DIRECTLY after its 135-point shellacking to the hands of Adelaide, Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy has criticised Melbourne-based AFL clubs for not having the “guts” to trade some of their experienced players for draft picks. It is understood that the Giants were after players in the ilk of Collingwood’s Dale Thomas, Carlton’s Matthew Kreuzer

ALREADY there is speculation about which ruckman Greater Western Sydney will pluck as it is set to trade aggressively at the end of the season. Coach Kevin Sheedy has identified that is the area the club needs to improve in dramatically after relying heavily on Jonathan Giles and veteran Dean Brogan in the early rounds

THE GWS Giants will be without the services of Dean Brogan for three games after the veteran ruckman was found guilty by the AFL Tribunal of rough conduct under the high bump rule. Yesterday’s Match Review Panel referred the incident where Brogan made contact with St Kilda’s Jack Newnes directly to the Tribunal. The collision

GWS Giants forward Jonathon Patton is set to miss the rest of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee during last night’s game against St Kilda at Manuka Oval. Patton, 19, went down during the second quarter after he was tackled by St Kilda’s Rhys Stanley. In obvious pain the

Guest contributor RowdyOne continues his series looking at each club’s best 22 players for the upcoming 2013 season. Is it premature to be saying that the GWS Giants have already passed the Gold Coast Suns? Maybe. But one thing seems pretty sure and that is that within a few years we will all be be talking about

DRAFT picks and talent can only get you so far and Kevin Sheedy is the perfect fit for the Giants at the moment but he will also instil this list with a key ingredient and that’s guts and determination from a young age.

WE have seen glimpses from Essendon big man Paddy Ryder but coach James Hird said in the after match press conference that he wants to see more consistent dominance from him after his outstanding display against GWS on Friday night

THE score line says something like this: in spite of nine lead changes the GWS Giants held a small lead for long stretches, Brisbane wasted its opportunities kicking 19 behinds and a late free kick in front of goal to Lions forward Sam Michael gave them a final boost and the win

CONTRACT season is well and truly in full swing and the GWS Giants have joined the action with an announcement late yesterday that they had signed seven players to contract extensions. Jonathon Patton and Dom Tyson headline the list that Giants Chief Executive David Matthews flagged as being significant for the club. “This announcement, along

GREATER Western Sydney showed some promising glimpses during round one of the NAB Cup to snatch a game from the reigning premier Sydney. All eyes were on No.1 draft pick Lachie Whitfield and his positioning was classy but sometimes looked a little bit nervous with his disposal. Case in point: his first kick in the

FORMER Hawthorn premiership player Stephen Gilham says he received an early reality check from his new club Greater Western Sydney upon arrival. “We had really honest chats about what to expect and what it would be like going from a club that was contending pretty strongly for a flag to a club that is developing,”

OUR final list on the final day of 2012: we look back on the year that was and give you our opinion on the Top 5 Recruits of the 2012 AFL season

LIST season is in full swing and we continue our end of the year top five series with a a look back on the year that was and give you our opinion on the Top 5 Rivalries of the 2012 AFL season. 1. Eddie McGuire v Mick Malthouse – Expect their to be an army-like

GWS Giants midfielder Dom Tyson ruptured his posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) at training on Wednesday and will undergo surgery as early as next week. Tyson, 19, apparently suffered the injury as a result of a collision during a training drill. “It was an unfortunate incident caused by a collision with another player as part of a tackling drill,”

COULD forgotten ruckman Jason Laycock make a comeback with Greater Western Sydney? Only his former coach Kevin Sheedy could formulate such a concept to have the former Bomber, who was under his tutelage, make a return to the big league. The Burnie premiership ruckman has dominated the Tassie state league and won the Darrell Baldock

THE GWS Giants have announced that they will not be selecting delisted Adelaide forward Kurt Tippett at next week’s pre-season draft, paving the way for him to be drafted by the Sydney Swans. Giants’ CEO David Matthews suggested that a combination of Tippett’s asking price and  the impact of his signing on the club’s culture

WE take a club by club look at this year’s draft and, where we have them, we link to our prospect profiles for more details and video of individual players

FOOTBALL NATION brings you the full list of retirements and delistings – club by club – and as they come to hand for

MAYBE the GWS Giants know something that rest of the world doesn’t. With Kurt Tippett’s playing future in the air and to determined by the AFL Commission when he meets with them next Monday the Giants have today announced that they have delisted ruckman Dean Brogan. Clearly there is an expectation (or at the very least

ONE door closes and another one opens. In fact the door has barely closed on the Israel Folau era (or should that be error) and already talk has shifted to the GWS Giants’ ability to now sign Kurt Tippett. Folau had been signed by the Giants on a deal that was estimated to be worth up

CALL it a chance worth taking or the experiment that went wrong. Call it over. At a press conference that was called for this afternoon, Israel Folau announced that he is quitting the GWS Giants and the AFL to return to rugby league and the NRL. The press conference, held at Skoda Stadium, was attended by Folau, GWS

