McGuire lost his cool and took aim at the Giants again on Wednesday, threatening to “go feral” and ruin the club if they made a serious play for the Norm Smith medallist and club champion throughout the year.
Pendlebury’s decision to sign just a one-year extension to his existing Collingwood contract has already determined one of the 2012 season’s major talking points – unless the Magpies can convince Pendlebury to sign another deal earlier.
That seems unlikely, with the Giants sure to be interested in one of the game’s premier players, and the spectre of free agency also looming.
And Sheedy seems to be enjoying the prospect of pushing McGuire’s buttons, saying the Collingwood CEO should be worried.
“I think Collingwood might be getting a bit nervous, they just lost (coach Mick) Malthouse and if they ended up losing a player like Pendlebury … then Eddie has been there 13 years, so it could be an unlucky number for him.
“We need to find the best players in this country, and it does not exempt Collingwood at all.
“Everyone voted, and they knew - sign your players up and pay them all, or otherwise we will get our hands on them and build the game.
“We will build it here – a club like Collingwood has won two premierships in 50 years, I am hoping we might be able to do better than that in the next 50 years.”
The prospect of GWS even courting the midfielder has incensed McGuire.
"If they (GWS) go after Scott Pendlebury, I will declare war on Greater Western Sydney and I will set up a tent embassy outside their tumbleweed-blown ground up there in Greater Western Sydney," McGuire told TripleM in Melbourne.
"I will steal every one of their good players for the rest of my life.
"I will go feral.
"I will make it my life's ambition to destroy them and run them into the ground.
"As long as they know ... this is not Melbourne where you can just walk in and steal the players.
"If you do this at Collingwood, good luck."