you're not alone....i think we have to look to youth, be a bit experimental, to reverse the trend of this season.....
i can endure a period without success, or without even finals footy, if it means at the very least we get away from the stop-start football that characterises us in our bad patches....i HATE it when we lose but it's tolerable if we play a style worth watching, that brings some excitement and reason to look ahead.....
if we keep on playing games such as the two losses to c'wood in the last three weeks of our 07 season i will just not bother, it's too frustrating
i love the tough, physical style we perfected while we mixed it with that dash off halfback and those bursts of 4-5 goals in 10 minutes that we've been capable of
but it's time for a change, time to get rid of the deadwood....i'll say it again, crouch and mathews have to go, stick mcveigh and bevan in the twos, maybe start leo there as well, i do think jude's out the door, and maybe put the likes of davo, richards, ablett on notice (even though i'm a fan of all three)
let's load up with young blokes, make Generation Next our Generation Now (uh-oh, the marketing droids have gotten to me)
Rancidpants' format on how to kill a club in 3 rounds.
Surely you guys can't be serious. This IS the AFL comp you guys are talking about isn't it. Geelong lost their only game in 18 odd weeks of football by a point in Rd 21 at home against Port. Who was out of that team? Bartel, Ling, Chapman & another player. They get them back for the GF at a more friendly ground for Port, & absolutely smash the pants off them by 119 points.
You guys severely underestimate our players & you are a worry. By playing the players you suggested in the twos, & playing all these youngsters all at once, we will be smashed week in week out .........................until..............................of coarse.................we bring in the experienced players again.
You know what! I'm really tiring of reading this crap by some of you guys. You are showing a real lack of knowledge for the system, & the game itself by suggesting "we keep this player...... we keep that player......we play this player ......we drop that player".
Please! We lost to WC & Essendon by a point & drew with Brisbane. Bazza wasn't fit from Rd 2 onwards. Leo missed 5 weeks with a hammy just prior to the finals. Kennelly basically wasn't there all year. Luke Ablett hyperflexed his knee earlier in the year & was clearly restricted as was O'keefe in the latter part of the season & LRT was missing until Rd 21. God knows how many others battled out the season with a niggling injury.
All this & we still had the second best defence for the year.
Let's just say we won those 3 games. Quite feasible as Geelong lost by a point with just 2 or 3 players out. That would have put us 2nd or 3rd.
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Who knows what could have happened from there.
Perhaps once we got to this point, then we could have taken your advice & dropped Leo, Bolton, Matthews, Davo, Richards, McVeigh & Bevo for the first final & brought in Laidlaw, Moore, Grundy, Vogels, Jack, White, Thornton & another younster who "will be the future" of the club. Just for the Final. Perhaps we could have played Vogels on Rocca to replace Leo if we happened to play the Pies. Play Grundy on Rusling in place of Richards, Jack & Moore doing a tagging job on Thomas & Pendles in place of Matthews, Bolton or McVeigh, & Laidlaw to replace Davo as the sharp shooter from 50 - 55 metres out.
Oh........one more thing that would be a necessity in this team. For added speed in the middle, we'll throw in Schneider to blow the socks off them with his stamina, & we'll throw the ever reliable & always super alert Dempster to just drop in the hole in front of Grundy & to become the link man running out of defence!!
Mmmmmm.................I'd love to go to that game & come out only losing by 80 points.
No idea guys.........no idea!!