Toby Greene joins Geelong on three-year deal after leaving Giants
The 33-year-old called key teammates early to break the news, prioritising his family's future over money.
Toby Greene spent weeks wrestling with the decision, sitting around his mother's house with his wife Georgia and manager Paul Connors to work through it. Once he decided, he moved fast.
Toby Greene called Stephen Coniglio first, catching the Giants' only surviving founding member at his hotel in Spain before bed, describing it as emotional with tears. The next morning he rang other teammates and club officials.
Greene is 33 and will join Geelong in October on a three-year contract. The move was not driven by money but by where the couple wants to raise their young daughter Isla, born in 2024.
Without family support in Sydney, they struggled through last year and felt Geelong offered a better path forward.
- 33
- Age
- Three years
- Contract length
- 15
- Years at Giants
- 2024
- Daughter's birth
Why it mattersOne of the AFL's biggest stars is switching teams mid-career, reshaping both clubs' lists and reshuffling competition balance.
AustraliaGeelong gains an experienced midfielder and ball-winner; GWS loses a veteran leader heading into a rebuild.
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