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Forget Bay 13, this should go straight to the pool room.

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Depth is a myth. Any decent team usually has about 25 AFL-standard players and the rest are cheap hacks or kids. When part of a very strong team, an ordinary player who comes in for a game will benefit from his side's dominance and will look better than they are. No team can cover the loss of their 3 best midfielders, best forward, best defender and best ruckman. To suggest that a team is in trouble because of that is incredibly stupid.

Gyroscope_182 said:
Shannon Byrnes (premiership player)
Nathan Djerrkura (not a bad player at all)
Ryan Gamble (has shown his capabilities, good player)
David Johnson (70 games and never been a bad player)
Tom Lonergan (kids a gun forward, no over-rating)
Brent Prismall (the best depth player in the competition...would be a starting onballer at most other clubs, 44 touches in VFL wont get him a call up probably)
Scott Simpson
Harry Taylor (played this year and impressed in defence)
Kane Tenace (gun pacy midfielder who is a talent)
Travis Varcoe (amazingly good small forward)
Trent West (has played, was okay)
Shane Mumford (Bunyip big boy just like West)
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Hah! Two can play at that.

Sean Dempster - Premiership player
Aaron Fiora - Over 130 AFL games
Jason Blake - Versatile, great athlete who has played almost 120 games
Jarryd Allen - Key forward who tore it up in the NAB cup
Shane Birss - Strong inside midfielder who kicks goals
James Gwilt - Won a qualifying final off his own boot in his second game
Brad Howard - Freakishly quick kid with elite endurance
Jarryn Geary - Smart, skilled, quick utility who has played well in the seniors
Clint Jones - Lightning fast midfielder with great defensive pressure
David Armitage - Gun midfielder who will be the next Lenny Hayes
Jayden Attard - Super quick tagger who played all of last year before getting injured
Matthew Ferguson - Strong, skilled utility who has done well at senior level
Michael Rix - Monster ruckman who can play in defence
Jack Steven - Bottom age draftee who won the Falcon's B&F
Ben McEvoy - Gun ruck prospect who is tearing it up at Casey

Believe it or not, but there are negative points to a player as well. Geelong's depth is no better and no worse than most other teams in the competition.
 
mad-saint-guy said:
Depth is a myth. Any decent team usually has about 25 AFL-standard players and the rest are cheap hacks or kids. When part of a very strong team, an ordinary player who comes in for a game will benefit from his side's dominance and will look better than they are. No team can cover the loss of their 3 best midfielders, best forward, best defender and best ruckman. To suggest that a team is in trouble because of that is incredibly stupid.



Hah! Two can play at that.

Sean Dempster - Premiership player
Aaron Fiora - Over 130 AFL games
Jason Blake - Versatile, great athlete who has played almost 120 games
Jarryd Allen - Key forward who tore it up in the NAB cup
Shane Birss - Strong inside midfielder who kicks goals
James Gwilt - Won a qualifying final off his own boot in his second game
Brad Howard - Freakishly quick kid with elite endurance
Jarryn Geary - Smart, skilled, quick utility who has played well in the seniors
Clint Jones - Lightning fast midfielder with great defensive pressure
David Armitage - Gun midfielder who will be the next Lenny Hayes
Jayden Attard - Super quick tagger who played all of last year before getting injured
Matthew Ferguson - Strong, skilled utility who has done well at senior level
Michael Rix - Monster ruckman who can play in defence
Jack Steven - Bottom age draftee who won the Falcon's B&F
Ben McEvoy - Gun ruck prospect who is tearing it up at Casey

Believe it or not, but there are negative points to a player as well. Geelong's depth is no better and no worse than most other teams in the competition.
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Then how come you guys can't cover your injuries and spend all season long making excuses about it?
 

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Gyroscope_182 said:
Tom Lonergan (kids a gun forward, no over-rating)

Kane Tenace (gun pacy midfielder who is a talent)
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Tom Lonergan is just an up and comer and Tenace is not and never has been a "gun." Yes, he's lightning quick but butchers the football in a fashion not seen since the halcyon days of Richie Vandenberg.

Geelong have depth sure, but they do not run deeper than any of the other good sides.
 
What a stupid thread.
You don't bag a teams depth when you are an Essendon supporter like myself because its just gonna bite you on the arse.
Geelong will make the Grandfinal with or without a few of there key players in the side. Hawthorn & Geelong are so far ahead of anyone else that it isn't funny!
 
Is Mustard for real or is he trying to wind us up? Or, is he really just deflecting attention away from his woefully inept Bombers?
 
Lol! I honestly expected this thread to be a pearler from 2005/6, and i was keen to see how it all unfolded. But TODAY? This Mustard dude is several six-packs short of a slab.
 
mustard said:
looking at geelongs list and seriously if they get a few injuries they are nearly gone. without Ottens they have nearly the worst ruck stocks in the league. Take out Mooney and they've got no decent key forwards.

Hawthorn will probably annihilate them
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Our VFL side could beat your AFL side mate ;):D
 
FWIW, the Cats did use the fewest number of players in the league last year. You guys had a pretty good run.

The OP is still garbage though.
 
mish33 said:
FWIW, the Cats did use the fewest number of players in the league last year. You guys had a pretty good run.

