- Dr Sonja Hood has deleted her X account
- North Melbourne president since 2022
- Alastair Clarkson’s men are 0-4 this season
North Melbourne president Dr Sonja Hood has deleted her X account after being subjected to ‘revolting’ abuse on the social media platform.
It is understood Hood has received a plethora of negative messages from fed up fans online as the Kangaroos have lost four successive matches this AFL season.
As a result, Hood no longer has an online presence.
AFL reporter Tom Morris labelled the level of abuse Hood copped as ‘vile.’
North Melbourne president Dr Sonja Hood has deleted her X account after being subjected to ‘revolting’ abuse on the social media platform
Hood received waves of abusive messages from fans as the Kangaroos lost four straight matches this AFL season (pictured, Luke McDonald after losing to the Lions by 70 points)
‘She has been forced to delete her Twitter account in the last couple of days simply because of the vile abuse she’s been copping,’ he told Footy Classified on Wednesday.
‘She has received threats on North Melbourne, the way they are playing, people tagging her in tweets so they know she’s going to see them.’
North Melbourne were hammered by the Brisbane Lions by 70 points in round four during Gather Round in Adelaide.
It was their biggest deficit of the season to date.
Hood later admitted to Morris she ‘doesn’t feel the need to be part of that world’ following the avalanche of criticism.
The Roos have been struggling badly since Hood was made president in 2022 – but the appointment of four-time premiership-winning coach Alastair Clarkson last year gave long-suffering fans some cause for optimism
In April last year, Hood made a welcome return to football after being declared cancer free.
In an open letter published on the Kangaroos website, Hood said she had been given the all-clear from specialists after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
She replaced Ben Buckley in the hot seat at Arden St in February of 2022, at the time joining Peggy O’Neal (Richmond), Kate Roffey (Melbourne) and Kylie Watson-Wheeler (Western Bulldogs) as female club presidents.
On Sunday, Alastair Clarkson’s misfiring troops take on undefeated Geelong at GMHBA Stadium – arguably the toughest away trip in the competition.
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