Legend calls out one-sided Ginnivan umpiring

Collingwood legend Tony Shaw has called on Hawthorn to seek answers from the AFL on the way Jack Ginnivan is officiated.

Ginnivan was at the centre of the Hawks’ 36-point loss to the Cats on Easter Monday but across the match, several contentious high free kicks in favour of the 20-year-old went unpaid — conspicuously to footy pundits.

The forward developed a reputation for ducking into tackles and playing for free kicks during his three seasons with Collingwood before he was traded to Hawthorn in the off-season.

While finishing the match with two scoring shots and 11 disposals, Ginnivan was taken high in several passages of play with no free kick awarded from the umpires.

As the tally mounted, Shaw implied that the umpires were refusing to award the forward free kicks for high tackles because of his previous imitations.

“I reckon there has to be something looked at with the Ginnivan thing,” Shaw told 3AW Football.

“He does duck sometimes and I don’t mind if they don’t pay that bit but there’s been a couple, probably two or three, genuine free kicks.”

While Matthew Richardson agreed commentator Anthony Hudson was not convinced that umpires were blatantly denying calls in Ginnivan’s favour.