Grintell's brilliant season has been rewarded with selection in Greater Western Sydney (GWS) Giants' VFL team over the past couple of weeks.

It has been him rub shoulders with the likes of Stephen Coniglio, Jesse Hogan and Tom Green and take on the likes of Ben Brown, Sam Weideman, Jake Melksham and Neville Jetta.

On Saturday, Grintell was part of the Giants team who ended Casey's undefeated start to the season, as they prevailed in a one-point thriller in Melbourne.

In both games, Grintell has kicked 1.1 and impressed with his forward pressure.

"I'm enjoying it. It's obviously a lot quicker than around here and from the other under 19s games but it's good fun. A good learning experience. I'm really liking it," Grintell said.

Grintell made his senior debut for Narrandera as a 16-year-old and was blooded during what were tough times for the Eagles.

He went and spent last year's COVID-19 interrupted season under Jim Rice at Tuggeranong in AFL Canberra, and has reaped the rewards this year with a stellar season with the Giants Academy, and also Narrandera.

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The 18-year-old was rewarded with selection in the Allies squad, a representative team of NSW-ACT, Queensland, Tasmania and Northern Territory, for the under 19 national championships.

"I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far but hopefully this is just the beginning," Grintell said.

"I'm really happy from where I was at the start of the year to now. I didn't think I'd make the Allies but over the last few months I started playing some good footy I thought and it could be on the tables, I worked hard and it did."

Like most other kids doing what he does at his age, Grintell's dream is to play AFL football. And he believes his experience in the VFL can only help him achieve this.

"It's been awesome. They're really good to watch, especially when you're out on the field and they just go about their own game and let you know when you do a good thing and stuff like that," he said.

"You learn a fair bit off their game and how they roll. It's been great, really. Hopefully it keeps getting better and better, develop the skills against harder teams and harder players."

Giants VFL coach Luke Kelly liked what he saw from Grintell on Saturday.

"Harry is another one who didn't drop his work rate," Kelly told the Giants' website.

"He works hard to get himself into good spots which allowed him to impact the scoreboard. He'll continue to work on his craft at VFL level."

For now, the Allies' national championships campaign is up in the air due to COVID-19. It will happen but the specifics are unknown at this stage. They were meant to open their campaign against Vic Metro on Thursday, a game which has been postponed.

Until then, Grintell has his attitude right.

"It all comes down to hard work," he said.

"Bit of a mindset thing too, I've probably worked on that a little bit this year, especially during COVID last year and not playing much. Bit of a mindset and hard work. Not letting opportunities go to miss," he said.

Turvey Park's Luke Fellows also played for the Giants in Saturday night's win.

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