Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board

As I say, in nigh on 60 yrs a Piesman, ive never seen a young player, a kid, cop as much flak, boos, as Jack has, and i go right back to the days of a young Barry Price, Len Thompson (played his first game at 17), Kink, (was just 16), McKenna, the Shaws, going on into the 80s, Daicos, Banks, Millane, 90s, Clokes, Roccas, etc beyond, to now. Ive never seen anything like this, its outrageous, and must cease.

Might just have to go and put a #33 on my blank Pies jumper then.

The media and all the sooks out there can get farked. Ginnivan is a saint.

Piesnchess wrote:As I say, in nigh on 60 yrs a Piesman, ive never seen a young player, a kid, cop as much flak, boos, as Jack has, and i go right back to the days of a young Barry Price, Len Thompson (played his first game at 17), Kink, (was just 16), McKenna, the Shaws, going on into the 80s, Daicos, Banks, Millane, 90s, Clokes, Roccas, etc beyond, to now. Ive never seen anything like this, its outrageous, and must cease.

Totally agree with you. That is why I have never rated the hacks in the footy media, except for a very few. These so called journos seem like they are fallback fools who weren’t good enough for other more prestigious roles. You can tell that they go with the usual flow of loving their team, treating other teams with equal warmth and of course hating Collingwood. Not many brain cells required for that role, just followers and never leaders.

I would love nothing more for Collingwood to ban all media from anyone who’s on the Collingwood payroll and pursue legal action against individuals bias and defamation toward the club/players, with all the might that Collingwood has.

In following the Pies for 60 years, Nick Daicos is the best first year player I've seen. Others have shown brilliance in their first seasons but no one has come close in their first season to Nick's level of class at such a high and consistent level.

Ok, Nick is the best first year player in the AFL by a mile, but what about Jack Ginnivan! For all of the rubbish that's unfairly been written and said about him he finished fourth in the Rising Star award. That's massive. He deserves credit as does the coaching staff. Jack is a future star!

Hear hear! It’s a miracle he didn’t quit footy, but put his head down and kept fighting.

5 goals against the bombers and the medal on ANZAC day.
3 goals on 5 occasions
2 goals in 5 games and singles in every other game bar 3 this season.

The Pies would not be in the top 4 were it not for Jacks consistency.
He is also pretty accurate when shooting for goal, scoring 36.18.

I love the kid.... and so do my daughters

Such a big effort for a kid picked up off the rookie list. Such a smart footballer.

He should also win the award for the continuing trend of 'cheeky' small Collingwood players eg. Lou Richards.

His kicking skill seems to be elite both feet and just about never misses a target or a goal

When he is not kicking goals, he will be running/chasing/leading, pressuring the opposition, offering assistance/creating opportunities for his teammates.

And more fun than Daisy Thomas.

I keep hearing commentators and others call him “small” and “little man” but he’s 185cm! Solid build too. Grown a fair bit since we rookied him

stui magpie wrote:Such a big effort for a kid picked up off the rookie list. Such a smart footballer.

Yep. Very smart and instinctive. I always wonder about players training commitments and their desire to improve but Hine recently declared him as a hard worker in both the off season and on the track. 12 months ago he never ventured outside the 50 metre arc and now he’s winning contests up the ground and using the ball well. His improvement from a good VFL player to a 36 goal small forward in the AFL is an absolute credit to all his work ethic at training.

You can also see it in his goal kicking. Anywhere within range, he deliberately lines up and whether he's going a drop punt, a checkside or an around the corner, he doesn't hope it's going through he expects it to go through.

Lots of practice.

The other special thing about Jack is his attitude and demeanour
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He cops a lot from opposition players and the crowd and isn't a favourite of the umpires.
But he doesn't" whinge and complain.
He just keeps smiling and moving onto the next contest.
Unlike some of the stars like Franklin and Dangerfield.

And he is smarter than people realise.
I feel hh will get even better as time goes.
Just love this boy..