Thank you LEIGH COLBERT

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Colbert and grham not being premiership players makes me feel good, both r pathetic esp Graham who treated us like shi t after we looked after and payed him so well he then goes and walks out on us in our prime, lol u r a joke graham.
F**k off idiot.Ben Graham could've left 5 years before he did.Anyway,he may've actually retired by now as he's around 34 or 35.

Go and play in the traffic :rolleyes:
 

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F**k off idiot.Ben Graham could've left 5 years before he did.Anyway,he may've actually retired by now as he's around 34 or 35.

Go and play in the traffic :rolleyes:
:thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu: go and jump infront of all those lovly looking brand new ford utes making there way around geelong today.
 

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Graham was a scum bag pure and simple, i don't care what way u look at it, why stay for all that time then leave just as we needed him, anyway my lasing memory of him was him costing us a grand final berth with his pathetic goal kicking against bris in 2004 prem, summed him up well, never performed in big games.
 

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I think the venom directed by some at Leigh Colbert is unfair. He played over 100 games for us, he was a skillful and courageous player.

He had the balls to put his hand up to be captain when more senior players didn't but then they didn't support him. All part of the sh1thouse culture at the club that meant we didn't win a flag for 44 years.

We expect loyalty from players but clubs are all too willing to trade them if it suits eg Brent Maloney. We were more than adequately compensated for losing Colbert so what's the big deal?
 

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#38
i was living overseas during the 'lost years', so i never saw the whole colbert saga unfold, and i really don't care now..!

ben graham, on the other hand, was a star for geelong, and a bonafidegentleman. anyone that says otherwise loses all respect from me. i was extremely saddened when he left, but kudos to big ben for taking a shot at the big time, and representing oz with distinction.

seriously, who in their right mind would give up the opporunity to:

a) start a whole new career, in a new country, at a time when your current career is nearing an end. in doing so,
b) play a role that allows you to extend your playing life by another 5 - 8 years; and
c) earn well over a million bucks a year doing it!

benny graham, you're a legend, and i miss you still :thumbsu:



ps - the club having to face the realities of a forward line without the big fella have now paid dividends with the best attack in the league :cool:
 

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Colbert and grham not being premiership players makes me feel good, both r pathetic esp Graham who treated us like shi t after we looked after and payed him so well he then goes and walks out on us in our prime, lol u r a joke graham.
http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/ne...on-his-old-team/2007/09/26/1190486397582.html

Ben Graham said:
"If you're asking whether at my age (33) could I still be playing, the answer is no way. The game has changed and it's faster. So although sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I'd stayed on, I still wouldn't change anything for the world right now."
It is arguable whether Geelong were in their prime when Graham retired. What is beyond argument is that Graham was washed up as an AFL player at the end of 2004. You cannot say that we didn't need to have our 2005 and 2006 outcomes, otherwise it is quite likely that we wouldn't have played the way we did in 2007.
 

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I don't blame you blokes for being jacked off when Colbert left.

At North he is treated like a saint - and by all acounts is a good bloke in person - but I can't help but think he pissed off on the club he captained.
 

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Nah, that's the thing which shits me more than anything else - the fact he was the captain and walked. Imagine you're in the trenches... you're a leader of troops... then u get hurt... the troops keep fighting whilst you sit on your arse... then when things start looking tough for your boys, and you're finally looking like serving on the front line with your boys... you run away... to join the other team because you think they have more of a chance of winning...

That's what pisses me off about the whole Colbert scenario. As a kid, I was religiously devoted to the GFC. I was obsessed, and would have done anything for the club. To think that one of our favourite sons... A leader of champions would exhibit such disloyal behavior shits me to absolute tears.

Gutless, spineless, jellyfish-like behaviour. I've heard it from many people who were involved with the club at the time, and they keep repeating the same mantra... All the characteristics of a dog but without the loyalty.
 

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#48
This is a very unnecessary thread. Why bag Colbert and Graham when your club has had its greatest year since 1963, if not in its history?

In the case of Leigh Colbert I think that there was much more to his departure than we will ever know, unless at some stage he decides to make public his reasons.

Whatever the case he gave excellent service to North and his reputation around the club was that of a quality person. Unfortunately he never recovered after his knee injury to quite the level he exhibited for the Cats.

In my view at the time, the trade of Colbert for Cam Mooney was destined to be a good one for Geelong, as Mooney, though only young was a real talent just waiting to mature and this year after a number of good years, interspersed with a few indiscretions along the way, he has shown his class. It has just been wonderful to see him work hard and reap the rewards and now he is a dual premiership player.

In the case of Ben Graham, at most he retired a year early and as has been stated previously he would not have been part of it this year anyway. He gave the Cats great service and does not deserve any bagging from Geelong fans.

This is just a magnificent time for Geelong supporters and I suggest that you all make the most of it and forget about the point scoring and relish the moment and the months ahead. Life is too short for having cracks at people and events that are long gone.
 

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#49
Leigh Colbert... I don't remember much from when he left, because I was 6. I do remember my brother having to re-name his guinea pig because he was called "Colby." The guinea pigs next name was "Bizz" (Clint Bizzell) I swear it was jinxed!

And about Ben Graham, people that are saying he's like Colbert, shut up. They're nothing alike, for starters Benny G was a genuinely nice guy (met him a few times when I was 7, meeting my hero was pretty awesome) and he didn't leave the club to win a premiership in the same code of footy. He left when he felt his AFL career was over, not when he was first approached in 1997. So I wish him the best of luck in his NFL career, GO JETS! Haha.
 
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