Harley Reid<\/a> found his time to shine.<\/p>\nReid won a free kick inside forward 50 and slotted a goal, before winning yet another free kick after being collected high in a tackle by Luke Davis-Uniacke roughly 15 metres away from goal.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old was unable to get the ball through the middle posts after earning that free kick, but his actions were met by the heated words of his opponents. <\/p>\n
West Coast players were expecting their opponents to remonstrate, moving Reid away from those rushing in. But before anyone could get hold of Reid, Spargo unexpectedly threw Hough to the turf. <\/p>\n
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Jy Simpkin (c) wrestles in the pack\u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The incident unfolded right in the path of the umpire who paid a free kick and then a 50-metre penalty for a separate incident. <\/p>\n
Hough, returning to his feet with ease, slotted the free goal to punch his team ahead by five at the end of the first term. <\/p>\n
However, King was not impressed by the actions of Spargo at the end of the term.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat could be the dumbest thing you\u2019ll see this year from Charlie Spargo,\u201d he said after the free kick was awarded for his actions on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got experience and you\u2019re in this football club to have an impact on the youth coming through. You can\u2019t be the reason why you\u2019re giving free kicks away at the top of the square. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not tough, it\u2019s not smart … there is nothing in it. You have nothing to gain from doing that. You\u2019ve got to be better than that.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is in their heads right now, Harley Reid.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jack Darling of the Kangaroos celebrates a goal \u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n
To add to the chaos of the first term, West Coast gun Hamish Davis was forced to the sidelines with a concussion after being smashed in a tackle by Paul Curtis. <\/p>\n
Tensions did not calm down throughout the remainder of the match, however, North Melbourne managed to fight back and claim a one-point win in the end. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think we got away with it in the end,\u201d North Melbourne captain Nick Larkey told Fox Footy post-match. <\/p>\n
\u201cLuck went our way, which it hasn\u2019t for a while. We\u2019ll take that win for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David King has seen plenty of bizarre incidents in the heat of battle over the years, but he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-733884","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\/733884","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=733884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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