Hawthorn great Dermott Brereton has described the on-field spat between Hawks pair Chad Wingard and Jacob Koschitzke as “horrible”.
Wingard, 27, was seen exchanging words with younger teammate Koschitzke at the three-quarter time break during Saturday night’s loss to Adelaide.
Speaking on SEN’s Bob and Andy, Brereton expressed his disappointment in Wingard's conduct given the dual All-Australian is an experienced player with 190 games under his belt.
“Horrible. Absolutely horrible,” Brereton said of the exchange.
“When Tom Lynch walked past and if you look at that footage … he looks directly at the spat going on between the two of them and he starts laughing.
“I used to always think it was hilarious. I thought it was fantastic and I was convinced that we were not going to lose when the opposition argued amongst themselves.
“I hated seeing him (Wingard) tapping his forehead and saying, ‘think, think’. Reading into it, he was suggesting his (Koschitzke's) ability to think his way through it was pretty poor.
“It went for a lot longer than the cameras saw.
“I had the binoculars on, and I was thinking, ‘please Chad, you’re too good for this. This boy can learn so much from you if you do it the right way’.”
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Former North Melbourne and Geelong midfielder Liam Pickering says the way Wingard berated 21-year-old Koschitzke was a “pretty poor look”
“It’s a bad look when it continues on like this,” Pickering told The Oval Office.
“It does feel a bit like Chad’s making it all about him. Koschitzke’s only a young footballer. It’s a teaching thing as much as anything, but it just doesn’t look good.
“It’s not like Chad is the most team-orientated player I’ve ever seen on a football ground, I must say.
“It doesn’t come across well. A lot of stuff goes on on a footy ground, but that didn’t look good because it went on and on and on.
“It’s a pretty poor look.”
Port Adelaide champion Kane Cornes says Wingard behaved “like a pork chop” during his spat with the young Hawks forward.