Autopsy 2023 Round 19 – GWS Giants vs Gold Coast Suns, Sunday, July 23, 1.10 pm AEST, @ Manuka Oval

[Giant Strides]

Game day is here in the nation's capital. It is forecast to be fine and sunny, albeit a little cool. Peak temperature is 12 to 13 degrees, which should be across the duration of the game, so hopefully that will help persuade interested onlookers to come out and watch the game.

An important game for us - but we can say that about all of the games for the past 5 weeks, and for the next 5 weeks too. It's one that we should be in a strong position to win, but certainly in the past we have had difficulty with games such as these. However, Adam Kingsley

Adam Kingsley

Age

48

Ht

183cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.9

4star

K

11.5

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.3

3star

No current season stats available

D

16.4

4star

K

10.4

4star

HB

6.0

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.0

3star

seems to have developed a different mindset amongst the boys, and hopefully that translates into a solid win today, and ending the run of defeats at our second home in Canberra.

Let's rip into 'em, Giants!

 

[Giant Strides]

 

[BarryAglett]

Suns have a strong line-up and we are covering a couple of key injuries.
Another good test for Kingsley's system.
A great chance to break the Canberra hoodoo and claim a top 8 spot.

 

[Land of the Giants]

Beautiful winter's day here in Canberra.

Let's make it a win, Giants, and turn Manuka back into a fortress.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Beautiful winter's day here in Canberra.

Let's make it a win, Giants, and turn Manuka back into a fortress.

Yes great day for a match. Time for the longest consecutive losing streak in any ground in our history (9 going back to May 2019!) to be broken. The market also has us clear favourites at $1.60 (Gold Coast is $2.30). Win today and we will also create another piece of history- 6 consecutive wins, our equal highest streak ever. Cmon Giants!

 

[dewah07]

Hi guys, looking at your team you have a lot of defenders named. Do you think this means HH is fwd?

 

[BarryAglett]

Hi guys, looking at your team you have a lot of defenders named. Do you think this means HH is fwd?

Probably.

 

[sydney_gws]

Hi guys, looking at your team you have a lot of defenders named. Do you think this means HH is fwd?

I certainly hope so. We have to pick our best team to win, some clubs like giving games to young players if they don't warrant it but thankfully we don't do that

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

not wearing their Canberra jumper

 

[Maximus 2011]

Riccardi been out marked 3 times in the first 5 minutes of the game. We are going to miss Hogan more than we think. Riccardi needs to be tougher

 

[Section226]

Riccardi doesn't work hard enough, often enough in marking contests.

More stand-offish than full-on attack.

 

[BarryAglett]

Dump kicks inside 50 are an instant turnover.

 

[sydney_gws]

Dump kicks inside 50 are an instant turnover.

I was at lunch, couldn't see first question. Are we playing well? Will we have a string breeze behind us in second qtr?

 

[Orange Agent]

Riccardi doesn't work hard enough, often enough in marking contests.

More stand-offish than full-on attack.

Some bad signs today. Thought he had got rid of some of the stuff he is doing so far.

 

[Orange Agent]

Lacking polish, we should be comfortably ahead.

 

[Section226]

Giants have a bad habit of having late goals scored against them.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

We really need to be switched on as Gold Coast are not caving in

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Daniels is just fantastic!

 

[MelbourneGWS]

How come that wasn’t a free kick to Toby? He almost got killed in that head high tackle

 

[Orange Agent]

Our play is fine until we get to 70 metres from goal. On a day we needed Riccardi to stand up he gives us nothing at all.

 

[Callums_Guns]

Lucky our small and med forwards are hitting the scoreboard, if we manage to get the win without a goal to our 2 KPF's will be a lucky great result

Need a buffer going into the last though

 

[Section226]

Riccardi to be substituted.
Fahey to the wing.
Haynes to half back.
HH forward.

Remote possibility.

 

[Orange Agent]

Sam Taylor

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Sam Taylor

Age

24

Ht

198cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.0

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.1

4star

MG

130.5

2star

D

8.0

2star

K

2.5

1star

HB

5.5

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.5

3star

MG

60.8

1star

D

8.6

3star

K

3.0

1star

HB

5.6

4star

M

1.2

2star

T

2.8

5star

MG

110.8

2star

is Ted Whitten, Barrassi and Leigh Matthews combined into one player.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Cadman’s yet to trouble the scoreboard?

 

[Land of the Giants]

Toby putting on a masterclass.