Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell has revealed the feedback he copped from Port Adelaide fans at three-quarter time, after a patron was ejected for heckling the coach on Sunday night.
The Hawks found themselves down as far as 71 points in a heated clash with the Power, naturally leading to some seemingly inappropriate feedback from over the fence.
While Mitchell insists he had nothing to do with the fan’s ejection, he stated that the whole bay assumed he’d had a hand in it.
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Sam Mitchell walks to the ground in Adelaide. Getty
“I’m only just ready to have a little chuckle about this, but I was walking down at three-quarter time and we were clearly up against it at that period and someone (in the crowd) gave me a fair bit of sledging and heckling,” Mitchell told Nine’s Footy Classified.
“And I didn’t realise it, but as I got down they’d kicked him out.
“And by the time I walked back up to start the (fourth) quarter, I had the whole bay chanting ‘dibber dobber’ to me. I hadn’t heard that phrase in a long time.
“This whole bay just called me a dibber dobber. I didn’t laugh at the time, I had other things on my mind, but I woke up this morning and had a chuckle.”
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Bailey Smith flips a fan the double bird after the Cats’ Gather Round win over the Adelaide Crows. Supplied
The heavy-handed approach from Adelaide Oval security likely followed the interaction between a fan and Geelong stars Patrick Dangerfield and Bailey Smith on Thursday night.
Smith flipped the bird at the heckler after he reportedly inappropriately sledged Dangerfield following the club’s win over Adelaide.
