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For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n The Swans\u2019 victory was set up by a dominant first quarter, booting 7.4 \u2014 the best opening quarter by either team in a Sydney Derby \u2014 to set the tone for a game in which they were never threatened.<\/p>\n Errol Gulden won the Kirk-Ward Medal.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n Superstar midfielder Errol Gulden won his fourth Kirk-Ward Medal for best on ground, amassing 41 disposals, eight inside 50s, seven clearances, seven score involvements and a whopping 1045m gained \u2014 becoming the first Swans player to ever record over 1000m gained in a game.<\/p>\n To add to the pain of the performance, Giants star Finn Callaghan went down late injuring his right ankle, untouched attempting a mark, hobbling from the field.<\/p>\n There was plenty of drama throughout the game, including a half-time scuffle \u2014 that prompted Gulden to vacate his Fox Footy interview mid-chat \u2014 as well a fourth-quarter fire alarm and the odd sight of a player wearing two different boots.<\/p>\n Cox relieved after Swans derby win | 09:33<\/p>\n THE 3-2-1 \u2026<\/p>\n 3. \u2018OBVIOUSLY A PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUE\u2019: GIANT FLAW LAID BARE<\/p>\n This was a loss Fox Footy commentator Gerard Healy suggested the Giants shouldn\u2019t bother watching and reviewing.<\/p>\n With their season on the line in one of their biggest games of the year against their cross-town rivals, the Giants weltered early under immense Swans pressure.<\/p>\n Adam Kingsley\u2019s side had little answers for the Swans\u2019 incredible running game, which sliced through the Giants with ease throughout the first half. At one stage, Healy suggested he\u2019d \u201cnever seen the Giants produce as little pressure as they are producing right now\u201d.<\/p>\n If not for inaccuracy and a couple touched behinds, the Swans arguably could have scored 100 points by half-time.<\/p>\n Remember, this was the same Giants team that knocked off ladder-leaders Fremantle and top-six contenders Geelong earlier this month \u2026 but have now lost to Essendon and the Swans (convincingly) in the past fortnight.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re not playing with the same spirit,\u201d Healy told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you can beat Fremantle and lose to Essendon, there\u2019s obviously a psychological issue at stake here and the boys are either right up or right down.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re not playing with Toby (Greene) and they lost Tom Green early in the piece and there\u2019s discussions about who\u2019s coming and who\u2019s going. They look as if they\u2019ve switched right off for the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n Fox Footy\u2019s Ben Dixon added: \u201cAt times, it looks like they\u2019re coming out for their first ball session of pre-season. Just not sharp at all.\u201d<\/p>\n The Giants found their pressure game in the fourth quarter \u2013 trailing by 57 points \u2013 but the game was gone \u2013 and possibly the Giants\u2019 season, grasping to the fringe of a wildcard spot.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are the definition of unpredictable,\u201d Mark Howard said<\/p>\n A hot Swans start in Sydney.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n 2. \u2018MIGHT TRY AND GO IN\u2019: STAR\u2019S MID-INTERVIEW EXIT TO JOIN SCUFFLE<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, Tom Papley and Jake Stringer were central to a half-time scuffle.<\/p>\n But there was a surprise when Swans superstar Errol Gulden left a Fox Footy interview mid-chat to join in the scuffle!<\/p>\n Papley got in the face of a few Giants players at half-time, prompting the two teams to come to blows.<\/p>\n After saying he was pleased with his side\u2019s ability to curtail the Giants\u2019 slingshot ball movement and scoring, Gulden saw a scuffle was breaking out between the two sides.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah we feel in the last few weeks \u2026 here we go! Yeah we\u2019ve, um \u2026 might try and go in,\u201d Gulden told Fox Footy before running into the fire.<\/p>\n And Gulden obliged with an almost speechless Lynch halted by a player ready to get physical to support his teammate.<\/p>\n Asked about Papley\u2019s antics, Giants veteran Stephen Coniglio told Fox Footy\u2019s Ben Dixon: \u201cWe\u2019ve been in embarrassing in the first half. But last year when we came back, he (Papley) was very quiet.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to do the same again. We either roll over now or fight back and try and do something different. It\u2019s a very disappointing first half.\u201d<\/p>\n “Better get involved in that!” | 01:02<\/p>\n 1. GIANT CREATES BIZARRE FOOTY FIRST?<\/p>\n Has there ever been a footballer in AFL\/VFL history wearing two different boots?<\/p>\n If not, then Max Gruzewski may have created history bizarrely swapping one of his boots for one of the physio\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s taken the physio boot \u2026 he\u2019s borrowed the physio\u2019s boot, I\u2019ve seen it all,\u201d an amazed Alastair Lynch remarked.<\/p>\n Maybe due to sponsorship requirements, but by the start of the fourth quarter the 22-year-old was back to two white boots.<\/p>\n And when he had those white boots on, the Engie Stadium fire alarm started.<\/p>\n Perhaps the bleating noise \u2014 which had Fox Footy commentators and coaching staff questioning whether to evacuate \u2014 was a signal to stop the rot, because when it stopped the Swans goaled again to prevail by 51 points.<\/p>\n The game that bad for the Giants, Healy suggested the coaching staff should send the videotape to Pluto.<\/p>\n \u201cI think they\u2019ve already burnt it, that\u2019s why the fire alarm went off,\u201d Dixon cheekily added.<\/p>\n \u2014 with David Gavin, NCA NewsWire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swans have emphatically answered their premiership credentials doubters, blitzing a subpar Giants outfit early to cement their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-823441","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823441","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=823441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/)
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