Banter This thread was never an issue prior to the 2017 finals...Richmond Vs Geelong

[Sterge]

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Next time Cats supporters try and get all high and mighty on you, remember they bullied their most prominent supporter out of the club.

There are incredibly homophobic cats supporters on big footy who were probably involved in it.

Catman may have dressed up like a bit of a dickhead and we all got a laugh from this gif after 2017 but he wore his heart on his sleeve and didn't deserve the treatment given to him by Geelong

 

[THE THIN MAN]

The AFL is a much poorer place, if there is no place for supporters to express themselves.

 

[THE THIN MAN]

Triple premiership superstar Brad Ottens

Brad Ottens

Age

44

Ht

202cm

Wt

106kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.3

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

6.3

4star

CL

2.7

4star

HO

16.9

5star

No current season stats available

D

7.6

2star

K

4.0

2star

HB

3.6

3star

HO

7.4

5star

will be given the honour of ringing the iconic timekeeper’s bell on Friday night at the MCG.

In a public poll, Cats fans overwhelmingly voted for the bell, which has been a part of the Simonds Stadium match day for the past three years, to be taken to the MCG for Friday night’s game.

And with the epic battle between the Cats and Tigers, there was no more fitting past player than the former Cat and Tiger to ring the bell.

Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the game. Ottens will be interviewed on ground at 7.20pm before ringing the bell at 7.40pm when the Cats run out.

Ottens to be bell ringer

Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night

www.geelongcats.com.au

 

[Sterge]

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Triple premiership superstar Brad Ottens will be given the honour of ringing the iconic timekeeper’s bell on Friday night at the MCG.

In a public poll, Cats fans overwhelmingly voted for the bell, which has been a part of the Simonds Stadium match day for the past three years, to be taken to the MCG for Friday night’s game.

And with the epic battle between the Cats and Tigers, there was no more fitting past player than the former Cat and Tiger to ring the bell.

Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the game. Ottens will be interviewed on ground at 7.20pm before ringing the bell at 7.40pm when the Cats run out.

Ottens to be bell ringer

Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night

www.geelongcats.com.au

Things more iconic than the cats timekeeper bell

this tree

 

[Barunga Bullet]

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Triple premiership superstar Brad Ottens will be given the honour of ringing the iconic timekeeper’s bell on Friday night at the MCG.

In a public poll, Cats fans overwhelmingly voted for the bell, which has been a part of the Simonds Stadium match day for the past three years, to be taken to the MCG for Friday night’s game.

And with the epic battle between the Cats and Tigers, there was no more fitting past player than the former Cat and Tiger to ring the bell.

Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the game. Ottens will be interviewed on ground at 7.20pm before ringing the bell at 7.40pm when the Cats run out.

Ottens to be bell ringer

Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night

www.geelongcats.com.au

gotta feel for Taylor Hunt, Adam Houlihan and big Kent Kingsley being overlooked for this

 

[tigs2010]

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Triple premiership superstar Brad Ottens will be given the honour of ringing the iconic timekeeper’s bell on Friday night at the MCG.

In a public poll, Cats fans overwhelmingly voted for the bell, which has been a part of the Simonds Stadium match day for the past three years, to be taken to the MCG for Friday night’s game.

And with the epic battle between the Cats and Tigers, there was no more fitting past player than the former Cat and Tiger to ring the bell.

Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the game. Ottens will be interviewed on ground at 7.20pm before ringing the bell at 7.40pm when the Cats run out.

Ottens to be bell ringer

Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night

www.geelongcats.com.au

The arrogance of this was gold!

The boos drowning out the whimpy bell.

 

[THE THIN MAN]

gotta feel for Taylor Hunt, Adam Houlihan and big Kent Kingsley being overlooked for this

 

[tigs2010]

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A Geelong legend

 

[TiggerMan22]

Why not make it fairer and take the cats to 1967 they may have more flags, or they may have more finals losses

It was more about how many losses they've had in the last 9 seasons. Enough to cover almost 60 years of Richmond history and 8 flags.

