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So awesome we went with O'sullivan over Caddy.
Lets hope he goes on to win rising star.
Lets hope he goes on to win rising star.
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11 players missing. They are very competitive with their best 22. In reality, as I said during the week, we had zero excuses this week not to win well, and credit where it’s due, we looked superb without even getting anywhere near top gear. CS and MC will be rapidly focusing on the reigning premiersHmm two debutants, key injuries. Maybe not completely without hope
Hawthorn actually.Is Howie a geelong supporter? I know he lives in Geelong but…
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Howie is a full blown Hawthorn nuffieI have to say it's one of the few games I've watched on TV (Kayo) where the commentators actually praised Geelong and talked about what the Cats players did (other than talking about our opposition most of the time). I guess with Huddo and Howie (Geelong supporters), we had to get one sooner or later.
Give me Hawks, Tigers, Blues, WCE…then any team coached by Clarko, Hardwick and Lyon….I can’t hate the BombersAs a kid of the 80s, I watched just about every kid I disliked decide to barrack for/switch to the Bombers.
I still don't like those people at the age of 50.
So there is no team I enjoy humiliating quite like Essendon.
Ha. I used to play around with Haiku as a kid.Daz has Ted as a backup. Axe has always been your gun.
Kitty's Gryan family friend. Mine is Shaun Mannagh.
Who doesn't love his story though?
Pleased we got on the elevator as it was going up.
and that's a Haiku![]()
Give me Hawks, Tigers, Blues, WCE…then any team coached by Clarko, Hardwick and Lyon….I can’t hate the Bombers
I have compared him to Henry Playfair before.Feels like neale is on the verge of becoming a star.
I think neale is one i got horribly wrong. I thought initially he was a dud. I dont think that now.
I always thought he was a Cats guy. I stand corrected.Howie is a full blown Hawthorn nuffie
I may miss some but in the last 12 months we have brought in Mannagh, Hump and COS as raw kids. Ridiculous talent management right there.we look real strong at the moment, hopefully we can manage things through winter and be in similar shape in late august. my highlight from today was COS, his development is wild, a real chance for Rising star.
I always thought he was a Cats guy. I stand corrected.
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I think you one were one of the posters on here that was big on Clarke pre draft. He looks like he has it. Similar to COS in that he will get beaten here and there when he is learning but has the tools to be a good player in time. Would have slot in nicely on a HBF for us in a couple of years if he made it a few more picks.
Great work as per usual.When players of the calibre of Smith, Holmes, Miers, Stewart, and O'Connor get 150-odd touches between them you know the Cats are going to romp it in. Add a lazy ten goals from our two tall forwards, and an utter shellacking is on the cards.
1. Rhys Stanley - Broke even with Goldstein in what must rank as one of the oldest head-to-head ruck matchups of all time. I was super happy to see him get that late goal, and I wish he could go on again in 2026 because his form and fitness certainly merit it.
3. Bailey Smith - Wow. What a game. 41 touches, and some absolutely sublime passes among them. Best on ground by some margin, which says a lot when the 2nd best on ground was a bloke with 36 touches, infinity billion bounces, and a goal himself. Since coming to Geelong he has added "contested ball beast" to his resume which, while never a real weak point at the Doggs was also not his focus.
5. Jeremy Cameron - Maybe one or two lazy moments, but when you kick six in a 95-point drubbing you have done your job. Made the young and inexperienced Essendon full backs look a bit inadequate. He's looking more interested in playing as part of a great team than he has since 2022 in my opinion.
7. Shaun Mannagh - We seem to have half forward flankers coming out of our ears, but Mannagh provides a point of difference to Close, Miers, Stengle, and Dempsey in being a contested ball dynamo. Geelong's forward 50 pressure is relentless, and Mannagh is a big reason why. Three goals today and five tackles is a good day's work for a small forward.
9. Max Holmes - Really starting to become a ball magnet and, like Smith, has begun to add a lot of contested ball wins to his game. Watching him take a hundred bounces on his runs down the wing is nice, but seeing him poke a little handball out of a pack inevitably to a teammate is just as satisfying. It's making him hard to stop and, now that teams are beginning to tag him every week, actually almost untaggable.
14. Connor O'Sullivan - Another pretty good game from COS. Admittedly, Essendon's F50 entries were few and mostly shit so he was favoured from the outset, but he bustles hard for a tall guy and I see he's leading the team for 1%ers this year. Had to laugh when he gave up a free by forgetting to bounce the thing. Still, beat Caddy convincingly.
16. Sam De Koning - It was a shame he injured himself early because I thought he was playing pretty well up until that point.
17. Lawson Humphries - One ridiculous howler andone crazy long goal from outside 50 aside, it was just a competent and low-key game from Humphries. He didn't really have to do much given Essendon's inability to get the ball inside 50 much. Still, as always, he was a handy link-up option and excellent kick of the footy.
