Giants get back up to speed for Pies clash
GWS playmaker Ryan Angwin says his teammates intend to let the handbrake go and run Collingwood off their feet as they seek to get their AFL campaign back on track.
The Giants have faltered over the last fortnight, beaten handsomely by the Western Bulldogs before falling short in a comeback against St Kilda.
It has left Adam Kingsley’s men behind the eight-ball ahead of another huge test against the Magpies at Marvel Stadium on Friday night.
Angwin acknowledged GWS had drifted from their trademark in recent outings, but said they took positives from last week’s second half.
The secret life of an AFL broadcast
Thursday night at the MCG, and it’s the Swans versus the Hawks. But there’s a bigger team taking to the field – 75 men and women pulling together to bring 4½ hours of live television into your lounge room. And with no script and zero certainty they are going to have to rely on their faith in their preparedness to pull them through – whatever happens.
This is their behind-the-scenes, seat-of-their-pants story.
The match is more than an hour away when a production meeting in Channel Seven’s vast commentators room on level 3 of the Melbourne Cricket Ground concludes.
There are issues. Not enough TV monitors on the ground, so Rebecca Maddern will be expected to talk to viewers at home without actually seeing what she is talking about. But the host is in can-do mode. “That’s OK,” says Maddern, who under her elegant cream suit is wearing a pair of daggy ski socks because the worst thing in television is to stand on the MCG ground for four hours with freezing feet.
Good evening
G’day everyone. It’s Roy Ward here and I’ll be taking you through tonight’s AFL Friday clash between Collingwood and GWS at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne.
First bounce is set for 7.40pm and we will be live-blogging the whole match and go deep into the post game to bring you the reactions from both sides.
Please enjoy the evening to come.
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