Ex-AFL stars Nathan Bassett and Andy Collins have been fined for a half-time dust-up while coaching rival SANFL clubs.

Bassett, coaching Norwood, dished out a hip and shoulder bump to West Adelaide’s Collins as they made their way up a players’ race on Anzac Day.

Bassett, the ex-Adelaide defender, and Collins, a triple Hawthorn premiership player, were disciplined by the SANFL tribunal on Tuesday night.

The tribunal heard the latest chapter in an ongoing rivalry between the two coaches started after the halftime siren, when Collins swore at Norwood player Jace Bode.

Entering the player’s race, Bassett delivered his bump on Collins.

“It was a good hip and shoulder. He just bumped me off the wall,” Collins told the tribunal, the Adelaide Advertiser reported.

The two coaches, who had distinguished playing careers in the AFL, started grappling as a security guard tried to intervene.

Several Norwood players then got involved with Bode punching Collins in the head.

Bode argued he was trying to separate the two coaches and Collins described the punch as a “light, glancing blow”. But the Norwood player was suspended for three games.

Bassett, whose Norwood won last year’s SANFL premiership with a win against Collins’ West Adelaide, was fined $5000.

Collins, who played 212 games for the Hawks, pleaded guilty to using offensive language and was fined $2000.