JUST months after losing key playmaker Jarrod Harbrow to the Gold Coast, the Western Bulldogs are already trying to ensure that it doesn’t lose another young gun. This time it’s former Western Jet, Callan Ward, who grew up just a drop punt from the Whitten Oval in Yarraville. Ward is being tempted to Greater Western Sydney [...]
IT will be a genuine look to the future in AFL football on Saturday night when the two new licenses Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney make their mark in the NAB Cup against the Sydney Swans. Rugby defector Karmichael Hunt will make his debut in defence along with ex-Hawk hard man Campbell Brown for [...]
FORMER Western Bulldogs player Jarrod Harbrow believes most AFL clubs would be nervous about their star uncontracted players with Greater Western Sydney lurking in the background. Harbrow, who agreed to move to the Gold Coast at the end of last season after being offered a lucrative contract, believes there would be players who would be thinking [...]
GREATER Western Sydney has already flown the coup with rumours suggesting that young stars such as Melbourne’s Tom Scully and Adelaide’s Taylor Walker have agreed to lucrative contracts at the new club. Adelaide’s football operations manager Phil Harper said Walker’s management want to put contract talks on hold until the end of the season which [...]
WEST Coast Eagles excitment machine Nic Naitanui is in the eyes of GWS as their number one target with GWS likely to offer Naitanui a Gary Ablett-like contract. Naitanui would be a sensational promotional tool for the expansion club as it aims to crack the western Sydney market. Andrew Swallow knocked back a contract to [...]
GREATER Western Sydney have plunged up to $900,000 at North Melbourne young gun Andrew Swallow to join its new team in 2012. The stakes for Swallow are likely to heat up next year as there is already speculation that Swallow has signed with the new club. His younger brother David, who starred for the Gold [...]
GWS assistant coach Alan McConnell says the new club must take a punt on several delisted AFL players to act as mature age recruits for the club for next season. McConnell has declared that the club was willing to look outside the square in state leagues for mature age recruits but believed largely will look [...]
GREATER Western Sydney is privately fuming at the lack of organisation from the AFL in regards to the proposed northern conference state league that it is expected to take part in next season before entering the AFL. A club spokesperson this week said the club could not confirm which league it would be entering next [...]
GREATER Western Sydney appear likely to ditch the VFL and head to the new northern football league next season. Gold Coast, the Brisbane Lions and the Sydney Swans are expected to be involved. An official decision is likely to be made in the next fortnight, however a GWS spokesperson said yesterday that it was expected [...]
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