Rest Easy

[Copernicus]

**** that.

Play our strongest team, go hard, take an interstate win and regain that bit of confidence that was lost. None of this 'resting' bullshit.

 

[Partridge]

**** that.

Play our strongest team, go hard, take an interstate win and regain that bit of confidence that was lost. None of this 'resting' bullshit.

Exactly. Totally agree.

Seeing as we rested Selwood (and probably Ling too), I want to ask all the people in favour of resting players how they felt when the siren went yesterday? Elated? Happy? Joyous? I didn't. I hated it.

So now the same geniuses are proposing we risk losing again this week, therefore going into the finals with 2 straight losses, against Hawthorn or North - neither of whom we have a good recent record against.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

There is only one option. Play the strongest possible side we can. And that includes Ling and Bartel. Drop Playfair, Byrnes and Varcoe, and hammer home a 10 goal thrashing. Regain form and confidence before the finals.

 

[darren forssman]

Probably his best game for 6-8 weeks. Will probably still be the first player dropped after Playfair on here though.

dropped before byrnes??

 

[Solstice Raver]

Rest everyone, lets not bother going up to Brissy to play some deadbeats in 25 degrees heat.

Forfiet and get ready for the FINALS!

Isn't your finger painting homework due?

 

[rocker_oz33]

They can have their rest if they win a qualifying final.

They're paid $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ footballers, it's their job, why rest? Especially in round 22.

l wood have to agree these guy do get paid big biscuits to play footy its there
time to sine there's 5 or 6 games to go get the best 22 players can go hard or we will be the hunted insteed of the hunter

and on these players getting big biscuits why cant they kick an goals 30 m out in front

 

[dmc82]

hell no dont rest players!
im going to the gabba to watch an AFL game!

Tell me about it... 3rd year in a row this year and I wanna enjoy this one the most cause it's saturday night and there's beer to be had all night long!!!!

 

[Copernicus]

Exactly. Totally agree.

Seeing as we rested Selwood (and probably Ling too), I want to ask all the people in favour of resting players how they felt when the siren went yesterday? Elated? Happy? Joyous? I didn't. I hated it.

So now the same geniuses are proposing we risk losing again this week, therefore going into the finals with 2 straight losses, against Hawthorn or North - neither of whom we have a good recent record against.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

There is only one option. Play the strongest possible side we can. And that includes Ling and Bartel. Drop Playfair, Byrnes and Varcoe, and hammer home a 10 goal thrashing. Regain form and confidence before the finals.

I started ranting and raving at the TV, to the point where my wife came up to me and said "that's the most immature thing I've ever heard"

Yeah, I wasn't happy. Losing sucks.

 

[hoody]

It's great to see the passion expressed in this thread by all the Cat fans and I guess I want the boys to smash Brisbane, too.
However I believe it is far more important that we have our best 22 as fit as can be in the first final.
Like my fellow posters I have no idea on the fitness of the players and who, if any would be best served by missing next weeks clash.
In the case of niggling or 'part-time' injuries to some players, this may mean a week off. Others may be seen to be in need of the match fitness, confidence or continuity that comes from facing the Lions.
Either way the coaches and Medical staff down at the Club have done a pretty good job so far and have earned some faith in their judgment.
Our best team will take a ton of tossing in the finals but only if they get on the paddock.
It would be nice to cane the Lions in round 22, but that will pale into insignificance in comparison to a successful finals campaign.
Go the Mighty Pussies.

 

[FTW_]

Agree.

Although Corey, Harley, and Enright look very tired as well.

Rest them all.





Please.

Noooooope.

 

[hobart cat]

looks like we have our answer......

http://www.gfc.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=3933&newsId=49956

Geelong to field best side

5:51 PM Tue 28 August, 2007 | Back
By Ben Casanelia
for gfc.com.au

News


GEELONG will use Saturday night’s round 22 clash against Brisbane as a full dress rehearsal for the finals as the club looks to erase last week’s shock loss to Port Adelaide.
Key onballers Cameron Ling and Joel Selwood will return, while a decision on rugged tagger Max Rooke won’t be made until Thursday night.
“More than likely, and without having done selection, he’ll play in the reserves again and get through another game,” Thompson said of Rooke.
“But we haven’t ruled him out (of seniors).
“We’ve got a few pretty important decisions to make.”
Rooke played 80 minutes in the reserves last week after making a miraculous recovery from a badly damaged hamstring suffered against Sydney in round 13.
Brownlow Medal fancy Jimmy Bartel won’t make the trip to Brisbane after having his appendix out last Friday, however, barring complications, he is rated a certainty to play the following week.
Thompson said the 22 that takes on the Lions on Saturday night, with the exception of Bartel, will be the same 22 chosen for the first final.
“We’ll try and field our best side this week, for sure,” he said.
Having had their 15-game winning streak snapped by the Power last week, Thompson said it was no more, or less, important to get back on the winners’ list against the Lions.
It was more important for the players to play as instructed, an aspect he says was not evident in the five-point loss to the Power.
“[The players] just need to do what the team needs them to do,” he said.
One intriguing aspect of the game is the fact that if Adelaide beats Collingwood on Friday night, or St Kilda beats Richmond at the MCG on Saturday afternoon, Brisbane will be eliminated from the finals race before a ball is kicked in anger on Saturday night.
Thompson said if that was the case, it could in fact make Brisbane a more dangerous commodity.
“I’ve been in situations before where that’s happened and sometimes you just get out there and enjoy your last game,” he said.
“It can go the other way.”
Having sewn-up top spot three weeks ago, Thompson said he hoped the AFL honoured their previous commitment to top-of-the-table sides in week one of finals after the AFL refused to rule out Geelong hosting a Friday night final.
Thompson said Saturday was the Cats' preferred choice.
“We’d like to play on the Saturday and we’re entitled to play on the Saturday because we finished on top of the ladder,” he said.
“Every other year, the top-of-the-ladder team has been given the day they preferred to play on.
“As a club, we’d be pretty disappointed if we ended up having to play on a Friday.”













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