Former North Melbourne star Corey McKernan has taken a spicy swing at Essendon coach Brad Scott.

McKernan, reacted to a social media post by the Bombers, which showed Scott talking to that club’s former champions the mighty 2000 team.

The premiership heroes had gathered at Marvel Stadium on Friday night to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their famous flag.

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And Essendon posted a video of Scott talking (ahead of the game) about the team’s achievements.

In the address, Scott gushed over “our 2000 premiership team” and called them “arguably the best team of all time”.

“(They) really set set the benchmark in the competition for what a premiership team could look like. Had an all-time great season in 2000,” he said.

“Obviously, Sheeds (Kevin Sheedy) was the coach, Hirdy (James Hird) was the captain, legendary team, and a really important part of our football club.

“It’s certainly what we aspire to do, to come back to the heights that this team achieved in 2000 ... obviously, (they’re) always welcome to the club. It’s a great occasion for them, and hopefully we make them proud tonight.”

After the speech, Scott shook hands was with Hird and took part in a group photo with the past and present stars.

But all the praise and flesh-pressing clearly got under the skin of McKernan, who played against the past Essendon players and was a member of North Melbourne’s premiership team that had won the flag in the previous season.

“Good to see he could say hello to the past players when they make the effort to go into the rooms … must be a new thing he’s started doing 😜,” McKernan wrote on social media, with a sarcastic wink.

Scott of course also coached North Melbourne from 2010 to 2019, after McKernan had retired.

And back then Scott was believed to have a frosty relationship with many of North’s former champions and there were stories that he did not talk some ex-stars when they visited the rooms.

There was also an incident in 2019 when Scott was running onto the field during his final game in charge and he got awfully close to (if not bumped) former Kangaroo and media presenter David King.

King had been a strong critic of Scott while he was in charge of North, and called Scott “a visitor” to his beloved club.

King later said it was his belief that Scott did not fully embrace North Melbourne.

“I don’t think it’s any secret that we’re not great fans of each other, I don’t think that’s outside the flags to sort of say that,” King said a few years later.

Fans reacted to the McKernan whack, calling it “spicy”, and saying “shots fired”.

Some fans, however, said that Scott may have learned from past mistakes.

“It’s possible he has learnt from his past experiences and is now doing things differently,” one fan said.

Others told McKernan to “get over” himself.