{"id":443250,"date":"2025-03-11T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=443250"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T22:14:11","slug":"eddie-whacks-giants-marketing-amid-cyclone-alfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=443250","title":{"rendered":"Eddie whacks Giants 'marketing' amid Cyclone Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie McGuire<\/a> has taken aim at GWS<\/a> and the AFL<\/a> after the Giants went ahead with their pre-game "orange tsunami warning" tradition on Sunday, arguing the routine should have been shelved for the weekend out of respect to victims of Cyclone Alfred and the high tides.<\/p>\n

It's become customary at GWS home games for a loud alarm sound to be projected throughout Engie Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park ahead of the opening bounce. Giants fans are encouraged to play along by stomping.<\/p>\n

Wide World of Sports understands the\ufeff Giants consulted with tsunami survivors before embracing the "orange tsunami warning" as a marketing tool several years ago.<\/p>\n

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The term "orange tsunami" was introduced to describe the Giants' explosive style of play and the metaphor took off from there.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The pre-game routine went ahead before Sunday's clash with Collingwood\ufeff, on the same weekend that the two other scheduled Opening Round games weren't held<\/a> due to the natural disasters in Queensland's south and NSW's north.<\/p>\n

\"GWS<\/p>\n

McGuire was critical\ufeff of the Giants and the AFL on the latest edition of Nine's Eddie and Jimmy<\/em> podcast<\/a>, which he co-hosts with Geelong Cats champion Jimmy Bartel.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffI don't like it … I don't mind the marketing tool, but on a weekend when there was a cyclone and tsunami warnings as such, I thought it was a bit tinny. That's all. I just don't like it," McGuire said.<\/p>\n

"If we said 'bushfire warning' or something we'd all arc up.<\/p>\n

"I get the 'orange tsunami' [and] I love the marketing of it; I just don't like the vernacular."<\/p>\n

https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/eddie-and-jimmy\/eddies-warning-and-jimmys-unwanted-attention\/embed<\/a><\/p>\n

McGuire then took a swipe at the AFL.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"The AFL, who are so politically correct and are on everything, let that one through. I thought, 'Hmm, that's interesting'," said the former Collingwood president.<\/p>\n

"It's neither right nor wrong; it's just a point of view. Others might say, 'Don't worry about it too much, it's a natural disaster, it happens all the time, get on with it'."<\/p>\n

The veteran media personality drew attention to the 2004 tsunami tragedy that rocked the AFL \u2014 the death of Demons player Troy Broadbridge at 24 on his honeymoon in Thailand.<\/p>\n

"I'd hope they [the Giants] wouldn't do it against Melbourne Football Club, who lost Troy Broadbridge in the tsunami," McGuire said.<\/p>\n

\"Lloyd<\/p>\n

The Giants are scheduled to play the Demons at the MCG on Sunday afternoon, but the "orange tsunami warning" tradition is only a feature of GWS home games.<\/p>\n

Bartel, a former GWS board member, said to McGuire as he explained his disapproval: "\ufeffI can see that point of view".<\/p>\n

WWOS contacted\ufeff both the Giants and the AFL for comment.<\/p>\n

GWS thrashed Collingwood by \ufeff52 points on Sunday, opening its premiership campaign with a 15.14 (104) to 6.16 (52) win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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