Autopsy 2025 Round 24 – GWS Giants v St Kilda, Sunday 24 August, 12.20pm, Engie Stadium

[Giant Strides]

Final H&A game for GWS Giants today, the first of a "Super Sunday" line-up that will decide the make-up of the top 8 to go into finals. For Giants, we could (technically) finish as high as 4th place (an unlikely >120-point win, or a draw in the Brisbane-Hawks game along with a win here) or as low as 9th (an equally unlikely 100-odd point loss). Realistically, we want to go out and play our game, play solid footy (but we can't be either complacent or safety-first) and get the win ... while not suffering any injuries.

Let's go GIANTS!

 

[Battlepants]

Still an important game, but I'm so glad we got the win last week and I can relax and enjoy this game a bit, rather than having our entire season on the line.

I hope we get the win here too, as I think a home game in the first round of finals will go a long way to improving our chances (plus I want to be able to go to that game as well).

 

[Land of the Giants]

Here's a suggestion for today's banner:

DON'T LOSE THIS GAME

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Here's a suggestion for today's banner:

DON'T LOSE THIS GAME

Or if you lose, don’t lose by more than 100+ points!

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Whilst we will make the finals even if we lose this game, we need to win to host an elimination final at Engie. St Kilda can’t be underestimated, as they are on a 4 game consecutive winning streak that is currently bettered only by Adelaide and Geelong - the top 2 teams this year. Just hoping for a victory without any injuries.

 

[Land of the Giants]

Whilst we will make the finals even if we lose this game, we need to win to host an elimination final at Engie. St Kilda can’t be underestimated, as they are on a 4 game consecutive winning streak that is currently bettered only by Adelaide and Geelong - the top 2 teams this year. Just hoping for a victory without any injuries.

Assuming we win, we want the Hawks to beat Brisbane tonight. Assuming the Dogs beat Freo, they would play an EF at the Gabba. If Freo win, they host Brisbane in an EF.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

If we could just get a crowd of more than 11,270 for the St Kilda match, we will get a total home crowd of 100,000 who have watched us at Giants Stadium in 2025. This will be the 2nd best total attendance at Giant Stadium (or for our home matches in NSW) in our history, and only behind the total attendance of 107,645 in 2017. (While we played at Accor in 2012 and 2013, and Blacktown in 2012, our combined total home crowd in NSW was still less than 100k for those 2 years).

This is very reachable, as our average crowd for the 7 matches at GS in 2025 so far has been 12,676 (ranging from 8,092 for the Fremantle game to 19,248 for the Collingwood game.

Hoping that the attendance is boosted by the farewell for our GOAT Ward (although Toby also haS a case for GOAT) today.

 

[Colonial]

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Btw noteworthy that this is the first time this year that Kingsley has gone in with no team changes from the previous week. Yes this is mostly due to the unavailability of key players due to injury, but may indicate that he is happy with the composition of the team?

 

[Colonial]

 

[Colonial]

 

[norway blue]

Cmon Giants. Don’t let up.

 

[Drummond]

Let’s go boys!!

 

[Colonial]

Let’s go!

 

[MelbourneGWS]

How is our crowd looking?

 

[Colonial]

Nice play there. They tried to cut off Finn but we were still able to roll on and through

 

[Colonial]

How is our crowd looking?

Sunny side looks bad on tv, but that seems to be the last bit to get anyone on game day

 

[norway blue]

Jeepers Tobes. Wow.

 

[Colonial]

Wow. Two weeks two great starts.

 

[Drummond]

Toby wowww

 

[orange tsunami]

Toby makes it look so easy

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Fitting opening goal for the 200 game milestone man! Followed immediately by our GOAT Toby scoring - and all this after Ward our GOAT had a lap of honour before the game!

 

[orange tsunami]

At this rate we’ll overtake Collingwood on percentage!

 

[Colonial]

Let’s keep this up for 4 quarters.

 

[norway blue]

Great start.Must keep it up. %