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Is this the new training the house down PR newsCan someone ensure dazbroncos has got a towel handy before he watches this
Would make sense if Retschko wanted 27, given that was Menegola's number - and he was an elite runner/fitness freak too. Wouldn't surprise if he modeled some of his game on him too
Way-too-early AFL tiers: Teams whose stocks we're buying and selling for 2025
Contenders? Thereabouts? Or is your team kidding itself about its finals aspirations? With the trade and draft periods done, Jake Michaels has ranked every club four months out from the start of the 2025 AFL season.
Some entertaining stuff here.
The 6th-10th prediction is fine. The text throughout the whole article on other teams compared to Geelong in 2024 is the amusing bit.
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2007 GF rematch locked inWay-too-early AFL tiers: Teams whose stocks we're buying and selling for 2025
Contenders? Thereabouts? Or is your team kidding itself about its finals aspirations? With the trade and draft periods done, Jake Michaels has ranked every club four months out from the start of the 2025 AFL season.www.espn.com.au
Some entertaining stuff here.
The 6th-10th prediction is fine. The text throughout the whole article on other teams compared to Geelong in 2024 is the amusing bit.
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Geelong Announce Draftees Jumper Numbers
The Geelong Cats have unveiled the guernsey numbers for their new draftees in 2025,
Conditioning is all there. Is just a matter of skill and talent being good enough now to make an impact in 25.Can someone ensure dazbroncos has got a towel handy before he watches this
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I quite enjoyed reading this, too. I love being underestimated and it sounds like we will be again in 2025.Way-too-early AFL tiers: Teams whose stocks we're buying and selling for 2025
Contenders? Thereabouts? Or is your team kidding itself about its finals aspirations? With the trade and draft periods done, Jake Michaels has ranked every club four months out from the start of the 2025 AFL season.
Some entertaining stuff here.
The 6th-10th prediction is fine. The text throughout the whole article on other teams compared to Geelong in 2024 is the amusing bit.
The idea that we were just as close to losing in straight sets as we were to getting into the GF is nonsense. Written like someone who doesn't watch the game, just does footy tipping based on ladder position. We absolutely smashed Port (at home). And we gave the best team a huge run for their money and could easily have beaten them if a few things had fallen our way.
Bring on 2025!
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Almost all in order with draft picks?
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I think the wording was a bit abrupt but the general order in which he placed the sides made sense to me.
I argued a 6th to 10th finish for us next year is what I'd expect over and over again in the Bailey Smith trade thread and I stand by that.
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Yeah I wonder if Keights wanted that number specifically?
So Geelong were potentially one loss away from going out in straight sets?
What about Brisbane! They barely scraped by GWS who literally did everything in their power to hand the Lions the win.
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IF there was an 84 point turnaround in the QF, and then Geelong lost to the team who lost to the team Geelong beat by 84 points in the SF, THEN Geelong would have straight setted.Way-too-early AFL tiers: Teams whose stocks we're buying and selling for 2025
Contenders? Thereabouts? Or is your team kidding itself about its finals aspirations? With the trade and draft periods done, Jake Michaels has ranked every club four months out from the start of the 2025 AFL season.
Some entertaining stuff here.
The 6th-10th prediction is fine. The text throughout the whole article on other teams compared to Geelong in 2024 is the amusing bit.
That's a ripper.
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New photos of today's training. There's one in there of Conway standing next to Wiltshire who's listed at 180cm yet it looks like the world's tallest man next to the world's shortest man.
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Do you also include the new recruits in that number assignment?
Looking at when they signed, there isn't necessarily an order to number assignments across all new recruits - especially when you consider that our first 3 additions have their numbers spread throughout the available the numbers
I know there was a bit of talk of Burke getting #2, but maybe that went with #41 so he'd have a locker beside O'Connor
Non-draft signings, in order:
Bailey Smith, #3
Cillian Burke, #41
Jack Martin, #19 (predicted & TBC confirmed tomorrow)
ND picks:
#44 - Jay Polkinghorne, 2
#52 - Jacob Molier, 20
#56 - Lennox Hoffman, 23
#69 - Keighton Matofai-Forbes, 31
Rookies:
#12 - Xavier Ivisic, 25
#23 - Patrick Retschko, 27
#31 - Joe Pike, 37
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The injury list is unpredictable enough to make closing that estimate impossible. I'll just guess and say 8th.
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Way-too-early AFL tiers: Teams whose stocks we're buying and selling for 2025
Contenders? Thereabouts? Or is your team kidding itself about its finals aspirations? With the trade and draft periods done, Jake Michaels has ranked every club four months out from the start of the 2025 AFL season.
Some entertaining stuff here.
The 6th-10th prediction is fine. The text throughout the whole article on other teams compared to Geelong in 2024 is the amusing bit.
Not sure using hypotheticals to justify your case helps your argument. If it does, then why hasn't he mentioned that Brisbane should have been sent home after the second week of the finals? Surely that has more relevance that saying we would have been knocked out in straight sets HAD we lost the first week, which applies to any top 4 club, mind you.
But that's journalism standards for you these days.
I reckon the author has said something similar about us in the past, so doubling down is an interesting policy considering how many have tried and failed dismally when doing likewise.
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I honestly don't know why they bother at this point. The risk/reward factor isn't there.
If he's finally right, and we do slip a bit, then congratulations I guess? Only took 15 years for the chickens to come home to roost, but we got there eventually!!
If he's wrong, like he's been repeatedly, then you just continue to look like an idiot over and over again.
Particularly in today's media landscape where clubs post 'edits' and such that contain those poor predictions. You can't really hide behind bad takes like you used to.
I imagine Michaels does it for clicks tbh. ESPN aren't exactly known for their AFL coverage, you have to spread the word somehow.
I mean I'd go even further and say injuries/fitness can be the difference between 3rd and 12th. Its such an even comp and luck varies so much that predicting any kind of slide or climb up the ladder is complete guesswork.
