AFL clubs Hawthorn and Carlton have voiced their disapproval of a social media post making light of Jarryd Roughead’s cancer fight.

The comments mocking the four-time premiership player were posted on a popular AFL fan group on Facebook during Hawthorn’s five-point win over Carlton on Sunday.

Roughead has suffered from melanomas during his career, taking time out in 2015 and 2016 for skin cancer treatment.

Hawthorn chief executive Justin Reeves labelled the comments, which made light of Roughead’s battle with cancer, “completely unacceptable” and said they would not be tolerated.

“No person should ever be subjected to taunts, especially about issues as personal as this,” Mr Reeves said in a statement.

As a club we are fully behind all of our behaviours and will continue to make a stand against this toxic behaviour in our game.”

Carlton described the post, believed to have been made by a Blues supporter, as “disgraceful”, condemning the trolling abuse and forwarding it to the AFL integrity unit.

The Blues released a statement saying they had no record of the man, who has claimed his account was hacked.

“As a club, we absolutely condemn abuse and online trolling of any kind, and this behaviour has no room in our game,” the statement read.

“These comments were disgusting and do not hold any place in society. Our club will not stand for this behaviour and remains committed to holding such distasteful actions to account.”

Social media abuse mars AFL and AFLW seasons

The post was the latest in a string of abusive messages shared on social media during the AFL and AFLW seasons.

Adelaide Crows forward Eddie Betts was the target of “abhorrent and disgusting” racial abuse on social media in February.

AFLW star Tayla Harris became the centre of a social media trolling storm last month after a photo of her posted online was bombarded with misogynistic comments.

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Harris took to Twitter to respond to the abuse, describing those who posted the “derogatory comments” as “animals”.

There was swift condemnation of racist abuse directed at West Coast Eagles forward Liam Ryan on social media following the opening round of the AFL season.

One of the people responsible was identified as a Richmond supporter and his club membership was subsequently suspended by the Tigers.

Port Adelaide ruckman Paddy Ryder spoke out earlier this month after becoming a victim of racist abuse online, labelling comments made against him as “an attack” on Indigenous Australian culture and its people.

“We’re going to keep fighting the fight. We have got a lot of good people supporting us and the AFL is fully supportive,” Ryder said.

“We know it’s not something we’re going to eradicate overnight, so we’ve just got to keep on it and keep educating people and hopefully one day we’ll get there.”

– with agencies