COLLINGWOOD chief executive Gary Pert says the club does not have a poor culture or drinking problem.

Pert was adamant it was "absolutely not" a problem at Collingwood, in the wake of the suspensions imposed on Alan Didak, Heath Shaw and Rhyce Shaw for their off-field indiscretions.

"I don't accept at all that there's a drinking culture at the Collingwood Football Club," Pert said, who fronted a 45-minute media conference with chief of football operations Geoff Walsh at Lexus Centre on Tuesday.

"Unfortunately, yesterday and today, we are focused on two players that have made really poor decisions that have affected their behaviour, which I think they'll regret for the rest of their lives.

"We forget about the Collingwood players that are disciplined and focused and doing the right things by the code of conduct at the Collingwood footy club."

Asked why Heath Shaw and Didak did not front the media conference, Pert said there was "no value" in bringing the players out, considering they would not play for the Magpies for the rest of the 2008 season.

"We've dealt with Alan this morning and we dealt with him last night until late last night and again the details of what happened there – there's no dispute now and we had that out on the table and again it serves no value for us [having Alan at a media conference]," Pert said.

"Alan will not be playing for the rest of the season and it serves no value for today's announcement."

Walsh added that there was nothing to be read into the fact that president Eddie McGuire, coach Mick Malthouse or captain Scott Burns was not in attendance, adding that Pert was the right man to be at the media conference.

"It could easily be Eddie or Mick, it could easily be Scott Burns or the players themselves … but Gary as the CEO of the organisation, carries out the policy and administers the policy as set by the board.

"I would've thought, in my humble opinion, that there is no better person than the CEO to be sitting [here]."