JayRamz
Draftee
- May 19, 2019
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- AFL Club
- Geelong
What a stage the MCG is on a Friday night! Under the lights at Australia's Colosseum were 2 historic clubs ready to battle it out in Richmond and Geelong. The critics were predicting the biggest fall from grace by the cats this year, saying Ablett was washed up, Dangerfield might be another Brownlow medalist who has not won a championship, Selwood might be in his last year. At the same time the reporters were talking up the Demons, the Tigers as well as Collingwood. Geelong were written off quicker than Bill Shorten wrote off the Liberal party at this years election.
But as we've seen after 12 rounds the mighty Cats are 11 wins and 1 defeat. The words of 1995-1996 NBA championship coach Rudy Tomjanovic spring to mind this season. Rudy was head coach of the Houston Rockets who won 2 titles. But during the season going for that second title his side was written off completely, losing more than twice as many games as the year before, massive injury to their star, bench players not scoring anymore and looking like 1 season wonders. But he rolled the dice late in that season trading their champion power forward from the previous year for a 39 year old washed up all star who never won nothing. The move paid off as even without home court advantage they beat the 4 best teams in the NBA in a row they and showed you never lose what it takes once you've had success as he famously stated "Never underestimate the heart of a champion" as he received his trophy.
The truth is Geelong football club underperformed last year, and every man and his dog could see why. The main culprits were Daniel Menzel, Murdoch, Zak Smith, Jackson Thurlow and Horlin Smith. These 4 were undoubtedly the worst defensive players in the entire AFL. Almost every game you could see them not executing the fundamentals that win you games, tackling pressure and relentless attack on the ball. They were great club men but Chris Scott made the hard call. All the other sides were targeting this weak spot in our defenses and were easily exposing this crucial flaw in our game style. They're gone thank God or Stephen Wells because bring in Gary Rohan, Dalhouse, Atkins, Jordan Clark and the rookie of the year Gryan Myers and Geelong have emerged from this 5 year slumber and reawoke the hunger to be the best again. Finishing middle table and being inconsistent is not in this clubs culture. I think 2019 will be Chris Scott's finest achievement and will finally shrug the 2011 win of it being Bombers hard work that won that year and I think that's justified. Go Cats
But as we've seen after 12 rounds the mighty Cats are 11 wins and 1 defeat. The words of 1995-1996 NBA championship coach Rudy Tomjanovic spring to mind this season. Rudy was head coach of the Houston Rockets who won 2 titles. But during the season going for that second title his side was written off completely, losing more than twice as many games as the year before, massive injury to their star, bench players not scoring anymore and looking like 1 season wonders. But he rolled the dice late in that season trading their champion power forward from the previous year for a 39 year old washed up all star who never won nothing. The move paid off as even without home court advantage they beat the 4 best teams in the NBA in a row they and showed you never lose what it takes once you've had success as he famously stated "Never underestimate the heart of a champion" as he received his trophy.
The truth is Geelong football club underperformed last year, and every man and his dog could see why. The main culprits were Daniel Menzel, Murdoch, Zak Smith, Jackson Thurlow and Horlin Smith. These 4 were undoubtedly the worst defensive players in the entire AFL. Almost every game you could see them not executing the fundamentals that win you games, tackling pressure and relentless attack on the ball. They were great club men but Chris Scott made the hard call. All the other sides were targeting this weak spot in our defenses and were easily exposing this crucial flaw in our game style. They're gone thank God or Stephen Wells because bring in Gary Rohan, Dalhouse, Atkins, Jordan Clark and the rookie of the year Gryan Myers and Geelong have emerged from this 5 year slumber and reawoke the hunger to be the best again. Finishing middle table and being inconsistent is not in this clubs culture. I think 2019 will be Chris Scott's finest achievement and will finally shrug the 2011 win of it being Bombers hard work that won that year and I think that's justified. Go Cats
