Footy star Jimmy Webster’s family are ‘busted making shocking social media comments’ after he knocked out rival with sickening hit

Family members of Jimmy Webster have been busted making light of the St Kilda defender’s shocking bump on North Melbourne co-captain Jy Simpkin in since-deleted social media comments, it has been reported.

Webster leapt off the ground and smashed Simpkin’s head with his shoulder during the first quarter of the clash at RSEA Park on Sunday and is facing a lengthy ban after leaving the Kangaroos star concussed.

Webster’s sister Maddi shared footage of the incident, writing ‘Oh Jimmy’ accompanied by a laughing emoji. 

Alysha Webster, another sister, commented: ‘Goodnight’.

The Saints star’s younger brother Jay added: ‘Fair bump play on’.

The Herald Sun obtained the posts before they were deleted.

Kangaroos players rushed to remonstrate with Webster after the hit and a melee spilled over the boundary line while Simpkin lay on the ground.

The 25-year-old, who was concussed twice last season, was attended to by medical staff before eventually walking off the field and was soon ruled out of action for the rest of the match.

‘I just saw [Simpkin] then and he seemed fine. He watched the game from the bench in the second half,’ Kangaroos assistant coach Xavier Clarke said post-match.

‘He’ll enter concussion protocols from here and we’ll let our doctors and our medical team take care of him.

‘They do a really good job with that and we obviously know what he has to go through hopefully to be available for round one.’

St Kilda assistant coach Corey Enright said Webster’s bump was out of character.

‘He’s obviously shown some remorse there and I guess our thoughts are with the North Melbourne player in Simpkin,’ Enright said.

‘Hopefully he’s going to be OK and you never want to see anyone go down. We’ll deal with whatever comes out of it from there.

North Melbourne star Jy Simpkin (pictured being hit by Webster) has struggled with concussions in the past 

There are calls for Jimmy Webster to face a long suspension for the brutal bump

‘(Webster) is a great person and he’s had a long time in the game.

‘As we know with football, it’s one step here or one step there.

‘It’s a really fast game, faster than ever. These things happen really quickly.

‘We can only take Jimmy for the person that he is and he’s been a great character and great servant for our club.’

The incident came less than a week after Port Adelaide forward Sam Powell-Pepper was handed a four-match ban at the tribunal for a bump which concussed Adelaide’s Mark Keane.

Collingwood great Nathan Buckley declared Webster’s bump ‘at least twice as bad’ as Powell-Pepper’s and pondered whether it would result in a much larger suspension.