Giants brace for more drubbings

Kevin Sheedy expects Greater Western Sydney will face more teams wanting to extract maximum percentage against his tiring Giants as clubs jostle for ladder positions in the run to the finals.

On Sunday, GWS entered the record books for all the wrong reasons in their biggest loss of the season as Hawthorn demolished the competition newcomers by 162 points at the MCG.

The Giants scored their lowest total of the year and conceded their most points in a game as the Hawks finished 28.25 (193) to 4.7 (31) winners.

And with such a close battle for positions in the top eight, Sheedy acknowledged his side could be on the receiving end of more triple-figure-margin defeats over the remaining eight rounds.

"There are three or four teams up there in the top six who have poor percentages. So they will probably want to belt us," the Giants coach said at his post-match press conference.

"We are going to try and avoid that, although we are not going to flood. We are really about developing a team that are going to be an excellent footy team in maybe four or five years and we're going to cop a fair few whacks."

Sheedy paid tribute to Hawthorn's high-possession style of play and said Alastair Clarkson's men were almost impossible to stop when their running game was in full swing.

"With the group that we've got at the moment that's a disappointing loss, but against a very, very good side," the Giants coach said.

Sheedy said Hawthorn needed to play off in this year's grand final to reward their hard work over the past three seasons.

"They are a club at the moment who have won one premiership and they probably would not be happy with that," he said.

"They've lost that opportunity since they won that one a couple of years ago (in 2008). They've probably just been beaten and you get a bit hungrier when you've been beaten a few times."

Sheedy said Israel Folau would be recalled to the senior team next weekend when the Giants meet Adelaide at Skoda Stadium.

But they could be without Rising Star favourite Jeremy Cameron after he was booked for striking Clinton Young with a round-arm in a third-quarter marking contest.

The exciting forward was favourite with most bookmakers for the Rising Star award but could be ruled ineligible if found guilty by the Match Review Panel.