Re-signing with Greater Western Sydney was at all times going to be a simple alternative for late bloomer Kieren Briggs.
Following a breakout season with the Giants, the native product has prolonged his contract by an extra two years on the membership.
“It’s a pretty easy choice for me – obviously my family is in Sydney, but the Giants are my family as well,” he stated on Friday.
“We’re such a close-knit club and everyone around is just so welcoming.”
A diamond within the tough, the ruckman was missed in his first 4 years on the Giants.
Joining GWS in 2019, he waited till his third season to make his AFL debut and within the 4 years since he performed solely 9 video games in whole.
Then Adam Kingsley arrived.
In mid-may, the first-year coach confessed he had but to search out his greatest ruckman possibility after a masterclass efficiency from Collingwood’s Mason Cox demolished the Giants in hitouts.
Kingsley took an opportunity on Briggs to exchange Matt Flynn in spherical 10 in opposition to St Kilda and has by no means seemed again since, making the 23-year-old his most popular ruck.
Briggs has performed the final 15 video games straight and is now rated because the primary ruck within the league for clearances and centre clearances.
“He’s just given me confidence in my own game,” he stated.
“He doesn’t ask me to do anything over the top, just to go out and have the belief that I can perform for the team and play my role.
“That’s the message throughout the entire board in the meanwhile – if we’ve 23 people enjoying their position every week, then we will go a good distance.”
Briggs also credits his transformation to the Giants’ former star ruck and premiership player Shane Mumford.
Now an assistant coach at the club, Mumford took Briggs under his wing when he first arrived.
“He calls me little, strolling little one,” Briggs joked.
“But he is been nice for me. He’s made me the participant I’m at this time and continues to problem me in all features of my sport.”
The contract extension comes just a week after Briggs played his first-ever final at the MCG.
He’ll mark another occasion – his 25th game, and perhaps the biggest of his career – when the Giants take on Port Adelaide in a semi-final clash.
“It’s a pinch-me second, enjoying in a semi-final after final week enjoying in entrance of 70,000,” Briggs stated.
“The orange tsunami is clearly in full drive in the meanwhile … we have nonetheless obtained lots to provide.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
