'Significant' unseen penalty after star's drug ban

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Jack Ginnivan's run-in with the AFL's illicit drugs argumentation has been labelled an "isolated incident" by Collingwood's caput of shot Graham Wright.

Ginnivan admitted to taking an illicit cause aft the club's grooming campy successful Lorne past period - resulting successful an array of punishments from Collingwood and the AFL.

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

Wright fronted the media connected Sunday morning, stating nary different Collingwood players were connected to the event.

"He was with immoderate different players and they weren't involved," Wright said.

"He was with idiosyncratic other successful the cubicle. He's admitted to that.

"Our different players weren't involved."

On Saturday, 9News reported that imaginativeness passed onto the Pies and the AFL integrity nit showed Ginnivan alongside different antheral successful a toilet cubicle astatine the Torquay Hotel connected Australia Day.

The brace were successful possession of a achromatic illicit substance connected a key, which was filmed by a subordinate of the nationalist and the imaginativeness aboriginal offered to media outlets.

Wright was incapable to corroborate which illicit substance Ginnivan was seen taking.

Last play the 20-year-old revealed that being astatine the centre of the AFL's perpetual escaped footwear furore had negatively impacted his intelligence health.

However, contempt his intelligence wellness battles, Wright reiterated that Ginnivan had taken work for his behaviour and shown remorse.

"Jack's backstage issues astir his intelligence wellness is thing helium brought up past year. In this lawsuit he's said it has thing to bash with immoderate of these actions successful this regard," helium said.

"So he's owned [his actions] from that constituent of view, but that's ongoing, dealing with our scientist and different aesculapian people."

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

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"[Ginnivan's] wealth isn't guaranteed, truthful helium really has to play, truthful it's a large good for him overall, the $5000 suspended," Wright said.

"But helium besides looses his lucifer payments for those games and evidently forfeits his spot successful the archetypal fewer rounds and we're not rather definite erstwhile he'll get in, truthful its specified a important outgo to him."

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