The 56-year-old expressed a sense of relief over Korda’s appointment.
“One of the things that I’ve really been concerned about in the last couple of months is that some ghosts at Collingwood have reappeared,who have been have been long-term people who have split the club,” he told Nine’sFooty Classified.
“I was really,really worried and that’s why I’ve been very quiet. I don’t want to be running a campaign for anybody. I was absolutely worried that we were going to go back to the bad old days.
“Tonight,Mark Korda is the president,rally behind him,get the board right,and go forward.”
McGuire said that he believed there had been 90 applicants to succeed him as Collingwood president,and added that he had initially planned to hand-pick a successor himself before his abrupt exit in February.
“I was going to use this year to[groom a successor],” he said.