{"id":22741,"date":"2025-07-26T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22741\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T04:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T04:17:10","slug":"adam-kingsley-gives-biggest-ever-spray-to-gws-giants-at-half-time-video-comeback-to-beat-swans-in-sydney-derby-player-interviews-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22741\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Kingsley gives biggest ever spray to GWS Giants at half-time, video, comeback to beat Swans in Sydney Derby, player interviews, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

They\u2019re calling it Adam Kingsley\u2019s biggest spray of all time \u2014 sparking the Giants\u2019 incredible 79-point turnaround on Friday night<\/a> at ENGIE Stadium. <\/p>\n

Sluggish out of the gates against their arch-rivals in a must-have game to solidify their finals credentials, the Giants went into the main change trailing the Swans by 28 points. <\/p>\n

Then, by all accounts, came an almighty bake by Kingsley to set his side straight. And set it straight it did, with GWS booting nine goals to Sydney\u2019s on in the third quarter to take a 23-point lead into the final change. The Giants then kicked another three unanswered in the last period to seal the deal. <\/p>\n

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Asked if it was indeed an \u201call-time\u201d spray from Kingsley, captain Toby Greene chuckled to the Fox Footy crew post-game: \u201cYeah, it was a good one. It was a good one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants, at one point in the second quarter, trailed by 35 points after conceding six unanswered goals. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were real ordinary in the first half. Our contest, work rate \u2014 which we felt the Swans beat us the last five times just based on that \u2014 so it was super disappointing what we dished up in the first half,\u201d Greene said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were right up for this game. And then \u2018Kingers\u2019 (at half-time) obviously acknowledged it, and it was mostly on myself and the leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked by Jonathan Brown if Kingsley came at Greene directly, he said: \u201cYeah … direct and long. <\/p>\n

\u201cContest and work rate, it just wasn\u2019t good enough. (We) let them play the way they want to play, pressure wasn\u2019t where it needed to be, and I acknowledged that, and we acknowledged that. <\/p>\n

\u201cThird quarter was a lot of that \u2014 get back to help, put pressure on, and then attack, access perimeter \u2014 and we feel like not many teams can beat us when we play the way we want to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Papley’s gesture that sparked carnage! | 00:48<\/p>\n

Later, with reigning Coleman medallist Jesse Hogan, the Fox Footy experts quizzed the spearhead on the spray. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how many sprays he\u2019s copped, but he said \u2018mate, by a mile, that\u2019s the biggest one I\u2019ve seen. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe did go around the room, he got at about six blokes, so it\u2019s one of those ones where you just shrink in a little bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut he responded like he does, and we came away with a massive win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, star midfielder Finn Callaghan said after the game it was the biggest bake he\u2019d witnessed Kingsley give. <\/p>\n

\u201c(It was) probably the biggest he\u2019s ever given us, I reckon. The biggest I\u2019ve received in my short AFL career,\u201d Callaghan told Fox Footy on Friday night. <\/p>\n

\u201cLook, we deserved it. Played nowhere near to our level in the first half, the Swans smashed us around the footy and their work rate was a level better than ours. So \u2018Kingers\u2019 certainly gave it to us.<\/p>\n

During the match broadcast, former Hawks sharpshooter claimed from boundary level that the spray was \u201cone of his (Kingsley\u2019s) best of all time\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cA giant spray from Adam Kingsley. They\u2019ve had to call the painter, he\u2019s ripped it off the walls,\u201d Dixon told Fox Footy. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve just told me it was one of his best of all-time to fire them up for this second half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then came a Giant tsunami for the history books, with GWS booting 9.3 from 18 inside-50s to Sydney\u2019s 1.0 in a scintillating third quarter rampage. <\/p>\n

The 44-point win was GWS\u2019 second-biggest Sydney Derby win and the biggest since Round 6, 2019 \u2014 breaking a run of five losses against the cross-town foe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re calling it Adam Kingsley\u2019s biggest spray of all time \u2014 sparking the Giants\u2019 incredible 79-point turnaround on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[1142,638,10118,64,63,689,55,639,12117,22888,3500,22892,1139,22885,22891,22886,3231,1120,12181,19052,22890,673,677,22887,85,22889,670,19086,15630],"class_list":["post-22741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adam-kingsley","tag-afl","tag-almighty-spray","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-final-change","tag-finals-credentials","tag-finn-callaghan","tag-giant-spray","tag-greater-western-sydney-giants","tag-greene-hogan","tag-half-time-talk","tag-history-books","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jake-stringer","tag-jesse-hogan","tag-jonathan-brown","tag-must-have-game","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-real-ordinary","tag-sports","tag-star-midfielder-finn","tag-sydney","tag-toby-greene","tag-work-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}