The Score: Eddie McGuire explains what was going on between Mason Cox and Dale Thomas

IT was hard to miss Mason Cox and Dale Thomas going head to head at the MCG on Sunday. But after the big American came out on top, Daisy might have a new nickname, as Eddie McGuire explains.

Dale Thomas was pretty happy with himself yesterday. Picture: AAP Images

SOMETIMES ignorance is the best comeback.

The battle within the battle at the MCG on Sunday involved Dale Thomas harassing Mason Cox.

It was obvious from the start of the game the former Pies premiership hero was up for the fight against his old club and for some reason he had the big American in his sights.

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire was getting more and more infuriated in the stands watching Thomas’ antics which also included giving Nathan Buckley and the Pies coaching staff a spray at halftime.

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Following the match McGuire went up to Cox to ask what he’d done to upset the veteran Blue.

“What was funny though I went up to Mason Cox after the game,” McGuire said on Triple M.

“I said, ‘What was Daisy doing?’ He said, ‘Who?’. I said, ‘Daisy Thomas, what was going on there?’

“He said, ‘Who’s he, who’s Daisy Thomas? What are you talking about? Oh … No. 39? Who is he? I don’t know him!’

“I said, ‘He’s a premiership legend of our club’. (Cox) said, ‘Was he? Oh, OK’.

“So from now on I think Daisy’s got a new nickname — he’s No. 39.”

Mason Cox and Dale Thomas engage in some push and shove. Picture: Getty Images

FOOTBALLERS owning pubs has gone hand-in-hand for years.

The latest former star to turn his attention to beers and cocktails is ex-Hawthorn sharp shooter Ben Dixon.

Dixon is the new part owner of The George on Collins in the CBD which is being marketed as Melbourne’s newest New York style basement bar.

Given its 3am weekend licence we’re tipping some of Dicko’s former teammates will be putting their hands out for some drink cards pretty quickly.

THE WHISPER

WE’D heard former Brisbane champion Jonathan Brown had got the golf bug. Well, it seems he’s developed quickly given his bushranger effort at Kew on Friday where he took the chocolates in the members’ comp, scoring 43 points playing off a handicap of 17.

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