Season 2025 - GWS

GWS

Coach – Adam Kingsley

2024 –

Points For – 7th
Points Against – 9th

Top 5 Best and Fairest

  1. Jesse Hogan
    =2. Lachie Whitfield
    =2. Tom Green
  2. Connor Idun
  3. Brett Daniels

2024 Rising Star Noms

Harvey Thomas (Rnd 14)
Darcy Jones (Rnd 17)

Ins – Cody Anderson, The Package, Josaia Delana, Oliver Hannaford, Harry Oliver, Jack Ough, Logan Smith

Outs – Isaac Cumming, Cooper Hamilton, Nick Haynes, Adam Kennedy, James Peatling, Harry Perryman, Braydon Preuss

My Prediction

That is quite a list of outs, and not a huge amount of ins. Their list didn’t strike me as particularly deep and it will be interesting to see how they go this year. It almost looks like the constant talk about Stringer is to distract us from all the players that left last year. Still, they made top four last year and it feels there is a lot of people predicting big things again this year.

The backline looks ok on paper and I don’t think the issues down back relate to them but rather a midfield that doesn’t always run both ways. Taylor, Idun and Himmelberg are a very handy main back three and having Whitfield and Ash running off half back gives them attacking options.

The midfield is full of talent. Josh Kelly’s output was down last year but we would expect that to improve, Coniglio was in and out but certainly better than previous years. Callaghan is very handy and then you have Tom Green and Ward who bring hardness at the contest. Depth outside of that is questionable and will be interesting to see if Stringer and Greene are able to do some serious midfield minutes.

The forward line reads well. Hogan is playing career football, Cadman looks a player even if number one pick felt like a reach. Stringer will give them another option and take some of the focus off Greene who alongside Jones and Daniels give them small options. Bedford and Riccardi look like being more depth players this year or coming in off the bench. All in all it is a good forward line.

It felt like they found a ruck in Briggs but he isn’t without flaws. Undersized and his tap work can be hit and miss, he is handy around the ground and compliments their game style. Kingsley served his apprenticeship and then some. He did a good job last year and needs to improve again this year with a lesser list.

GWS will feel like they missed a prime opportunity last year and the list changes this year make things very interesting. There is something about them I just don’t buy. They feel like they have been flaky with moments of brilliance forever. They could pull off a 2016 Bulldogs and get on a run at the right time, they could also miss the finals entirely. I don’t think they are a top four team. I think 7-9 is about the mark for them.

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I’m big on the Giants. They have quality players across the field, A+ superstars and match winners at both ends. Consistency/injuries are the only thing stopping them.
Expecting top four with a serious tilt at the flag.

Could have gone Back to Back.
They really blew it last year though.

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The Package will deliver for this mob!!

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I felt it was The Pies that broke them in the 2023 PF when Tobes had a snap late in the game and IIRC Sidey marked in the GS. That match took a bit of wind out of their sails.

26pt lead against the Swans early in the 3rd qtr (?).

44pt lead at home against Brissie.

They absolutely botched last years Finals series.
Win 1 of those games and they could easily be the Premier Side.

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Flag winners for mine

Heard one of their blokes on radio say that they basically have not reviewed or thought about the finals loss to Brisbane.

Alarming for mine. I never understand why clubs do that.

They’ll review a round 15 game against Fremantle within an inch of its life. But fail in one the biggest tests and it’s like nah we’ll just let that slide.

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Naicos getting away with ripping Tobes(?) head off late in the last also felt like a nail in the coffin

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I think they’ll be top four. They have a home ground advantage and seem to be decent on the road. They’ve got a 16 win list even if for a few injuries here and there.

2020s version of early 2000s Port Adelaide.
Should have 1-2 more years of top 4.
Not sure mentally they have what it takes to win it all.

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and the same thing was said about port until 2004.

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They were the best team in it in 23 but finished bottom 4 of the 8 at seasons end. Last year they didn’t click all year and the media predicting them for the flag told me how little of the giants they actually watch.

Their depth in the midfield is poor, they should have added some mature depth to it, you need to add extra peices to win a flag and in 24 and now 25 they haven’t done that, which is a mistake. Also last year they had a good injury run most of the year, which you can’t rely on again.

Their backline and forward line are pretty good, Buckley, idun and Taylor arguably the best 3 punch combination in the game, but the other 3 were pathetic in the finals last year. Error riddled and soft, Whitfield, himmelberg and aish are overrated.

This is coming from someone that watches them religiously every year and every week, coz one of my good mates is a western sydney local that goes for them.

I think 5 to 8 is about right, they lack depth and didn’t click last year. If they for some reason recapture the late 23 form they could win it, but we haven’t seen that in a long time and the squad is older and arguably weaker now than it was then.

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Crisp work from GWS once again…

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Hopefully orange turns into the red and black of the last 20 years.

so is stringer going to prison for…

Uh-Oh…looks super fit.

We know who’s coming to voice his displeasure !

Doesn’t he usually look this fit around this stage of the year? It’s after Round 8 that is the issue.

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Nino is going to get triggered multiple times this year by Stringer.

Then everyone will tell him that it’s irrelevant how well he goes because our window doesn’t coincide with the 1 or 2 seasons Stringer has left.

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Been here before

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