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Opinion Most frustrating time as a Geelong supporter
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Agreed. Don't see any way he can run out a 22 game season. He'll need to be "load-managed" at times.
This isn't a slight on Corey Enright in the least but how many times would he have been concussed in a match? And how many times for Joel Selwood? Joel making it past 300 has been stirring stuff considering how he plays the game. Plus even before he was drafted other clubs were spooked because his schoolkid knees were already f*cked.
300+ games. Amazing.
Still reckon Ayers was some sort of Hawk plant that sabotaged our side. Four games at KP from '95-99 we lose by no more than six points to those infernal Hawks, and two of those ('95 and '99) we were unbeaten at the time. Good riddance to him for sure!
Enright i think had a jaw injury in '04 or '05? Actually in 2004 he had two periods of missing around 6 games, played only 9 games that year. But he was pretty injury free for most of his career. Joel has had an extremely hard career with many head knocks and just outright hits to the body in contests. I reckon it might be time, having reached a 200 game milestone as the Cats skipper, to step aside from that role and have a new voice come in...whom that would be i'm not 100% sure. Maybe Stewart, or even Tom? But i reckon Joel might only play another year.
Three of the sides we played once that season too were the abysmal bottom three...the Bears, Swans and Tigers were a combined 9-51 for the year. We had only one bite of those juicy cherries.
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First and last IMO.
We over-achieve to get top 4 constantly, then choke when it comes to finals.
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Over achieved since our Dynasty days.
We are not that team... Not even close to be honest. We are good side with 2-3 great players but not a great side full of multiple AA players.
Unfortunately for us we have come across 2 other Dynasty's the equal of ours, in Hawthorn & Richmond.
Like the Eagles dynasty we came across in the 90's and the tail end of the hawks 80's dynasty sometimes there are 1 or 2 that are just better.
We are not that team... Not even close to be honest. We are good side with 2-3 great players but not a great side full of multiple AA players.
Unfortunately for us we have come across 2 other Dynasty's the equal of ours, in Hawthorn & Richmond.
Like the Eagles dynasty we came across in the 90's and the tail end of the hawks 80's dynasty sometimes there are 1 or 2 that are just better.
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89-97, 2012-21.
Combined 5 GF losses and 5 prelim losses.
Thankfully we got 3 cups from 07-11.
Combined 5 GF losses and 5 prelim losses.
Thankfully we got 3 cups from 07-11.
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1 certainty.
That team was perfect, and even Nathan Ablett was better than the 07 Hawkins. The current Hawkins , maybe.
Danger for Rooke (07 Rooke was a passenger), ?Cameron (for Nathan Ablett, reluctantly), ?Stewart ( for ???), ?Hawkins(for S King)
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I thought about your choices.
Small forward goalkickers like Byrnes- we would love one of him now.
Josh Hunt was a true weapon kicking out and stopping small forwards.
An even more interesting exercise is to ask who from 2021 would be a walk up starter in all the remaining teams left in the finals:
I believe a great deal of players from our starting side would be starters in every single team other than Melbourne. Even then they would be taking Dangerfield, Hawkins, Stewart, Cameron, Guthrie and Duncan.
We have the crop for the most part. It's how they are being utilized by the coaches is where the problem lies.
No one was giving Port a glimmer of hope before Friday night. Weak top four team they said, with a much less talented team. All changed their tune by midnight though.
This is the issue I have about calling Richmond a great side.
We were their biggest dangers yet our current side doesn’t hold a candle to that from 07-11.
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Spot on. I'd also take Duncan over Wojo. 2007 Sel v 2021 Sel is a tough call.
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My answer remains the same and forever will be I suspect. Unless we have a Carlton-like period of trying and failing to rebuild. That would be some *-up.
No one could do it as bad as Carlton.
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It's tough to compare to that era because it's the historic height of quality in AFL when you consider that player skills and fitness are constantly improving and the talent pool got diluted by 12.5% with GC and GWS coming into the comp. That's why you look at Geelong, Collingwood, and Hawthorn's sides from 2011 and think gee they're worlds better than anything past 2015. It's also why Hawthorn won three in a row after that - they were the one top side from that era whose team stayed mostly in tact/playing at a high level and the ones below couldn't get better quickly enough. It's also probably why we have been able to stay in the top four by ignoring the top end of the draft and getting a few big recruits.
I don't have a problem saying Richmond is about as dominant in this era as other teams in previous ones. But it will be a few years yet before the top teams are better player-for-player than Geelong 07-11, St Kilda 09-10, Collingwood 10-11, and Hawthorn 11-14
Ayres years. Easily.
The 90s were frustrating but so is 10 years of the same thing happening in every finals series.
I guess being mentally weak pretenders (2012-2021) takes the cake at the moment over the 90s team who had more of a crack IMO.
I guess being mentally weak pretenders (2012-2021) takes the cake at the moment over the 90s team who had more of a crack IMO.
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The current Hawkins maybe…gimme a spell.
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