Giants coach Adam Kingsley and his side are angry about a medical call to send midfielder Brent Daniels for a late-game head injury assessment, effectively ruling him out for the final minutes.

Kingsley revealed Daniels was forced to take a head injury assessment test with five minutes left in the game which he “passed easily”.

“I haven’t seen the incident but from what I’m led to believe, it didn’t warrant having to take him off the field,” Kingsley said.

The Giants missed his run in the vital final minutes of the game.

“That hurt us, we missed his leg speed and overlap run,” Kingsley said.

Kingsley wants his players to build in their achievements in 2024.

He was hurting after the loss and knew his players would be hurting for a while as they digested the loss.

“We were one point off a grand final,” Kingsley said.

He wants the Giants to come back better next year.

“We need to make sure we maintain that level and improve on it,” Kingsley said.

“Entries were pretty similar. I felt like they had passages and we had passages. Neither of us were finishing our work.

“In a one-point game, it could go every way. You look at every single play and wonder if you could have done better. Could we have saved a goal? Saved a point or held our territory better?

“Our boys will replay all the moments in their heads for a long, long time but that is the nature of preliminary finals.”