AFL legend Paul Roos believes Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell could be “completely fuming” over the conduct of Hawks ahead Jack Ginnivan during the last week.
Ginnivan has discovered himself in sizzling water as soon as once more after a cheeky touch upon Sydney ruckman Brodie Grundy’s Instagram the place he mentioned, “see u in 14 days”. Ginnivan’s Hawks will tackle Grundy’s Swans in a preliminary remaining in the event that they beat Port Adelaide on this week’s semifinal.
Hawthorn has thus far indicated that it has no downside with Ginnivan’s social media interplay, merely brushing it off as a joke between two former teammates, however Roos is not satisfied by the membership’s united entrance on the controversial ahead.
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“Sam Mitchell could be fuming, completely fuming,” he instructed the ABC AFL Every day podcast.
“That is their first remaining and so they’re a extremely good footy membership. Pull your head in, Jack. This can be a group sport, this isn’t about Jack Ginnivan.
“This can be a footy membership that everybody loves watching play and so they’re powerful and so they’ve acquired an incredible system. Do not spoil it in your teammates. That’s up on the board at Port each time the gamers stroll on this week. Does it make a distinction? I do not know, possibly, possibly not, but it surely’s simply pointless. It simply smacks of ‘I, I, I, I’ not ‘group, group, group, group’.
“I’d increase it, completely. He would’ve been in my workplace the subsequent morning no matter time coaching began.”
Roos mentioned the hazard with feedback equivalent to Ginnivan’s is that it will get away from the group ethos which is central to the tradition of Australian guidelines soccer.
“I’ve seen the way in which American media has gone and I’ve seen the way in which athletes have gone, the one factor that resembles a group in America now’s all of them put on the identical jerseys, that is it, every thing else is concerning the particular person,” he mentioned.
“One of many nice issues about Australian soccer is it’s concerning the group.”
Ginnivan has not been in need of headlines in his 64-game AFL profession. The 21-year-old attracted some controversy final week when he was noticed out at a pub the evening earlier than Hawthorn’s elimination remaining in opposition to the Western Bulldogs.
The dinner date together with his pals was ticked off by Mitchell and the membership after Ginnivan registered 15 disposals and a objective in opposition to the Bulldogs.
Ginnivan was additionally rebuked by his former head coach Craig McRae after attending the races the evening earlier than Collingwood’s grand remaining win final 12 months. He was traded to Hawthorn shortly afterwards in the course of the commerce interval.
