The Greater Western Sydney GIANTS will face 2010 AFL premiers Collingwood and the Western Bulldogs in a round robin at Blacktown International Sportspark on Saturday February 18. The first round of this year’s NAB Cup will be an enormous challenge for the young GIANTS who played in last year’s pre season competition in front of a sell out home crowd.
In a new development for the 2012 NAB Cup, all 18 clubs have fixtured matches for the opening three rounds of competition.
In the following two rounds of the NAB Cup series, the GIANTS will head to Tasmania to take on Hawthorn and will also go back to the Riverina zone to battle the Gold Coast SUNS.
Each club will play two shortened matches in their week one pool against the other two sides, comprising two 20-minute halves (approximately) across a three-hour window for the three matches.
Clubs will then play full matches in weeks two and three of the NAB Cup.
All matches across the three rounds (two shortened games and two full games) will count equally for four points and percentage, with the two best-performed teams over the opening three rounds to compete in the NAB Cup Grand Final on Saturday March 17.
The 16 other clubs will play NAB Cup matches that weekend across March 16-17 in various metropolitan cities across the country.
Round One:
Saturday February 18, 7.15pm – Blacktown International Sportspark
GWS GIANTS
Western Bulldogs
Collingwood
Round Two:
Saturday March 3, 3.40pm – Aurora Stadium, Launceston
GWS GIANTS
Hawthorn
Round Three:
Saturday March 10, 3.10pm – Albury (Lavington)
GWS GIANTS
Gold Coast SUNS
