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2 of my favourite memories from the 2011 GF.... When Bundy outmarked the 2 pies player (shaw and toovey i think) on the back flank.. and when Duncan nailed a goal from 50 on the run in the 3rd... 2 key moments from the 2 youngest blokes in the side that gave us a flag and a glimpse to the future.
 
my favourite memory is a game in the late 60" or early 70's. I think it was at Arden Street. Cold and wet.We were getting done by an awful team. Wade has a set shot at goal with a heavy ball, not that the result of the shot would matter. Kicked it straight in to the cods of the bloke standing the mark. Dropped him like a sack of sh#t. I'll still swear it was deliberate.

EJ doing his last lap probably the saddest thing I'd seen at the footy.
 
Stig_90 said:
My favourite memory of Kent Kingsley is when he left the club, my least favourite memory of Kent Kingsley is when he arrived at the club.
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Could change the name to Justin Murphy and the post would be more justified.
At least Kent had a Krew
 

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Geelong_Sicko said:
I don't get the hate for Kent Kingsley. Sure he wasn't the greatest full forward we ever had, but who else was gonna step up at that time?
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David Mensch.
Agree with you, he served a purpose for a while there, and early on was more than handy.
Things went awry with Bomber. Then he spiralled downhill rapidly as a player.
Also seriously, David Mensch- I can never understand the negativity about him; he was a great competitor and deserved more applause than derision.
 
This thread is meant to be about your favorite or most positive memory and least favorite / negative memory of retired Geelong players. As Con the Fruiterer would say, "Doesn't matter...."
 
Seeds said:
Poor quote. Was a very underrated player. Would of been quite handy as a third tall option in the 2007-to current teams.
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You're right, I should have said Murphy or Grgic.

Kingsley's goal kicking frustrated me for years, but I do remember watching him kick 7 or 8 against Essendon once.
 
Stig_90 said:
You're right, I should have said Murphy or Grgic.

Kingsley's goal kicking frustrated me for years, but I do remember watching him kick 7 or 8 against Essendon once.
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Grgic did have his plus sides though. I forget against who, but he falconed a ball so brilliantly I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the quarter
 
kearnivorous said:
Grgic did have his plus sides though. I forget against who, but he falconed a ball so brilliantly I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the quarter
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Speaking of stuff that made you laugh for a quarter or so, can anyone remember the game at Skilled a few years back (can't remember the opponent) when Blake was charging off the bench to get to a ruck contest in front of the Ford Stand, and he was about 2-3m away from the pack when he tripped over his feet and face planted? :D
 

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VEEDUBS said:
David Mensch.
Also seriously, David Mensch- I can never understand the negativity about him; he was a great competitor and deserved more applause than derision.
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And if nothing else, Menschy has a place in one of the all time highlights - kicking to Gazza to take the one hander over Pert.
 
Cosmic Energy said:
And if nothing else, Menschy has a place in one of the all time highlights - kicking to Gazza to take the one hander over Pert.
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"Lovely long kick by Mensch..."
 
More a general early memory, but I used to love watching Michael Turner run and bounce the footy, I'm pretty sure he'd always bounce it left handed, though he was a right footer. And as you do, whenever I bounced a footy, I bounced with my left hand.

And another one around Cam Mooney specifically, it was round 10 v St Kilda in 2007. I was overseas for the Richmond shellacking and I think the Saints game was one of the first I'd seen getting back. But watching us play that night, fast and direct movement of the ball and having Moons as a target leading aggressively up the midde of the ground, I remember saying to some people that I coudn't see how we were going to lose another game for the year. Well we lost one, not the big one, fortunately.

For negatives, it's the leaving/losing of players at crucial times that may have cost us some glory. Williams, Bolton, Toohey (& Hafey) to Sydney in 1986, Bairstow & Ablett's premature retirements & comebacks in the early 90s, O'Reilly to Freo, Stoneham's broken leg, Steven King & Nathan Ablett (I think both would have been handy in 2008 - at least Nathan could kick straight), and Gary Jnr. There's probably a few I've missed.
 
Cosmic Energy said:
More a general early memory, but I used to love watching Michael Turner run and bounce the footy, I'm pretty sure he'd always bounce it left handed, though he was a right footer. And as you do, whenever I bounced a footy, I bounced with my left hand.

And another one around Cam Mooney specifically, it was round 10 v St Kilda in 2007. I was overseas for the Richmond shellacking and I think the Saints game was one of the first I'd seen getting back. But watching us play that night, fast and direct movement of the ball and having Moons as a target leading aggressively up the midde of the ground, I remember saying to some people that I coudn't see how we were going to lose another game for the year. Well we lost one, not the big one, fortunately.

