Preliminary Final Week - Toby Greene on his decision to leave GWS (19.09.26)
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When did Toby first start seriously considering leaving GWS?
To Toby, w w when did you make your decision, Tobes? Mate, it's Wednesday night, about nine, nine thirty PM.
Was it a crystallizing moment? How did you get there?
Uh oh, it was well yeah, it was it was the first so I met Geelong on m the Monday, I think, after the wildcard weekend. So then from about then I started to r to really th think about it and thought, Okay, this is a real possibility like Yeah, like at the at round one at the start of the year it's not really ever something I thought would would happen. So um it wasn't until we sort of you know a and I didn't want to really think about it all during the season, I was captain and had responsibility and wanted to do the right thing by the footy club and and knew that me and George would have a discussion at the end of the year and and weigh it up and so we met Geelong on that Monday and then left there going, Oh yeah, like maybe it is a big
possibility and then spent the next week, changed my mind every two minutes and just couldn't yeah, really struggled with you know, being decisive either way. Um and then the the few days probably leading up to that, um, with bit more thinking and I guess valuing what you know, assessing what what I value and and and then sort of got to where we got to by you know Wednesday night and yeah, yeah, so nine, nine thirty and then I knew I'd I'd have to call people Thursday morning, but I knew Cogs was in Europe and and he's been my best mate and locker buddy for fifteen years so I I knew he'd be asleep Thursday morning so I called him at yeah nine thirty at night and then called e called everyone from the Giants that I needed to call uh over the next yeah six hours once I woke up on Thursday.
Why? Why are you leaving the Giants? Can you can you articulate
it? Yeah, I I can. Um it's uh I just well one, like I'd love to have three kids and and and that's a lot easier in in um in Victoria. That's just there's you know, we got family support down here. Um we we certainly struggled it with our first as well, which was which was hard, but we're we're we're flying now. That's why it was hard. We're super happy. We love Sydney, love the people, love the club, but um w that's where we wanted to go from a family perspective and then uh
How did family and lifestyle factors influence Toby’s decision to move to Victoria?
Um and and that's certainly a lot easier down here. And then uh from a selfish footy perspective, like I I I I'm just r just like feel like I'm gonna be s really energized and really n excited by a new challenge and something different and a new environment and um then the the last few days before I got to my decision I was like I'm like I'm actually really excited to try something different and and and prove myself to new people and try and finish off my career with um you know, with a lot of energy and fun and and and go from there and um And I thought that it might have been a bit of a grind perhaps at the Giants if I was trying to do that for not that I'm saying that th I don't I think the Giants will be highly competitive the next three years and I don't agree with some of the narrative that they're resetting or their their
They're not going to try and win it. I don't agree with that. I think the young group coming through are as good as anyone's young group in the competition, so that's why the decision was hard. Um but those were the two probably major reasons uh about moving back, yeah.
Were you emotional when you rang Steven Canelio and
Dave Matthews. Yeah, Cogs will um certainly in tears and then um yeah, and then Dave and who I've been with for fifteen years and and Jay's for ten, um King is for four, but you know, I l I love him as a coach. I reckon he's a great coach and great person and then call Josh Callie, Witters, um Who else are the older boys? Harry Himmelberg. I I call I've called about twenty of the boys so far now, but um those are some of the first ones I called and um and then probably spoke just to Jez and um just to Jez from Geelong and and that's it, yeah. So I I didn't actually tell Geelong, but I think Paul did. So um yeah, I just told Jezz and then obviously word travels quick.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
When did Toby first start seriously considering leaving GWS?
0:01–2:12
2
How did family and lifestyle factors influence Toby’s decision to move to Victoria?
2:12–4:08
3
What new challenges and motivations does Toby see in joining Geelong?
4:08–5:45
4
How did Toby evaluate his role and fit within the Geelong playing group?
5:45–7:17
5
What was the emotional impact of leaving the Giants after 15 years?
7:17–8:50
6
How did the informal meeting with Chris Scott shape Toby’s final choice?
8:50–10:00
7
What are the details of Toby’s three‑year contract and its compensation structure?
10:00–11:11
8
How is Toby preparing for the personal and logistical changes of moving to Geelong?
11:11–12:03
Speakers
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