Bad blood triggers all-in Pies, Cats brawl

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Tensions boiled implicit astatine the 4th clip siren arsenic the Pies and Cats came unneurotic successful their opening circular match-up.

New Geelong enlistee Ollie Henry was sunk to the crushed by erstwhile teammate Brayden Maynard and targeted by his erstwhile club, triggering immoderate propulsion and shove amongst the players.

There appeared to beryllium nary emotion mislaid betwixt Henry and the Magpies aft the guardant requested a commercialized person to location astatine the extremity of past season.

After scoring 2 goals successful the archetypal word - including the opener - Irishman Zach Tuohy was animated and raced successful arsenic reinforcement.

Surrounded by Pies players, Tuohy was stripped of his jumper.

"They predicted the Henry worldly mightiness beryllium coming," commentator Brian Taylor said for Channel 7.

The 4th finished with six goals to Geelong and 5 to Collingwood arsenic the Cats took a three-point pb into the break.

"What astir this for a 4th of footy? It had everything," Melbourne champion Garry Lyon told Fox Footy during the break.

"Ollie Henry was trying to get disconnected the crushed astatine the quarter-time siren and past it was on.

"Big Zach Tuohy said 'don't interaction my man' – and they got into each other, a jumper got ripped.

"It had a small spot of everything; 11 goals connected the scoreboard, a small spot of biff, it was magnificent."

"I emotion that idiosyncratic came successful and flew the emblem for Ollie Henry … I emotion what Zach Tuohy did," added Jordan Lewis for Fox Footy.

Henry yet deed backmost precisely wherever it mattered astir - connected the scoreboard, aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter.

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