The Greater Western Sydney GIANTS have reached a club milestone today, steam rolling the Belconnen Magpies by a record margin of 130 points at Blacktown Olympic Park.
A massive number of GIANTS players stepped up today with nine individual goal scorers, highlighting a stellar team effort from the home side. The GIANTS came out firing with Leeton’s Jacob Townsend kicking two goals in quick succession in the first quarter.
This momentum was sustained by the GIANTS for the rest of the match.
A late surge of goals in the second quarter allowed Belconnen to peg back the margin but their efforts were not enough to stop the GIANTS fierce forward pressure.
Canberran GIANT Josh Bruce led the goal kicking today with six in the bag but was closely followed by Israel Folau who slotted five through the posts. Bruce said that the GIANTS coaching staff would be impressed with the team’s performance today, particularly the work ethic displayed by the GIANTS midfielders.
“I’m absolutely exhausted but really happy for the boys to bounce back after a loss to the Swans last week. I think everyone will be really happy with what we produced today.
“A lot of our goals were on the back of some fantastic run and pressure from the midfielders, they were just all over them today.
“I just did what I could down there when they delivered the ball and was lucky,” he said.
Eighteen-year-old Adam Treloar was impressive in his first game back in the orange and charcoal, reading the play well and booting one goal.
Bruce smiled through his post match interview while the GIANTS walked off the field to applause and cheers, laughing off suggestions that he was happy to pip Folau at the post for leading goal scorer.
“We were working together in the forward line as two talls. I am absolutely stoked for him. He’s had a quiet couple of weeks and to see him really step up today was great.
“To come out and kick a bag is just brilliant for him and will do a lot for his confidence.”
The GIANTS will head into this week’s training schedule on a high note as they prepare to take on Northern Territory Thunder next week, who are undefeated in the NEAFL Northern Conference.
“This week at training is going to be fantastic.
“We’ll work hard and try to continue to work on the structures that we used today and prepare to head over to Darwin at the end of the week.
“It’s great to be in good form for our match against NT next week,” he said.
GWS GIANTS
26.20.176
Belconnen
7.4.46
Bests
Carey, Giles, Aylett, Bruce, Townsend, Growden
GIANTS goal kickers
Josh Bruce 6
Israel Folau 5
Jacob Townsend 3
Curtly Hampton 3
Jonathan Giles 3
Anthony Miles 2
Alex Carey 2
Angus Crowley 1
Adam Treloar 1
