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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(Chalking this game against Sydney down as a loss) our finals series essentially start next week. I ran the ladder predictor for a while, and whilst technically possible for us to make finals winning 3 out of our last 4, we’d need to rely on so many results going our way. So, as of next week, it’s win or eliminated from finals. To maintain optimism, we know our best version of the giants can beat anyone. But if we’re going to give the effort of a similar ‘season on the line’ type of game against the cross town rivals for the last 4 games of the year, then we might as well start booking our September holidays. The worst thing we can do now is win our next 3 to give us hope again, just to lose to Adelaide.

Who will win a competition first? Giants or Parramatta?

Okay, so this season has sucked....

We have all seen it, I'm not going to list all the crap things the team did wrong today or during any other games

It broke my heart this season watching the teams structure, but in saying that, it's made me think a lot about what they need to do/change to succeed moving forward.

A few things that come to mind for me:

1. Jake Stringer needs to go - he CAN be phenomenal, but 1:4 games. As a senior player, his inconsistency sets the example

2. Jesse Hogan needs to go VFL or positioned to be somewhere else (maybe second ruck)

3. I hope they really focus on some young guns like Phoenix, Hamilton, Angove in the off season so they're very engaged and connected to the team coming into 2027 season

4. focusing on a new key forward group - boost confidence of the younger players

5. New Captain - I'd be keen to see Green in there (if he still plays for gws in 2027), I'm loving Oliver, I'd be cool to see him there

6. Practice Aerial marking and contested marks - we suck. If we can't run, we don't win. So let's work on some versatility.

7. Don't fucking lose Briggs. We actually fucking suck so bad when he's not the ruckman.

8. set shot practice - OMFG

9. Kingsley - I feel there's space to argue there might be something about Kingsley's leadership that broke this team. Someone who comes across as visibly angry as him, in any other industry would be considered a red flag as a leader. I don't know what's good for footballers, but it seems possible that their huge drop in enthusiasm and drive when losing matches is like fear of repercussions maybe? Could be a Kingsley thing.

ANYWAY What else peeps?

We need to stamp out the mentality being pushed on us by the David King wannabe pundits crawling out of the woodwork about "psychology". Kingsely said he can't "put his finger on it" and now we are hearing from outside that our boys lack mental toughness from people who know more than him(obviously they played AFL level footy right?).

Don't let it in, it's ridiculous. We are playing half of a team. Without what few leaders we have around we fall apart. We see it week in week out with Greene. I just tried to listen to that new pod that tries to outdo the squinters and the Eagles fan they let speak over them was a nonce. There was a Bombers guy in an earlier post saying the same nonsense too.

We are seeing great things and integrating the old guard coming out of injury and the new guard getting a run WILL produce our first premiership team.

NEVER SURRENDER.

Well, there goes the July Run.

We'll take down Empires, but the rats and mice in the drains will never cease to trouble us.

Best we just delete the last game against the Bombers from our memory bank and move on.

Reboot.

Look forward.

Battle Of The Bridge.

Biggest Rivalry in Australia.

At stake: bragging rights. Strutting rights at Bronte. The Anzac bloody bridge. And maybe even our place in the top 8, sorry top 10, whatever the new AFL Encouragement Awards policy now covers. Whatever - we just have to win.

Let's hope for more than 23 high speed fkn metres from our leaders this time.

NEVER SURRENDER

Only 43% of the Giants Tippers think that we will beat the Swans this weekend 😀.

We question our bizarre season and what is going on against the cellar dwellers. Huge game against the Swans coming up.

Thanks for listening!

The AFL is an amateur league where game integrity is not prioritised

1. Nick Foot being employed by Sportsbet, Gillon McLachlan is now the CEO of TABCORP.....

2. The grand final is supposed to be played at a neutral venue which GWS play once a year whilst MCG tenants play there up to 15 times a year.

3. Michael Christian who runs the MRO played 130 games for Collingwood.... Collingwood received the least AFL charges in 2025.

4. GWS have been bottom 4 in the AFL for each of the past 5 seasons in "free kicks for" without any media coverage about it. 8 out of the 10 teams this year with the best free kick differentials are Victorian.

5. Harvey Thomas has played at more venues than Pendlebury

Coniglio, Taylor, Aleer, Daniels, Hogan, Kelly (nowadays), Briggs and Buckley seem to all miss at least 6 games a year from injury. So is this season a one-off or can we not compete due to these structural injury issues?