- Hawks teammates cause commotion after unusual goal celebration
- Jack Ginnivan took to social media to stir the pot after the match
- The coach laughed off any serious animosity between teammates
Hawthorn’s Jack Ginnivan has attracted attention with a social media post about teammate Will Day after a wild incident during the Hawk’s win over Adelaide.
The Hawks kicked 10 of the first 12 goals to end the match, winning 16.11 (107) to 12.8 (80).
The two teams came into the match on similar form, having bounced back from a barren start to the season in recent weeks.
While the rising Hawks have been excellent, Adelaide has been terrible and winless in their last eleven games at the MCG, going back to the Crows’ big final season in 2017.
Hawks star Jack Ginnivan had a fiery moment with teammate Will Day after scoring a goal
Day yelled at Ginnivan and pushed him repeatedly after scoring in the third quarter
Ginnivan was ecstatic after scoring a goal in the final seconds of the third quarter before being mobbed by teammates.
However, Day seemed particularly agitated and shouted at Ginnivan and pushed him repeatedly.
“I love this guy, just an excited party chill OTTNO (on to the next one),” Day wrote after the game on X
Ginnivan’s response to the post raised a few eyebrows.
“We hate each other,” he wrote.
Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell was not at all concerned about the incident, explaining that the players are in fact very close.
“They’re very close, I kind of call them the villains,” Mitchell said at his post-match press conference.
Ginnivan raised eyebrows after the match by posting on social media that he ‘hates’ Day
Coach Sam Mitchell says he wasn’t worried at all about the pair who he says are good friends
“There’s a very small group of players, they spend all this time together, and they all have their parties and all that stuff.
“I think what happened was they ended up in ‘Ginni’ because his two best friends were right in front of him, he didn’t see them, and he had a shot on goal. They love him there. “Daysy” is like, “That’s a boy, you made up for it.”
“I think the jokes those guys make, in a funny way, is that they’re having a lot of fun playing football as young men in their early twenties. But in the same way, they have come to hold each other to a higher standard. If you look at us as a group, I think they’re a good snapshot.
‘They started their careers having fun, and perhaps not doing everything they should have done. Now when they go outside of what they know is best for the team, they pull each other up so the coaches don’t have to get involved, and they basically run themselves.”