GIANTS coach Leon Cameron was thrilled with his team's resolve, labelling the victory a “character building win” that his team badly needed.
"We wanted a real good arm wrestle tonight and we got it, so it was great to come out on top," Cameron said.
"We want to play finals footy every year and we sit in eighth spot at the moment.
"We know that to play finals you have got to earn the right and to earn the right you have got to win games."
The GIANTS catapulted in front of Essendon with Sunday's victory, but have a task holding on to a finals spot with matches against premiership fancies Port Adelaide and Geelong to come over the next fortnight.
Cameron is hopeful experienced midfielder Stephen Coniglio (toe) will be fit to take on the Power next weekend, while he indicated skipper Toby Greene was itching to get out of his COVID quarantine this week and return to help his side.
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"He (Greene) is like a bull at a gate," Cameron said.
"It was good seeing them on FaceTime when we sung the song, as they were really rapt.
"We are looking forward to getting these lads out, as there is no doubt they will give us an enormous amount of energy midway through this week."
