Preview 2023 Semi Final : Port Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney at Adelaide Oval, 7.10pm ACST (7.40pm AEST)

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The AFL has released the fixture for week two of the 2023 Toyota AFL Finals series.

The GIANTS will meet Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval on Saturday, September 16 at 7:10pm CST/7:40pm EST.

The GIANTS’ 24-point win over the Saints in Saturday’s elimination final saw the GIANTS secure a week one finals victory for the sixth time in the past eight years, and the first time under new coach 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

.

Week two will see Melbourne and Carlton clash at the MCG on Friday night before the GIANTS travel to the city of churches.

Tickets will go on sale for the GIANTS’ semi-final on Monday, September 11.

GIANTS members will receive an email on Sunday with all the details on how to purchase finals tickets.

Tickets will be available via Ticketek.

WEEK TWO FINALS FIXTURE

Saturday, September 16 - Second Semi-Final

Port Adelaide v GIANTS at the Adelaide Oval, 7:10pm CST/7:40pm EST


The winner will move into a preliminary final against Brisbane at the Gabba the following weekend.

Semi-Final Fixture Confirmed

The GIANTS will travel to Adelaide to take on the Power in a blockbuster Semi-Final.

www.gwsgiants.com.au

 

[Callums_Guns]

PREDICTION ;

In : Coniglio
Out : Cumming
Haynes to stay as Sub

 

[Callums_Guns]

LAST TIME WE PLAYED : RD.22 2023


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PORT ADELAIDE 7.3 10.7 16.9 21.10 (136)
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY 3.0 4.2 8.5 13.7 (85)

GOALS
Port Adelaide: Bergman 3, Rioli 3, Horne-Francis 3, Marshall 3, Byrne-Jones 2, Finlayson 2, Wines, Powell-Pepper, Lord, Houston, McEntee
Greater Western Sydney: Riccardi 4, Green 2, Greene 2, Fahey, Cumming, Coniglio, Brown, Hogan

BEST
Port Adelaide: Wines, Houston, Butters, Horne-Francis, Rozee
Greater Western Sydney: Green, Greene, Briggs, Himmelberg, Ward

INJURIES
Port Adelaide: TBC
Greater Western Sydney: TBC

SUBSTITUTES
Port Adelaide: Francis Evans (replaced Sam Hayes in the fourth quarter)
Greater Western Sydney: Jacob Wehr (replaced Nick Haynes

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Nick Haynes

Age

31

Ht

192cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.4

4star

K

11.4

4star

HB

4.9

4star

M

6.2

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

326.8

4star

D

17.4

4star

K

13.9

5star

HB

3.5

2star

M

8.0

5star

T

1.5

2star

MG

326.8

5star

D

7.8

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

3.4

3star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.2

4star

in the fourth quarter)

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Crowd: 32,597 at Adelaide Oval

 

[Callums_Guns]

Milestone Match

Daniel Lloyd

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Daniel Lloyd

Age

32

Ht

187cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.5

3star

K

6.4

3star

HB

5.1

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.0

5star

G

0.8

4star

D

7.5

2star

K

5.5

2star

HB

2.0

1star

M

3.0

3star

T

3.2

4star

G

0.5

4star

D

11.6

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

6.2

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.8

4star

100th Game !!​

 

[Giant Pete]

We got Lloyd to his 100th!! I’m hearing his son is a jet
Is there a chance Cogs misses with concussion? Kingers mentionned concussion in the presser… with the 12 day protocol he would miss…?

 

[Gigantic]

Cumming to miss would be very unlucky, but it makes the most sense given his form and there being no space for him in the backline.

 

[dlanod]

Come on, straight sets for Port !

 

[Giant Pete]

XOH sub. Cogs in.

 

[Battlepants]

Cumming had an off game but I don't think he'll be dropped. For me, the mostly likely scenario is we go back to the team we listed before Cogs' late out.

Out: XOH
In: Cogs
Sub: Haynes

 

[MelbourneGWS]

this is going to be a hard game for us against a Port side in Adelaide, that will be hurting after their comprehensive loss to Brisbane yesterday. Port (and Collingwood) were the only 2 sides that smashed us during this season. The market has us as distinct underdogs at $2.38 (Port are $1.59). Whilst we have a 1-1 record in Adelaide this year, Port have a superb 10-3 record in Adelaide - with 2 of these loses to Adelaide and the other to Collingwood.

