Preview 2025 Round 18 - GWS Giants vs Geelong Cats, 4.15pm Saturday 12 July, Engie Stadium

[Tenens Pila]

Hopefully no traffic debacle like last home game.

 

[Giant Pete]

Toby just said on 360 that’s Bucks and Hogan will both be back for the Cats…

 

[Giant Pete]

Idun Buckley Whitters
Ash Aleer Fonti
Angwin Callaghan Kelly
Greene Cadman Brown
Jones Hogan Thomas
Briggs Green XOH

Ricca Bedford HH Cogs Stringer

 

[Orange crush]

Idun Buckley Whitters
Ash Aleer Fonti
Angwin Callaghan Kelly
Greene Cadman Brown
Jones Hogan Thomas
Briggs Green XOH

Ricca Bedford HH Cogs Stringer

Stop it I can’t get any harder

 

[Giant Strides]

Stop it I can’t get any harder

Yes you can:

Sam Taylor

Brent Daniels

 

[Orange crush]

Yes you can:

Sam Taylor

Brent Daniels

Oh god ….

 

[MelbourneGWS]

If Jesse plays, then the Geelong match this weekend will see all of our club’s top 5 goal kickers in history in action! Cameron, Toby, Jesse, Himmelberg and Josh Kelly all playing in the same game.

 

[GWS Goose]

Idun Buckley Whitters
Ash Aleer Fonti
Angwin Callaghan Kelly
Greene Cadman Brown
Jones Hogan Thomas
Briggs Green XOH

Ricca Bedford HH Cogs Stringer

who have we bought cogs in for in this team.
Whitfield for Leake and Hogan for Gru seem to be clear changes.
for the life of me I cant work out who else has come out to make way for Cogs. (brain not working)

 

[GWS Goose]

who have we bought cogs in for in this team.
Whitfield for Leake and Hogan for Gru seem to be clear changes.
for the life of me I cant work out who else has come out to make way for Cogs. (brain not working)

I got it! Rowsten!
Assuming that Cogs comes in (which I think will happen)
I think it is a 3 way shoot out between Thomas, Angwin and Rowsten to see who misses.
It'll probably be based on what they want from Kelly and what role they see for Cogs.

 

[Orange crush]

I got it! Rowsten!
Assuming that Cogs comes in (which I think will happen)
I think it is a 3 way shoot out between Thomas, Angwin and Rowsten to see who misses.
It'll probably be based on what they want from Kelly and what role they see for Cogs.

Needs more Muff

 

[Giant Pete]

Needs more Muff

I love Muff but he just has to increase his repeat efforts.
If he can do that he could become a super player.

 

[GWS Goose]

Needs more Muff

still think he has the highest ceiling of our next tier young guys (so not including Finn, Cadman and Tom G)

 

[sydney_gws]

I got it! Rowsten!
Assuming that Cogs comes in (which I think will happen)
I think it is a 3 way shoot out between Thomas, Angwin and Rowsten to see who misses.
It'll probably be based on what they want from Kelly and what role they see for Cogs.

I think Sub for Cogs to start with.
I doubt Stringer is sub again.

 

[PaythePerryman]

I think Sub for Cogs to start with.
I doubt Stringer is sub again.

We wasn't last week but I actually think Stringer is a great Sub and should be put there this week if Hogan comes back in.

I'm dropping Leake for Whitfield
Gruz for Hogan
Rowston for Cogs.

And I'm praying that Buckley is okay.

 

[Land of the Giants]

Whoever lines up, the important thing is they stick to the system.

That's the key to winning, regardless of who plays, or who we play.

 

[Giant Gutsache]

We wasn't last week but I actually think Stringer is a great Sub and should be put there this week if Hogan comes back in.

I'm dropping Leake for Whitfield
Gruz for Hogan
Rowston for Cogs.

And I'm praying that Buckley is okay.

Agree with everything except Rowston going out. He’s been very decent at balancing up the midfield battle. Tough boy.

 

[Danny88]

Agree with everything except Rowston going out. He’s been very decent at balancing up the midfield battle. Tough boy.

I’m with you on this

I think he has been pretty important for us

 

[GWS Goose]

I like Rowsten and happy for him to stay. Cogs shoulder is good now so he may go straight into the role Rowsten has been playing.
As I said earlier, I reckon it is a 3 way thing with Angwin and Thomas. Whoever misses is stiff.

 

[PaythePerryman]

I like Rowsten and happy for him to stay. Cogs shoulder is good now so he may go straight into the role Rowsten has been playing.
As I said earlier, I reckon it is a 3 way thing with Angwin and Thomas. Whoever misses is stiff.

Yeah Cogs plays the same role so he won't be a swap for Angwin or Thomas (sub anyway).
Reckon Cogs might still take some time to be fully fit so if just keep Rowston

 

[PaythePerryman]

Cogs playing VFL

 

[Orange crush]

Cogs playing VFL

Get him fit

 

[PaythePerryman]

Get him fit

Yeah give him a good run into putting some form together for a push for finals

 

[Adam Giant]

Needs more Muff

He's slipped down the pecking order after many expected him to be a walk-up starter this season.

 

[Giant Strides]

Greater Western Sydney v Geelong at Engie Stadium, 4.15pm AEST

GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY

In: L.Whitfield, J.Hogan
Out: J.Leake (omitted), M.Gruzewski (omitted)

R17 sub: Harvey Thomas

GEELONG

In: B.Smith
Out: M.Duncan (shoulder)

R17 sub: Mitch Duncan

 

[MelbourneGWS]

The crowd for the Geelong match will be interesting. We have only ever played Geelong 4 times at Giants Stadium, with the last game occurring during the COVID impacted 2020 season.

Our average crowd against Geelong at GS is 10,171 (not counting the COVID game), with the highest crowd being 15,007 in 2017. In 2025, we have drawn an average crowd of 11,369 (ranging from 19,248 for our Collingwood game to 8,092 for the Fremantle game). I think the crowd for this Geelong match will comfortably be over 10k, and we may even have a good chance to beat the 15,007 crowd figure given Geelong’s position in the ladder, and the significance of this game to the composition of the finals?