Analysis 2025 GWS Giants - Predicted best 22, breakout player(s), general player/team discussion & questions

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I think so too.
He looks a terrific player to me.
Im super confident on generation next.

How early 20's players already doing it in Green and Callaghan are coming along great.
Cadman I think is looking like he is going to be great.
Those picks in the teens from that draft in Rowsten, Jones amd McMullen are rippers
I think Thomas and Fonti showed plenty from last years draft and they were supposed to be the steak knives from last years drafts.
We add in Leake and Gothard and this years kids and it looks very bright.
Thomas and Fonti are both 200 gamers
 

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The Giants have re-tooled ex-winger Jacob Wehr as a defender to potentially fill Perryman's void, with Kingsley putting forward a handful of other youngsters to replace the likes of Cumming, Peatling and Haynes. Former first-round picks Phoenix Gothard and James Leake are closing on senior debuts, while the Giants added three more first-round selections in Ollie Hannaford, Harry Oliver and Cody Angove during last November's national draft. "If you're looking at Harry Perryman, you're probably thinking Jacob Wehr, Conor Stone, maybe Harrison Oliver. He's been quite good … he's been really good actually," Kingsley said.
"And then Cody Angove has been outstanding. Toby McMullin and Phoenix Gothard have been training quite well.
 

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There's a short video up on the YT channel. Thomas has put on some bulk around the shoulders, don't see him losing his spot this year.
He is not in my best 22, there is some great pressure for spots.
 
Just thinking about the players that will roll through the midfield.
Centre bounce was a deficiency for us last year. I think we can remedy that this year.

Green
Snooze
Cogs
Callaghan
Kelly
Rowston
Stringer
Greene
Daniels
Muff
Leake

Pretty good.

With Briggs, and Madden ready to play if we need backup.

Cadman/Riccardi to chopout.
 
Just thinking about the players that will roll through the midfield.
Centre bounce was a deficiency for us last year. I think we can remedy that this year.

Green
Snooze
Cogs
Callaghan
Kelly
Rowston
Stringer
Greene
Daniels
Muff
Leake

Pretty good.

With Briggs, and Madden ready to play if we need backup.

Cadman/Riccardi to chopout.
Just quietly Harvey Thomas has the sharpest hands at the club imo and with his agility would be a weapon at centre bounce
 
Just quietly Harvey Thomas has the sharpest hands at the club imo and with his agility would be a weapon at centre bounce
He played as an inside mid in his junior days, but was pushed out at rep level due to his size in comparison to others available. If he can bulk up, then you may be right about being a weapon to go through the centre bounce sometimes.
 
Sen’s Dwayne Russel tips Stringer to be the AFL recruit of the year.

While the 30-year-old didn’t cost the Giants much from a trade perspective, Russell thinks that the forward could have a huge impact on their 2025 prospects after he kicked 42 goals from 23 games for the Dons in 2024.

Russell thinks that Stringer could end up being the missing ingredient for the Giants as they chase a maiden premiership after they were bundled out in straight sets last September.


 
Zerohanger, continuing their ranking of the three lines of each team, has ranked the GWS backline as #6 this season.


The Giants have a strong trio of defenders which will hold them in good stead in 2025. Lachie Whitfield, Jack Buckley and Sam Taylor each have All-Australian potential to their own merit, with the former earning a blazer last year. Whitfield averaged career-best figures from the backline in 2025, averaging 30 disposals per game for the first time, while also recording 5.8 rebound 50s per game. Buckley and Taylor are cutthroat deterrents in the defensive arc, averaging 2.4 and 3.3 intercept marks per game respectively, as well as 6.3 and 5.6 spoils per game each.

Lachie Ash, Leek Aleer, Harrison Himmelberg and Connor Idun are all dependable assets, with Idun and Ash averaging the best defensive one-on-one contest win-loss ratios at the club, while Aleer averages over five spoils from his 12 matches at AFL level, and is poised for a breakout season. Himmelberg can be utilised as a swingman and has shown his aerial prowess in clutch moments before, highlighting his influence is crucial to the Giants' defence.

However, despite the assortment of top-tier talent, the Giants' backline was not the wall of defence they seemed on paper last year. The Giants ranked ninth for points conceded, and their inability to stop surging opposition was ultimately their downfall in the finals series.

It's important to note that a five-week period without Sam Taylor significantly impacted GWS' stinginess last year though, conceding an extra five points per game (86.8) than their season average between Rounds 15 to 19. Remove the outlier performance in Round 19 against Gold Coast, who the Giants restricted to 50 points, and GWS conceded 96 points per game in that period, about 15 points greater than their season average.

With a healthy backline, GWS will be one of the better defences in the competition, but they are evidently heavily reliant on their stars. Yet, GWS are predicted to bounce back from their faulty finish to 2024, and with a fit, star-studded group in defence, the Giants should mould into one of the finer defensive teams in 2025.
 
Zerohanger, continuing their ranking of the three lines of each team, has ranked the GWS backline as #6 this season.


The Giants have a strong trio of defenders which will hold them in good stead in 2025. Lachie Whitfield, Jack Buckley and Sam Taylor each have All-Australian potential to their own merit, with the former earning a blazer last year. Whitfield averaged career-best figures from the backline in 2025, averaging 30 disposals per game for the first time, while also recording 5.8 rebound 50s per game. Buckley and Taylor are cutthroat deterrents in the defensive arc, averaging 2.4 and 3.3 intercept marks per game respectively, as well as 6.3 and 5.6 spoils per game each.

Lachie Ash, Leek Aleer, Harrison Himmelberg and Connor Idun are all dependable assets, with Idun and Ash averaging the best defensive one-on-one contest win-loss ratios at the club, while Aleer averages over five spoils from his 12 matches at AFL level, and is poised for a breakout season. Himmelberg can be utilised as a swingman and has shown his aerial prowess in clutch moments before, highlighting his influence is crucial to the Giants' defence.

However, despite the assortment of top-tier talent, the Giants' backline was not the wall of defence they seemed on paper last year. The Giants ranked ninth for points conceded, and their inability to stop surging opposition was ultimately their downfall in the finals series.

It's important to note that a five-week period without Sam Taylor significantly impacted GWS' stinginess last year though, conceding an extra five points per game (86.8) than their season average between Rounds 15 to 19. Remove the outlier performance in Round 19 against Gold Coast, who the Giants restricted to 50 points, and GWS conceded 96 points per game in that period, about 15 points greater than their season average.

With a healthy backline, GWS will be one of the better defences in the competition, but they are evidently heavily reliant on their stars. Yet, GWS are predicted to bounce back from their faulty finish to 2024, and with a fit, star-studded group in defence, the Giants should mould into one of the finer defensive teams in 2025.
Perryman is definitely a loss as a mid-size lockdown defender, but I wouldn't swap the trio of Taylor, Buckley and Idun for anyone else in the comp.
 
Perryman is definitely a loss as a mid-size lockdown defender, but I wouldn't swap the trio of Taylor, Buckley and Idun for anyone else in the comp.
Our backline is solid as it gets. Whitfield is great and I'm expecting a bit more from Ash. There's about 4 options to take the Perryman spot but I'm not too worried. Even Ward would be a good shout in that spot.
Forward line is scary potent.
Mids are good but that's where we need to see the lift this year for sure.
 

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