If Lewis leaves I'd rather see him play for an up & coming team like Melbourne than rot in the cesspit known as GC. Actually its relatively fortunate that he & Mitch may be playing for the Dees & West Coast who are easily the two opposition teams I'm most fond of. Don't think I could handle seeing either running around for Geelong or Essendon*.
What's funny is this trade period's been worse for the Cats. They're forced to trade Kersten & Vardy for next to nothing, keep Motflop due to lack of interest & keep Bartel because he turned off his phone.
Geelong, 2007
Defenders
Lonergan, cooked
Mackie, cooked
Bartel, cooked
Taylor, almost cooked
Midfield
Dangerwood - MUST play well in big games or the Cats lose
The rest - potato farm
Forwards
Porkins - Agile as a beached whale
Motlop - Lazy & doesn't want to be there
Menzel - 3 knee recos
Stanley - inconsistent & injury prone
So basically Geelong are a team with 2 good midfielders, 1 good (albeit obese) forward, and 1 good (albeit almost cooked) defender. The rest are trash. No discernible depth whatsoever except in the midfield where they have an abundance of C to D grade spuds like Smedts, Horlin-Smith & Guthrie.
Why are they scrambling to bring in more mature age mercs like Deledio when the majority of their best 22 is obviously not up to par??