18. Tyson Stengle - Unlucky not to end up with three goals, given he hit the post once and had another set shot taken off him after an advantage call. He had an excellent game once again. That goal he did kick though was preposterous. You shouldn't be allowed to be that good a kick of the footy. It isn't fair.
19. Jack Martin - I wasn't sure what he'd bring to the table when we recruited him, especially after missing a lot of weeks through injury and then a couple of pretty ho-hum games in the VFL. Maybe just cover for injuries. Just goes to show that Chris Scott should be coaching the club and not me. He's slotted into the backline pretty handily and is an excellent kick of the footy.
22. Mitch Duncan - Subbed on in the 3rd for Sam De Koning. I reckon we've found our specialist sub for the rest of the year. His disposal was spot on, and I think at this stage of his career he does well when players on both teams are beginning to tire and all the slyness he's accumulated over the years can be used to greatest effect.
28. Ollie Dempsey - Ending up with two late goals was a fitting reward for another clever and hard working game. Dempsey covers a lot of ground to win the ball on a wing and then zoom forward, and it's often unrewarded, but to be a ball winner in the midfield and then a high-marking medium forward, occasionally even in the same passage of play, is a dream come true for a coach who knows how to effectively deploy him. Which Scotty does!
30. Tom Atkins - 18 touches, of those 11 contested, and 9 tackles. Crazy contested ball numbers, but we've come to expect that from Axe. He's the reason Smith and Holmes can work their way free so often- an underrated part of our midfield mix, but very much appreciated by those uf us who know.
32. Gryan Miers - Very very smart player who always looks like he's got all the time in the world with ball in hand. Got a lot of touches through the midfield and attacking half, and almost invariably used it well. Thos flat passes to a leading player give the defender no chance to spoil. I didn't have him in the votes today, but he was pretty unlucky not to be.
33. Shannon Neale - Awesome game. The guy is leading the club for contested marks, is crazy fast for a guy the size of a ruckman, and is a long and accurate set shot for goal. The highlight for me was making a pretty shit centering ball inside 50 from Smith, straight to two Essendon defenders, look like genius by just rushing at the footy faster than anyone that height has a right to do and then making the set shot look trivial. The Neale train has arrived.
34. Oisin Mullin - I think he was on Merrett most of the day and got handily beaten, and utterly munged a lot of his disposals as well. Have noticed though that he reads the ball very well in the air and with his pace can pick off a lot of hack kicks, from both teams. One day he'll be able to turn that into a weapon for us, but that day has not come yet.
35. Patrick Dangerfield - There was talk in the game day thread of PFD potentially reaching the hallowed 400 game mark. Days like today make that seem more within reach. He spent all day up forward and only got 11 touches, but 2.1 off his own boot, 10 score involvements, and a staggering 5 goal assists show how valuable he remains even when he doesn't go near the centre square at all.
38. Jack Henry - A bit of a nothing game, with only 8 touches, but he kept his opponent out of it entirely. He was handy, but wasn't really called upon to do much.
39. Zach Guthrie - Huge in the first half especially, when Essendon were still kinda sorta in the game. He attacked the ball hard and wore some pretty heavy hits, but didn't give an inch all day. Sound disposal and accurate reading of the play helps immensely too.
42. Mark O'Connor - Career best season so far. Played on Nic Martin, who usually torches us, and beat him handily IMO. Martin may have got a couple of touches more, but wasn't damaging and was always gonna get a lot of cheapies with Essendon's handball-happy and aimless sideways crabby play style. MOC on the other hand was always dangerous steaming forward through the midfield; he's a big unit and fast, and is turning into a valuable attacking option for us.
44. Tom Stewart - Welcome back Tom! After a few good, but rusty, weeks it was excellent to see Stewy back to his best. Backed himself in marking contests and clunked them all, fifteen times in total. Just magnificent. He's so vital to our chances in the finals and is tracking perfectly.
45. Brad Close - Another meh game from Close, who isn't having the best year so far. He gets outmuscled a little too easily IMO and is occasionally guilty of short stepping. Thought the run-down tackle and goal were nice though!
46. Mark Blicavs - He just keeps doing everything week after week. When SDK went down he ended up with the job on Two Meter Peter and handled him pretty well. Together with 11 contested possessions and 2 contested marks, he gave us a lot of both grit and smarts down back. I hope he plays on for several more years, because I have no idea how we could ever replace him.
And let's not forget JJS: we got Mannagh into the bargain on top of it, awesome result for the Cats. Also reckon COS may end up nearly as good as Matty Scarlett.... the kid is that good!So awesome we went with O'sullivan over Caddy.
Lets hope he goes on to win rising star.
So awesome we went with O'sullivan over Caddy.
Lets hope he goes on to win rising star.
And as Catsace posted somewhere this week , Geel ( through 20 years of outstanding success ) are within 16 wins of Ess ( now 15 ) total wins in the VFL/AFL Comp