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Toast Callan Ward. Giants Legend Retired

Callan Ward Medal from now on?

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It goes without saying I believe that the service Ward has provided, his leadership and heart.
The KSM needs to be renamed at the end of the Year to the Callan Ward Medal.
 
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Ok.

I never meant to fall for this bloody club.
Was only going to be an answer to a question “who do you follow in the AFL?”.
Then the players and staff arrived, led by guys like Ward. The quality of the bloke towards our small but growing fans and leadership on and off the field was the major part of the reason of me becoming all in.
I may not be a fan of our board, but you can’t argue with the quality of our players led by Ward.

People love TFG, me too, but Cal is our greatest Giant just from a performance level, leadership level and effort level from day 1.

More emotional than I thought I would be.
 

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A truly magnificent innings by Callan and I wish him all the best for the future
 
Honestly, we could not have asked for a more balanced, humble and honest bloke as one of our inaugural players and captain. Thanks, Cal, I have always appreciated the heart and soul effort that you've brought over the years. You have brought the team and club a long, long way. All the best to you, Ruby and the family in the future.
 

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A farewell event for Ward at the North match this weekend

Orange Army, this is it!

This Sunday isn’t just another game, it’s a moment in history. It’s our chance to farewell one of the greatest to ever pull on the orange and charcoal. Callan Ward has given everything for this club, his heart, his grit, his leadership. Now it’s our turn to give something back.

We need every single member of the Orange Army in the stands. We need your voice. Your passion. Your loyalty.

Wardy needs you. He deserves a send-off only GIANTS fans can deliver.

Don’t let this moment pass by. Be there. Stand tall. Wear your orange with pride. Let’s show Wardy what he means to us one last time.

This Sunday. One club. One champion. One unforgettable farewell.

See you at Manuka.

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Ward on the circumstances that led to him joining us, and his very last meeting with the Bulldogs.

So we obviously played, didn’t play in the finals (that year), so we had a big Saturday and a big Sunday, and everyone got a text message on the Monday morning, mad Monday, morning at 7am or something,” Ward revealed.

“They said everybody is expected at the club at 8am. So nobody knew what it was. Everyone’s just like, we have to get there, because it’s obviously serious.

“We all got there, you know, rolling into the meeting room, and James Fantasia (the club’s former football who resigned in 2013) is like, ‘Wardy, up. Explain to the boys what’s going on.’ And the whole club was there, like, all the playing group, the whole club, and I’m panicking. I’m like, can hardly breathe.

“And I get up there and I have to tell them that I’m going to the Giants for five years. So I did not even know where to start ... I stumbled my way through, like a minute chat or whatever it was, and said, ‘I’m leaving ... I’m going for five years. I’ve taken the Giants offer. I’ve loved playing here. Thanks, boys,’ whatever it was.

“Then, when I sat down in my seat, because everyone had had their own seats, I sat down in the second row in my seat, and James Fantasia goes, ‘What are you doing? Get out of here.’

“So I had to get up .... That was my last time in a Bulldogs meeting. I met the boys at the pub at 10am.”

McLachlan said it was a “very final’ departure.

“Looking back, it was actually more funny than anything else. Like, even when James said ‘get out’, I heard a lot of laughs from the playing group. So it’s more like humorous than anything else.”

Ward said he made the decision to join the Giants after they offered him a “life-changing” offer.


https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/much-loved-afl-champion-callan-ward-lays- bare-brutal-details-of-final-bulldogs-act-c-19607733.amp
 

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