Will they improve? Will they regress? The big questions facing GWS in 2025

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SEN Breakfast hosts Kane Cornes and Sam Edmund have run their eyes over GWS and how they're shaping up for the 2025 campaign.

With the trade and free agency period now complete, Cornes and Edmund discussed how the club may improve in 2025, how they may regress if things go wrong and the big questions facing the club next season.

The Giants finished the 2024 season in fourth position with 15 wins and 8 losses but went out in straight sets to Sydney and Brisbane once September rolled out.

How can they improve?

"Having been really close but so far away, they would think they were so close to have won it this year, and the thought that you're going to go through a pre-season, qualify again, and make the top four is a big mental load," Cornes said on SEN Breakfast.

"That's the question I want to know for this team that has come pretty close, which is how they actually still themselves with a resolve with the issues they have had in the off-season with the bans and all of that.

"The mental aspect of their preseason is going to be significant and is going to take great coaching and great leadership."

How might they regress?

"They've lost some depth through the trade period, Isaac Cumming, Harry Perryman and James Peatling, that's one reason," Cornes added.

"Their reliance on Jesse Hogan is significant, they bring in Jake Stringer, and I don't know how disruptive that is going to be, but it could be one of the absolute steals of the trade period, and could be the decision that gets them to winning their first premiership.

"I think they've got to change their language though, Adam Kingsley has got to have more belief in the group and where they are situated, and trust this group to get it done."

The other 2025 burning questions

Edmund asked: "Is there any scarring from the way in which their season ended and the small matter of the Wacky-Wednesday stuff still lingering on?"