‘Soft footy club’: Great goes scorched earth on Roos; Pies put acid on star — AFL Daily
A great has gone scorched earth on North Melbourne after a horror loss . But Collingwood has put the acid on Bobby Hill . Watch every match of every round of the AFL Premiership Season LIVE and ad-break free during play on FOX FOOTY , available on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo?
WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. Melbourne champion Garry Lyon has labelled North Melbourne a “soft footy club” in a scathing assessment after the club’s The Dockers stacked on 11 goals to none in the second half to record their biggest ever win in club history in Bunbury, 24.11 to 4.7 .
The blowtorch has well and truly come on Alastair Clarkson’s Kangaroos in the aftermath, just a game on from arguably their best win under the veteran coach in an epic comeback over Gold Coast. 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.
It led to Lyon’s brutal assessment of North that extended beyond the field with the way he saw players “laughing in the rooms” post-match.
“The hardest bloke I ever played with was Todd Viney. And the other mongrel I’ve met over the years is Alastair Clarkson. That’s not them.
“And 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. “You can label anything on them, but I just thought it was a real soft effort. That’s pretty disparaging.
“So is ‘shameful’, so is ‘white flag’, so is ‘phoning it in’, all the things we’ve heard from various members of the commentarium in the last few days. “I just get back to the fact that you don’t get results like that, 19 goals kicked on you, if you have a hardness and a pride. ”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.
“I’d be guaranteeing you George Wardlaw is champing at the bit to get at it again, he would play today. That’s what I think Wardlaw brings,” Lyon said.
“I did turn it off, I just said: ‘I’ve got better things to do than watch that’. ” Then I came back to it. But it was terrible. ”Collingwood has reportedly put the acid on Bobby Hill to “knuckle down” and “save our season” after the Norm Smith medallist returned to the club after a series of personal absences.
Hill was back at Magpies HQ last week after he travelled to Perth for the birth of he and his partner’s third child. The forward has been on a modified training program and made three VFL appearances in 2026 — his last against Geelong on May 9 — having not played an AFL game since Round 21 last season.
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.
“I think the club made it really clear to him that it’s time to crack in. You know, this could be the last chance you have this season to get it right.
“He’s on board with that message, it’s been made really strongly to him and his management group by the club and Charlie Gardiner: ‘Time is running out to knuckle down, to put a really strong block of training together and get in and help save our season. ’ “It’s done from a place of love, but also an awareness that, let’s not let a second-straight season slip away.
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