This is the second-hand ump-bump that cost country footballer Jai Thompson his second consecutive Horsham District Football Netball League medal.

Wearing the North Melbourne blue and white vertical stripes, the Harrow Balmoral coach topped the Dellar Medal count with 27 votes on Monday night but was ruled ineligible because he had been reprimanded for misconduct.

Footage from the opening game of the season shows Thompson jostling with an opponent in the centre square at the start of the game but as he pushes the Taylors Lakes player to the side he collides with the central umpire.

Thompson was hit with the misconduct charge on the Monday after the game and accepted a reprimand for the low-level offence.

While he did not miss a game through suspension, the league’s rules state: “Any pla

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