Brian Cook's thoughts

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CATS SLAM ‘FOREST GUMP’ FIXTURE

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 7:10 am
BY STEVE BAKER
GEELONG powerbroker Brian Cook has revealed that his club is disappointed with its 2008 draw.
The reigning premier travels to AAMI Stadium tonight in a re-match of last year’s grand final, when the Cats humiliated the Power to the tune of 119 points.
It is one of few examples in recent history where a re-match scheduled for round one hasn’t been hosted by the reigning premier.
Cook told “The Age” that he felt that the way the AFL arranged the draw was a guessing game.
“I have no idea at all,” he said.
“With the fixtures, you don’t know what are going to get, it is like a box of chocolates,”
Cook said that he was still fuming that Collingwood and Geelong will face each other only once this year.
The two clubs attracted over 80,000 people to their round sixteen blockbuster last year and many experts have called their preliminary final clash a classic encounter.
“I am still trying to get over that,” said Cook.While the AFL told “The Age” that it has been many years since a reigning premier hosted a home match in round one, Cats fans may have to wait until round three to unfurl the premiership flag they have waited 44-years to see.
Geelong host Essendon at the Telstra Dome in round two, but is expected to unveil the 2007 flag to the faithful when they host the Demons at Skilled Stadium a week later.



Nice to see i'm not the only one still trying to get over the fact that we play Collingwood and Essendon only once!!
Fixture's a joke in more ways then one with regard to Geelong.
source: footyhead.com.au

 

[candiehappy]

Brian Cook is so right. How can the AFL justify us going over there? This isn't anti-port, it's about how the premiership club AND ITS SUPPORTERS should be treated. The first game must be at the premiership teams home ground so they can unfurl the flag at the start of the season.
We are the no 1 team, but they'll still treat us like crap. The AFL craps me off something cruel.

 

[catters05]

I will be happy if we beat them by more then 40 points.

 

[BigKegs]

Only thing that annoys me is that we dont get to biyatch slap them both twice in a season.

 

[Brasil2007]

Of course we aren't going to play Collingwood twice in the one season - we beat them twice last year and every final the Pies play puts a truckload of money in the AFL's pocket. The AFL engineers the draw every year to give Collingwood the best possible chance of playing finals. So much for the draw being about "maximising revenue".

Honestly it ticks me off the way some clubs are treated so much better than others. People complain about the interstate clubs but the so-called Big 4 are a protedted species.

 

[CF]

our drawer is a joke nearly every season.

 

[Pal22]

Even though it would have been great to play Round 1 in Victoria so all the fans could have gone to the game, at least we already have 1 of our 5 interstate trips out of the way (and to get a win was a bonus)

Looking forward to next week's game. 50,000+ will be there and I expect the cats supporters will make lots of noise and maybe even out number the Essendon fans if we are lucky (especially with it being our home game)

 

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Looking forward to next week's game. 50,000+ will be there and I expect the cats supporters will make lots of noise and maybe even out number the Essendon fans if we are lucky (especially with it being our home game)

we'll make lots of noise but i dont think we'll out number the bombers fans despite it being our home game. any other team bar them i think we have the potential out out number at the dome.

 

[Ricardo]

Looking forward to next week's game. 50,000+ will be there and I expect the cats supporters will make lots of noise and maybe even out number the Essendon fans if we are lucky (especially with it being our home game)

This is the biggest problem i have with our 2008 draw, i can understand us only playing Ess and Coll once, but we have a home game vs Essendon at the TD, not one home game at the MCG, the least they could've done was schedule Geelong v Essedon at the MCG, would've got 70-75k.