Scott grateful for Bucks' apology

North Melbourne coach Brad Scott. Picture: George Salpigtidis Source: Herald Sun

NORTH Melbourne coach Brad Scott has revealed his Magpies counterpart Nathan Buckley phoned to apologise for his post-match criticism of the Lindsay Thomas bump.

Scott said today he considered the issue to be "dead" after Buckley called to apologise to both Thomas and himself during the week.

Buckley sparked a war of words after he called Thomas to account over his heavy clash with Magpie defender Ben Reid last Sunday, describing the bump as "pretty average".

Thomas was cleared by the match review panel for the heavy bump, which left Reid concussed.

But Scott today gave credit to Buckley for his apology.

"It's important that we all move on, but I think Nathan has made a retraction of his remarks and he forced me to defend one of my players which I will do 100 per cent of the time," Scott said.

"I think that when you cast aspersions over opposition players it is never a good thing, but when that criticism is wrong it makes it even worse.

"To Nathan's eternal credit, he has called me, he has apologised to me, which I didn't think he had to do, but he apologised to me and to our football club.

"But more importantly he rang Lindsay Thomas and apologised to him. I think that speaks volumes for the type of person he is."

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Scott said he felt no confusion over the rule regarding accidental head clashes and said there would be no change in his philosophy in training.

"I'm in no doubt as to what the rule is and I think the match review panel adjudicated it as they said they would and the way they did last year," Scott said.

"So I am not confused. But there is no doubt that when you choose to bump, you take a risk."

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