{"id":379341,"date":"2024-03-25T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=379341"},"modified":"2024-03-25T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T04:03:15","slug":"bombers-to-cop-please-explain-over-runners-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=379341","title":{"rendered":"Bombers to cop 'please explain' over runner's antics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AFL<\/a> is expected to issue a "please explain" to Essendon<\/a> after a club runner got physically involved in a brouhaha during Saturday's game.<\/p>\n

Collingwood<\/a> great Travis Cloke<\/a> entered the fray \ufeffas Bombers and Swans players came together in fiery scenes at the SCG.<\/p>\n

Cloke – a power forward who booted 452 AFL goals before retiring in 2017 – ran into the melee to drag several Essendon players away after the umpire paid the Bombers a free kick.<\/p>\n

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\ufeffWhile he wasn't penalised at the time, reports claim head office is set to formally ask Cloke to explain why he chose to get involved.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffThe Travis Cloke one is interesting," former player Nathan Brown said on Nine's The Sunday Footy Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Bombers<\/p>\n

"I was watching it last night and thought 'he's doing the right thing\ufeff in getting his players out'.<\/p>\n

"But then I thought what if that is in a local league, at a suburban ground anywhere\ufeff around Australia?<\/p>\n

"And you've got players who don't really know who Travis Cloke is, a runner from the other side\ufeff, that could then blow up into a full-on (fight).<\/p>\n

"There is respect for Travis Cloke because people probably know who he was but at the lower levels you don't want to see that."\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Luckily for Cloke he wasn't confronted by any Swans players and was able to remove himself from the scene without touching anyone not in a Bombers kit.<\/p>\n

AFL journalist Damien Barrett suggested \ufeffthe league will want to crack down on Cloke, particularly after the antics of North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson during a pre-season game.<\/p>\n

Clarkson was involved in a foul-mouthed yelling match with several St Kilda players<\/a> following Jimmy Webster's illegal hit on Kangaroos captain Jy Simpkin.<\/p>\n

\"'A<\/p>\n

The AFL hit Clarkson with a $20,000 fine and a suspended two-game ban for his outburst.<\/p>\n

Melbourne captain Max Gawn was torn on the Cloke issue when quizzed on Triple M radio on Monday.<\/p>\n

"I would love my runner to do that, but I would hate the opposition runner to do that," Gawn said.<\/p>\n

"I would lean towards Clokey shouldn't have done that. I would say Cloke, if he had his time again, he might not have done it.<\/p>\n

"I think he did do the right thing. The fight stopped. So maybe they've got Cloke to thank.<\/p>\n

"But if that was an opposition runner, I'd be a bit iffy about it."<\/p>\n

The Swans beat the Bombers by 30 points after running away from them in the fourth quarter.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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