Craig McRae will continue encouraging Jack Ginnivan to position opposition tacklers to the test as Collingwood stumble on readability from the AFL over excessive-contact free kicks.
Already a polarising teen in exactly his 2d season, Ginnivan used to be but again centre of consideration for the period of the Magpies’ narrow four-level lift over Hawthorn on Sunday.
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The 19-300 and sixty five days-aged acquired one early free kick for excessive contact and booted two first-quarter dreams from whistles in his favour.
But he additionally saw umpires wave play-on in numerous rather just a few incidents where he clearly felt aggrieved at no longer being awarded frees for excessive contact.
McRae talked about Collingwood would elevate the topic with the AFL this week seeking answers.
“Pondering that you simply might be additionally’t ranking paid a free kick attributable to we don’t indulge in that you simply’re getting free kicks … I’m no longer obvious if that’s the case,” McRae talked about.
“I’ll true ranking some readability with that.”
Jack Ginnivan celebrates for the period of Collingwood’s lift over Hawthorn. Credit: AAPMcRae rejected ideas Ginnivan is playing without cost kicks.
“Enjoying without cost kicks is a spell binding approach of hanging it,” he talked about.
“I feel players are in actual fact factual at averting tackles and learning easy ideas to evade tackles and making it no longer easy to be tackled.
“We checklist our players to employ time over the ball, meaning that you simply’re potentially going to ranking some front-on contact, nonetheless we have to protect the ball in front of us.
“Being tackled versus getting tackled, we practise that. I feel it’s a ability and it forces the tackler to in actual fact be on his splendid game.
“Is it throughout the foundations? There’s no rule against it at the minute.”
McRae talked about he will continue to aid his players to absorb interaction on tacklers, particularly after winning ground balls.
“Dusty (Martin) does it with an arm and Joel Selwood’s made a living out of it,” he talked about.
“I feel it’s wise play.”
Passe Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley sided with McRae, offering Tom Hawkins’ forward and ruck craft to illustrate of players rightly finding out the boundaries.
But Melbourne enormous Garry Lyon took the honest peep that Ginnivan and the Pies have to step encourage and ranking his ideas will continue to impress how he is umpired.
“My thought is he’s gone too a long way. He’s gone too a long way in his stumble on for a free kick in these cases,” Lyon talked about on SEN.
“I’m taking a glimpse at it going ‘you’re going to pay for it at some stage’. And he did.
“He ducked into one and got ripped round the neck … after which he overlooked out on one he must absorb got.”
In the interim, McRae played a straight bat when quizzed on a baffling resolution to penalise Magpies defender Darcy Moore for making contact underneath the legs of Hawthorn opponent Sam Butler.
It talented the Hawks a chief intention for the period of the third quarter, with replays showing Moore made no contact with Butler earlier than the latter went to ground.
The free kick used to be paid by the non-controlling umpire about 50 metres from the play.
“We create so many mistakes as players and as coaches, we’re human aren’t we, we’re allowed to create mistakes,” McRae talked about.
“Whether or no longer that one used to be or wasn’t (there), I feel we’ll are living with that.”
– with 7NEWS