AFL podcasting and social media giant Dan Gorringe has blasted former Carlton teammate and business partner Dylan Buckley, making a public plea for an apology in the wake of their fallout.

Gorringe and Buckley spent two years together on Carlton’s list in 2016 and 2017 before later linking up as business partners and co-hosts of the List Cloggers podcast.

The pair built a cult following with their weekly light-hearted takes on footy, but the popular show was discontinued at the end of 2023.

Gorringe then started his own podcast called Dan Does Footy, which has become a juggernaut, while Buckley’s Producey and Clubby Sports empire continues to go from strength to strength.

Buckley told News Corp in 2024 that the duo “just decided to go our own way”, and that “it was just time for us to do something different and learn that”.

Scarce details around the split has fuelled speculation around what happened behind closed doors, which made for great anticipation when Buckley and Gorringe clashed in Thursday night’s EJ Whitten Legends Game.

The pair gently wrestled and shared a hug on the ground before the game started, before clashing in a couple of fracas during the charity match.

And while the “biffs” were almost certainly just a bit of theatre, Gorringe has made it very clear the hostility between the two is very real.

“I got into a few biffs, I got into one with Dyl as well early. Good to get it out of the system, felt good, felt good,” Gorringe told Dan Does Footy on Friday.

“So, a lot of people asking, ‘Is the beef real? Is it not?’

“I mean, I couldn’t really care going into it. It was nice to get him at the end there. He did get me at the start, I think I slipped, he got me at the start good, and then I got my feet and I was just right into him.”

Gorringe stopped short of explaining what happened that fractured the relationship between the two, but said they won’t “ever” be friends again.

“(It’s) one of those ones where it’s like, I don’t really care enough about him,” the former Blues and Suns ruck said.

“It’s just, all the stuff that’s happened between him and I, it felt like, as a person who had built something with him, all I want is just a bit of respect or an apology for everything that him and his team have done in past business ventures together.

“You know you’ve shafted me, and I’m OK with being shafted as a former friend — like, I don’t think I’ll ever be friends with him — as a former friend, or at least a business person, I would just expect someone to be like, ‘Hey we’re so sorry for all this stuff we did to you after very open conversations that you took your own direction for me only to find out (later)‘.

“Just as a man, I just would love the respect of an apology, which I’ve never got.

“Pre-game, I said (to myself), the best thing for you to do here is just lean into it, man. I’m going to come after you. Do I actually mean it or wish any harm on you? Not at all, I don’t care. It was nice when I was on top of him and obviously he would’ve loved it when he was on top of me.

“But outside of that, I just want an apology. That’s all I want.

“And I just won’t respect him and his team — ever. And that’s OK, so I think that’s a good chapter to close it all on, and that’s done.”

Buckley has been contacted by 7NEWS.com.au for comment.