What Jack Ginnivan thinks about high tackles

Jack Ginnivan has had a fantastic second year in the AFL for Collingwood. He’s an AFL pest and he loves it. Maybe his footy smarts are in his bleached hair or his rockstar attitude. His trademark “ducking” has been causing some talk in the AFL world recently.

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Jack Ginnivan has had a fantastic second year in the AFL for Collingwood. He’s an AFL pest and he loves it. Maybe his footy smarts are in his bleached hair or his rockstar attitude. His trademark “ducking” has been causing some talk in the AFL world recently. 


Will the AFL tackle this situation or will the small forwards be able to drop their knees and continue with their sneaky tactic? And have a read at what Jack thinks of it himself.


We’ve all seen that infamous training video of Ginnivan teaching fellow pies players the high tackle tactic. Where it looks as if Ginnivan is teaching his teammate, Jack Madgen, how to drop his legs and raise his shoulder so a high tackle is rewarded. A recent common tactic used by small forwards in the AFL.


From an outsider looking in I could see that it was just starting to be a part of the AFL now, but it's still annoying when the players, the fans and even Jack Ginnivan know he ducked but it’s still called a high tackle.


Last week Ginnivan went on the Goes Alright podcast with Caden Macdonald and revealed his thoughts on his tactic. When asked about the training video with Jack Madgen, Ginnivan explained “Instead of going to ground I was tryna stand up in the tackle and take it.”

And his reasoning behind this was actually more deep than I thought.

“There's an indication of when you go to ground, when you raise your arm up and go to ground and you’re on your knees it looks like you're just diving for [the ball] but you pick [the ball] up, stay up right and get [a high tackle] and you can handball or move…”


What amazes me is that this 19 year old kid is a whole step in front of the entire competition. Even if the AFL changes the high tackle rule, which it looks likely to do, Ginnivan will still be able to play his style of game and be successful. If he kept doing what he’s doing now and the umpires see that he’s ducking then Ginnivan will soon be called holding the ball since he’s going to ground when being tackled, but now with what he’s practising of standing up once he gets the ball, it still looks high and even if it's not called he can hand it off.


Jack Ginnivan is only going to get better.




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Quotes from Jack Ginnivan was from Goes Alright podcast by Caden Macdonald

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