If you were to undertake a detailed objective assessment of Tim Ginever's football ability - marking, kicking, pace, ball skills and so forth - you might conceivably end up wondering how they could possibly be combined to produce a player of league standard.

When Tim Ginever entered the playing arena he became so consumed by white line fever as to metamorphose, almost literally, into a completely different person from the happy-go-lucky larrikin who confronted the TV cameras during post-match interviews.

Tough, intense, courageous and dynamic, he was the heartbeat of a Port Adelaide side that won no fewer than seven SANFL premierships between 1988 and 1996.

His SANFL club made the Grand Final in all four of Ginever's captaincy years and they won the premiership on three of these occasions.

He is now working for Adelaide radio station 5AA, part of Australian rules football coverage and street reporter for the Breakfast Show in 2011 & 2012.