AFL greats Luke Hodge and Kane Cornes rip into Jack Ginnivan for social media post

Hawthorn young gun Jack Ginnivan is in the spotlight again for all the wrong reasons.

After creating headlines for going to the pub the night before the Hawks’ win over the Western Bulldogs in the elimination final, the 21-year-old left a cheeky comment on Instagram that sent tongues wagging.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Luke Hodge fires warning after Ginnivan’s cheeky message.

Sydney star Brodie Grundy posted a series of photos following the Swans’ heart-stopping victory over the Giants and that’s where Ginnivan entered the chat, so to speak.

“See you in 14 days,” was the comment left by Ginnivan.

The pair are former teammates, having played together at Collingwood in the 2021 and 2022 seasons.

But the comment didn’t go down well, with many AFL pundits claiming it was disrespectful to Port Adelaide.

The Hawks face the Power on Friday night and will need to win to book a date with the Swans in the preliminary final.

Three-time Hawthorn premiership skipper Luke Hodge said the comment gives the Power some extra “ammunition”.

“Jack, Jack, Jack, what are you thinking?,” Hodge said on SEN.

“Him going out for dinner last week ... It was a pub, it wasn’t a restaurant, where he went was a pub. I probably wouldn’t have done it, but OK. Had some waters and was home at 9pm, no problems at all.

“When it comes to social media stuff, one thing you don’t do is give ammunition to the opponent.

“You’ve got to sit back ... he’s having a bit of a joke, he played two years with Grundy at Collingwood, so they know each other and it’s probably a bit of banter.

“But what you do is you send banter in a text message, you don’t put it out in the open for Port Adelaide to sit there and go: ‘Let’s use this and get stuck into Ginnivan’. He might like that.”

Hodge called on the Hawthorn leaders to step in.

“I’m not looking at Sam Mitchell to tell him not to do this, I’m looking at James Sicily, Jack Gunston, Luke Bruest and the leaders of that football club to say: ‘Finals are hard enough. Yes, you had a bit of success at Collingwood’.

“But they’ve been around a long time, especially Gunston and Breust. They know how hard finals are and they know that passion and emotions motivate players. You don’t want to go give anything to an opponent to try and make them come out any more pumped up than what they.

“I know we are changing with the times, but one thing that won’t change is you don’t put something out there that will make the opposition come harder at you.”

Port Adelaide great Kane Cornes agreed with Hodge and questioned Ginnivan’s actions.

“Jack Ginnivan has done it again. He is a distraction, and he has made it all about himself again,” Cornes said on SEN.

“He thinks he’s won already, he’s got to come to Adelaide on Friday night first.

“Is there anyone who can read the room less than Jack Ginnivan? Now, it’s all working beautifully for him at the moment and Hawthorn are embracing him and they’re happy for him to go to a pub before dinner and all of that, the celebrations … the social media stuff is great.

“But when you get ahead of yourself and it may be half a per cent motivation for Port Adelaide extra to just need that little thing to galvanise them ahead of Friday night …

“Ginnivan thinks he’s already through to a prelim. Why would he do that?”

Cornes also said he would be “filthy” if he was a teammate.

“It is not a distraction, I would want as a teammate and I’d be filthy about that. He got the sack from Collingwood for doing something similar. It’s bizarre,” he added.