Posts Tagged "Greater Western Sydney"

A few days out from the AFL Grand Final you’d think all the attention would be on the game, right? Wrong, following GWS chief executive Dale Holmes slip-up where he revealed a club request to see the Giants face city-rivals Sydney Swans in a stand-alone Round One fixture up against the NRL’s opening weekend of [...]

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The signing of James McDonald to Greater Western Sydney is a great story for football. It’s a story that should have been more prevalent with the Gold Coast when they entered the competition this year.

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The AFL has warned the worrying trend of one-sided matches could increase next year as a result of the competition’s expansion.

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Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy says his assistant Mark Williams should be a prime contender for the vacant AFL head coaching berths.

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Code-hopping Greater Western Sydney star Israel Folau will tackle Sydney’s reserves this weekend after enjoying his first major break from the AFL classroom.

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Greater Western Sydney has made a five-year offer to Melbourne AFL star Tom Scully believed to be $1 million a year.

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When 21-year-old Western Bulldog Callan Ward weighed up the pros and cons of moving to Greater Western Sydney, he would’ve wrote on top of his list on one side ‘five million dollars, set myself up financially for life,’ and on the other, ‘breaking club loyalty’. Incredibly, indications are he’ll stay a Bulldog.

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Greater Western Sydney assistant coach Mark Williams says the club must do whatever it takes to turn the area’s multicultural youngsters into AFL fans, despite the indigenous code being an unknown quantity to most of them.

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Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy is hoping his side grab both bragging rights and immense experience on Saturday when they host Sydney reserves.

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The bar for making the AFL finals will be raised to its highest level in almost two decades next year. The league has decided to keep the top-eight finals format when the introduction of Greater Western Sydney expands the competition to 18 teams in 2012.

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Melbourne coach Dean Bailey says Greater Western Sydney remains a taboo topic in his conversations with Demons star youngster Tom Scully.

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As we enter the middle third of the year, the recruiting concessions of the AFL’s 18th team has heated up contract talks with players. But as evidenced in the last off-season, coaching movements are equally controversial when trying to build a winning team.

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Greater Western Sydney’s wily football operations manager Graeme Allan can forget about leaving his calling card for emerging Brisbane Lions ruck-forward Matthew Leuenberger.

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Gold Coast’s historic Round 5 victory over Port Adelaide may have silenced some of the cynics taking aim at the AFL’s bold expansion project, but last weekend was a stark reminder of the reality of the situation. While the Suns were thumped in record fashion by Essendon by 139 points, the GWS Giants proved uncompetitive [...]

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Fremantle are confident years of meticulous list management planning has left them in good stead to fend off any attempted player grabs by new AFL club Greater Western Sydney.

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Three years out of the coach’s box, Kevin Sheedy still felt some of the same old emotions as he guided his new team Greater Western Sydney for the first time.

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When Eddie McGuire trawled through possible foods to sum up the AFL’s Greater Western Sydney experiment, he might just as easily have settled on apple pie as falafel.

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Sydney coach John Longmire is trying to embrace the unknown rather than decry it. Longmire has elected to wait until after his side meets Greater Western Sydney in the AFL pre-season cup on Saturday before he passes judgment on the worthiness of the underdeveloped Giants to take part in a senior fixture a year early.

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Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy is contemplating trying to coax former Melbourne great James McDonald out of retirement to help assist his collection of raw youngsters.

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The GWS Giants have lost their first AFL match – albeit a trial – after succumbing to a mishmash ACT outfit in the nation’s capital on Saturday.

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