{"id":28486,"date":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/chris-mcdermott-opens-up-about-painful-split-with-best-mate-tony-mcguiness\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T00:11:05","slug":"chris-mcdermott-opens-up-about-painful-split-with-best-mate-tony-mcguiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/chris-mcdermott-opens-up-about-painful-split-with-best-mate-tony-mcguiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris McDermott Opens Up About Painful Split With Best Mate Tony McGuinness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Inaugural Adelaide Crows captain Chris McDermott says he hasn\u2019t spoken with former best mate Tony McGuinness since McGuinness left the children\u2019s charity they both started.<\/h3>\nMcDermott said he regreted the fallout in a brutally honest episode of Conversations with Cornesy.\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cSeven years, we haven\u2019t said one word,\u201d McDermott said. \u201cNot one word &#8212; Massive regret.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe were great mates, we were inseparable. We go back 40 years. One mistake\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIn time you forgive and forget. We\u2019d been through so much, he\u2019d had a challenging upbringing as well, so I got it.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe split was because it was the best thing for the organisation, not the best thing for us. Ironically we were ok with it when it was happening, we got it. He certainly didn\u2019t want to go, but we had no other choice, in my opinion, and it had to happen.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIn the end he accepted it, but from the moment he walked out we just haven\u2019t spoken. We haven\u2019t been in the same room, and if we have we\u2019ve gone into different rooms and we\u2019ve avoided each other.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/conversations-with-cornesy\/Chris-McDermott\">LISTEN to the full conversation here<\/a>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/973211_fiveaa_podcast_cornesy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1400\" data-delta=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inaugural Adelaide Crows captain Chris McDermott says he hasn\u2019t spoken with former best mate Tony McGuinness since McGuinness left the children\u2019s charity they both started. McDermott said he regreted the fallout in a brutally honest episode of Conversations with Cornesy. \u201cSeven years, we haven\u2019t said one word,\u201d McDermott said. \u201cNot one word &#8212; Massive regret.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chris McDermott Opens Up About Painful Split With Best Mate Tony McGuinness - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/chris-mcdermott-opens-up-about-painful-split-with-best-mate-tony-mcguiness\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chris McDermott Opens Up About Painful Split With Best Mate Tony McGuinness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inaugural Adelaide Crows captain Chris McDermott says he hasn\u2019t spoken with former best mate Tony McGuinness since McGuinness left the children\u2019s charity they both started. 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