{"id":124653,"date":"2025-09-07T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124653\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:39:09","slug":"how-ginnivan-and-watson-calmed-down-older-teammates-before-finals-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124653\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ginnivan and Watson calmed down older teammates before finals win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Battle has given a fascinating insight into the pre-game mindset of his teammates before they defeated GWS Giants in Saturday\u2019s Elimination Final<\/p>\n<p>While Hawthorn\u2019s experienced players were nervous, according to Battle \u2013 before the big game at ENGIE Stadium, it was two of Hawthorn\u2019s younger brigade who kept the mood light ahead of the crunch clash.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear the FULL interview on 3AW Football<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few of the older guys were a bit more nervous knowing it was an Elimination Final and a must-win game,\u201d Battle told 3AW Football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGinni (Jack Ginnivan) and Nick Watson, before the game, they\u2019re that relaxed. You wouldn\u2019t even know they were going out to play a final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: James Wiltshire\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Battle has given a fascinating insight into the pre-game mindset of his teammates before they defeated GWS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-124653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}