Never Surrender by The Squinters is the o̶n̶l̶y̶ 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 GWS Giants podcast by Giants fans — Unauthorised, Unfiltered and Uninformed. Every week, after every Giants match, The Squinters biasedly review the game, preview the next game biasedly, speculate biasedly on the giant issues of the week and impartially on anything else that biasedly occurs to them. If you want your GWS chat unauthorised, unfiltered and uninformed, The Squinters never surrender. Speculate with us or to us at…
Sparrow brought the pessimism: "That's it, we're cooked..." THEN ORCA RUNS HIS PREDICATOR AND WE'RE MEETING THE HAWKS IN A PRELIM!!! That's what the Orange Crush is for — lifting us up through the dark moments of August pain. But let's cut to the facts: we have developed a rather concerning habit of breaking incredible runs of losses and gifting a delightful W to struggling teams. Which is lovely,…
A flicker of hope from a Power outage in Adelaide... then WHACK! Carlton flogs the Lions and puts our season back in the dark on life support. Could that ripple on the Parramatta River become a surging Orange Tsunami flooding deep into September? We can only dream. And dream we will. Dreams of Whitfield dialling back the clock and kicking them from 50 out on an angle. Dreams of Stringer and his…
Yes, that was a tough watch. Any time an opposition player racks up more than 1,000 metres gained against you, it’s going to be a tough watch. When the Swans kick seven goals in the opening quarter and lead by 53 points at half-time, it becomes something else entirely. And then Finn went down. Is there any hope? Define hope… What we do have is a strong football club, a healthy culture, an awesome…
Well, there goes the July Run. We'll take down Empires, but the rats and mice in the drains will never cease to trouble us. Best we just delete the last game against the Bombers from our memory bank and move on. Reboot. Look forward. Battle Of The Bridge. Biggest Rivalry in Australia. At stake: bragging rights. Strutting rights on Bronte. The Anzac bloody bridge. And maybe even our place in the…
The beauty of maths is that it’s completely objective. It’s science. It’s truth. It’s the foundational cornerstone of accumulated knowledge and humanity’s long, noble journey towards enlightenment. And so, Ragnar’s Maths continues its relentless pursuit of truth by predicting—nay, mathematically proving—what will happen this month: We won’t lose. But… ahhh, bugger. This weekend we play a team…
Firstly, and most importantly: WELCOME BACK NEEDLES! Yes, the President of The Squinters, the Renaissance Man, the trackside oracle, returns to his dodgy mic after attending the Golden Egg with fellow OG Bartman to deliver high-quality uninformed opinions and insights you can only get on this golden piece of podcasting mastery. And what a game to return for. The Giants, with half the list held…
Ragnar is detoxing. Stormy's calf is busted. The AFL YouTube Channel is dropping the ball. And we suck on a Friday night. But there's hope! Get used to this name: Ethan Matthews. Perfect time to get injured, young fella. Put him on ice, and hide him in the garage. Nothing to see here... 👀 And sure, there's tough games coming up in July — starting with the Dockers at Golden Egg — but Ragnar's…
When two waves collide, there’s a displacement of energy. And when those waves are Orange and Blue, it’s not yet the month we don’t lose in — July, obviously — and you’ve got players slipping over, missing targets, and podcasters wandering around forlornly looking for somewhere to eat and commiserate… sometimes, somehow, the footy gods deliver. Not on the scoreboard. With pizza. Hats off to…
Did we lose? Sure. Kingers, post game: “We’re better than our ladder position”, plus “Hoges was a mistake”. Frankly, we agree. BUT... Was Stormy magnificent? Absolutely. Did Bluey have his own pill? Damn right. (Check his stats on that stats thing on Mongrel Punt — astounding. Bluey or Phoenix for the Kevin Sheedy Award in October). Nevertheless... T'was still a loss, and losses mean only one…
Just when we were gaining some momentum, fresh off the Road Train back from Alice, we put our feet up and forgot about footy for a week... And then the AFL decided to put the Giants on at the same time the Socceroos kick off their World Cup campaign. Will our heads be elsewhere? Toby has confirmed: yes, this is likely. Will the Tsunami retreat to a gentle lapping on the fringes of the Marvel turf?…