For negatives, it's the leaving/losing of players at crucial times that may have cost us some glory. Williams, Bolton, Toohey (& Hafey) to Sydney in 1986, Bairstow & Ablett's premature retirements & comebacks in the early 90s, O'Reilly to Freo, Stoneham's broken leg, Steven King & Nathan Ablett (I think both would have been handy in 2008 - at least Nathan could kick straight), and Gary Jnr. There's probably a few I've missed.
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That was one of my favourites. The St Kilda-Geelong rivalry was still very strong then, and even though we were in form I was still apprehensive heading along to Cats matches at that point. We blasted them off the park, it was magnificent.
 
Cosmic, you've reminded me of 2 of my favourite MEMORIES.
Michael Turner running around our flanks and wings, bouncing, uncatchable, goaling.
Mooney sliding along the wet ground 30 metres or so marking a ball way out in front of him.

Some others include the brilliant Farmer to Goggin hit out, and the perfect stab pass to a leading Wade. Goal.
And Wojo on one of his many dazzling runs from defence to goal, exhilarating.
Would love to see vision of one of his goals in a preseason game v Melbourne, at KP, maybe 08, all the way along the boundary for a goal.

?No negative memories of thee guys except injuries.
Polly's knee
Turner's knee.
Wojo's knee.


And Wade's defection to NM. Not spoken about much here, but that was shattering for me back then, worse than Colbert leaving.

And Mooney's freguent brain attacks that SJ seems determined to carry on the tradition of.
 
Geelong_Sicko said:
I don't get the hate for Kent Kingsley. Sure he wasn't the greatest full forward we ever had, but who else was gonna step up at that time?
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The answer lies in the 2006 season. Kicked 8 goals against North in Round 2, then kicked a total of 2 goals in 8 games. Utterly spineless. Had some talent, but no heart at all.

One of the many reasons why our form turned around in 2007 was in 2006 our key forwards were Kingsley, Mooney and Playfair (with Gardiner as well), the next season it was Mooney, Nathan Ablett and Hawkins.

Big, big, big, big difference. One good player and three spuds doesn't come close to three good players and no spuds.
 

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Partridge said:
The answer lies in the 2006 season. Kicked 8 goals against North in Round 2, then kicked a total of 2 goals in 8 games. Utterly spineless. Had some talent, but no heart at all.

One of the many reasons why our form turned around in 2007 was in 2006 our key forwards were Kingsley, Mooney and Playfair (with Gardiner as well), the next season it was Mooney, Nathan Ablett and Hawkins.

Big, big, big, big difference. One good player and three spuds doesn't come close to three good players and no spuds.
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Yes. To me the structural changes to the forward line were even more important than the "attitude adjustment" from 2006, in particular Moons going from that utility role of sometimes forward, a little bit in the ruck, a little bit down back. He went from 22 goals in 2006 to 67 in 2007, and the smalls were still kicking goals, Johnson, Ablett, Chapman etc. We had the confidence in the big forwards to compete at all times, mark it or bring it to ground, which I don't think we had in previous setups with Kent.
 
One of my favourite memories...
Peter Riccardi running along the wing in full flight bouncing the ball... In particular about the 27(guess) min mark of the last quarter 94 prelim final..
But also just any time he did it and then hit up a team mate lace out with a beautiful pass
 
Partridge said:
The answer lies in the 2006 season. Kicked 8 goals against North in Round 2, then kicked a total of 2 goals in 8 games. Utterly spineless. Had some talent, but no heart at all.
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I'll agree with you here. Still can't hate the bloke though. There was something else seriously wrong at the Cattery that year, I think. Was it expectation? We won the night premiership - our first senior trophy of ANY kind since 1963, at our previously unhappy hunting ground of Football Park to boot - and absolutely belted Brisbane and North in the first two rounds of the season proper. Then we hit a brick wall, and fell HARD.

Can't all be Kant Kicksley's fault.
 
Geelong_Sicko said:
I'll agree with you here. Still can't hate the bloke though. There was something else seriously wrong at the Cattery that year, I think. Was it expectation? We won the night premiership - our first senior trophy of ANY kind since 1963, at our previously unhappy hunting ground of Football Park to boot - and absolutely belted Brisbane and North in the first two rounds of the season proper. Then we hit a brick wall, and fell HARD.

Can't all be Kant Kicksley's fault.
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I don't blame him personally, really he would have been far better suited to be a flanker. For whatever reason he couldn't handle any kind of expectation or pressure. Totally agree there were a thousand other reasons why the train fell off the tracks that year.

At least they learned from it. Mistakes are fine as long as you do that.
 
Geelong_Sicko said:
Can't all be Kant Kicksley's fault.
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The problem was we were all desperate for a new Gary Ablett who would lead us back to the the halcyon days of the early 90's and with Kent being the man in front of goals he was set an impossible task. When the reality of his being just an 'ok footballer' rather than the superstar we wanted started to seep in, he became a focus of derision - it was 'his fault' rather than 'our fault' for failing to meet the standards of our impossible dreams. That seemed to be fate of a lot of footballers post Gary Ablett, with Excell and the great McCarthy two such players suffering the same fate. It was really only the 2007 premiership with it's many paths to goal than finally swept that warped thinking from our collective minds.
 

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