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\u201cThis was one that I didn\u2019t like the look of\u2026 I think this is a really poor look from Hawthorn as a club,\u201d McCarthy said on AFL Media\u2019s The Wrap.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t on the players though I don\u2019t think. When you lose a game there\u2019s other things you\u2019re thinking about. This is on the leadership and the administration\u2026 there needed to be Hawthorn players present.\u201d<\/p>\n
North Melbourne forward Alice O\u2019Loughlin chimed in on a post on social media with the caption, \u201c@hawthornaflw where you at?\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I support Alice O\u2019Loughlin in calling that out. It adds a little bit of spice, but it\u2019s a really poor look,\u201d McCarthy added.<\/p>\n
McCarthy\u2019s co-host, AFLW expert Gemma Bastiani, said it was a \u201cbig miss\u201d from the Hawks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of remarkable how universally loved and respected Jasmine Garner is,\u201d Bastiani said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some point in that post-match, someone needed to realise\u2026 big miss from the Hawks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tensions flare after Lions beat Pies | 03:31<\/p>\n
North Melbourne\u2019s win over Hawthorn saw them break the VFL\/AFL\/AFLW record for consecutive wins, notching their 24th in a row.<\/p>\n
The loss saw Hawthorn slip from second place on the ladder to fourth after the Lions and Dees both won their respective matches over the weekend. <\/p>\n
That means the Hawks and the Roos will do battle for the second time in a week on Friday night and after the guard of honour incident, it\u2019s sure to be even more spicy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of ill feeling brewing between Hawthorn and North Melbourne ahead of their rematch,\u201d Fox Footy commentator Kelli Underwood told the W Debrief.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt might be a bit of a popcorn event this one,\u201d Herald Sun journalist and co-panellist Lauren Wood added.<\/p>\n
Wood then highlighted how Frankston\u2019s unique changeroom set up, the two change rooms are on opposite sides of the ground, could have contributed to the issue.<\/p>\n
Houghton ton makes AFLW history | 01:19<\/p>\n
\u201cHawthorn at this stage are making their way to their rooms on the other side of the ground, they may have been unaware that these celebrations of Jasmine Garner were going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut speaking to some people at North Melbourne, there was a bit of a feeling that there was a lack of respect from Hawthorn. Not only is she a champion of North Melbourne\u2026 but she\u2019s a pioneer of the women\u2019s game who\u2019s changed the fabric of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Underwood joked that it was almost symbolic of Garner\u2019s time in the game, which somehow, despite having earned seven All-Australian blazers throughout her career, is still criminally underrated. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe irony is that it\u2019s so Jas Garner, that they didn\u2019t realise, that no one realises anything with Jas Garner! The umpires don\u2019t realise when she\u2019s on the ground and now Hawthorn don\u2019t realise it\u2019s her 100th game,\u201d Underwood said.<\/p>\n
\u201cArguably the best we\u2019ve had in a decade, I think that\u2019s the disappointing fact that not only is she a star of the game, but she\u2019s been a game changer over the first ten years. She\u2019s a future AFL Hall of Famer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlton secure spot in AFLW finals | 00:53<\/p>\n
Hawthorn captain Emily Bates is currently sidelined with injury and Geelong skipper Meg McDonald questioned whether that contributed to Hawthorn\u2019s error.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo doubt that it\u2019s an oversight from Hawthorn, whether that\u2019s from administration or the fact the captain wasn\u2019t out on the field. I certainly don\u2019t think they would have intentionally been stirring up some discontent given they\u2019re facing North in the finals series,\u201d McDonald told the W Debrief.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure they would\u2019ve loved to be out there because there is no more popular player than Jas Garner in the competition. Her excellence is respected – she gets a cheer every time she gets votes at the W awards because she hasn\u2019t won one yet – I don\u2019t know that it would have been intentional from Hawthorn, you want to step up in those moments, the moments gone, they\u2019ll let it go by but I don\u2019t know if North will do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Does that mean Friday night\u2019s qualifying colour will be even spicier?<\/p>\n
AFLW finals race reaches tipping point | 06:46<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t, it\u2019s a finals clash so it\u2019ll be spicy anyway. I think there\u2019s probably some hope from the North Melbourne team that Jas plays incredibly well and it\u2019ll go on from there. Alice O\u2019Loughlin can be a little fiery in the forward line, perhaps she\u2019ll get into the Hawks if she gets on the scoreboard,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n
Former Port Adelaide midfielder Kane Cornes took a different view, tweeting \u201csport isn\u2019t meant to be nice\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot sure when opposition teams lining up for a notable but not a major milestone became the expectation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Wood believes that O\u2019Loughlin\u2019s social media comment is the sort of thing that can \u201ccreate real rivalries in the competition\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cI like seeing this kind of thing. We see a lot of the social media banter in the men\u2019s game\u2026 I think it just adds to what\u2019s going to be a great finals series.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two AFLW powerhouses will open the 2025 NAB AFLW Finals series on Friday night at Ikon Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn\u2019s snubbing of North Melbourne champion Jasmine Garner during her guard of honour on Friday night was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[76620,64,63,689,3237,20769,44991,676,51868,13213,43010,66724,152495,152494,7492,52766,675,100138,25043,15631,117772,677,15705,152499,6082,152498,152496,143409,1314,152497,1124,85,151783,7067],"class_list":["post-258982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anne-hatchard","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-change-rooms","tag-emily-bates","tag-final-round","tag-finals-clash","tag-finals-series","tag-game-changer","tag-game-milestone","tag-gemma-bastiani","tag-hawks-disrespect","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-jasmine-garner","tag-kane-cornes","tag-kate-mccarthy","tag-kelli-underwood","tag-lauren-wood","tag-meg-mcdonald","tag-oceania","tag-opposition-teams","tag-popcorn-event","tag-port-adelaide","tag-reaches-tipping","tag-regular-season-approaches","tag-shannon-campbell","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-comment","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-tensions-flare","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}