ugly 124-point loss to Fremantle<\/a>. <\/p>\nThe Dockers stacked on 11 goals to none in the second half to record their biggest ever win in club history in Bunbury, 24.11 (155) to 4.7 (31).<\/p>\n
The blowtorch has well and truly come on Alastair Clarkson\u2019s Kangaroos in the aftermath, just a game on from arguably their best win under the veteran coach in an epic comeback over Gold Coast.<\/p>\n
But the horror defeat to Freo felt like a big step backwards as the Roos fell to 5-7 on the season, with just one win from their last six games.<\/p>\n
‘Dreadful’ – King blasts Kangaroos | 02:03<\/p>\n
It led to Lyon\u2019s brutal assessment of North that extended beyond the field with the way he saw players \u201claughing in the rooms\u201d post-match. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re a soft footy club,\u201d Lyon said on Fox Footy\u2019s AFL 360.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hardest bloke I ever played with was (North footy boss) Todd Viney. And the other mongrel I\u2019ve met over the years is Alastair Clarkson. That\u2019s not them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s these players who have got a capacity to turn up like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I know this is old fashioned stuff, I saw laughing in the changerooms and laughing after the game from Griffin Logue and a couple others.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can label anything on them, but I just thought it was a real soft effort. That\u2019s pretty disparaging.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo is \u2018shameful\u2019, so is \u2018white flag\u2019, so is \u2018phoning it in\u2019, all the things we\u2019ve heard from various members of the commentarium in the last few days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just get back to the fact that you don\u2019t get results like that, 19 goals kicked on you, if you have a hardness and a pride.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clarko breaks down 124pt defeat to Freo | 08:07<\/p>\n
Lyon suggested hard-nosed young gun George Wardlaw is the type of player that would be particularly desperately to respond after such a heavy loss.<\/p>\n
But the Demons champion questioned how many other North players would hold that same mentality. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be guaranteeing you George Wardlaw is champing at the bit to get at it again, he would play today. That\u2019s what I think Wardlaw brings,\u201d Lyon said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s enough of them in that side. That\u2019s where I\u2019m at.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did turn it off, I just said: \u2018I\u2019ve got better things to do than watch that\u2019.\u201d Then I came back to it. But it was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018TIME TO CRACK IN\u2019: PIES UP THE ANTE ON BOBBY<\/p>\n
Collingwood has reportedly put the acid on Bobby Hill to \u201cknuckle down\u201d and \u201csave our season\u201d after the Norm Smith medallist returned to the club after a series of personal absences. <\/p>\n
Hill was back at Magpies HQ last week after he travelled to Perth for the birth of he and his partner\u2019s third child. <\/p>\n
The forward has been on a modified training program and made three VFL appearances in 2026 \u2014 his last against Geelong on May 9 \u2014 having not played an AFL game since Round 21 last season.<\/p>\n
McRae urges critics to not compare side | 10:16<\/p>\n
Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph said Collingwood has now urged the 26-year old to kick into gear with hopes of a return in the second half of the season as the 11th-placed club heads into its bye.<\/p>\n
\u201cA big decision ahead for Bobby Hill. This is one he has to own,\u201d Ralph said on Fox Footy\u2019s On the Couch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the club made it really clear to him that it\u2019s time to crack in. You know, this could be the last chance you have this season to get it right.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s on board with that message, it\u2019s been made really strongly to him and his management group by the club and (head of footy) Charlie Gardiner: \u2018Time is running out to knuckle down, to put a really strong block of training together and get in and help save our season.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s done from a place of love, but also an awareness that, let\u2019s not let a second-straight season slip away.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrong words from Collingwood, he is on board with those words as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hill in April last year signed a four-year contract extension that ties him to the Pies until 2030.<\/p>\n
\u2018THEY WERE WARNED\u2019: UMP CONTACT BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT<\/p>\n
Umpire contact is also back on the agenda.<\/p>\n
There were several instances across Round 13 including Collingwood\u2019s Ed Allan knocking over an official in the centre square.<\/p>\n
Ralph reports it marked the Pies\u2019 fourth offence in 2026 after they were \u201cone of four or five cubs\u201d recently issued a memo by the AFL that five incidents could result in a $50,000 fine. <\/p>\n
Ed Allan makes contact with an umpire.Source: FOX SPORTSEd Allan makes contact with an umpire.Source: FOX SPORTSEd Allan makes contact with an umpire.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were warned if there were five umpire contact incidents across the club in any season, it could be a $50,000 fine,\u201d Ralph said on On the Couch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the fourth of them. If there\u2019s one more, you\u2019d imagine the AFL might be pretty strong with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s one we need to get out of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked who\u2019s most at fault in such instances, Hawks legend Jordan Lewis strongly responded: \u201cThe player who runs into the umpire… it\u2019s wholly and solely on the player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Collingwood champion Nathan Buckley questioned why all umpires \u2014 not just field officials \u2014 weren\u2019t getting the same protection.<\/p>\n
\u201cInteresting to me, Mitch McGovern ran into (goal umpire) David Rodan in that goalline review and there was no sanction for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre umpires seen as lesser citizens than their field mates? Because they\u2019re not protected as much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A great has gone scorched earth on North Melbourne after a horror loss. Plus Collingwood has put the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,14405,64,63,689,55,639,11295,14349,22680,84663,350553,10133,10143,27292,1127,10124,10145,14414,2485,9130,350552,176393,11163,681,343123,78904,350551,7204,677,46,701,214563,350548,350550,350546,350549,1124,85,350547,350268,3439],"class_list":["post-723940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-alastair-clarkson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-king","tag-bobby-hill","tag-bunbury","tag-charlie-gardiner","tag-club-heads","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-four-year-contract-extension","tag-fox-footy","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-garry-lyon","tag-george-wardlaw","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-hard-nosed-young-gun","tag-horror-defeat","tag-horror-loss","tag-jon-ralph","tag-match-press-conference","tag-modified-training-program","tag-north-footy-boss","tag-north-melbourne-kangaroos","tag-oceania","tag-perth","tag-queensland","tag-scathing-assessment","tag-scorched-earth","tag-second-straight-season-slip","tag-soft-football-club","tag-soft-footy-club","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-todd-viney","tag-urges-critics","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723940","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=723940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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