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I keep hearing commentators and fans bang on about “we need to take more risk and attack the corridor move it quick take the game on”…. What do supporters actually want or expect if their team takes on the game or takes a risk?? I see this as an interesting one because it seems what a lot of...

Have we now gotten to a point in our great game that umpires are too frequently and unfairly subject to copious amounts of scrutiny and footage replay of their every decision?? We are now seeing silly amounts of reviews from terrified goal umpires of an error, and reviews for out of bounds...

We are seeing it everywhere… almost every side has a carbon copy gameplan of one another….. get the ball via a turnover across as HB, run and carry the ball forward through midfield in numbers and take on the angles… nobody is original with this. The question I think in terms of who will go on...

An obvious trend emerged between the GWS and Sydney games. Both teams ran in a tsunami like wave off HB with a chain of overlap hand passes and then changing up the angles diagonally. This tsunami like run and gun off HB has sliced through collingwood now on two occasions with ease and had both...

Thought I would create a thread where we can list some of the most memorable and standout coaching performances during a game… for clarity this includes the whole package from start to finish including pre game tactical planning during the week and game day changes. to get the ball rolling, some...

Noticed that quite a few of the top draft prospects did not test at the combine… was this deliberate and advised to them by their agents?? Or are they actually injured?

Going extremely early… but that’s the whole point. Will be fun to see how this changes and evolves during trades/FA/draft and then who lights up the track pre season wise. But please go ahead and give your early b22 for 2024. As naturally this will likely change across our pre season till...

History suggests the hawthorn football club has about as much loyalty to its players as they do a paper cup…. The amount of players who pour tears of games and commitment into this club who get moved on the moment they decline should be alarm bells for anyone wishing to consider a move. Trent...

Might be jumping the gun a bit here and would love nothing more than to be wrong, but i am happy as a fan to put a cross through a flag in 2023. Finals maybe at best. So the discussion i put forward to you is... What does the club need to do in the future to return the Geelong football club...

Most coaches seem to come and go rather quickly within 3-5 years. But... Then there are some who go 10+ years.. A few who have gone several decades worth. More my question is, do you believe it is better for clubs to turn over senior coaches after a certain period of time, or having a stable...

wanted to get others thoughts on who they believe performed the best ever in a finals match and what game it was?? I will add a poll soon once i get a valid sample of games people throw up hopefully representative of different generations. A few obvious ones spring to mind for me such as...

Was really moved by this. I don’t shed a tear very often, but this brought a couple out watching the YouTube clip. It is situations like this that makes me more proud than ever to be apart of this great club. The sort of community impact the club can have on the well-being and lives of others...

Good young talented mid who is stuck behind one of the games best midfield brigade and won’t be getting a lot of midfield opportunities anytime soon. Do you think he is gettable with the lure of more midfield time to request a trade?? What would his value be??

Who would you pick?? I have it a go in my head and found it tough. I love the idea of a premiership defense, so settled on enright, Scarlett, Johnson and ablett jnr. But I think there is a huge debate for almost anyone in that team and my next cab off the rank would be a toss up between bartel...

Rank the quality of the grand finalists the past 16 years from best to worst. here is the list copy pasted. I will get the ball rolling by simply putting my 1-16 next to the runner up column to get the ball rolling. Season Premier Runner Up Score 2022 Geelong Sydney (12) 20.13 (133) to 8.4...

All 3 well and truly past it and we can now be judged 1v1. All 3 considered the best players respectively of the same era. Who do you think is the better of the three? I am unbiasedly going with martin but as pure explosive stoppage midfielder in his prime, dangerfield over martin, where as...

Given the continued success of Sydney off the back of the development of a vast quantity of top end academy picks, as well as GWS feeding off this despite significant exodus of players, the question simply is should GWS and Sydney be given such strong regions that are already compromised of...

Early days, but from the limited exposure of new styles so far this pre season have sides adjusted the way they play to compete with the benchmark set in 2022 and go that next step further?? Or do you feel some clubs are lagging behind. To put out my thoughts, I felt that geelong played a style...

Who do you believe is the best side in thr history of the game to not win a grand final?? My bet is hands down on the saints of 09-10. Will add a poll with options once i have a variety of valid options from posters. Discuss away

Tom Dekoning is OOC end of 2023, brother just resigned for a further 2 years tying him to the club for the next 3 seasons. Is there a sniff of a chance tom packs his bags and requests a trade down the highway to play with his brother? what do you estimate will be his trade value?

How does Aaron Cadman compare to other no1 draft picks? does he stack up in terms of output or quality? is he better than some in years gone by?

Who do you believe will be the better team in 2023?? Both played a nail biting cutthroat final against one another in 2022, both had a huge recruitment boom over the offseason with Brisbane gaining dunkley gunston and running off like bandits with the no1 pick and pick 12. Richmond on the other...

Watching the weekend finals game, especially the geelong collingwood blockbuster, the game plan of collingwood is an extreme footy in a phone booth style of play that I think is going to set the next level of adaptive trends moving forward and will have a lot of coaches following suit in 2023 as...

You have the titan rivalries that get prime time viewing and all the talk back banter like the hawks and geelong, Carlton collingwood. These games fill out stadiums. Then you have some intense rivalries of smaller statures, the biggest that springs to mind of late being between the bulldogs...

3 games left and 2 games clear inside the top four. Do you want geelong to implement a player rest or management plan for the remainder of the season? If you do, what would you like it to be? If you don’t want to see one, explain why not? Discuss

Let's call it the quarterly review at 6 games down... 4-2 and sitting in the top 8. give your thoughts on the first 6 weeks of the season and where you see geelong at in terms of 2022.. discuss the good, the bad, the ugly.. the great.. so far in 2022, and the 16 games ahead. play nice!

only once in 2022 has geelong won the contested ball count.. and that was against essendon when we played our best footy. since then, we have drawn level once with the contested footy, and lost it during the three other games, two of them by 20+ contested disposals, and marginally lost it by...

I keep hearing collingwood referred to as a “young side”, despite having a core group of about 14-15 players with a lot of senior experience and also finals experience playing regularly in the best 22… Does having a group of a few young kids also in the best 22 classify them as a young side...

Jake lever throat punched luke dalhaus on the ground, how many possible weeks?? Will it get off?? Discuss

Getting to the pointy end of things now, and we have clearly established ourselves again as a contender. Discuss what needs to happen from here on for us to win the premiership.