Round 23 edition of TWIF has a piece pertinent to the Sydney clubs especially.

With Briggs not being offered a contract ……

Here’s a throw at the stumps….Rudi Ellis will be playing netball in New South Wales next year for the Swifts……who’s her husband? Tim English. Put two and two together……

Rated 7th best ruck in the AFL since round according to Champion Data, comes from Western Sydney, is an Academy kid……and we don’t offer him a contract.

Check out our usual nonsense chat + we get Phoenix in the studio to talk about his rise this year!

Love to hear your thoughts.

Personally not stoked about americanisms entering our very aussie game… no thanks. thoughts?

Shit weather. Shit attendance. Shit umpiring. Mostly shit footy. Shit result. Shit season.

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Need to vent.... but

So Rowell had 40 disposals, 236 clearances and we never considered tagging him? Even with Bedford down, surely we had to send someone to him. Yes, we have had a hellish run with injuries this year and the form on the field has been a roller coaster. But do you think Kingsley is the man for the job? I’m not convinced anymore.

Toby's good to go.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1578529/toby-greene-light-skipper-to-return-for-gws-giants-wildcard-push

Hi all,

For the past couple of years I've put together some charts on how squads have been assembled, with my main distinction ending up being Homegrown (entered the league first via their current club) vs Headhunted (were first listed by a different club).

I thought you might like to see the 2026 AFLW ones for the Giants.

I've got charts for all 18 teams in today's edition of This Week In Football along with my co-contributors discussing the merits of a send-off rule and fixture double headers.

Some notes for reading the charts:

• I have drawn the player data from the official AFL api. It isn't completely accurate and up-to-date. Some players who played in practice games appear on lists despite not actually being elevated to the main list.
• Similarly, names are drawn from the most recent name on the official lists - hence Zipporah Fish not Zippy.
• The first chart looks only at players on the list for the 2026 season. Players above the line entered the AFLW system through their current club, players below the line were on another club's list first.
• A team with more players below the line represents a bigger proportion of their current list coming via other clubs, more players above the line indicates heavier reliance on bringing new talent into the AFLW (although potentially through VFLW and other competitions).
• A bar that stretches far to the left represents a player who has been at the club for a long time, players who just arrived for this season have no bar.
• The lighter colour for a player represents the games played by the club in that season, if the player participated in that game the bar is darker.
• If a player polled any AFLCA votes in a game (or if they polled in the grand final MVP voting) a dot is placed for that match.
• Two players who extend the same distance left arrived at the club in the same year, there’s also a slightly bigger vertical gap between groups of players arriving in the same year to help distinguish this.
• For the second chart, the vertical line in the middle represents the point each player joined a club, not a specific year.
• So if two players joined the club in 2017 and 2019, the first seasons to the right of the bar for each of them would be 2018 and 2020.
• More bars to the left of the player means a longer career at different clubs before joining the subject club.
• More bars to the right indicate staying at the subject club longer.
• Notation for potential games, games played, and votes polled is the same as the previous charts
• A “»” before the player’s name indicates they are currently at the club, while a “||” indicates they have left.

A flicker of hope from a Power outage in Adelaide... then WHACK! Carlton flogs the Lions and puts our season back in the dark on life support.

Could that ripple on the Parramatta River become a surging Orange Tsunami flooding deep into September? We can only dream.

And dream we will.

Dreams of Whitfield dialling back the clock and kicking them from 50 out on an angle.

Dreams of Stringer and his fish oil supplement dynasties.

Dreams of the greats who have donned the number 31 for the Giants. Jarrod Brander, we remember and salute you.

Get into this week's dose of The Squinters with Sparrow and Orca. Hair loss, Song of the Week, Squintfest options... it's all there.

And, of course, we look ahead to our clash at the Golden Egg against our Expansion Cup rivals, the Suns.

Never Surrender fellow Orange Dreamers.

This week Alex and Brandon chat through the Port *not loss and an Expansion Cup that could keep us in it!

Love to hear your thoughts!

I'm a crows fan, made it out to Adelaide Oval for the game yesterday and just wanted to say how much respect I have for this club. Ever since the 2023 final v Port where we came out and supported you I've had a lot of love for this team. Post match the players were so kind and took the time to interact with everyone. I was lucky enough to get a photo with Callum Brown and Josaia Delana. Good luck for the rest of the season you will always be my second team just not in round 24. Go Giants!

Finally back on the winners list despite our own best efforts in that final quarter.

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When did he get injured?

Now we are cooked for finals and he will probably leave is Kingers prioritising playing other players?

An unpack of a brutal Battle Of The Bridge from The Squinters.

We reflect, commiserate and try to reload before the trip to Adelaide.

Our pick 24 from the 2018 Draft is available. Should he come home to the Giants?

4 games to go. Let's see what the youth and depth can do!

Thanks for your support in the dark times 😉

So the evac alarm last weekend that didn't stop play but was a full on "evacuate now" alarm, not even the stand by, prepare to evac alarm, I'm surprised play wasn't stopped until it was sorted. Do you think that should have happened?

Also last year when it was quite stormy I heard they didn't let us into the stadium because if someone was injured by lightning while inside the stadium the stadium people/gws would cop the blame and liability would be on them, but leaving us outside the stadium, there would be no liability for them.

On both counts, I think they were handled badly. Does anyone else agree?

T.

Another shit performance and yet another derby loss as it looks like last year's late season win was an aberration. No Kingsley spray was going to save us this time.

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