I’m sick of watching Jack Ginnivan’s treatment.
We are now two years into this abuse.
I’ll pause for the whips to counter witty retorts like “She deserves it” and “She’s crazy” and all that juvenile condemnation that has nothing to do with the reality of the situation.
How a kid in his second season of senior football (last year) was targeted by the AFL, and the constant harassment from commentators like Anthony Hudson and Brian Taylor, while much better qualified players went for free for years. it’s up. me
Those who scapegoated him in the AFL media should be ashamed. They won’t, because most of them thrive on sensationalism and hyperbole. At least Kane Cornes, as much as he was criticized, disowned Ginnivan and then defended him, while Gerard Whately was the only one who was genuinely remorseful.
In last year’s Collingwood-Essendon round 19 clash, Mason Redmayne almost ripping Ginnivan’s head off, then slinging him to the ground, should have been the AFL’s line in the sand.
It wasn’t.
AFL legend Leigh Matthews has spoken of how sickening it is to see a player go defenseless. Matthews was blasted on Twitter because, you know, he hit Neville Bruns once, as if one thing had anything to do with the other. And FFA? Well, they defended the initial contact and said the sling should have been loose.
I’m sick of this AFL endorsed story people are buying. I don’t dispute that Ginnivan, like other players, falters from time to time. But this belief that when he’s on the move, picking up the ball and trying to accelerate clearly that he’s leaning into the opposition to invite high contact, is the biggest fallacy.
When you move forward, crouch low, pick up the ball and try to explode clear, you are leaning forward. It’s physics.
But the AFL has sold it as a duck.
Similarly, with this arm out to take the high step, so what’s the alternative? Are you wearing a clutch? Or something like that every The player is expected to: trying to dodge it and break your opponent’s arm before it lands? Failure to do so would be remiss. However, the AFL sold you this lemon and you buy it yourself and resell it. I also have a swamp for sale if you are interested.
During Collingwood’s clash against Carlton, Ginnivan had his head ripped from the back and yet didn’t get it for free. How could he get into all that, considering he didn’t know it was coming? On commentary, Tim Watson and Cameron Ling definitely called it a free kick. Brian Taylor was silent.
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We can see how seriously FFA discussions are taken. There are concussion tests when a player takes a hit to the head. If a player fails the concussion test, he effectively misses the next game (and can only return 12 days after the concussion).
There’s also this big new minefield the AFL is trying to navigate as former players find out if the AFL is to blame for the long-term effects they suffered from concussions at more heady times in their careers.
We are not affiliated with Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) AFL. players go out there and face the risk of injury. But what the AFL is doing with Jack Ginnivan is sanctioning illegal contact by the opposition and enabling opponents not to tackle Ginnivan but to attack him and his head with impunity. This has now become an unsafe workplace. They are the AFL no protecting Ginivan. This is OHS issue.
The AFL better pray he never suffers concussion(s) and if he does, never has any long term effects as I’m sure any court would find them guilty. You don’t let a kid get spanked for two years and think you can just get away with it. You are merely an accomplice as the perpetrators of illegal acts.
And along with all this, we don’t even think about mental health. Ginivan opened up about her mental health battles last year. You can see the kid has lost some of his spark. It won’t be easy to take the field knowing that the opposition has a license to belt you.
Meanwhile, I admired Collingwood chairman Geoff Brown no Being a dial-a-headline, this is where I wouldn’t mind a blunt bombastic personality like Eddie McGuire challenging what’s going on and shouting at the AFL and the refereeing fraternity.
Perhaps that will only happen in the future after Ginnivan is out of the game and into retirement and navigating chronic traumatic encephalopathy from all the blows to the head.
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Enjoy the lawsuit then, AFL, because when the existing mandate is to protect the head, when the justified paranoia exists to protect the players not only from shocks in the here and now, but in the long term, when it comes to Guinean and how he’s being treated. , you have failed miserably in your duty of care, and no amount of punctuation in commenting on the rules will ever change that.
We see how more and more media figures are becoming. people who find it wrong.
For those like Hudson and Taylor who have led their own crusades against Ginnivan, I hope you are satisfied.
Today is Ginivan.
Who is next?
Because don’t think, don’t believe for a moment, there won’t be another player who dies until this is solved now.