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📻 IMPORTANT AUCKLAND UPDATE 📻
Jordan Lewis’ top eight slider and 2025 AFL premiership pick
SEN • February 23rd, 2025 6:00 pm
Four-time premiership midfielder Jordan Lewis is tipping GWS to win it all in 2025.
While the Giants were knocked out of finals in straight sets in 2024 after finishing the home and away season fourth, Lewis thinks that they’re primed to go to the next level this campaign.
Having played in five finals across the last two seasons with a list that’s ready to win now, Lewis thinks that GWS have the pieces in the right place to finally claim a maiden premiership for Western Sydney.
“For me, it's the Giants, I think they’ve got the coaching group that understands what’s involved and what it takes,” Lewis told SEN Afternoons.
“I think they've got a playing list that seems to me, and you can just feel from the outside watching, that they love playing together.
“They've got the right pieces in the right spots. Jesse Hogan is coming off a Coleman Year, Toby Greene is there, the midfield is stacked, and even their defence is severely still underrated.
“My expectations for the Giants this year would be a Prelim Final as a minimum.
“They had great finals experience last year, and were a little bit unlucky, but if you’re going to put any money anywhere, it would be on the Giants for me.”
As for a potential slider, Lewis is tipping GWS’ crosstown rivals Sydney to drop somewhat after winning the minor premiership before losing the Grand Final to Brisbane.
With two Grand Final defeats of 60+ points in the last three seasons, Lewis expects the Swans to slide somewhat due to the mental scarring of those horror losses to Geelong and Brisbane respectively.
“I still think to overcome the devastation in the Grand Final win with Sydney, I still think that’s a really big hurdle,” Lewis said.
“We've seen in previous years, that you are not guaranteed to be a finalist, even though you've made the Grand Final the previous year.
“I think Sydney will slide. I don't think they'll slide outside the eight, but I think they will slide.
“They have a new coach (Dean Cox) and maybe learning a new way to play … but I think the mental scarring from two Grand Final losses in three years will impact them.”
Listen to Lewis’ full chat with Sam Edmund at the Fox Footy season launch here.
