There’s nothing better than a win. And this week, every day we’ll take a look back at each of the GIANTS’ wins in the 2014 season. Kicking off with our historic win over our cross-town rivals and including our first win away from home, our biggest-ever win, our first win at the MCG and the final-round thriller at Etihad Stadium, we’ll have a full wrap of each win along with the match highlights and team song.
ROUND 14
GWS GIANTS 15.10 (100) def. Carlton 14.8 (92)
A week after the GIANTS first-ever win away from home, another significant milestone was on the line as the GIANTS returned to Spotless Stadium to take on Carlton, aiming for back-to-back wins for the first time.
In a tense match, the GIANTS managed to hold off the fast finishing Blues to win by 8-points and claim victory in successive weeks.
Shane Mumford was immense in the ruck for the GIANTS, while Dylan Shiel, Adam Treloar, Callan Ward and Stephen Coniglio led a midfield that won the day against its more fancied opponents.
It was a free-flowing contest from the opening bounce, with the two teams kicking 5.1 apiece in an entertaining first quarter.
Two great goals on the run from Shiel and Devon Smith helped the GIANTS to an early 19-point lead, but Carlton responded, kicking three late goals to leave the match all tied up at the first break.
A neat effort from Gibbs gave the Blues an early second-quarter lead, but from that point on it was all the GIANTS, slamming through four straight goals to take a 22-point lead into the main break.
The GIANTS' 10.2 to half-time represented their biggest ever first-half score, surpassing the 9.5 kicked against Geelong in 2013.
The scoring dried up in the third term, with the teams trading goals until back-to-back majors from the Blues made it an eight-point game deep into the quarter.
A late Rhys Palmer goal then restored a 14-point buffer for the GIANTS and they looked likely winners.
So it proved, with the team withstanding a late Carlton fightback for another significant day in the young club's history.
Rhys Palmer kicked three goals and Shiel, Will Hoskin-Elliott and Jon Patton added two apiece.
