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I spoke to a Geelong official yesterday, who came into work, and had a good 15 minute chat. Very nice guy!
My first question was about Mitch Brown and said that he was 2-3 weeks away; he'd started light jogging already and was very positive in general.
Next question was about Ranga, and he said he'll take a while for obvious reasons. Said he was a little overweight after such a long layoff, but the biggest thing out of the conversation was that he has extremely extremely bad confidence in his body now. For example, he's been benching himself in the games often at any sign of tightness in his strings or whatever, which is frustrating the coaches.... the point is, that this is a real set back for Ranga and he has very little confidence in himself (which is understandable).
The fellow also said that the VFL would be losing Simpson to the AFL very soon, hinting at this week.
Lastly, I asked about Menzel, and he said he's a gem. But he also said something interesting, that I wasn't aware of. Apparently every first year player at Geelong is now rested AT LEAST four times a year... so that was news to me!
Anyway, hope this has been handy (I was going to post this in the Mitch Brown thread but there's some other stuff of note).
My first question was about Mitch Brown and said that he was 2-3 weeks away; he'd started light jogging already and was very positive in general.
Next question was about Ranga, and he said he'll take a while for obvious reasons. Said he was a little overweight after such a long layoff, but the biggest thing out of the conversation was that he has extremely extremely bad confidence in his body now. For example, he's been benching himself in the games often at any sign of tightness in his strings or whatever, which is frustrating the coaches.... the point is, that this is a real set back for Ranga and he has very little confidence in himself (which is understandable).
The fellow also said that the VFL would be losing Simpson to the AFL very soon, hinting at this week.
Lastly, I asked about Menzel, and he said he's a gem. But he also said something interesting, that I wasn't aware of. Apparently every first year player at Geelong is now rested AT LEAST four times a year... so that was news to me!
Anyway, hope this has been handy (I was going to post this in the Mitch Brown thread but there's some other stuff of note).

