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Here Come the GIANTS
by GWS GIANTS AFL Football Club
This is the story of the creation of the GIANTS. Over a 12 month period in the club's 10th year, award winning journalist and GIANTS recruiter Emma Quayle spoke to key figures in the rise of the GIANTS. The five-part series covers expansion, Team GWS, operation 'Get Sheedy', the team, the name, the colours, the song and the identity. The series features Andrew Demetriou, Dale Holmes, David Matthews, Graeme Allan, Stephen Silvagni, Mark Williams and current and past players.
Episodes
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Episode 5: The GIANTS: The name, the colours, the song, the identity
It sounds like the fun stuff, but there were a lot of people to keep happy when the new club was choosing its name, colours and guernsey design. Meanwhile, a decision to set the club up like a US college campus played a huge part in creating its culture and building a lasting bond between the...
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Episode 4: The Team: The wheeling, dealing and draft decisions that shaped the GIANTS’ playing list
Who would you target if you were building an AFL list from scratch and had big contract offers to throw around? Clubs expected the GIANTS to come after their older, established stars like expansion teams had in the past, but they had other ideas. They had their eye on long-term success from the...
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Episode 3: Get Sheedy: Why Kevin Sheedy was targeted to be the GIANTS’ first AFL coach
Kevin Sheedy? Really? People were surprised and many were dismissive when the AFL pursued Sheedy - in his 60s and more than two years out of the game - to be the GIANTS’ first AFL coach. But he was seen as the perfect person to not only steer a young team of players, but sell the new club to a…
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Episode 2: Team GWS: Before the GIANTS there was…
The GIANTS had to start somewhere, and it was a random collection of boys from Sydney, Canberra and country NSW – as well as a future Australian Test cricketer – who represented the new club in an AFL competition for the first time, as staff worked behind the scenes to secure the 18th AFL club...
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Episode 1: Expansion: Why the AFL moved into western Sydney
In 2008 the AFL announced it would be introducing two new teams, on the Gold Coast and in Sydney. In the first episode of this five-part series exploring the creation of the Greater Western Sydney GIANTS, find out why the league decided to expand in the middle of a global financial crisis, why…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This is the story of the creation of the GIANTS. Over a 12 month period in the club's 10th year, award winning journalist and GIANTS recruiter Emma Quayle spoke to key figures in the rise of the GIANTS. The five-part series covers expansion, Team GWS, operation 'Get Sheedy', the team, the name, the colours, the song and the identity. The series features Andrew Demetriou, Dale Holmes, David Matthews, Graeme Allan, Stephen Silvagni, Mark Williams and current and past players.
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GWS GIANTS AFL Football Club
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This is the story of the creation of the GIANTS. Over a 12 month period in the club's 10th year, award winning journalist and GIANTS recruiter Emma Quayle spoke to key figures in the rise of the GIANTS. The five-part series covers expansion, Team GWS, operation 'Get Sheedy', the team, the name, the...
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