Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley insists it wasn't personal.
But he's savouring the Power's 30-point win over Hawthorn as particularly sweet.
Port supporters waved their arms like airplanes after Hinkley's charges dished out the Hawks' first defeat of the season - 18.13 (121) to 14.7 (91) - at Adelaide Oval on Sunday night.
"That's okay for the fans, that is what footy is about," Hinkley said of Power fans mimicking his act after last year's semi-final win against the Hawks.
"I don't care for it too much.
"I have said enough around what happened and I apologised and I will be saying it again to the Hawthorn club: I was disrespectful and I didn't mean to be, but I was.
"Fans can now play with that and use it.
"I have been around a long time, I have seen Sheeds (Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy) with his jacket waving and those sort of things.
"It doesn't hurt too much I don't think, as long as it stays inside and it doesn't get to blow to something more than that."
Port blitzed the Hawks, creating a whopping 71-point lead late in the second quarter.
But Hinkley dismissed as irrelevant to the result any lingering controversy from last year's semi-final, when he was fined $20,000 by the AFL for goading Hawthorn players.
"The rivalry in sport is great... we sometimes overplay it a little bit," he said.
"Both sides will embrace rivalry and we always are up for any of those sorts of things but let's not let them go too far the wrong way."
More important, for Hinkley, was the Power beating the Hawks to steady their season at a two-three win-loss record.
"We needed to win," he said.
"They're professional performers and they know at 1-3, our season was getting into some challenging positions.
"We were always pretty confident in if we can play the right way we can win lots of games of footy still.
"We are capable of that type of powerful performance and it takes a lot of things to go right ... we didn't have a passenger at all in the first half."