The OP is still garbage though.
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Very rare that the premier doesn't.

Most teams omit players regularly. Rarely happened at the footy club last year.
 
Sticks_Of_Fury said:
Injuries shattered the dons 12th position aspirations don't kid yourself.
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As has been mentioned previously, this guy is not a Bomber, he's a troll. Look at his first post in this thread, what team did he mention? I think you'll find that's who he really supports.
 
Geelong had no injuries last year thats why they won the flag no so much great depth!

dont forget when they had a few out late last season and they lost to port who they later beat by 119 in the Grand Final. Just goes to show a few injuries and they become a run of the mill side. Teams like Hawthorn, Sydney, adelaide and saints have better depth.

Anyway the point is that if they lose Mooney they wont win the flag. case closed
 

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mustard said:
Geelong had no injuries last year thats why they won the flag no so much great depth!

dont forget when they had a few out late last season and they lost to port who they later beat by 119 in the Grand Final. Just goes to show a few injuries and they become a run of the mill side. Teams like Hawthorn, Sydney, adelaide and saints have better depth.

Anyway the point is that if they lose Mooney they wont win the flag. case closed
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Uh huh. No depth eh? Is that why we won the VFL flag as well as the AFL flag? :confused:
 
mustard said:
Geelong had no injuries last year thats why they won the flag no so much great depth!

dont forget when they had a few out late last season and they lost to port who they later beat by 119 in the Grand Final. Just goes to show a few injuries and they become a run of the mill side. Teams like Hawthorn, Sydney, adelaide and saints have better depth.

Anyway the point is that if they lose Mooney they wont win the flag. case closed
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Bullcrap!! Harley missed 6 games with a finger injury, Chapman missed 5 games with several different injuries, Rooke injured his hamstring to such an extent he was flown to Germany to remedy it, and missed 9 games as a result, Nathan Ablett missed 3 games through injury, Bartel missed a couple through appendicitis, not to mention our AA CHB missing the finals series through injury. Funny how for a team with no injuries, we only had 5 players to play every game for the season, and we debuted 3 players last year and another 3 have made their debut so far this season. I think when Sydney won the flag in 2005, they had something like 13-14 players play every game that year.

As for not having Mooney will mean we won't win the flag, Mooney is actually our 3rd highest goalkicker at the moment, behind Steve Johnson and Stokes. He is an important player for us, but he's not the be all and end all as far as our forward line goes.
 
mustard said:
Geelong had no injuries last year thats why they won the flag no so much great depth!

dont forget when they had a few out late last season and they lost to port who they later beat by 119 in the Grand Final. Just goes to show a few injuries and they become a run of the mill side. Teams like Hawthorn, Sydney, adelaide and saints have better depth.

Anyway the point is that if they lose Mooney they wont win the flag. case closed
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I don't even know why I am responding, but I am that bored. Hawthorn may or may not have better depth then the Cats; I don't really know their players all that well outside the 22 other then they seemed to cope decently earlier in the year when Crawford and etc were out. However, Sydney and the saints definetly do not have better depth then Geelong. How many other teams have a midfielder like Prismall waiting on the sidelines, or a defender like Taylor (playing at the moment but in jeopardy once Egan comes back.) Heck, if Nablett had kept on playing either him or Hawkins would have been in the reserves.

We effectivily had six midfielders out against Port; no team could cover for that many players gone from one area of the ground.
 
mustard said:
Geelong had no injuries last year thats why they won the flag no so much great depth!

dont forget when they had a few out late last season and they lost to port who they later beat by 119 in the Grand Final. Just goes to show a few injuries and they become a run of the mill side. Teams like Hawthorn, Sydney, adelaide and saints have better depth.

Anyway the point is that if they lose Mooney they wont win the flag. case closed
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Mooney hasn't set the world on fire so far this year, Hawkins has probably gotten more of the ball! Even last year when he was good, we still didn't rely on him too much at all. It's our evennes that makes us a good side, we don't rely on just one or two players.

No injuries is a pretty big exaggeration, we had less than some teams but no one really considers the fact that fitness isn't luck, it means that the boys trained harder in the preseason!

Ottens is a much bigger loss than Mooney, because we have no one to back him up. Mooney can be covered by the small forwards.

Anyway keep going at it, don't be discouraged by the fact that no one on the board agrees with you!
 
they lack forward firepower. buddy and roughdead havekicked 60 goals between them. i dont know what geelong highest scorer is but it wouldnt be over 20 goals. that is a worry, along with depth
 
mustard said:
they lack forward firepower. buddy and roughdead havekicked 60 goals between them. i dont know what geelong highest scorer is but it wouldnt be over 20 goals. that is a worry, along with depth
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People please take note, this is who the troll really supports. :thumbsu:
 

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mantis said:
I agree, this isn't the first troll post he has started, we complained before, but I guess until the mods can prove it, the troll keeps getting away with this shit & getting people pissed off with Bomber supporters. :mad:
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mantis. I am red and black thorugh and through dont you worry. i call a spade a spade. maybe my top 4 prediction was to out there but with our first game against North it looked possible! Im still confident with out youth we will be there soon.

meanwhile i worry about the Cats mooney-reliance and lack of depth. hawks are w***er supporters but they are the best team for mine
 

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