{"id":60319,"date":"2025-08-11T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60319\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:46:12","slug":"son-of-retiring-afl-champion-jeremy-mcgovern-appears-to-flip-bird-at-west-coast-eagles-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/60319\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of retiring AFL champion Jeremy McGovern appears to flip bird at West Coast Eagles fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The son of retiring Eagles champion Jeremy McGovern has proven it\u2019s never too early for media training, with the seven-year-old appearing to cheekily flip the bird at West Coast fans during his father\u2019s lap of honour at Optus Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Bidding farewell to the Eagles faithful ahead of their game against Adelaide, McGovern was shadowed by his three young children and wife Madison, along with fellow 2018 AFL premiership star Dom Sheed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">But the father was momentarily upstaged, at least, on the replay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Eagle-eyed fan <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNMPCUByTQs\/\">@ya_mate_nate_<\/a> captured the moment young Hudson appeared to offer a middle finger salute to one particular fan, poking his tongue at the stands before continuing to wave at the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Upon being reposted by player-turned-content creator Dan Gorringe, the hilarious vision was met with approval from Eagles young gun Harley Reid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cRespect \ud83e\udee1\u201d, Reid commented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The emerging star copped a $1000 fine in March for engaging in a similar act at the Gabba, choosing to see the funny side of the youngster\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4f765017e58893ab86c098e468746b466ab776af.jpg\" alt=\"Harley Reid has given his approval of the youngster's colourful act.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconHarley Reid has given his approval of the youngster&#8217;s colourful act. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Footy fans were quick to ponder an appropriate sanction for the seven-year-old, and attempted to re-interpret his colourful gesture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Gorringe, who played 26 combined games for Carlton and the Gold Coast, joked, \u201cGov Jnr getting his first fine from the league \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Suns\u2019 IG account argued, \u201cNah man he\u2019s just promoting our $1 membership\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3b859645c1d5dbd94b3f5f521986a2b187c96b55.jpg\" alt=\"Retiring star Jeremy McGovern before the game with his family.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconRetiring star Jeremy McGovern before the game with his family. Credit: Kelsey Reid\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cShowing us all how many games the eagles will win in 2026\u201d, another fan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Even former Eagles ruckman Nic Naitanui saw the funny side, posting the video to his Instagram story with the caption, \u201cSend him straight to the tribunal haha\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">McGovern, 33, was forced into retirement on medical grounds in June due to multiple concussion setbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">He played 197 games for West Coast, debuting in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of retiring Eagles champion Jeremy McGovern has proven it\u2019s never too early for media training, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,44,5070,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-60319","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-news","tag-offbeat","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60319","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=60319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}