{"id":38061,"date":"2025-08-01T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38061\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:18:15","slug":"hawthorns-jack-ginnivan-sticks-up-middle-finger-at-adelaide-crows-fan-star-likely-set-for-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38061\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn’s Jack Ginnivan sticks up middle finger at Adelaide Crows fan; Star likely set for fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Livewire Hawthorn<\/a> forward Jack Ginnivan<\/a> will almost certainly be fined after sticking up his middle finger at an Adelaide<\/a> fan after the Hawks’ loss on Friday night.<\/p>\n

In reply to a video of it circulating on Instagram, the 22-year-old wrote: “Best coin spent.”<\/p>\n

After a 14-point loss in front of a 50,654-strong crowd at Adelaide Oval, Ginnivan gave the middle-finger salute to a Crows fan as he walked up the race.<\/p>\n

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During the game, he won the ball at a stoppage, snapped a goal off his left boot and put his hand to his ear. He copped a chorus of boos in reply.<\/p>\n

Ginnivan finished the game with 20 disposals and a goal.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Ginnivan after the game at Adelaide Oval.\u00a0Seven<\/p>\n

During West Coast’s loss to Brisbane at the Gabba in round two, former No.1 draft pick Harley Reid stuck his middle finger up at Lions fans. The AFL<\/a> fined him $1000.<\/p>\n

After Geelong’s win over the Crows at Adelaide Oval in round five, star Cats midfielder Bailey Smith gave an opposition fan the double-finger salute as he walked up the tunnel. The AFL hit him with a $1000 fine.<\/p>\n

During Gold Coast’s clash with GWS in round 15, Suns coach Damien Hardwick stuck his middle finger up in reply to an umpire not awarding a free kick. Footage of the incident surfaced on Fox Footy’s AFL 360 a day after the game, and the AFL slapped the premiership-winning coach with a $2000 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Livewire Hawthorn forward Jack Ginnivan will almost certainly be fined after sticking up his middle finger at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-38061","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38061","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=38061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}