The nation’s capital is turning orange and charcoal, and the people wait patiently. Peter Crossing was at Manuka on Saturday.
Round 20 – GWS v North Melbourne: Firrito fulminates as the Roos bound away
August 12, 2014 by 2 Comments
AFL Round 17 – Fremantle v GWS: Dockers sink Giants
July 15, 2014 by 4 Comments
Trademark sparkle from the pen of D Zampatti whose muse is clearly footy (and not the world game). Nice piece on the Dockers’ untroubled win, the longer term prospects of GWS, and the possible course of Freo’s season (“Prepare the torpedoes!”).
AFL Round 16 – GWS v Adelaide: Day trippers
July 9, 2014 by 3 Comments
It’s a day-trip to Sydney for Canberra’s John Warhurst and Peter Crossing as they have an interest in the fortunes of both teams.
AFL Round 16 – GWS v Adelaide: Too big, too strong, too good
July 8, 2014 by 2 Comments
GWS sees a young, small side out-everything-ed by their more experienced Adelaide opponent.
AFL Round 12 – GWS v Essendon: Sluggish
June 10, 2014 by 4 Comments
Sun-bathing Sam Laffy summons the energy to file a match report from a beach in Split, Croatia. Of course.
AFL Round 11 – Hawthorn v GWS: We Giants will fight until the end
June 3, 2014 by 1 Comment
GWS devotee Kath Presdee, and Young Master, take great heart in the Giants’ narrow loss to the Hawks.
AFL Round 11 – Hawthorn v GWS: Hawks get the job done… just
June 2, 2014 by 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 6 Comments
GWS is getting into gear (first at least).
Some Might Say
March 18, 2014 by 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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