COLLINGWOOD president Eddie McGuire says he is tired of the continuing debate over the jumper clash between his side and North Melbourne, but he is prepared to take the matter to court should the AFL decide the Magpies must alter their strip in away matches against the Kangaroos.

The issue has become heated this season, with the Kangaroos staking their claim to wear their traditional blue-and-white vertical stripes against all opposition during their home games. The two teams have previously had an agreement where North Melbourne would wear an alternate jumper against the Magpies.

That deal has come to an end. Although the Roos did wear a blue guernsey with a white "V" during their 18-point win, they did make a statement by warming up in their traditional jumper before switching for the match.

North Melbourne coach Dean Laidley said yesterday it would be "fantastic" for the club to wear its home jumper in all home games.

"I know it is the topic, and it always seems to be the topic, when we play the Pies but there is no doubt, in our home games we would like to wear our blue and white stripes, like everyone else in the competition and like everyone else in the world gets to wear their home guernsey when they get to play at home," he said on ABC radio.

"I suppose the AFL will sort that out, but we will keep going back to them, because I think if we can play in our home guernsey our past players and our supporters will think that is fantastic."

McGuire sprang to Collingwood's defence after radio callers criticised the Magpies for their strong stance.

"I get sick of Collingwood being called arrogant on this, don't you think it is a bit arrogant that if a team that has changed its jumper regularly suddenly it wants to change the look of a team that hasn't changed itself," McGuire said on radio station 3AW.

"Surely the precedent stands that if a team is prepared to change its name, its jumper willy-nilly, its position, where they are going to play, all those types of things compared to a team that has had a constant position over 116 years, shouldn't that be the precedent.

"So legally, if we want to go down this to get it done — and I am sick of it, I would like to have a ruling one way or another from the AFL and then if we have to challenge it in the courts we will do so. But let's just get it done; this is just a nonsense now."

McGuire said Collingwood and Essendon should have their jumpers protected as teams that had never changed their designs.

"There are only two teams in the competition that have got the same design as they have always had — Essendon and Collingwood. Neither of them want to change it and I just think the fairness is why should we change it?

"If everybody wants to change that is fine, just don't change and look like us and everything will go smoothly."

McGuire suggested the jumper the Kangaroos wore on Friday night was the club's traditional jumper because it was the jumper used when the club was created although the vertical stripes have been apart of the club since the 1930s.

"I don't care what North wears, I don't even know that there is a clash to be perfectly honest anyway, lets get this out of the way, we don't want to be doing this all the time," he said.

"This is becoming ridiculous, it is driving us all mad and it is causing bad blood about things that don't need to."