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Geelong supporters were the ones who started this Geelong - Richmond dislike. I can even pin point when it happened. The 2017 qualifying final. We celebrated the win a little too hard, we finally beat your mob unfortunately and you all got your noses out of place over it and its been that way ever since.
Great rebuttal, tell me wise one when did this bickering begin then?Get your hand off it.
Like the Crows players getting plots of West from cents on the dollar? Or New Port being a hot bed of Power players?Don't forget the guaranteed to make a tidy profit property developments player get to sign up for. All above board of course, just wise investment advice - like yeah!
It's why players constantly go there for unders in official contract value, the real value is what happens outside of the cap and it's inVisyble to the AFL
You get a home ground advantage in Geelong, plus a neutral game in Melbourne. How's that hard to figure out?
Great rebuttal, tell me wise one when did this bickering begin then?
Actually no don't, this thread is about Geelong breathing in the country like air and living like hicks while loving life.
Carry on.
A bigger, colder, Bunbury with worse beaches.
In all seriousness: The place took a significant hit with the decline of cars and other industry. It’s got some rough neighbourhoods. But it’s always had some nice areas and 2 very fancy private schools that attract wealthy kids from all over the state. And government investment and Melbourne getting way too big and crowded has seen the region bounce back. The Geelong town centre isn’t making too many tourism must see lists but parts of the town and region are very nice.
The surf coast - whilst cold and awful weather wise for a lot of the time - has always been a draw card and Geelong is the gateway to that area and the Bellarine peninsula. Cafes, wineries, restaurants, beaches, national parks etc.
Most afl players settle down quickly and then are pretty happy to train, hit the surf, hit up a local cafe and go about their business fairly quietly. The Geelong region offers that.
I call it the 'Moggs Creek' factor. Players love to move to Geelong to 'get away from it all.' The big smoke isn't for everyone, which is why Geelong exists. Does this give them an unfair advantage when signing free agencies? It seems like the team is a hotspot for mature players that want that Dangerfield lifestyle for their families.
I think this has definitely helped Geelong stay competitive for so long. They've been able to top up with high-quality, mature FAs on the regular.
This I agree with, but kudos to you guys for being so good since breaking that premiership hoodoo all those years ago now.I wasn’t part of this forum before that season so I can’t speak for this one but others that I’d been on, it wasn’t so much bickering but there was a pretty strong and clear dislike because for the better part of 20 years it had been a free four points for us prior to that. Even the harry Taylor game where we kicked a heap of goals in the last quarter when Scott swung him forward, I remember the sentiment being along the lines of ‘Will we ever beat these c***s’
This I agree with, but kudos to you guys for being so good since breaking that premiership hoodoo all those years ago now.
I call it the 'Moggs Creek' factor. Players love to move to Geelong to 'get away from it all.' The big smoke isn't for everyone, which is why Geelong exists. Does this give them an unfair advantage when signing free agencies? It seems like the team is a hotspot for mature players that want that Dangerfield lifestyle for their families.
I think this has definitely helped Geelong stay competitive for so long. They've been able to top up with high-quality, mature FAs on the regular.
Which players have moved to Geelong to get away from it all?
A lot of the players they targeted were from that region and had family connects in the region. Others simply because they were chasing some success after playing in teams that had little and were seemingly going the other way or in no mans land.
Let's be honest neither of those 2 are playing for Geelong had Geelong finished outside the 8 in 2020 instead of runners up.Isaac smith admitted essentially it was non football lifestyle reasons (for their kids) that brought them down the highway.
Cameron was similar, he likes spending most of his time outside footy on a farm and it would have been very hard to do that-owning a farm in regional vic-if commuting every day to a melbourne club. Living in geelong allows him to be geographically closer to that lifestyle when hes not playing footy.
That said theres no doubt our on field success helps attract players too its not all lifestyle although for some players who love the country or those with kids its a drawcard.
Geelong have the best win % of any team at Marvel and the 4th best historically at the MCG.Geelong's record at KP is 106-14 over the last 15 years.
That includes 2-3 during covid without crowds.
So the true record is 104-11.
90% win rate.
If Geelong played all their home games at MCG or Marvel, how many games would they have won?
A bigger, colder, Bunbury with worse beaches.
In all seriousness: The place took a significant hit with the decline of cars and other industry. It’s got some rough neighbourhoods. But it’s always had some nice areas and 2 very fancy private schools that attract wealthy kids from all over the state. And government investment and Melbourne getting way too big and crowded has seen the region bounce back. The Geelong town centre isn’t making too many tourism must see lists but parts of the town and region are very nice.
The surf coast - whilst cold and awful weather wise for a lot of the time - has always been a draw card and Geelong is the gateway to that area and the Bellarine peninsula. Cafes, wineries, restaurants, beaches, national parks etc.
Most afl players settle down quickly and then are pretty happy to train, hit the surf, hit up a local cafe and go about their business fairly quietly. The Geelong region offers that.
Let's be honest neither of those 2 are playing for Geelong had Geelong finished outside the 8 in 2020 instead of runners up.
Last I heard Issac was living in newtown, hardly a lifestyle choice.
If the Cats drop away it would be interesting to see where their current and former players slot in to the media hierarchy. Certainly below the Pies and Tigers, and likely the Blues and Bombers when they're rolling. But Geelong have been so good for so long it's hard to know how they compare to say Hawthorn on equal footing ladder wise.That’s all pretty fair, it doesn’t offer the sort of media and post footy opportunities that come via that avenue that Melbourne does though and if you’re an ex footballer in Melbourne there’s really nothing at all to stop you getting some sort of role with one of the clubs there given how many there are
All of them. Crowd is fairly evenly split usually. Melbourne teams don't have any true home games against other Victorian clubs, whereas interstate teams are truly playing away in Melbourne, though there are quite a few Swans and Lions fans, Eagles to a lesser extent, but not comparable. Geelong gets the best of both worlds, though I concede they do sell some home games to play at the G, but that helps them overall.Can you point out the neutral games in Melbourne that we get.
All of them. Crowd is fairly evenly split usually. Melbourne teams don't have any true home games against other Victorian clubs, whereas interstate teams are truly playing away in Melbourne, though there are quite a few Swans and Lions fans, Eagles to a lesser extent, but not comparable. Geelong gets the best of both worlds, though I concede they do sell some home games to play at the G, but that helps them overall.
And all those wins are from crowd support.
I’m not arguing it im acknowledging it. It’s obviously crowd support.
It’s not player related.