Co-captain Phil Davis and defender Nick Haynes were back where it all began when they were special guests at the Holroyd Parramatta Goannas on Wednesday night. 

Davis and Haynes were invited down to Goannas training to present the club’s first ever youth girls team with their new jumpers, featuring GIANTS’ proud partner Dyldam on the back.

The Western Sydney property group have been the shorts partner of the GIANTS for more than four years and also support the Holroyd Parramatta Goannas and their Youth Girls side.

“Dyldam and the GIANTS are both proud to be part of the Western Sydney community,” said Brent Adams, Relationship Manager at Dyldam.

“While it’s fantastic for Dyldam to partner with professional clubs in Western Sydney like the GIANTS, we also see importance of supporting community sport at grassroots level, particularly the Goannas’ first female AFL team.

“It’s terrific to see AFL continuing to grow in Western Sydney and we’re excited to the GIANTS have a team in both the national mens and women’s competitions in 2017."

With the introduction of the National Women’s League in 2017 - of which the GIANTS will be one of the eight inaugural clubs - the girls now playing for the Goannas, could one day be GIANTS.  

Also at the visit was GIANTS Director of Coaching Al McConnell who was the club’s first ever employee in 2009.

The GIANTS have a special connection to the Goannas, having trained at their Gipps Road ground and utilised their facilities for the club’s first three pre-seasons prior to relocating to Sydney Olympic Park.

When the GIANTS began training at Gipps Road in 2011, neither club could imagine that just five years down the track the GIANTS would be heading towards their first finals series.