{"id":551813,"date":"2026-03-20T01:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551813\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:57:12","slug":"hawks-star-accuses-fans-of-throwing-cans-on-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551813\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks star accuses fans of throwing cans on field"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawthorn livewire Nick Watson has accused Sydney supporters of throwing a full soft drink container at him in a heated finish to their AFL clash.<\/p>\n

Watson put the finishing touch on the Hawks’ hard-fought 14.15 (99) to 13.4 (82) win at the MCG on Thursday night with a goal after the siren.<\/p>\n

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He was then involved in an animated exchange with fans in the section of the ground occupied by the Swans’ cheer squad.<\/p>\n

“They were throwing Coke Zero cans out there … I saw one just go straight past me,” Watson told Nova on Friday.<\/p>\n

“I dunno what happened with the guy but … it just landed right next to us.<\/p>\n

“Lucky it didn’t hit any players, but yeah, a few players saw it.<\/p>\n

“I mean, I was giving them heaps, but I’m not sure a Coke Zero bottle to the face in return would’ve been nice.”<\/p>\n

A cult hero for Hawks supporters as well as one of the league’s renowned agitators, Watson regularly engages with fans on the other side of the fence.<\/p>\n

“It’s good for the game. I feel like people like it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes in a close game like that it’s a bit of fun.”<\/p>\n

Watson shook off heavy knocks to his hip and head in the third quarter, playing a key role as Hawthorn overran Sydney with 5.5 to 1.1 in the final term.<\/p>\n

Both sides are among the 10 teams facing an early-season bye after featuring in Opening Round this month.<\/p>\n

The Hawks have an 18-day break before their next outing, in the traditional Easter Monday clash with Geelong.<\/p>\n

“We’ll not say it’s a disadvantage because we don’t want to have that mentality,” Watson said.<\/p>\n

“But people can lose momentum, which is annoying. It’s so weird having a bye this early.<\/p>\n

“I liked it (Opening Round) because we played in it, but I’m not fussed if it goes out of the game either.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn livewire Nick Watson has accused Sydney supporters of throwing a full soft drink container at him in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-551813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551813","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=551813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}