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Magpies star Jack Ginnivan is rarely out of the headlines, and he’s garnered attention yet again after an ugly alleged chicken wing tackle on Patrick Dangerfield in Collingwood’s loss to Geelong on Saturday.
Dangerfield was reportedly ‘furious’ after Ginnivan appeared to wrench his arm back while the Cats star was pinned to the ground.
While not spotted during the live broadcast, new angles of the incident after the game appears to confirm Ginnivan did execute a chicken wing on Dangerfield while teammate Taylor Adams was pinning him down.
Dangerfield could be seen grimacing with pain after the tackle, which happened in Collingwood’s forward 50 during the first quarter.
An alleged chicken wing tackle by Collingwood star Jack Ginnivan on Geelong’s Patrick Dangerfield has earned the ire of the footy world
It was an act blasted by Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton, who said he saw the incident take place while reporting from the sideline – and insisted he would be filthy if one of his teammates had done it.
‘I saw it and had I been a teammate [of Ginnivan’s] I would’ve been incensed by it,’ the Hawks great told News Corp.
‘It had nothing to do with playing our sport. It wasn’t a spur of the moment, it was something designed to hurt somebody when play was dead.’
Hawthorn great Dermott Brereton has slammed Collingwood star Jack Ginnivan for his alleged chicken wing tackle on Saturday
Dangerfield, who has had a stop-start season this year due to injury, was ‘furious’, and believed he was about to suffer a dislocated elbow as Ginnivan appeared to wrench at his arm.
‘The down the ground footage, it’s not good. Seriously, it’s not good,’ Mark Robinson said on Fox Footy show AFL360 on Monday night.
‘Patrick Dangerfield, my understanding, he was furious at the time, furious when he got to the bench and spoke to the club after the game.
‘Ginnivan sort of rolls on him and grabs an arm and rolls him over. He winces there, Dangerfield. Arms aren’t supposed to do that, go in that direction … you can’t be doing that,’ said Robinson.
Patrick Dangerfield (on the ground) grimaces in pain after Jack Ginnivan (blonde hair) allegedly wrenched his arm back in a chicken wing-style tackle
Geelong footy boss Simon Lloyd told Robinson the club would ‘leave it in the AFL’s hands’, but it was clear Dangerfield, the 2016 Brownlow Medallist, was not happy with the actions of Ginnivan, even when given time to process it.
Many footy fans pointed out the Ginnivan himself was the victim of a chicken wing tackle earlier in the season; but in this case the opponent who perpetrated it, Fremantle’s Sam Switkowski, copped a two-match ban.
Sam Switkowski (purple jumper) pins Jack Ginnivan’s arm behind his back in an illegal ‘chicken wing’ tackle that saw the Docker suspended for two matches
Footage of the tackle in Collingwood and Fremantle’s round 10 clash shows Switkowski pinning Ginnivan’s arm, before further twisting it behind his back.
Fortunately for the Magpies’ rising star he was unhurt in the incident – which, like this Dangerfield incident, also went completely unnoticed by umpires during the game.
AFL House took a dim view of the illegal tackle, though, deeming the offence ‘serious misconduct’, with Switkowski unable to enter an early plea.
As of Tuesday morning, however, Ginnivan faces no sanction from the league.
Jack Ginnivan (right), pictured with Magpies teammate Callum Brown, has often found himself in the headlines this season
It was an action prominent pundit Robinson said needed to be stamped out.
‘There’s codes in football amongst the players … chicken-winging is certainly out because the person’s vulnerable,’ he raged on AFL360.
‘You can pop a shoulder or dislocate an elbow. I’m not picking on Jack Ginnivan, but this is a great game to play, you’ve got to respect aspects of this game.
‘Craig McRae and the footy department have got to sit him down and say, mate, that can’t be done,’ said Robinson.
It wasn’t the only controversial Ginnivan moment during the match, either.
The livewire forward faced the wrath of disgusted footy fans after appearing to dive forward dramatically in a marking contest in a bid to draw a free kick.
Magpies star Jack Ginnivan flies forward during a marking contest with Geelong player Zach Guthrie
Adelaide Crows star Rory Laird said there might ‘have been a little bit’ of staging from Ginnivan towards the back end of the season, which meant even if he was deserving of a free kick, he wasn’t getting them from fed-up and confused umpires.
‘He’s been the topic of conversation for diving motion … it’s a bit of both. Sometimes he can get them and sometimes he can’t,’ he told SEN.
One fan said Ginnivan’s apparent dive was ‘bad for football’, while another commented on Twitter that the Collingwood star might have gotten the free kick had he not ‘gone for the triple backflip’.
After making his debut to little fanfare last season, Ginnivan has exploded into the footy world’s consciousness with a dazzling season, albeit besieged by claims he stages for free kicks and off-field scandals.
The exciting small forward, who has kicked 36 goals from 20 games this season, produced a sensational performance in his side’s ANZAC Day win over Essendon, earning himself the famed Best of Ground medal for an entertaining five-goal haul.
His on-field exploits have been overshadowed somewhat by his antics off the field, unfortunately for the young gun.
Jack Ginnivan (left) and Isaac Quaynor (right) were forced to apologise after a TikTok video emerged of the pair rating women
Ginnivan was forced to apologise alongside teammate Isaac Quaynor in June after a video emerged of the duo rating women on TikTok.
Last week, sexually suggestive selfies emerged of him grabbing at his crotch asking an unknown woman: ‘What you wanna do’, with the club declining to comment when asked by Daily Mail Australia.
Ginnivan and his Magpies will look to rebound this Saturday, when they take on the Dockers at the MCG for a spot in the preliminary final against Sydney.