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<\/p>\nThe Breust news comes as Hawthorn are expecting to head into next weekend\u2019s blockbuster preliminary final against Geelong with an otherwise clean bill of health following their comprehensive win over the Crows.<\/p>\n
The Hawks had the luxury of resting five-goal star Jack Gunston and fellow forward Jack Ginnivan late in the match at Adelaide Oval when the game was in the keeping.<\/p>\n
Both had reportedly overcome hamstring concerns heading into the clash, but neither seemed restricted throughout the course of the match.<\/p>\n
Hawthorn said on Saturday they were not aware of any injury concerns following Friday night.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, defender Tom Barrass credited coach Sam Mitchell for his decision to cross from West Coast Eagles at the start of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cSam is a great educator and a really in-depth thinker,\u201d Barrass told 3AW.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just having a new person, coming with a new opportunity and sort of saying there is more to learn, there is more to this career and more to life. You don\u2019t win four flags by chance and play a big role in that.\u201d
– Scott Spits and Danny Russell<\/p>\n
Watch the ump-bump footage that cost a country footballer a league medal<\/p>\n
Danny Russell<\/p>\n
This is the second-hand ump-bump that cost country footballer Jai Thompson his second consecutive Horsham District Football Netball League medal.<\/p>\n
Wearing the North Melbourne blue and white vertical stripes, the Harrow Balmoral coach topped the Dellar Medal count with 27 votes on Monday night but was ruled ineligible because he had been reprimanded for misconduct.<\/p>\n
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Jai Thompson, in the blue-and-white vertical stripes and playing for Harrow Balmoral, pushes an opponent into the umpire.Credit: Internet<\/p>\n
Footage from the opening game of the season shows Thompson jostling with an opponent in the centre square at the start of the game but as he pushes the Taylors Lake player to the side he collides with the central umpire.<\/p>\n
Thompson was hit with the misconduct charge on the Monday after the game and accepted a reprimand for the low-level offence.<\/p>\n
While he did not miss a game through suspension, the league\u2019s rules state: \u201cAny player who has been found guilty of an on-field offence during the home-and-away season shall not be eligible to win the award.\u201d<\/p>\n
The league medal went to Pimpinio midfielder Matt Rosier on 18 votes.<\/p>\n
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Harrow Balmoral president Tereasa Hobbs said the ump-bump incident happened at the \u201cfirst bounce of the first game\u201d against Taylors Lake.<\/p>\n
She said Thompson chose not to challenge the decision, even though \u201che did not agree with it\u201d, because he did not want to risk a suspension.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t fight it at the time or appeal it because round two was a big game \u2013 we had our unfurling of the flag \u2013 and Jai did not want to miss it,\u201d Hobbs said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to play with the boys and took the reprimand and, unfortunately, it cost him at the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hobbs said the club was disappointed for their coach to miss out on the award on a technicality.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you follow the rules and the rules are there for a reason,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat people think of the incident is up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hobbs said Thompson was an \u201cin and under\u201d workhorse who was always around the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s had such a good year, and to poll nine votes ahead of the person who was awarded the medal, it\u2019s a big gap,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he is a very humble man, and he said, \u2018it is what it is, and I\u2019ve got bigger things to worry about\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those bigger things include this weekend\u2019s Horsham District Football Netball League grand final at Natimuk.<\/p>\n
Harrow Balmoral take on Noradjuna Quantong in a bid to win their third consecutive premiership.<\/p>\n
Thompson had not dropped a game as coach until round eight this year when his side lost by 35 points to Noradjuna Quantong, ending a 42-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
But Harrow Balmoral beat Noradjuna Quantong by 11 points in the second semi-final two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Thompson, the former Leopold player who moved to Balmoral after his wife bought the post office, polled 23 votes last year to win the Daller Medal by two votes.<\/p>\n
Melbourne\u2019s new CEO started on Monday. But he had already overseen a coach sacking<\/p>\n
Danny Russell<\/p>\n
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