Geelong - Too old, too slow?

My Tilly

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It’s cooked regardless. May as well try one more time

Nah, prefer to try a whole batch of kids and lose that extra 2 or 3 games which means we finish anywhere between 7th-14th opposed to your approach which sees us slip back in the top four and then we proceed to get shafted (no lube).
 

DGroover

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Also they were one s**t kick away from finishing top and changing the shape of finals.
Who knows how it would have turned out had CGuthrie not kicked it OOF. That win for melb was the turning point in the mindset of the dees that switched on their belief which carried them through.


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Nah, prefer to try a whole batch of kids and lose that extra 2 or 3 games which means we finish anywhere between 7th-14th opposed to your approach which sees us slip back in the top four and then we proceed to get shafted (no lube).
No point recruiting a whole batch of kids if you dont play them ever. Jordan Clark?
 

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The cats bring in another 30 year old in ceglar

Didn't really have a choice, as our cap is tight, and Fort (who is 28 himself) was leaving - we essentially got Ceglar for nothing and with a fair chunk of his salary paid given we gave up Brisbane's Future 3rd for him and got 50 from the Lions too (which will drift back too 42-44 after bids come in). We had to recruit someone as a backup, while Neale and Tsapatolis develop, otherwise we'd be screwed when Stanley inevitably gets injured. Sav is clearly not a ruck, so he's out too.

Also, bringing in Tyson Stengle as a 22 year old, looking at bringing in Schlensog as a DFA, and taking 4-7 picks to the senior draft/rookie draft after Henderson and Jenkins retired. It's a step in the right direction IMO, with Selwood, Dahlhaus (who will play VFL next year most likely, due to his hip injury), Higgins and Rohan, all likely to be gone by the end of next year. Draft another 3-5 players, and get some internal improvement from our other first round picks like Holmes, SDK and Cooper Stephens, and it'll be another step in the right direction too.

Still way off the best sides like Dogs and Dees, but at least that gradual transition is one that is in the right direction (as we're no longer trading out decent draft picks for mature talent - Cameron was our last big trade as he is our Hawkins replacement once he retires - but rather looking at drafting and developing ourselves).
 
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Picks inside the top 34:

Geelong: 4
Suns: 1
Adelaide: 2
North: 2
GWS: 2
Hawthorn: 3
Brisbane: 2
Fremantle: 3
Carlton: 1
West Coast: 3
Collingwood: 2
Richmond: 4
St Kilda: 1
Port: 1
Melbourne: 1
Bulldogs: 1
Sydney: 2
Essendon: 1


I fail to see how anything that’s happened in trade week miraculously makes our future suddenly way less positive
 
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Picks inside the top 34:

Geelong: 4
Suns: 1
Adelaide: 2
North: 2
GWS: 2
Hawthorn: 3
Brisbane: 2
Fremantle: 3
Carlton: 1
West Coast: 3
Collingwood: 2
Richmond: 4
St Kilda: 1
Port: 1
Melbourne: 1
Bulldogs: 1
Sydney: 2
Essendon: 1


I fail to see how anything that’s happened in trade week miraculously makes our future suddenly way less positive
You have 0 in the top 20.

Freo have 3 picks before you have one.
 
So like most other seasons then.

I’ll ask again.

What exactly has transpired in the last four days that suddenly makes our goal of having at least one listed player not nearing their pension any harder to reach than it was prior?
Nothing changed.

22yo Stengle in. 21yo Clark out.
28yo journeyman Fort out. 30yo Ceglar in.

Delisted/traded players were 19 (taheny), 21 (clark), 21 (brownless), 21 (kreuger), 21 (constable), 23 (Okunbor), 28 (Fort), 31 (Henderson), 32 (Jenkins).
We may take a mature draftee but most will be replaced by stengle - 22 Ceglar - 30; or by 18yo's.

But WillHayward is from the bay so not interested in a meaningful discussion. Just lame trolls and thread bumps.
 
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It's funny, innit. Geelong getting more old campaigners into their team because the old campaigners who already weren't good enough to win a flag are getting older and of course they'll get closer to a flag and maybe even pinch one if they bring in even more old campaigners in to help all the old campaigners they already have hehehe.

* rebuilding.
 
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It's funny, innit. Geelong getting more old campaigners into their team because the old campaigners who already weren't good enough to win a flag are getting older and of course they'll get closer to a flag and maybe even pinch one if they bring in even more old campaigners in to help all the old campaigners they already have hehehe.

fu** rebuilding.
They could win the flag in 2022.
But a handful of top teams would have to suffer from the plague or something.
 

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I think Chris Scott could persist with his veterans for another year or two. It’s when he admits defeat and then says to the board I really need three years to do a proper re-build (while pointing to his W-L record and very distant premiership)… do they give him that extension?
Another heavy loss in a do or die final would test those running Geelong
 
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