              ROUND   DATE OPPONENT VENUE   TIME 1 Saturday, March 30 Sydney Swans ANZ Stadium Home 4.40pm 2 Saturday, April 6 Port Adelaide AAMI Stadium Away 7.10pm 3 Saturday, April 13 St Kilda Manuka Oval Home 4.40pm 4 Sunday, April 21 Melbourne MCG Away 1.10pm 5 Saturday, April

GREATER Western Sydney has snared Hawthorn premiership defender Stephen Gilham, while the Hawks have snared the talented Northern Territory talent Jed Anderson with a swap of draft picks. The Giants have sent Anderson along with picks 29 and 68 to Hawthorn, in exchange for Gilham and picks 28 and 65 in the upcoming draft. Hawks

THE Port Adelaide Football Club has today broken the trade week deadlock by announcing a deal to acquire Jack Hombsch and Jake Neade from the GWS Giants in exchange for pick 29 in the forthcoming AFL Draft. The trade gives the Giants a bucketload of early draft picks as they now have selections 1,2,3, 12, 14 and

AFTER a week in which his name was being floated around in trade talks, Greater Western Sydney big man Jonathan Giles is set to remain with the Giants after the club announced this morning that he had signed a new deal. The deal is for for another three years that will see Giles remain with the club

IN a deal the repeats the formula that last year netted highly fancied Jaeger O’Mara, the Gold Coast Suns last night struck a deal with the GWS Giants for the first pick in the mini-draft and used that pick to draft West Australian youngster Jack Martin. As part of  the deal the Suns and Giants have

AFTER getting an early Christmas present yesterday when they acquired Father-Son selection Jack Viney for the 26th pick in this year’s draft, the Melbourne Football Club has dived back into the trade market and done a deal to secure WA youngster Jesse Hogan. Hogan is a solid and very tough 17 year old key forward and the

SEE the full list of all the club best and fairest winners for 2012 here as Sam Mitchell collects his fourth medal at the Hawks

KEVIN Sheedy has been reappointed coach of Greater Western Sydney for 2013 which puts his senior assistant Mark Williams in line for a potential move to Carlton, perhaps under Mick Malthouse next season. Williams, the former Port Adelaide premiership coach, was a chance to take over the senior coaching position from Sheedy before it was

GREATER Western Sydney scored a record fifth Rising Star Nomination for one season with 18 year old Toby Greene taking the honours after his performance against Sydney in Round 14. Greene was channelling his inner Ablett in recording 31 disposals (16 kicks and 15 handpasses)  for the Giants on Saturday night and is a just reward for a

GREATER Western Sydney’s No.1 draft pick Jonathan Patton is still expected to make his AFL debut despite suffering an injury scare at training today. Patton limped off the training track today but the club confirmed the injury was more of a “cork”. Patton, who is described by some as the next Wayne Carey, given his

THE GWS Giants have their fourth different AFL Rising Star of the year nominee after Dylan Shiel took out the award for Round 10. Shiel, 19, joins team mates Jeremy Cameron (nominee for Round 2), Thomas Bugg (Round 5) and Stephen Coniglio (Round 7) as a winner of the weekly award after collecting 21 possessions, five

DERMOTT Brereton, the former Hawthorn great and current media personality, has joined the Kevin Sheedy’s GWS Giants coaching staff as a part-time assistant coach

RESULTS for Round 1 of the 2012 Premiership Season
SYD 14.16 (100) def GWS 5.7 (37)

ON Saturday, Israel Folau was reported after separate rough conduct incidents in the second and third quarters of the Giants NAB Cup match against Richmond. On Monday his case was heard by the AFL Match Review Panel and he was cleared on both charges

TOM Scully, the prized star recruit of the AFL’s newest club the GWS Giants, will miss the season opener with a fractured cheekbone

OUR senior editor BRENT DIAMOND previews the AFL season club-by-club and begins with his prediction for the wooden spoon this season. That is the new team – Greater Western Sydney

Is it the Curse of the Captaincy? Following on from yesterdays injuries to Brisbane captain Jonathan Brown and Melbourne co-captain Jack Grimes, reports have confirmed that GWS Giants co-captain Luke Power will miss a month

AFTER reports earlier this month from Richmond about their desire to do so, the Tigers now look to be set to playing a pre-season match in India next year

GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY We stuck with some familiar names here because most are untried at the new team. Israel Folau could be hit and miss but it’s exciting to have an NRL gun in your team. Stephen Coniglio and Dom Tyson have come off outstanding seasons. Steve Clifton should be a regular as a rare

ST KILDA utility Brendon Goddard has not ruled out a potential move to Greater Western Sydney after yesterday’s comments at a press conference. Speculation will be rife that Goddard, who was linked to GWS last season, may decide to be a marquee player at the Giants in 2013. It is believed he has always been offered

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