Spend six months in some regional league, maintain fitness and get the body right, and then take a punt on the mid-season draft. Possibly some side or other will have had a lot of midfield injuries and decide he'd be a good get for half a season.
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List Mgmt. Cam Guthrie not offered a contract for 2026 by the Cats.
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Spend six months in some regional league, maintain fitness and get the body right, and then take a punt on the mid-season draft. Possibly some side or other will have had a lot of midfield injuries and decide he'd be a good get for half a season.
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I'm ok with it.
Has been broken for 3 years now, and never looked like getting back. Maybe the haze stopped Guthrie seeing the inevitable so the club had to act.
A good player in his time, and a shame to see it end within the injury room.
Has been broken for 3 years now, and never looked like getting back. Maybe the haze stopped Guthrie seeing the inevitable so the club had to act.
A good player in his time, and a shame to see it end within the injury room.
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With his brother no less! I always privately suspected he lost his powers when he cut his hair. Thanks for the service, Cam!
Maybe. We probably will never know unless we either have an alternative world where he does play or we hear news about how his injury could not be fixed.
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It's the correct call.
They tried fixing his injury for 3 years without success.
He's approaching 34 years of age.
He is done.
Always one of my faves and his absence has been severely felt for the past two seasons. Cam Guthrie has been a great player for the Cats and it's never easy to see their careers come to an end.
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Number 29 has a serious lineage in the last 35 years.
Well done Cam on a great career.
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Number 29 has a serious lineage in the last 35 years.
Well done Cam on a great career.
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And therein lies the problem. If he hasn't been able to get it together with all the resources and expertise at his disposal over the last 3 years, a regional club at the age of 33/34 seems unlikely to be the point of difference.
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He was a fair weapon for us that’s for sure. Severely underrated.
Embarrassing. Have not found my posts yet ...
Got a little bit emotional watching the highlights package the club put out.
Reminded me what a unique footballer he was. inside/outside, running ground level player, but great overhead. Could have been an All Australian half back, but was an All Australian midfielder.
Feel cheated we never got to see what he could do in his final seasons. Maybe could have gone to half back and completed the circle.
Super career and never put a foot wrong over his time at the club.
Go well Guth.
Reminded me what a unique footballer he was. inside/outside, running ground level player, but great overhead. Could have been an All Australian half back, but was an All Australian midfielder.
Feel cheated we never got to see what he could do in his final seasons. Maybe could have gone to half back and completed the circle.
Super career and never put a foot wrong over his time at the club.
Go well Guth.
Very reliable when running into goal. I recall him breaking out during the 2013 finals series.
I think we can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that it's the correct call because we have all seen, at our own club and others, what happens when old guys become plagued by injury and then continue to try to play on. Doesn't end well. Body is broken down, and even if it wasn't, he's old and has missed a heap of footy. The likelihood he would be able to return in 2026 and contribute in some significant way would be very, very slim.
Had a good career, won a flag and a couple of B&Fs. He should be very proud, but when it's time, it's time.
Sad fizzer of an end for a genuinely talented player.
That highlight reel just shows what we were missing in his final years
(although he did have periods of lurking around packs for cheapies)
That highlight reel just shows what we were missing in his final years
(although he did have periods of lurking around packs for cheapies)
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I remember this and it really frustrated me at the time. The more I saw it though, the more I figured that he just didn't quite know how to play the outside mid role, always seemed to be stuck in no man's land - he was much better as either an inside mid or playing half back.
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Goosebump moment, felt like the passing of the guard. We went to top spot on the ladder after that win, and didn't lose for the rest of the year.
I don’t think anyone really cares in the long term whether he retired or the club delisted him. Save caring about “the look” for Kane Cornes 
I can acknowledge that this is probably the right call.
But I'd still probably have given him 1 more year if he wanted to. Assuming that this means we're taking Bews on for another season (as we haven't heard anything about him being delisted yet), I just think the upside of Guthrie vs. Bews is so much higher that I'd be inclined to roll the dice.
But I'd still probably have given him 1 more year if he wanted to. Assuming that this means we're taking Bews on for another season (as we haven't heard anything about him being delisted yet), I just think the upside of Guthrie vs. Bews is so much higher that I'd be inclined to roll the dice.
If Cuth showed any real sign of ever getting properly fit again, there would be absolutely no doubt about this. As it is, he's broken down time and time again in the past three seasons. And he would start his next quest to overcome all of that in 2026 at 33 years of age, with basically no football at all in the preceding 12 months.
I'm one of his biggest fans of all around here. Yet even I can admit that this was an awful reality to contemplate and still clearly the right decision to make.
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Shouldn’t have cut his hair.
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