Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\nLongmuir lamented his team’s “off” workrate as the Giants dominated the clearance count 42 to 28 and played aggressively in their front half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was not us, it hasn’t been us,” the coach said.<\/p>\n
“I thought we lacked strength in the contest, to hang onto the ball, test to tackle, all things we’ve been pretty good at all year.”<\/p>\n
In a further blow, Hayden Young suffered a groin injury in the second half.<\/p>\n
It follows a spate of injuries for the 25-year-old over the last 18 months, and his loss would be another blow for the ladder leaders’ minor premiership hopes ahead of a crucial clash against second-placed Sydney on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
“We think it’s just a bit of a tight groin, so we’re hoping he’s right,” Longmuir said.<\/p>\n
“This is what happens when you miss a lot of footy … It can be after three or four (weeks) and something else bobs up, so hopefully it’s not bad.”<\/p>\n
Jake Stringer inspired the Giants’ win with a career-high seven goals, while Toby Greene had 26 disposals and kicked three goals.<\/p>\n
Adam Kingsley had high praise for his Giants’ midfield \u2013 which was led by Clayton Oliver (32 disposals and 10 clearances) \u2013 as his side improved to 7-9 and boosted its top-10 chances.<\/p>\n
“This group’s good enough. We proved that by just knocking off the best team,” Kingsley said.<\/p>\n
“I thought we played a game that we’ve been hoping and aspiring to play for a long period of time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dockers had an off day in their loss to the Giants, according to coach Justin Longmuir Fremantle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-779298","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\/779298","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=779298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}