Pretty confident we will at least be in better shape round one 2024 than we were at the start of this year.
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Back to pre-season photos...
There's also more available via 'Reels' for those with Instagram or if someone wants di take a few screenshots
Jeez Bowes looks like a different guy
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Hard to get worse
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Looks like MOCs calf is about to give birth to an alien
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GC poor development probably held him back to a degree
Those blue kits don't look too bad. Could use those in clashes v predominately white ones.
Lean down yet more definition. Add the skin tone and he looks like a poster boy. Now if he can play as good as he looks....
The fifth is wearing black shoes with orange tread ... so who ever that is.
Miers looks like he making them work.
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Certainly hasn't been missing leg days
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It can always be worse.. but it was certainly bad last year.. totally take your point.
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Maybe he's our next lock down small defender?
Might not quite have the tricks as a midfielder, but I could see him carving out a very good career if we want to develop him down back.
Has a bit of toe, and is a competitive beast as you mention.
Loves to tackle, and if he's given a role that's basically 'Don't lose the one on ones' it plays to his strengths.
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If Knevett makes it.
He is going to be one huge athlete
He is going to be one huge athlete
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Just quietly, very popular with the fairer sex is our Tanner by all reports.
With his leadership skills and potency to improve, he could be everything we'd be looking for in a captain in a couple years time.
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Yep, looks like a prime Jimmy Bartel in that pic.
Hopefully he can be half as good, I'm pretty excited about him TBH.
Not talking superstar, but think he's got a lot more to offer than what he's shown.
I jokingly said that we had to "Coach the Gold Coast out of him" - but there's a kernel of truth in that too. It was a shambles up there during his most formative development years.
I remember Alex Rance had similar comments about Tom Lynch.
During his first session at Tigerland, he was just doing unusual things, and not training to the standard you'd want if you're trying to win a premiership.
The Richmond boys got a good laugh out of it, but it wasn't anything to do with Lynch's professionalism, it was just all he had ever known and been taught up at the Suns.
I imagine Bowes would have been similar when he arrived to us, and pair that with his niggling injuries, and we were never going to see the best of him in 2023.
2024 could be a completely different story though. With a big pre-season, looking fitter than ever, and a bit of time to learn the Geelong way, he'll very likely surprise us IMO.
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He's our version of Josh Weddle IMO.
Players who might not be the most natural footballers (don't mean they're hacks, far from it, but they're not Tom Atkins for instance) but they're freak athletes who can play multiple positions.
It's just about harnessing their gifts and finding where is best to play them, and I think with his mix of size/speed, it's going to end up being in the guts.
Might appear to be a slower burn, as he came to us thin as a rake, but we'll reap the rewards in the coming years. He's a special talent.
Bowes has a lot of untapped potential and even his best form from the Sun's would improve our team.
He only had two games where we got a taste of that in 2023 for whatever reason but not every Geelong recruit stars right away.
Holmes, Bowes, Bruhn and Clark are 4 who can take a new look midfield to an exciting place as we start getting retirements. In the meantime these are the ones to watch for big improvement.
Sounds a bit like the Bris Bear stories before Walls. I guess we wait and see what he brings to his game this year.
Considering how many popular with the fem types have played footy over the year .. you would think there would have been a few more father sons that came from the wrong side of the bed.
@ggstevens6 ..? time for an update on the number?
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Could you imagine a father son rule pre-contraception era? We would be drowning in babies
Of course the love glove has been around since the days they first started making sausage skins from animal intestines. ... and these days there are probably some that would find it convenient not to prevent an outcome. I can only remember one recognised situation like that. I think it Brent Croswell had a FSon like that ...
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The player in the black and orange shoes is Mullin.
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Just came in and posted the same thing haha
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