12 hours ago, DubDee said:

If 19yo is mature age, I must be dead

Unfortunately I don't make the rules Dub!

Had to laugh at the Giants socials page.

In the comments, someone suggested to give him the locker next to Clayton. Lol.

I laugh, but it's so likely those two will be very damaging for GWS together. If the Giants arn't pushing for top 4 and seriously contending next year, there is something very wrong. Watching them dismember Sydney in a half a quarter after being well behind bought back memories of the 2021 GF for me and showed what GWS can do. It makes me cry when I see Jesse and Toby Bedford line up for them and probably will with Clayton as well.

Edited November 20, 2025Nov 20 by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

...also this:

19 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

...also this:

That is funny.

They are becoming the kings of the off field sledge.

4 minutes ago, Redleg said:

That is funny.

They are becoming the kings of the off field sledge.

Agreed. I think some of it is actually pretty rude and disrespectful to other clubs, when the GWS official club Web site is posting / trolling about players that are still contracted at competitors clubs, but when they take the mickey out of their own Re Stinger and St Kilda based on their poor form with Leek Aleer, then it's fair game.

12 hours ago, 4_Kent_Watts said:

Won't You Come...

Mudhoney over SoundGarden 4me.

Ouch!

Chris Cornell tribute act with a bunch of local artists at the Tote on Dec 6 for anyone interested.

These guys put on a great show and money raised goes to Beyond Blue 🙂

So am i right to believe we only have the one live selection in today's rookie draft and that will be Kalani White?

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

So am i right to believe we only have the one live selection in today's rookie draft and that will be Kalani White?

Apparently two. One for Kalani.

Keeping one for Sinemma or someone else, after preseason or mid season.

I'm surprised that Hibbins-Hargreaves didn't crack the top 50. Durability and injury is a concern but it didn't seem to phase many teams this year, some taking players in the first round who didn't play much this year.

Does the lack of VFL exposure play a part and being tested against the bigger bodies? I'm just trying to figure it out.

And that's Round Two and the rest of the rounds done and dusted ...

ROUND TWO

26 North Melbourne Blake Thredgold 194cm Def SA

27 Western Bulldogs Louis Emmett 199cm Ruck VIC

28 Gold Coast Suns Avery Thomas 185cm Def TAS

29 West Coast Eagles Sam Allen 182cm Mid VIC

30 Melbourne Thomas Matthews 171cm Fwd VIC

31 Richmond Zane Peucker 179cm Fwd/Mid SA

32 Collingwood Tyan Prindable 181cm Mid QLD

33 Geelong Hunter Holmes 188cm Mid VIC

34 Hawthorn Jack Dalton 177Cm Mid VIC

35 Sydney Swans Jevan Phillipou 183cm Mid/Fwd SA

36 Essendon Max Kondogiannis 190cm Def VIC

ROUND THREE

37 Collingwood Samuel Swadling 189cm Mid WA

38 Brisbane Lions Koby Evans 188cm Fwd/Mid WA

39 West Coast Eagles * Tylah Williams 175cm Fwd WA

40 Fremantle Tobyn Murray 179Cm Fwd VIC

41 St Kilda * Charlie Banfield 192cm Mid WA

42 Sydney Swans Billy Cootee 178cm Mid/Fwd SA

43 Brisbane Lions Cody Curtin 200cm Fwd WA

44 Brisbane Lions Tai Hayes 193cm Mid QLD

45 Carlton Talor Byrne 174cm Mid/Fwd VIC

46 Gold Coast Suns * Koby Coulson 180cm Mid/Fwd QLD

47 Carlton * Jack Ison 191cm Mid VIC

48 North Melbourne Hugo Mikunda 180cm Fwd VIC

49 Sydney Swans * Max King 191cm Fwd/Mid NSW

50 Adelaide Archie Ludowyke 197cm Fwd VIC

51 GWS Giants Finnegan Davis 188cm Def VIC

52 St Kilda * Kye Fincher 184cm Mid VIC

53 Essendon * Hussien El-Achkar 171cm Fwd VIC

54 Richmond Noah Roberts-Thomson 181cm Fwd SA

55 Collingwood Zac McCarthy 199cm Fwd VIC

ROUNDS FOUR TO SEVEN

56 Hawthorn Matthew Leray 188cm Mid SA

57 Collingwood Angus Anderson 190cm Mid SA

58 St Kilda Ryan Byrnes 181cm Mid VIC

59 GWS Giants Jake Stringer 192cm Fwd VIC

60 Western Bulldogs Will Darcy 196cm Def/Fwd VIC

* Bid matched

So why didn't he get drafted?

On 20/11/2025 at 15:07, roy11 said:

1. Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves
   

Did White get listed?

31 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Very interesting article.

Am I reading it correctly? If Essendon took X Taylor then we would have taken Nairn and Pickett and left Farrow on the board. The melts would have been something else.

Interesting to see the genuine interest in Sumner-Pickett right around our pick 12.

Westcoast offered to trade 13 and a F2, Essendon were contemplating with one of their pics before us and North/GWS and Hawks would have taken.

That had to put any speculation we reached to bed

7 minutes ago, Mouseymoo said:

Interesting to see the genuine interest in Sumner-Pickett right around our pick 12.

Westcoast offered to trade 13 and a F2, Essendon were contemplating with one of their pics before us and North/GWS and Hawks would have taken.

That had to put any speculation we reached to bed

West Coast never had the pick after ours to offer.

Their offer was for us to slide back 7 spots for their future second (c. pick 25 next year).

Which on the face of it was never going to be anywhere near enough.

35 minutes ago, Dee Boys said:

West Coast never had the pick after ours to offer.

Their offer was for us to slide back 7 spots for their future second (c. pick 25 next year).

Which on the face of it was never going to be anywhere near enough.

Yeah that's true, got mixed up between both our picks and what they actually became after the acadamy bids.

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

Interesting that he noted that Taylor was one of the big 5 and it sounds like we would have had him rated the same. Top 5 of available talent.

We have been quiet fortunate the way thing have worked out the past couple of drafts with Langford getting to our pick last year and Taylor this year.

1 hour ago, Bang Bang Bang said:

Very interesting article.

Am I reading it correctly? If Essendon took X Taylor then we would have taken Nairn and Pickett and left Farrow on the board. The melts would have been something else.

I believe the club has had a little bit of a readjustment with the way they value WA players. Maybe not forever but at least in this rebuilding time.

I think Nairn has more upside than Farrow anyway so fine by me.

2 hours ago, Bang Bang Bang said:

Very interesting article.

Am I reading it correctly? If Essendon took X Taylor then we would have taken Nairn and Pickett and left Farrow on the board. The melts would have been something else.

The melts would have been delicious. I would gotten drunk on the tears of the self-righteous and ignorant…

“Farrow was so much higher than Pickett in all the Phantoms!1!1!1”

Ahhhhhhhhhhh.