In the media it is constantly deflected
Have Geelong become too powerful?
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And then when they want to come home...
Local juniors have far better pathways available to them even if they don't go through the traditionally strong Falcons program compared to many other areas.
Just having St Joseph's in your background is a massive plus.
Your most dominant period in recent history your side was filled with players who played junior footy in the local Geelong comps.
Has played a large part in it and will continue to do so.
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This is a good read of Costa reflecting on what he and Cook had to wade through during that period.
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Whatever happens this afternoon, it will be the end of an era at Skilled Stadium.
The other exponents of it (puopolo, Dylan Moore, the Collingwood tip rat, etc) discussed. Selwood, they have always deflected. Whenever he gets brought up it's " oh, that's different"
Our recruitment zone was Bendigo. We no longer have that advantage.
Being in Melbourne is a disadvantage when you're in direct competition with 8 other clubs.
Not really when on a per capita basis you’re exposed to about 650,000 people each in Melbourne alone, let alone the other country areas of Victoria that aren’t geographically aligned to Geelong.
Just sounds like another excuse to me.
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Geelong has definitely maximised the "go home" or "stay home" factor. Why wouldn't you when you are in the window?
But as I said the list of Geelong area players who went elsewhere is probably bigger - Hodge, Maxwell, Walsh, the McCartin brothers, Primus, Scott Lucas, Steven Baker, Foley, Boak, Schofield, Delaney, Ed Curnow, Sam Lloyd, Ayce Cordy, Pittard, Cunnington, Devon Smith, Mason Wood, Taylor Adams, Rhys Mathieson, Charlie Curnow, Doedee, Parish, Witherden, Worpel, McHenry and more
Sure we lured some players (NOT LISTED ABOVE) back through trades or free agency.
I'm an ex St Joeys boy and rapt that "my school" has blooded some out and out champions of the game, but Haileybury, Xavier and interstate schools have done as well
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Have Geelong become too powerful?
Simple answer is Yes.
The better question is, Were Geelong "given" too powerful?.
The simple answer is No.
They did it better.
It's up to the rest of us to match and better them.
Simple answer is Yes.
The better question is, Were Geelong "given" too powerful?.
The simple answer is No.
They did it better.
It's up to the rest of us to match and better them.
You left out Ablett, Bartel, Long, Scarlett, Stewart etc
All benefited from the local football teams and programs before they hit the AFL.
The difference is Xavier has no links to any local AFL clubs.
The vast majority of Joeys players also come from local league clubs
By the time any junior players hit Falcons level they have already been exposed to playing in one of the strongest junior leagues in the state.
The fact you can reel off so many players that came from this region just proves the advantage of having it in your backyard. It has massive upside compared to what other clubs have at their disposal.
Your zone was the brown paper bag.
You left out the part where Melbourne's demographics aren't all traditional AFL regions.
Geelong region IS an AFL Heartland.
Plenty of Melbourne suburbs are most certainly not.
So your 650,000 figure is meaninglessness if you don't factor that in.
Oh please, I've lived in Geelong all my life.
Your club has been backhanding players via dodgy deals for ******* decades.
We're taking about AFL, not that dog s**t English game.
Sttew
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I only listed the players we didn't get. I left out Dangerfield, Dahlhaus, Higgins, Rohan, Bruhn and Ollie Henry too.
I don't apologise for Geelong targeting locals. It makes good sense. The population of Greater Geelong and environs would be 300K.
GFC does not get preferential treatment, though, and it's not like they identify targets and hide them in cotton wool. They identified Jhye Clark in the last trade and were lucky he was still about when Pick 8 came up.
What do you mean by local players "benefited from the local football teams and programs before they hit the AFL." Doesn't that happen anywhere?
Nobody said you have to apologise that you have a large advantage that many other clubs do not.
You're just very lucky you have it.
I can tell you as a fact that Jhye Clark had been on your radar way before he made it to draft age. I was told about him when he was 13/14 age level. Much easier to watch them when they are under your nose.
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Joel Selwood was too. He lived in Bendigo.
Gary Ablett Senior was on the Cats' radar in 1983 and he was living in Myrtleford
Garry Davidson - Wikipedia
I took more note of him because of his time in the VFA
pretty sure he managed the football dept under those other two
and then you get Neil Balme to do that job LOL the Cats Tigers connection again
Cats happy with Holmes and Tigers happy with picks win win
Because the VIC clubs had their zones removed from them Selwood who'd have in the case of zone gone to Carlton.
Removing of zones impacted Geelong the least of the VIC clubs.
They still had plenty of inside running for their region that other clubs had lost.
