Just watched the replay of the last quarter - Ziebel playing as a deep back man. Definitely upped the ante in the last quarter - lots of little hits and a nasty tackle which landed Bruce on his neck. He was clearly down there to antagonise and play an enforcer role - I imagine Smith was partly letting him know how ineffective he was, partly running on 95% adrenaline.
When will North Melbourne learn you cannot muscle form out of Bont? They've been trying it for 7 years!
Just on Smith again, the video in this AFL insta post sums it up for me:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNKCCfZrO4Z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Smith serving up to 3 of the north boys is gorgeous - you can see on their faces he is cutting deep.
The dam wall has busted!
The moment for me was three quarter time when Beveridge called for us to open the forward line and kick it to Bruce a la Templeton's nine goal last quarter.
He respected history.