{"id":35135,"date":"2025-07-31T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35135\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:37:05","slug":"adam-kingsley-press-conference-after-gws-giants-loss-to-western-bulldogs-round-21-defeat-finals-equation-injuries-interview-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35135\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Kingsley press conference after GWS Giants loss to Western Bulldogs, Round 21 defeat, finals equation, injuries, interview, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Kingsley had no illusions about the dismal nature of his side\u2019s performance against the Western Bulldogs on Thursday night, conceding that the 88-point thrashing<\/a> was the worst of his tenure.<\/p>\n

Now in the latter stages of his third year at the helm, the GWS head coach offered a blunt one-word reply when asked if it was the lowest point of his time in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kingsley pointed to his side\u2019s struggles at the contest and in clearances, where they were soundly beaten by margins of -51 and -17.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got belted in the contest, plain and simple. (We were) -51 in the end, you can\u2019t really compete when you\u2019re getting belted like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always trying; the problem is, it\u2019s never one thing that\u2019s the issue while you\u2019re losing contest. It\u2019s usually a handful, if not more. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were off tonight, I don\u2019t know why. The Bulldogs were clearly playing for their season, and it felt like we weren\u2019t. And so that\u2019s disappointing from our perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been like that in the past from a number of times that we\u2019ve played them. They\u2019ve been a bit of a hump that we haven\u2019t been able to get over the last couple of years.\u201d <\/p>\n

The loss was the Giants\u2019 ninth in 10 matches against the Bulldogs, having only won once since the 2019 elimination final between the two sides. This was also comfortably GWS\u2019 biggest loss to their modern-day rivals, surpassing their 61-point loss also in 2019.<\/p>\n

Crucially too, it now leaves them right back in the logjam of teams fighting to stay in the top eight, after previously looking at an unlikely shot towards the top four. <\/p>\n

Riewoldt: “I feel like that’s a goal” | 00:29<\/p>\n

Sitting with 13 wins and three games remaining, there are no longer any certainties amid their September plans, as their Round 23 meet with Gold Coast looms now as potentially a do-or-die clash.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got an opportunity to respond. I\u2019m not overly concerned, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s us \u2014 and it hasn\u2019t been us for a long period of time … we\u2019ll move on pretty quickly … and try and produce against North Melbourne next week,\u201d Kingsley added<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way that we played with the ball wasn\u2019t our normal brand, I think that was pretty obvious. The Bulldogs did a great job at defending that, and we weren\u2019t really bold enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happens. We don\u2019t want it to happen, and certainly not the way that it did happen tonight \u2014 but it does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Souring the club\u2019s biggest loss since the 2019 Grand Final are the injuries to forward Jesse Hogan (foot) and Toby McMullin (syndesmosis), with neither player seeing out the clash. <\/p>\n

The Giants will welcome back captain Toby Greene for next Sunday afternoon\u2019s clash with North Melbourne in Canberra, while key cogs Jack Buckley and Josh Kelly are expected to miss the remainder of the home-and-away season with calf injuries out of last week\u2019s win over Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Kingsley had no illusions about the dismal nature of his side\u2019s performance against the Western Bulldogs on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[1142,638,64,63,689,7292,55,639,32122,32120,2667,32126,32121,32125,2485,1139,5330,27723,2524,1823,12181,14416,32123,673,677,668,701,85,670,32124,19086,14392,698],"class_list":["post-35135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adam-kingsley","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-capital-territory","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-back-captain","tag-calf-injuries","tag-canberra","tag-dismal-nature","tag-elimination-final","tag-finals-equation","tag-gold-coast","tag-greater-western-sydney-giants","tag-head-coach","tag-home-and-away-season","tag-jack-buckley","tag-jack-riewoldt","tag-jesse-hogan","tag-josh-kelley","tag-key-cogs","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-press-conference","tag-queensland","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-teams-fighting","tag-toby-greene","tag-toby-mcmullin","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35135","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=35135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}