GWS star Toby Greene ahead of AFL Tribunal: ‘You don’t want to miss prelim finals that’s for sure’
With the Brownlow Medal days away and the AFL Tribunal hanging over his head, GWS Giants star Toby Greene is confident of a win against Collingwood on Saturday.
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With a Tribunal hearing hanging over his head tonight, GWS Giants star Toby Greene is confident of a win against Collingwood on Saturday.
Greene and teammate Stephen Coniglio chatted to Confidential as they took a break from a suit fitting ahead of Monday’s Brownlow Medal in Melbourne.
While Coniglio will be flying solo, Greene will be taking his mother, Kate.
“It is my first time in velvet and I like the feel of it,” he said, adding of his Brownlow date: “I am taking mum. I promised her when I was a kid if I ever got invited I’d take her and I left her for dead a couple of years ago so I thought I better take her this year.”
Greene has been the subject of much discussion over the past fortnight and will appear at the AFL Tribunal on Thursday night appealing a one match ban after being charged with making unreasonable or unnecessary contact to the eye region against Brisbane’s Lachie Neale.
“You don’t want to miss prelim finals that’s for sure. It has been an interesting week. I am just worrying about my football and the club is dealing with all of that off field,” Greene said. “Whatever happens, happens tomorrow night. I have full confidence in the boys on Saturday that we can get the job done no matter what happens so I am just looking forward to Saturday.”
Greene was cleared of a similar charge the week before.
“There hasn’t been too many (controversies), just a couple lately,” he said. “It has been a really enjoyable season. We were probably written off a fair few weeks ago about where we could go and if we could make finals.
“To win in Brisbane away from home and now to go down to the MCG for a chance to play in our first ever grand final, it has been an amazing year full of ups and downs and I am really looking forward to what this week brings.”
If successful on Saturday, GWS will take on either Richmond or Geelong at the 2019 grand final.
Before that though, the boys will walk the red carpet at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium wearing P Johnson and Joe Black suits from designer suit hire brand Mr Fierze, styled by Arrnott Olssen.
“We’ve got a lot of mates at other clubs and people you only bump into maybe once or twice a year so it is a fantastic night and a great privilege to be invited once again,” said Coniglio, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery earlier this season but is hoping to play in the grand final if GWS make it through. “If we get a guernsey I might make a late start-up I think. I have to have a really good training this week and hopefully Tobes gets a nod this week to play and he can help the boys get us there.”
Originally published as GWS star Toby Greene ahead of AFL Tribunal: ‘You don’t want to miss prelim finals that’s for sure’