News Guernsey number changes

[cats23]

Article just posted on GFC website;

http://www.gfc.com.au/geelongnews/newsarticle/tabid/3933/newsid/150966/default.aspx

 

[cats23]

Big shoes for Vardy to fill, although I'm sure he'll do OK in the famous number 30

 

[ATSAM]

Thats ok, I can keep it in my tattslotto numbers

 

[Stig_90]

Vardy is a good choice to take over the number 30. It seems like every player that has worn 40 something tries to get a lower number asap, except Boris and Lingy!

 

[dazbroncos]

Vardy is a good choice to take over the number 30. It seems like every player that has worn 40 something tries to get a lower number asap, except Boris and Lingy!

and wojo

Go Catters

 

[hbk_aus]

Interesting to read that Walker has taken number 34 worn by his grandfather in 1963 flag - this would mean he has taken up the offer of a third year rookie yes?

 

[CatTricks]

Interesting to read that Walker has taken number 34 worn by his grandfather in 1963 flag - this would mean he has taken up the offer of a third year rookie yes?

You would assume so. Seems like he is in it for the long haul and wants to stick around!

 

[CatTricks]

Interesting to read that Walker has taken number 34 worn by his grandfather in 1963 flag - this would mean he has taken up the offer of a third year rookie yes?

You would assume so. Seems like he is in it for the long haul and wants to stick around!

 

[supahoops]

Vardy is a good choice to take over the number 30. It seems like every player that has worn 40 something tries to get a lower number asap, except Boris and Lingy!

Think I read somewhere they wanted to make those numbers their own as no-one had played many games in them.

Good decision by the club, the pressure on Vardy to step out of the shadow of David Cameron was just an added burden on top of his battle with injury

 

[AM]

Probably more important what's underneath the jumper than what's on the outside. Just sayin.......

 

[thejester]

Some weird sideways movements there. I guess the club wants to keep its consistent policy of having no empty numbers but it seems a little pointless for Bathie to drop from 47 to 42. Glad Walker got his grandad's number and equally glad Stringer didn't abandon 41, though.

 

[SJ]

Some weird sideways movements there. I guess the club wants to keep its consistent policy of having no empty numbers but it seems a little pointless for Bathie to drop from 47 to 42. Glad Walker got his grandad's number and equally glad Stringer didn't abandon 41, though.

Since we are cutting our list from 48 to 46 I guess we are wanting to get rid of those top two numbers too.

 

[Turbocat]

Some weird sideways movements there. I guess the club wants to keep its consistent policy of having no empty numbers but it seems a little pointless for Bathie to drop from 47 to 42. Glad Walker got his grandad's number and equally glad Stringer didn't abandon 41, though.

Yes , seems to be a good chance of having even lower numbers available in the near future.

 

[The rabbi]

I tipped that Walker would end in the number 34 jumper in another thread some time ago. Still, you wouldn't have to be Nostradamus to have seen that one coming.

What are the chances that Josh Walker gets Hogan's number next year?

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Don't particularly understand it tbh. The club had a chance last year to start giving out the retirees numbers to boom youngsters, they chose against that and said the policy would be for the numbers to go to our draftees each year, now they seem to have gone 180 on that. Which creates the contradictory situation where guys like Duncan and Christensen and West aren't wearing those numbers, despite having done far more on field to earn them, but now Vardy has one. This is nothing against Vards, for I think he will do the number proud, but given last year was clearly going to be the first of several years of mass retirements, I would have thought whatever policy they decided on then, they needed to be consistent about from then on.

 

[LifeSpan-Void]

Don't particularly understand it tbh. The club had a chance last year to start giving out the retirees numbers to boom youngsters, they chose against that and said the policy would be for the numbers to go to our draftees each year, now they seem to have gone 180 on that. Which creates the contradictory situation where guys like Duncan and Christensen and West aren't wearing those numbers, despite having done far more on field to earn them, but now Vardy has one. This is nothing against Vards, for I think he will do the number proud, but given last year was clearly going to be the first of several years of mass retirements, I would have thought whatever policy they decided on then, they needed to be consistent about from then on.

Pretty tenuous but maybe it has something to do with where everyone sits in the locker room? Perhaps Vardy has been declared the new trash-talking disrespectful guy and gets Scarlett's place when they change their clothes...

 

[hbk_aus]

Dont see the big deal - its just a number.