Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\nThe Bombers had won just one of their past 30 games and came in off a 90-point belting from Brisbane, who the Giants destroyed with a record 14-goal third quarter in May.<\/p>\n
Finalist the past three seasons, GWS is in danger of not even qualifying for the wildcard round due to its habit of dropping games it should win.<\/p>\n
As well as the Bombers, GWS has lost this season to West Coast, Carlton and St Kilda (twice).<\/p>\n
“It must be some sort of mental block there that we haven’t put our finger on yet and been able to solve,” Kingsley said.<\/p>\n
“That’s all of us, we haven’t managed to fix that.<\/p>\n
“Until we do, we’re not going to become the team that we want to become, and we’ve got plenty of work to do in that space.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got sports psychologists at the club provided to us to be able to tap into.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We’ve got the resources there, we’ve just got to do a better job, plain and simple.”<\/p>\n
In an added blow for the Giants, captain Toby Greene suffered a quad injury that will be scanned on Monday.<\/p>\n
Finishing the match with ice on his quad, Greene will miss at least next Saturday’s Sydney Derby.<\/p>\n
“He lunged for a tackle and just felt his quad,” Kingsley said of Greene.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know any timelines on that at all, but we’re on a six-day break into the Swans so \u2013 a big match \u2013 and he won’t be available for that.”<\/p>\n
GWS sits 11th, but would have jumped ahead of the Saints into 10th \u2013 the wildcard zone \u2013 had it taken care of Essendon.<\/p>\n
Bombers interim coach Dean Solomon described the upset as a “bloody good feeling”.<\/p>\n
It was Essendon’s first win since beating Melbourne in Gather Round in Adelaide on April 11, while it hadn’t won a game in Victoria since May 23, 2025.<\/p>\n
“It’s a bloody good feeling,” Solomon said.<\/p>\n
“Our footy club’s been on its knees for a period of time, and the footy world’s jumped on that, and they enjoy us sitting at the bottom.<\/p>\n
“We’ve felt that, and we don’t like that, so to push back a little bit and get one win, albeit one win, I’m just really happy for these players.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated The Giants are still looking for answers for their inconsistent form after a shock loss Adam Kingsley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-810644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810644","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=810644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}