{"id":408578,"date":"2026-01-12T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408578\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:08:17","slug":"giants-skipper-battling-injury-concern-in-race-to-be-fit-for-afl-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/408578\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants skipper battling injury concern, in race to be fit for AFL Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Toby Greene is yet to join main training as he overcomes hamstring issues\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Toby Greene warms up ahead of GWS&#8217;s elimination final against Hawthorn on September 6, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>TOBY Greene faces a race to be fit for next month&#8217;s AAMI AFL Origin clash as he looks to overcome hamstring issues during his pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>The Greater Western Sydney captain remains on a modified program as the Giants have returned to training in recent days, continuing Greene&#8217;s stint away from the main group before the club&#8217;s Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p>The club said the star forward is completing a running program and has some benchmarks and performance measures he needs to meet before returning to full training.<\/p>\n<p>It will leave Greene racing to be available for Victoria in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1460697\/seven-more-victorians-added-to-big-v-squad-to-face-wa-in-aami-afl-origin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">return of Origin football against Western Australia<\/a> on Saturday, February 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has already been named as a marquee player for Victoria to take the field under Geelong coach Chris Scott, who is taking the reins of the Vics.<\/p>\n<p>Half-back Lachie Ash has also been named for Victoria, while Giants bookends Sam Taylor and Jesse Hogan have both been selected for Western Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Greene played 22 games for the Giants last year, booting 41 goals, in what was his fifth straight year of 37 or more goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 261-gamer remains a key player in Greater Western Sydney&#8217;s finals aspirations, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1441952\/greater-western-sydney-giants-get-big-midfield-boost-with-deal-done-for-melbourne-demon-clayton-oliver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giants having added midfielder Clayton Oliver during the trade period<\/a> to bolster their on-ball brigade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toby Greene is yet to join main training as he overcomes hamstring issues Toby Greene warms up ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-408578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408578","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=408578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}