (The journo who got the scoop of Colless appearing to attack Roos must have been clever enough to break through the Colless style.)

[bloodsbigot]

Re Paul Roos - Colless explained that he had been asked 'if' Paul Roos was trying to recruit young players from the Swans Academy what would be his response. Colless said that he had foolishly given an answer to a hypothetical question. He said that he and Roos had now exchanged friendly emails but said that only Roos could answer whether their relationship was restored and that it would only be clear from a face-to-face meeting between them.

I suspect that there was a much longer interview than was shown. Pity would have been interesting to see/hear the complete piece. Colless's slow, measured style, where he stops to think before he responds, is not conducive to getting a lot into a short TV interview! (The journo who got the scoop of Colless appearing to attack Roos must have been clever enough to break through the Colless style.)

If what Colless said it true, the journalist is an absolute scumbag. Must be a Hawks supporter.