{"id":63255,"date":"2025-08-12T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63255\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:17:14","slug":"gws-giants-interested-in-recruiting-marcus-windhager-st-kilda-saints-contract-offer-finn-callaghan-exclusive-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63255\/","title":{"rendered":"GWS Giants interested in recruiting Marcus Windhager, St Kilda Saints contract offer, Finn Callaghan, exclusive, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

GWS has joined the list of clubs monitoring St Kilda midfielder Marcus Windhager, who remains unsigned beyond the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Foxfooty.com.au understands the Giants are closing in on a pitch to lure the 22-year-old to western Sydney, as he weighs up a two-year deal currently on the table from the Saints.<\/p>\n

Windhager played junior football alongside GWS star on-baller Finn Callaghan, with the pair selected in the 2021 National Draft.<\/p>\n

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As revealed by foxfooty.com.au in May this year, the former Sandringham Dragons product is eager to spend more time in the midfield as a genuine ball-winner, having spent much of his career to date in a tagging role.<\/p>\n

The Giants\u2019 interest comes amid a growing belief among rival recruiters that Windhager\u2019s defensive discipline and untapped midfield potential make him a valuable acquisition at such a young age.<\/p>\n

With the likes of senior Giants players such as Stephen Coniglio and Josh Kelly in or entering the twilight phase of their career, a spot in Adam Kingsley\u2019s midfield full-time as a dynamic ball-winner could well appeal to the young Saint.<\/p>\n

Windhager has played all of St Kilda\u2019s 21 games this season, recording the second-highest disposal tally of his 73-game career in Round 22 against Richmond.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been known to shut some players down and some big, big scalps across the year, but his offensive game (against Richmond), he\u2019s got no run-with … he\u2019s been pivotal,\u201d former Hawthorn sharpshooter Ben Dixon told Fox Footy last Saturday.<\/p>\n

Four-time Hawthorn premiership star Jordan Lewis added: \u201cWhat you learn through doing those roles is you learn where to run and where to get the ball … he\u2019s finally been released from that job. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows where to run now, he\u2019s like \u2018this is beautiful, I\u2019ve upskilled myself this year, and now it\u2019s my turn to get some disposals\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Windhager finished with 32 disposals, nine marks, four score involvements and six tackles against the Tigers.<\/p>\n

He is one of several Saints still out of contract heading into the end of the 2025 home-and-away season, alongside Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera and Dougal Howard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GWS has joined the list of clubs monitoring St Kilda midfielder Marcus Windhager, who remains unsigned beyond the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,7491,50706,50705,50713,50714,27705,50712,50709,3500,2105,1139,7492,19080,14416,24343,673,677,50710,28008,672,1820,50707,85,1122,26889,50708,670,50704,11236,50711,660,17939],"class_list":["post-63255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-dixon","tag-clubs-monitoring","tag-contract-heading","tag-contract-stall","tag-defensive-discipline","tag-dougal-howard","tag-dynamic-ball-winner","tag-finals-scenarios","tag-finn-callaghan","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-greater-western-sydney-giants","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-jordan-lewis","tag-josh-kelley","tag-junior-football","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-on-baller-finn","tag-quinn-rooney","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-score-involvements","tag-second-highest-disposal-tally","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-stephen-coniglio","tag-sydney","tag-tagging-role","tag-trade-news","tag-valuable-acquisition","tag-victoria","tag-young-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63255","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=63255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}