{"id":41049,"date":"2018-10-16T07:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=41049"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:41:27","slug":"aflw-draft-preview-gws-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2018\/10\/16\/aflw-draft-preview-gws-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"AFLW Draft preview: GWS GIANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GREATER Western Sydney (GWS) Giants came so close to a Grand Final last season, with their fate up in the air up until the last round. With some key losses like <\/span><b>Maddie Boyd, Phoebe McWilliams <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Renee Forth <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ahead of the 2019 AFL Women\u2019s season, the Giants will need some young talent to go one step further this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Last season: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4th<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christina Bernardi, Yvonne Bonner (rookie), Taylah Davies (rookie)<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Out: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maddy Boyd, Phoebe McWilliams, Renee Forth, Melissa Freckleton, Rebecca Privitelli, Alex Saundry, Pippa Smyth, Renee Tomkins, Haneen Zreika (rookie)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>GWS AFLW LIST (24\/30) <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacinda Barclay <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicola Barr <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rebecca Beeson <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eleanor Bennetts <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christina Bernardi <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yvonne Bonner <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ellie Brush <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maddy Collier <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jess Dal Pas <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taylah Davies <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alicia Eva <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amanda Farrugia <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Courtney Gum <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tanya Hetherington <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jodie Hicks <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tait Mackrill <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erin McKinnon <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phoebe Monahan <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pepa Randall <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aimee Schmidt <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cora Staunton <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Louise Stephenson <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma Swanson <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Britt Tully<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>DRAFT PICKS <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12, 42, 52, 59, 64, 69, 72, 75<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>POTENTIAL DRAFT PROSPECTS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Giants are likely to take New South Wales (NSW) Most Valuable Player (MVP) at this year\u2019s AFL Women\u2019s Under 18 Championships, <\/span><b>Alyce Parker. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parker has been one of NSW\u2019s most dominant players throughout her whole Under 18s career, playing through the midfield and up forward when needed to. A midfield trio of Parker, <\/span><b>Courtney Gum <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Amanda Farrugia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could be a threatening prospect for the rest of the competition. Murray Bushrangers defender, <\/span><b>Eloise Ashley-Cooper <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is another player who could earn a spot at GWS. Ashley-Cooper spent some time in the TAC Cup Girls playing for Murray but has represented NSW at a representative level. She is a classy defender who could complement the likes of <\/span><b>Tanya Hetherington <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Pepa Randall. Alexia Hamilton <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is another one who will likely be on the minds of the GWS recruiters. She is a known goalkicker and a smart footballer who can play consistently well over a stretch of games. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREATER Western Sydney (GWS) Giants came so close to a Grand Final last season, with their fate up in the air up until the last round. With some key losses like Maddie Boyd, Phoebe McWilliams and Renee Forth ahead of the 2019 AFL Women\u2019s season, the Giants will need some young talent to go one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":37531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3115,8,3129,137],"tags":[157,2762,5365,2598,3071,3061,3494,154,5863,3284,3035,3069,7236],"class_list":["post-41049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw","category-news","category-nsw-act","category-womens","tag-aflw","tag-aflw-draft","tag-alexia-hamilton","tag-alyce-parker","tag-amanda-farrugia","tag-courtney-gum","tag-eloise-ashley-cooper","tag-gws","tag-maddie-boyd","tag-pepa-randall","tag-phoebe-mcwilliams","tag-renee-forth","tag-tanya-hetheington"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}