 

[TJASTA]

here puss puss puss puss

 

[Sir_Loin]

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[YeOldTiger]

Why not make it fairer and take the cats to 1967 they may have more flags, or they may have more finals losses

Most of their current players would be in their rookie year.

 

[YeOldTiger]

Next time Cats supporters try and get all high and mighty on you, remember they bullied their most prominent supporter out of the club.

There are incredibly homophobic cats supporters on big footy who were probably involved in it.

Catman may have dressed up like a bit of a dickhead and we all got a laugh from this gif after 2017 but he wore his heart on his sleeve and didn't deserve the treatment given to him by Geelong

Maybe he changes the colour of his stripes and joins a properly inclusive club ??

 

[Chief]

Hi Mad_Hatter just an FYI we actually have a Cats supporter to thank for the changing of 9th....mond to Premiershipmond.

It had nothing to do with us

So thank you

Oh yeah about that...

 

[Sterge]

Oh yeah about that...

Still premiers for a few months yet

 

[captain blood 17]

Nah mate, I'm too classy for Moe. Sorry, i just assumed you got your oodie from Moe

Nah mate, borrowed it from you if you recall. And thanks for the crocs. They go well with it.

 

[guruisatiger]

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Triple premiership superstar Brad Ottens will be given the honour of ringing the iconic timekeeper’s bell on Friday night at the MCG.

In a public poll, Cats fans overwhelmingly voted for the bell, which has been a part of the Simonds Stadium match day for the past three years, to be taken to the MCG for Friday night’s game.

And with the epic battle between the Cats and Tigers, there was no more fitting past player than the former Cat and Tiger to ring the bell.

Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the game. Ottens will be interviewed on ground at 7.20pm before ringing the bell at 7.40pm when the Cats run out.

Ottens to be bell ringer

Triple premiership star Brad Ottens will ring the timekeeper's bell on Friday night

www.geelongcats.com.au

Could not hear the bell we were rather loud that night

 

[Barunga Bullet]

Nah mate, borrowed it from you if you recall. And thanks for the crocs. They go well with it.

Anytime mate. Got a wardrobe full so there's plenty for you to choose from
BTW please return my salmon shirt

 

[rowlingsdevsqd]

Its how we get around salary caps....the senior group discounts.

I was happy to see Jack Riewoldt taking a leaf out of Tomahawk's book last week. Jack realises that age is not the barrier his supporters claim

Yeah but Tom Hawkins is shite

He’s never won a Coleman *



* may or may not be true, frankly can’t bothered typing it into the interweb to find out for that muppet


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[rowlingsdevsqd]

This is what I remember most fondly about Richmond's last 20 years

Yes - mine too.

This is the source of our premierships

Manure = fertilizer

It is that which enables living things to grow to achieve greatness (along with water and some sunshine)

The delivery of the greatest team in living memory is testament to this fact.

Few outside the club appreciate this generous act by supporters to assist In The development of the club by delivering a truck load of fertilizer.


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[THE THIN MAN]

Farmer still bitter over umpiring

One of the greatest Australian footballers ever to pull on a boot, Graham "Polly" Farmer, has weighed into the debate about umpiring standards - during a grand final played 37 years ago.

As Geelong prepares to take on Richmond at the MCG today, Farmer has called on the AFL to investigate the last time the two teams met in a grand final, the classic 1967 decider watched by a crowd of 109,396 at the MCG.

Geelong's team-of-the-century ruckman, who captained the Cats that day, believes that video footage of the 1967 grand final should be examined in slow motion. Richmond won the match by nine points after two controversial last-term Geelong goals were disallowed.

"I really don't want to leave this alone because I think it's unfair," Farmer said last week. "I know in my own mind - because I've watched the film a hundred times - that we were robbed.

"Slow it (the video) up. First of all, you'll pick up John Sharrock kicking the goal through, secondly you'll pick up where (Colin) Eales has kicked the ball and John Sharrock is to receive the ball and they've given it to Ricky Graham.

