When is a punch not a punch? Never

By Greg Baum
Updated May 23 2017 - 9:03am, first published 12:54am

North Melbourne coach Brad Scott says a jumper punch is a cheap shot, and he's right. He also says that one cheap shot inevitably leads to another, and sometimes to so many of them that a match descends to the level of a street brawl, and he's right about that, too. The North Melbourne/Melbourne game on Sunday was an ugly business.