Autopsy AFL 2026 Round 6 - Swans v GWS Fri April 17th 7:50pm AEST (SCG)

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1st v 12th

AFL 2026 PREMIERSHIP SEASON ROUND 6
SYDNEY V GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY
FRIDAY APRIL 17TH 7:50PM AEST (S.C.G.)

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SYDNEY

FB: Joel Hamling (29), Tom McCartin (30), Riley Bice (26)
HB: Sam Wicks (15), Nick Blakey (22), Callum Mills (14)
C: Jai Serong (13), Isaac Heeney (5), Matt Roberts (34)
HF: James Rowbottom (8), Tom Papley (11), James Jordon (17)
FF: Joel Amartey (36), Charlie Curnow (35), Malcolm Rosas (10)
FOLL: Brodie Grundy (4), Chad Warner (1), Justin McInerney (27)
INT: Harry Cunningham (7), Jake Lloyd (44), Angus Sheldrick (12), Corey Warner (37), Logan McDonald (6)
EMG: Hayden McLean (2), Billy Cootee (25), Peter Ladhams (19)
IN: Angus Sheldrick
OUT: Dane Rampe (Managed)

GWS GIANTS

FB: Jayden Laverde (25), Connor Idun (39), Jack Buckley (44)
HB: Lachie Whitfield (6), Lachie Ash (7), Joe Fonti (37)
C: Ryan Angwin (9), Clayton Oliver (10), Harvey Thomas (1)
HF: Xavier O'Halloran (33), Toby Bedford (14), Phoenix Gothard (11)
FF: Jesse Hogan (23), Jake Stringer (20), Jake Riccardi (26)
FOLL: Nicholas Madden (41), Toby Greene (4), Finn Callaghan (17)
INT: Harry Himmelberg (27), Harry Rowston (24), Toby McMullin (31), Oliver Hannaford (13), Leek Aleer (21)
EMG: Callum Brown (46), Conor Stone (18), James Leake (30)
IN: Harry Rowston, Toby McMullin, Leek Aleer
OUT: Brent Daniels (Managed), Aaron Cadman (Injured), Stephen Coniglio (Injured)

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No trolls, only goals!

 

[Colonial]

Losing Cadman is a massive loss. He provided a target and allows the other fwds freedom, as shown yesterday.

Swans will win. But it won’t be a disaster.

Sydney Created not relocated.

 

[JackFlash]

Swans by 57 points!

 

[timokane]

Swans in the Sydney clash winning by say 23 points

 

[timokane]

Make or break for the Swans has to strike now while the iron is hot.
Flag and nothing else in 2026.
Need to heal the scars of 2022 and 2024.

 

[voorhees]

those injuries for the giants have come at a bad time.

 

[Xtreme]

GWS by a tsunami 75 points

 

[smasha]

Should be the showpiece standalone game.
Geelong fixture boy "Not on my watch!"

 

[bloodsbigot]

Make or break for the Swans has to strike now while the iron is hot.
Flag and nothing else in 2026.
Need to heal the scars of 2022 and 2024.

More scars than that mate.

 

[Cam Payne]

Swans pretty easy 30 points

 

[jwikked]

Should be the showpiece standalone game.
Geelong fixture boy "Not on my watch!"

Nah, shouldn’t be. This gets broadcast on FTA in Sydney, which is great for them.

Geelong and Bulldogs fans get their game broadcast in Victoria. Which is where most of their fans live.

Geelong and bulldogs do get a few FTA games, but taking a slot away from Victorian clubs just makes it even less likely that a team like North Melbourne get FTA access. Brisbane/Gold Coast, Adelaide teams, west Australian teams and the Sydney teams get all their games on FTA in their home towns. Yet Vic clubs have to compete for 3 slots

The Friday night double header is great, much better than Thursday night footy

 

[Glenn_]

Losing Cadman is a massive loss. He provided a target and allows the other fwds freedom, as shown yesterday.

Swans will win. But it won’t be a disaster.

Sydney Created not relocated.

Never knew AFL House was located in Sydney.

 

[Glenn_]

Nah, shouldn’t be. This gets broadcast on FTA in Sydney, which is great for them.

