In the aftermath of last nightโ€™s trade exodus, Collingwood supporters have been left furious and wanting answers from the clubโ€™s higher ups.

And according toย Fox Sports'ย Tom Morris, such disharmony is being matched by senior figures within the club.

"However disillusioned Collingwood fans are this morning, it is matched by those inside the club. A level of frustration with senior figures that requires plenty of work to reverse before it impacts 2021," Morris tweeted on Friday morning.

Tom Phillips, a man who made the wing position his own, went to Hawthorn for the bargain basement price of pick 65, almost equivalent to a bag of cheezels.

Jaidyn Stephenson, a top-10 pick in the 2017 draft and won the Rising Star award, was packaged up with three-game youngster Atu Bosenavulagi and sent to North Melbourne in exchange for second and third-round draft picks.

Adam Treloar, who had five years to run on his current contract, was traded to the Western Bulldogs in the last minute of the deadline for essentially a future second round pick.

The fans have every right to be upset โ€“ on the final day, Collingwood offloaded three players that should be entrenched in their best 22 and were in their grand final team two years ago.

What makes Pies supporters feel even more upset is that the club officials are dancing around the issue, as opposed to being honest about the situation at hand.

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire broke his silence on the situation this morning on Triple Mโ€™s the Hot Breakfast.

โ€œItโ€™s the toughest thing when youโ€™re a supporter, because you love your players and your players love you,โ€ he said.

โ€œThese days itโ€™s really toughโ€ฆ itโ€™s been a very hard year for everybody. I hate this period."

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley unquestionably described it on Twitter last night as his โ€˜toughest day in footy.โ€™

โ€œManaging contracted players who love the environment out of the club is a lose/lose situation in the short term,โ€ he said.

โ€œThe decisions werenโ€™t popular, but they were necessary.โ€

What Buckley failed to address was why offloading these four players were necessary.

Collingwood list manager Ned Guy addressed the media last night following the deadline and his quotes did no favours to ease the disillusion and the tension between the club and its supporters.

When asked about Collingwoodโ€™s documented salary cap issues, Guy shrugged it off.

โ€œI think itโ€™s a bit of a beat-up, the salary cap issues,โ€ he said on Fox Footy.

โ€œI donโ€™t think itโ€™s a fire sale at all, I think we just wanted to replenish the list and to be able to get in the first round (of the draft) youโ€™ve got to be able to give something up.

โ€œItโ€™s part of the plan we all put together and one we executed today.โ€

The responses on social media to this have been critical to say the least.

โ€œHeโ€™s making himself look like an idiot dancing around it and trying to spin it as a positive,โ€ one tweet said.

โ€œMore spin than Nathan Lyon,โ€ read another tweet.

The Treloar situation is undoubtedly the messiest of the lot, with Guy also confirming on Fox Footy that he wouldโ€™ve still been at Collingwood if his star netball partner Kim Ravaillion wasnโ€™t heading to Queensland to resume her Super Netball career.

โ€œWe had some conversations with Adam and (manager) Tim (Hazell) originally around whether his family was going to move to Queensland and whether he wanted to do that,โ€ he said.

โ€œIt evolved from having that conversation to he thought heโ€™d look at another opportunityโ€ฆ That was the catalyst for the discussion.โ€

The way the club has handled Stephensonโ€™s departure has also been a talking point of concern, with the 2018 Rising Star winner telling SEN yesterday that he was shocked and hurt by what happened.

โ€œI heard nothing from the club so I gave Bucks a call myself to see what was going on and he pretty much said for a trade as aggressively as you want,โ€ he said.

โ€œThere wasnโ€™t a very clear reasoningโ€ฆ He just said he doesnโ€™t know if Iโ€™ve allowed myself to open up to the group, which I donโ€™t necessarily agree with.

โ€œBut if thatโ€™s how he saw it, heโ€™s the coach and thatโ€™s his prerogativeโ€ฆ I was obviously very happy playing at Collingwood.โ€

For all their offloading, Collingwood will now walk into next monthโ€™s AFL Draft with picks 14, 16, 65, 70, 75 and 92.