This is Eddie being Eddie. What he says and what he thinks may not be one and the same.
He says he’s not annoyed “it’s a storm in a teacup” but he’s spent the last day on every conceivable media outlet outlining why he should have been allowed in.
He says it not about him, but he’s indicated he hasn’t missed a grand final in decades.
He says it not about his kids, but he was going to take them out of school so they could be “producers” on his shows. (Seriously, that last one is so dodgy it’s not funny. Suggesting the kids are essential workers on the basis that they are part-time teenage tv producers).
I was actually starting to warm to Eddie after he left Collingwood but this is a dressed up stunt if ever I saw one.
(And, in case you missed the quick throw away line as they were about to go to an ad, Eddie quipped that he hopes this is the only time Perth hosts the GF ... ouch ... take that Mr McGowan)