GIANTS Podcasts
GIANTS Podcasts
Get all the latest news and features directly from the club's official podcast account. The latest series features award-winning journalist Emma Quayle sitting down with key players for 'Becoming GIANT'. You can also catch up on The Rewatchables as the team re-lived famous victories from years past during the AFL Shutdown. In the earlier series 'The Originals' and 'The Leaders', football fans g…Follow the podcast:
Becoming GIANT - Toby Bedford
GIANTS recruiter and award-winning journalist Emma Quayle sits down with GIANTS recruit Toby Bedford.
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Episode 5: The GIANTS: The name, the colours, the song, the identity
It sounds like the fun stuff, but there were a lot of people to keep happy when the new club was choosing its name, colours and guernsey design. Meanwhile, a decision to set the club up like a US college campus played a huge part in creating its culture and building a lasting bond between the playe…
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Episode 4: The Team: The wheeling, dealing and draft decisions that shaped the GIANTS’ playing list
Who would you target if you were building an AFL list from scratch and had big contract offers to throw around? Clubs expected the GIANTS to come after their older, established stars like expansion teams had in the past, but they had other ideas. They had their eye on long-term success from the sta…
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Episode 3: Get Sheedy: Why Kevin Sheedy was targeted to be the GIANTS’ first AFL coach
Kevin Sheedy? Really? People were surprised and many were dismissive when the AFL pursued Sheedy - in his 60s and more than two years out of the game - to be the GIANTS’ first AFL coach. But he was seen as the perfect person to not only steer a young team of players, but sell the new club to a part…
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Episode 2: Team GWS: Before the GIANTS there was…
The GIANTS had to start somewhere, and it was a random collection of boys from Sydney, Canberra and country NSW – as well as a future Australian Test cricketer – who represented the new club in an AFL competition for the first time, as staff worked behind the scenes to secure the 18th AFL club lice…
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Episode 1: Expansion: Why the AFL moved into western Sydney
In 2008 the AFL announced it would be introducing two new teams, on the Gold Coast and in Sydney. In the first episode of this five-part series exploring the creation of the Greater Western Sydney GIANTS, find out why the league decided to expand in the middle of a global financial crisis, why they…
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Becoming GIANT - Cooper Hamilton
Cooper Hamilton opens up about growing up on a farm in country Victoria, navigating his way through two years of interrupted football and his perfect first impression at the GIANTS.
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Becoming GIANT - Josh Fahey
GIANTS recruiter and award-winning journalist Emma Quayle sits down with Josh Fahey to discuss his decision to leave and then re-join the GIANTS Academy, the influence of Tom Green and his decision to move back to Canberra to finish school.
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Becoming GIANT - Leek Aleer
GIANTS recruiter and award-winning journalist Emma Quayle sits down with Leek Aleer to discuss his childhood in Egypt, his move to Australia as a five-year-old and the influence his mother had on his footballing dream.
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Becoming GIANT - Finn Callaghan
GIANTS recruiter and award-winning journalist Emma Quayle sits down with the GIANTS' first pick in the 2021 draft Finn Callaghan.
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