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AFL Round 11 – Hawthorn v GWS: Hawks get the job done… just

June 2, 2014 by Jeremy Hill 5 Comments

Did they improve (hugely)? Or were we undermanned? So asks Jeremy Hill having seen GWS give the Hawks a real scare.

AFL Round 10 – GWS v Richmond: Jack the Giant Slayer

May 26, 2014 by Cheryl Critchley 12 Comments

From Benny Hill to King of the Hill! Cheryl Critchley travelled 875 kilometres to see the Jack and the Tigers get downright ferocious on the Giants.

AFL Round 10 – GWS v Richmond: Monaros running on one cylinder

May 26, 2014 by Earl O'Neill 4 Comments

Earl O’Neill cannot go with the banality of calling GWS the Giants so he has dubbed them the Monaros. He watches as they get a flogging and then finds an unlikely day’s highlight.

AFL Round 5 – Adelaide v GWS: the (remarkable) view from the mountain

April 22, 2014 by Dave Brown 5 Comments

Climbing, biking, a few drinks and some footy: all part of the Brown ritual in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges.

AFL Round 5: Adelaide v GWS- Jesus Was Way Cool, but Dangerfield is Risen

April 21, 2014 by Mickey Randall 16 Comments

Patrick Dangerfield is back, and the Adelaide Oval, in all its glory, receives him lovingly.

Round 4: GWS v Western Bulldogs: It’s against the law to frown in our capital city

April 14, 2014 by Mick Jeffrey 5 Comments

Mick Jeffrey benefits from a happy coincidence as his Dogs are playing in Canberra the weekend he is there to run in the marathon event.

AFL Round 3 – GWS v Melbourne: I’ll Take Ugly

April 8, 2014 by steve duffy 3 Comments

Being an Auskick half-time umpire means you miss plenty of the game. But in this case it didn’t matter much. It was an ugly match, but Steve Duffy will take ugly any day of the week if there is four points at the end of it.

AFL Round 3 – GWS v Melbourne: The First And The Last

April 6, 2014 by Earl O'Neill 6 Comments

GWS is getting into gear (first at least).

Some Might Say

March 18, 2014 by Franc de Borges 5 Comments

Franc de Borges urges caution in analysing the first four matches of the AFL season.

We Will Never Surrender: Why Saturday’s AFL result was a Giant Deal

March 18, 2014 by Preston Towers 6 Comments

Fantastic analysis of the place of the Giants in Sydney Australian footy culture, and in the broader football life of the city. Preston Towers has lived it, and thought about it, and argues a very clear case.

AFL Round 1 – GWS v Sydney: Valiant E49 Chargers v Toyota Priuses

March 17, 2014 by Earl O'Neill 7 Comments

Earl O’Neill captures the excitement of the first round of AFL footy: swapping footy teams, avoiding lightning strikes, and girls doing the Irish Jig. With the Valiant E 49 Chargers (or GWS) speeding up, all other teams better look left and right before stepping onto those ovals.

AFL Round 1 – GWS v Sydney: Oh, What a Night!

March 17, 2014 by steve duffy 8 Comments

Steve Duffy has seen the storms part and arrived at the promised land. David’s slingshot has felled the Swans’ Goliaths.

AFL Round 1 – GWS v Sydney: Resurgent Giants Leave Swans Thunder-Struck

March 16, 2014 by Michael Shillito 5 Comments

Michael Shillito braves the elements to see an historic moment: GWS’s unlikely victory over the Swans.

AFL Round 22 – GWS Giant v Richmond: Sheedy’s next move

August 27, 2013 by Catherine Durkin 2 Comments

Kevin Sheedy has had many reincarnations throughout his career. The most recent of them concluded on Sunday, leaving the rest of us to ponder what he will do next.

AFL Round 21 – Brisbane v GWS Giants: Talent tracking

August 20, 2013 by Almanac Admin 2 Comments

For one who played the game in such an uncompromising, straightforward manner as Vossy, Geoff Woolcock has always found it intriguing to witness first hand the wild variety of opinions about his coaching prowess in his home city.

AFL Round 20 – Fremantle v GWS Giants: 100 game celebration, goal of the year and lunch with the Fremantle Mayor

August 16, 2013 by Almanac Admin 5 Comments

Di Waddingham’s footy “weekend” was like no other, starting on a soggy Wednesday night flying to Perth and finishing with “fisty cuffs” between two taxi drivers in the wee hours of Monday morning back at Melbourne airport.