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Find your frequency here“Clowns”: Collingwood hypocrites called out over Port-coloured training kit
SEN • March 13th, 2025 8:05 pm
Veteran South Australian journalist Michelangelo Rucci has described Collingwood as hypocrites for using teal on one of their 2025 training kits.
Collingwood has previously held a hard stance against Port Adelaide using black and white colours. The pair of clubs entered into a binding AFL agreement in 1997 which saw Port give up their traditional colours and ‘Magpies’ nickname upon their entry to the competition.
Port have also had trouble with Collingwood over much of their recent history with the Magpies pushing back against their use of the black and white ‘prison bar’ guernsey in official fixtures.
With the Magpies often taking a hard stance against Port using their colours, Rucci couldn’t believe that they’ve used teal as part of their training uniform in 2025.
“I could just absolutely launch at Collingwood,” Rucci told SEN SA The Run Home.
“They have done it to the point whereby I am ready to launch at them … the hypocrisy of that football club.
“For years, Eddie McGuire kept saying to the Port Adelaide Football Club, ‘Get your own colours, black and white are ours’.
“So, Port Adelaide dutifully finds teal … well, those clowns at Collingwood are now putting teal in a big way on their training shirts. Get your own colours.
“They said find your own colours, and Port did. Why are they now plagiarising Port’s colours? I’m enraged.
“I’m being serious, they’re hypocrites.”
Rucci’s rant comes just two days ahead of the two teams meeting at the MCG on Saturday night.
