HAWTHORN coach Alastair Clarkson has taken a veiled swipe at North Melbourne's Cameron Zurhaar, describing his actions that led to Hawk David Mirra cannoning into the boundary line fence as "dangerous".
Zurhaar forcefully bumped the second-gamer as the players collided near the boundary line in last Sunday's game at Etihad Stadium, with Mirra unable to halt his momentum before crashing into the fence.
Zurhaar accepted a $2000 fine for rough conduct, but Clarkson said the young Roo's actions were far more severe, from the potential to cause injury point of view, than Hawk James Sicily's stomping charge.
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Clarkson stressed that Sicily's actions were unnecessary but it was clear he was not happy with Zurhaar's actions, although he didn't mention the Roo's name.
"Not concern in terms of the severity of the act because it was so minimal it wasn't funny," Clarkson said about Sicily's one-game ban for serious misconduct on North's Shaun Atley.
"There were much more serious things like throwing blokes into fences and all that sort of stuff that are significantly dangerous.
"It's really just the look and the interpretation."