Geelong and Bulldogs fans get their game broadcast in Victoria. Which is where most of their fans live.

Geelong and bulldogs do get a few FTA games, but taking a slot away from Victorian clubs just makes it even less likely that a team like North Melbourne get FTA access. Brisbane/Gold Coast, Adelaide teams, west Australian teams and the Sydney teams get all their games on FTA in their home towns. Yet Vic clubs have to compete for 3 slots

The Friday night double header is great, much better than Thursday night footy

They could make it like the NRL and their Friday Night double headers, so there is no overlap in game times.

 

[jwikked]

They could make it like the NRL and their Friday Night double headers, so there is no overlap in game times.

That would be ideal, I would love that

 

[rdhopkins2]

It would be good to see a Giant win here. Swans should be good good. Curnow to kick 5.

 

[My Tilly]

Giants would have penciled this one in on the footy calendar early summer. They are sick to death of losing to their neighbors and I think we see a much more physical and determined outfit flip the tables and Giants get the win by 4 goals.

 

[Chief]

SYDNEY

FB: Joel Hamling (29), Tom McCartin (30), Riley Bice (26)
HB: Sam Wicks (15), Nick Blakey (22), Callum Mills (14)
C: Jai Serong (13), Isaac Heeney (5), Matt Roberts (34)
HF: James Rowbottom (8), Tom Papley (11), James Jordon (17)
FF: Joel Amartey (36), Charlie Curnow (35), Malcolm Rosas (10)
FOLL: Brodie Grundy (4), Chad Warner (1), Justin McInerney (27)
INT: Harry Cunningham (7), Jake Lloyd (44), Angus Sheldrick (12), Corey Warner (37), Logan McDonald (6)
EMG: Hayden McLean (2), Billy Cootee (25), Peter Ladhams (19)
IN: Angus Sheldrick
OUT: Dane Rampe (Managed)

GWS GIANTS

FB: Jayden Laverde (25), Connor Idun (39), Jack Buckley (44)
HB: Lachie Whitfield (6), Lachie Ash (7), Joe Fonti (37)
C: Ryan Angwin (9), Clayton Oliver (10), Harvey Thomas (1)
HF: Xavier O'Halloran (33), Toby Bedford (14), Phoenix Gothard (11)
FF: Jesse Hogan (23), Jake Stringer (20), Jake Riccardi (26)
FOLL: Nicholas Madden (41), Toby Greene (4), Finn Callaghan (17)
INT: Harry Himmelberg (27), Harry Rowston (24), Toby McMullin (31), Oliver Hannaford (13), Leek Aleer (21)
EMG: Callum Brown (46), Conor Stone (18), James Leake (30)
IN: Harry Rowston, Toby McMullin, Leek Aleer
OUT: Brent Daniels (Managed), Aaron Cadman (Injured), Stephen Coniglio (Injured)

 

[The King!]

GWS will bring their best

 

[Foreign Legion]

Rampe and Daniels - 'Managed'.

Wow - pretty early in the season with a bye each already. Rampe was very good last week.

 

[Colonial]

Rampe and Daniels - 'Managed'.

Wow - pretty early in the season with a bye each already. Rampe was very good last week.

Daniels literally came back from a long term injury 5 days ago. And has a history of said injury. Cant blame the club for being cautious.

 

[AdamKingsleysForearms]

Not terribly optimistic about this game, we either wring out a miracle win or get absolutely demolished and no inbetween.

Been pretty disappointed with our disjointed style of play so far this year which has looked far from the peaks of our games under Kingers. Nonetheless still lots of footy to come and regardless of the result hope it's a cracking game for neutrals.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Daniels literally came back from a long term injury 5 days ago. And has a history of said injury. Cant blame the club for being cautious.

Maybe another week would have helped? Sounds desperate.

 

[Colonial]

Maybe another week would have helped? Sounds desperate.

No, just being cautious given his history.

 

[Zevon]

Clearly the AFL knew this game would descend into an absolute mauling so they chucked another (likely closer) game on so that the good folk of BigFooty wouldn’t complain about their Friday nights being ruined.

Swans by 76 points

 

[Colonial]