Collingwood under fire for using Port Adelaide’s teal on one of their 2025 AFL training kits

Have the tables finally turned? Collingwood has come under fire for one of their training tops, with a radio host taking a cheeky swipe at the Magpies. Vote in the poll.

For many years, Collingwood and its former president Eddie McGuire railed against Port Adelaide and the club’s desire to wear its traditional black and white prison bars jumper in the AFL.

But have the tables finally been turned?

The Magpies have come under fire for adding the Power’s trademark teal to one of its training kits for the new season, with their coach Craig McRae regularly wearing the distinctive colour during sessions at Olympic Park Oval.

SEN SA presenter Michelangelo Rucci took aim at Collingwood on his radio show this week, calling the club “hypocrites” and saying they have “plagiarised” Port Adelaide’s AFL colours.

“I could just absolutely launch at Collingwood,” Rucci said on The Run Home with Kymbo & The Rooch.

“They have done it to the point whereby I am ready to launch at them … the hypocrisy of that football club.

Collingwood coach Craig McCrae in the training guernsey that raised some eyebrows in SA. Picture: Michael Klein

Ollie Wines leads the Power out at Adelaide Oval. Picture: Mark Brake/Getty Images

“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.”

It comes after Collingwood repeatedly pushed back on the Power’s requests to wear their heritage guernsey – historically worn by Port’s SANFL side the Magpies – even calling for them to wear the jumper with teal stripes as a compromise.

McGuire, Collingwood president between 1998 and 2021, was particularly outspoken on the issue, even threatening legal action if the AFL allowed the Power to wear the jumper outside of special occasions.

Currently, Port Adelaide is allowed to wear the prison bars guernsey during home Showdowns at Adelaide Oval.