Pies gun banned over off-season drug use

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Collingwood young weapon Jack Ginnivan has been handed a two-game suspension from the AFL aft imaginativeness emerged of the guardant with an illicit substance during the off-season.

In a connection released Saturday evening, the AFL said Ginnivan "admitted" to cause usage during a probe by the league's Integrity Unit.

As punishment, Ginnivan has been suspended for rounds 1 and 2 of the 2023 play and slapped with a $5000 (suspended) fine.

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During his suspension, the 20-year-old volition besides beryllium incapable to contention Collingwood's pre-season trials against Carlton and Hawthorn and ineligible for VFL selection.

On Thursday, the AFL Integrity United was contacted by the Pies concerning imaginativeness that had emerged of Ginnivan with an illicit substance successful Torquay successful January.

9News Melbourne reports that the imaginativeness shows Ginnivan alongside different antheral successful a toilet cubicle astatine the Torquay Hotel connected Australia Day, with a achromatic illicit substance connected a key.

Collingwood's wide manager of shot Graham Wright said helium was "incredibly disappointed" successful Ginnivan's actions.

"As a club, we are incredibly disappointed to person observed imaginativeness showing Jack Ginnivan with an illicit substance," helium said successful a nine statement.

"The imaginativeness was captured by a subordinate of the nationalist pursuing the club's pre-season campy successful January and was distributed to media successful caller days.

"All players and unit are continually educated connected due behaviours and we expect everyone astatine our nine to uphold the highest of standards arsenic representatives of the wider Collingwood community, our members, supporters and firm partners.

"We volition proceed to enactment intimately with Jack, who has owned his behaviour, to supply him with the enactment and continual acquisition helium needs arsenic helium continues his travel astatine Collingwood."

Ginnivan besides acknowledged his wrongdoing, saying helium had "fallen good short" of the expectations demanded successful nonrecreational sport.

"I privation to instrumentality ownership of my actions successful the imaginativeness which shows maine with an illicit substance," helium wrote successful an Instagram story.

"I recognize that arsenic an AFL player, I person standards I request to conscionable and, connected this occasion, I person fallen good abbreviated of the standards expected of maine arsenic a footballer and arsenic a typical of Collingwood.

"I americium genuinely atrocious to everyone that I person fto down with my behaviour. Firstly, my household and the Collingwood shot household who each enactment maine truthful good connected and disconnected the field. To our nine members and fans, our sponsors and the AFL, I americium alert my mediocre decision-making has impacted each of you and for that, I besides apologise.

"I person made mistakes on the mode and I'm determined to larn from them successful bid to beryllium the champion idiosyncratic and footballer I tin beryllium to debar letting radical down which is what I person done here."

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