How Port’s premiership glory is inspiring Giant challenge
A couple of stars that helped win Port Adelaide’s one and only AFL premiership will now attempt to mastermind their demise against GWS this week.
A couple of stars that helped win Port Adelaide’s one and only AFL premiership will now attempt to mastermind their demise against GWS this week.
The cavalry is coming for the Giants with captain Toby Greene knowing that this week’s clash against Port Adelaide is verging into must-win territory if they want to keep their premiership hopes alive.
The Giants have been missing personnel due to injury, but a more crucial part of their game has fallen away in the past month. LACHLAN McKIRDY unpacks how and why the Giants have fallen off the pace after being premiership favourites.
It will come as little relief to Damien Hardwick and the Suns but the AFL has admitted error in Gold Coast’s loss to St Kilda, while also weighing in on two more contentious calls.
Kevin Sheedy has reportedly left North Melbourne “furious” after a spicy radio interview about Alastair Clarkson’s future.
Mark McVeigh hopes to be Greater Western Sydney’s next senior coach but Mick McGuane is cautioning the Giants against that.
Jesse Hogan’s impressive season has been a bright point of an otherwise disappointing season for the Giants, who have rewarded the star forward with a new deal.
Matt de Boer was one of the Giants’ best bargain recruits in their history but told teammates, coach and staff he had played his final AFL game.
Giants co-captain Stephen Coniglio is more interested in helping his club climb the ladder than respond to the mass criticism he received in the past two years.
Caretaker coach Mark McVeigh raised eyebrows with his brutal assessment of the Giants’ performance against the Swans but is not shying away from it.
Caretaker GWS coach Marc McVeigh said some players had checked out of 2022 already and star Josh Kelly has responded.
The GWS Giants’ 73-point loss to the Sydney Swans has started a reckoning at the club after interim coach Mark McVeigh went off.
The Giants will unleash a fifth debutant in Saturday’s Sydney derby but this footballer has a background like none of the previous four.
Stephen Coniglio is yet to come to terms with the GWS Giants being among the AFL’s also-rans this season.
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