We also haven’t a good recent record against Port, having lost our last 4 matches against them - our most recent win against them was in July 2019.

However, we are playing inspired quality football, and under Kingsley we are not giving up and finding ways to win. The boys are full of self belief and confidence, and the return of Cognilio will hopefully boost our team to a win and a Preliminary Final.

 

[Gigantic]

The morale over on the Port board is grim.

Hopefully we have answers for Butters and Rozee - these two guns absolutely bring it every week and are at a level where when they're on it's hard to stop them. Let's hope we learnt from our last outing.

 

[Danny88]

Will be an interesting midfield match up. With rozee butters and JHF they have a midfield rotation that is fast agile and attacking.

Certainly faster than ours

 

[Orange crush]

Will be an interesting midfield match up. With rozee butters and JHF they have a midfield rotation that is fast agile and attacking.

Certainly faster than ours

Yeah and they used that pace to burn us last time

 

[JC100]

Although we lost convincingly to Port in round 22 it was one of those games where I thought if we play them again we won’t have any issues accounting for them. Similar to the swans game the week before. Everything just went right for them and we were missing Daniels and Bedford. They showed us everything they had in that game

Their captain Jonas is out, Williams and possibly Mackenzie. I’d also have a slight watch this space on Dan Houston

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Dan Houston

Age

26

Ht

186cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.2

5star

K

11.8

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

4.9

5star

T

3.0

5star

MG

289.2

4star

D

17.6

4star

K

11.6

4star

HB

6.0

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.4

4star

MG

319.9

5star

D

16.6

4star

K

12.4

5star

HB

4.2

4star

M

7.0

5star

T

2.6

4star

MG

279.8

5star

- coped a knee to the head in the same contest that Mackenzie hurt his knee and was slow to get up. Given Port’s history I hope it’s looked at by the AFL.

 

[Land of the Giants]

The boys are full of self belief and confidence, and the return of Cognilio will hopefully boost our team to a win and a Preliminary Final.

It's the return of both Daniels and Bedford that will really boost the team against Port. We badly missed them last time.

 

[BarryAglett]

Also no Callaghan. Missed his run and class.

 

[Danny88]

The port board is so pessimistic about this

Hard to believe.

If we draw even in the midfield battle we will go a long way to winning this

 

[Land of the Giants]

Has the MRO reported on our game yesterday?

 

[JC100]

Has the MRO reported on our game yesterday?

Would have because port are reporting butters got 2 x fines and no suspension. Not up on afl.com yet to see our game.

Always nervous bout what bs suspension they want to throw our way

 

[Land of the Giants]

Would have because port are reporting butters got 2 x fines and no suspension. Not up on afl.com yet to see our game.

Always nervous bout what bs suspension they want to throw our way

I've seen a certain image on the Dogs board that is making me nervous...

 

[Orange crush]

I've seen a certain image on the Dogs board that is making me nervous...

There’s nothing in that …. An accidental poke as Toby played at the ball

 

[BarryAglett]

A still frame with no context on a sh*t stirring sooks board.

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

Has the MRO reported on our game yesterday?

from the AFL website

”The Match Review findings for Saturday's finals are in”

then it mentions the Butters incidents, but nothing else. The use of the plural for “Saturday’s finals” would indicate nothing from our game at all.

breathes a sigh of relief

 

[PaythePerryman]

Last time their pace in the midfield tore us to shreds. However I can see it easily going the other way where our size gives them nightmares.
Again I like our changes from the last match up structurally with Bedford and Daniels doing damage and putting pressure on every entry.
Callaghan is genuinely a star and he's played 20 games. The guy is massive and kicks like Josh Kelly. His run will add a lot.
Port fans will be nervous coz they lost a game but wait till Wednesday and they'll be telling you we don't stand a chance.

Kingsley mentality is strong. We have a chance

 

[Danny88]

Riccardi is showing he can be that third option and threat

He competed well against the saints and got some good reward