Collingwood

Collingwood great Nathan Buckley has revealed a comparison his mother made between he and young gun Jack Ginnivan after the latter's latest impressive ...

He won an Anzac Day medal.” “You see in Ginnivan a player who plays with his heart on his sleeve. He keeps performing. “He doesn’t have to have more than five or six touches to have an impact on the game because he’s a surgeon with his finishing and he plays with such energy,” Buckley said. “You could see that he didn’t have the capacity, but in the VFL there was one particular time just before midway through the year and he had about five or six pressure efforts and he basically coughed up a lung, he came to the bench and this was early in the second quarter and he was gassed. “I sent my mum and dad with my tickets to go and watch the game on Saturday and mum sent me this text at 9:46pm – ‘Just love Ginnivan, he reminds me of you at the same age, the joy he takes in the game’,” he said.