‘A poor man’s Eddie’: Dane Swan fires back at Kochie
Never one to keep quiet, former Collingwood star Dane Swan has waded into the verbal stoush between Mick Malthouse and Port Adelaide president David Koch.
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Former Collingwood premiership player and Brownlow medallist Dane Swan has labelled breakfast TV host David Koch as “just a poor man’s Eddie” McGuire.
Swan took aim at the Port Adelaide Football Club chairman after Koch disparaged former Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse, who had questioned Port Adelaide and the AFL’s support of footy games in China during the COVID-19 crisis.
“If it was up to Mick Malthouse, he’d bring back the White Australia policy,” Koch said while also calling Malthouse a “dinosaur”.
Koch later admitted he may have gone too far with his comment, but Swan was having none of it, leaping to the defence of Malthouse on the Swanny and Friends podcast, saying the Channel 7 Sunrise host was a McGuire wannabe who had “overstepped the mark” and needed to “take a back seat”.
“Port have had a tough couple of weeks, haven’t they. They need to stop really worrying about Victorians,” Swan said.
“But once again Kochie, I don’t know, must be bored, and clearly overstepped the mark.
“He just wants to be Eddie, that is just it, he is just a poor man’s Eddie.
“He will never have the same power and influence over the game as Ed so he just needs to take a back step.”
Keep saying it as it Swanny.
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