Demons veteran Bernie Vince has spoken out about his post-match conversation with Cats superstar Patrick Dangerfield a fortnight ago.
The pair's friendly chat was controversially received by the wider community given the Demons had just suffered a shattering after-the-siren loss, but Vince has played down the criticism.
โIt was just one of those things, having a chat afterwards, a bit of a smile, the game had finished, not smiling wasnโt going to change the result but I understand why people made those calls,โ Vince toldย Nova 100.
Vince that revealed he and Dangerfield were talking about his father, who had recently undergone a battle with cancer.
โMy old man was pretty crook about 12-18 months ago, Danger was just asking how he was, I said heโs still complaining about not getting any rain on the farm, bit of laugh,โ he said.
โHe was actually at the game too, so I said heโs somewhere. We said weโve just got to find out what bar heโs in or something like that, thatโs how small it was.โ
Vince sid that his smiling demeanour after the game had been misinterpreted, adding that he was "shattered" with the result.
โThe thing is I was as shattered as everyone that we lost,โ he said.
โI was on the ground, I thought whatโs the point of being on the ground here, Lachie Henderson picked me up and shook my hand. Danger was the next one in. Thatโs how it happened.โ