"You'll pick up where John Scarlett's marked the ball and they haven't given him the mark. You'll pick up where their ruckman is pushed in the side, 30 yards out, and he gets a push in the back (free kick). And on top of that, there's a million others."

Peter Sheales, who umpired the 1967 grand final, will be among those honoured at an AFL-VFL umpires function on Tuesday. When asked if he had heard complaints about the standard of umpiring that day, he said: "Who've you been talking to, Polly Farmer?"

Sheales said he had heard Farmer's complaints privately before, and was disappointed to hear that he had made them public. "I'm disappointed that a person who has been an ornament with his ruckwork and what he did with handball, is saying it."

One of the most controversial moments of the match occurred in the final term when Richmond captain Fred Swift pulled in a mark on the goal line from a shot by Geelong rover Bill Goggin.

Swift was awarded the mark but controversy raged - especially among Cats fans - about whether it had actually been taken behind the line. Had Goggin's shot gone through, Geelong would have moved to within a kick of Richmond's lead.

Geelong received 29 free kicks for the match to Richmond's 33, with many of the crucial decisions late in the match going the Tigers' way.

Sheales is confident that anyone who watched footage of the match would agree that the umpiring did not influence the outcome of the match.

Of the controversial Swift mark, Sheales said: "That was an uncontested mark and I had no say as to whether the mark was completed before or behind the line. Only the goal umpire could tell that."

Sheales also addressed Farmer's criticism of his umpiring with a sense of humour, saying: "How much did James Hird get fined? I wonder if it's retrospective. I might give (AFL chief executive) Andrew Demetriou a call."

Farmer said he had good reason to believe the umpiring was the reason Geelong lost. "Don't make me look like a bitter man," he said. "I'm just a disappointed man and I'm looking to try to put it together (the facts of the story) myself."

Nor does he have the support of his teammates. Present Geelong Football Club director Doug Wade, who kicked four goals for the Cats in the 1967 loss, said: "Polly says it all the time, he can't get over it, and he's the only one that says it.

"A couple of the decisions went against us, but that happens in footy."

The 1967 win was the first of four Richmond flags coached by the legendary Tom Hafey, who said of Farmer's claim this week: "I can understand him being upset, particularly when they were the favourites, and especially when you look at the stars they had in their team".

"He's got a real thing about 1967. He never played overly well that day. He's real bitter. He said the umpire favoured us. He's said that sort of thing so often."

When asked why Geelong had more kicks, more marks and more handballs than Richmond, and yet had lost the match, Hafey replied: "If you multiply the kicks by the yardage, you'll understand why.

"We didn't root around handballing and kicking in all directions. We kicked the ball long and direct and had a bloke there front-and-square picking up the crumbs. We got more goals from running through the lines and crumbs that day than marks."

Farmer has had several digs at umpires over the years. In 1997 he appeared on The Footy Show and said: "The umpires have no right to give (Brownlow) votes.

"The reason why they are umpires is because they didn't have the ability or the courage or desire to become a footballer."

Farmer still bitter over umpiring

www.theage.com.au

 

[THE THIN MAN]

Yes - mine too.

This is the source of our premierships

Manure = fertilizer

It is that which enables living things to grow to achieve greatness (along with water and some sunshine)

The delivery of the greatest team in living memory is testament to this fact.

Few outside the club appreciate this generous act by supporters to assist In The development of the club by delivering a truck load of fertilizer.


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Green Premiership Roots!

 

[Mr Magic]

Is Geelong/AFL HQ, pushing Clarkson out of Hawthorn though the media??

 

[Sterge]

Honestly though, whats sadder us having a banter thread for a bit of a laugh or the cats who are obviously reading the thread and still crying about it back on their board.

 

[captain blood 17]

Anytime mate. Got a wardrobe full so there's plenty for you to choose from
BTW please return my salmon shirt

The salmon shirt stays bro. I aint surrendering it. It matches my "Moe Workboots".