Game Day Brisbane vs Geelong Prelim Final Sat 16 Oct, 7:40 pm (AEDT) @ Gabba

[thecatattack]

I wish we were the envy of the competition and being called scum. Win next 2 then it could happen again. Hoping so!

I'm not sure they're considering scum because they're good.

 

[catman2006]

Win and we live to fight another week, lose and the character of the players and coaches will be questioned..

 

[cats_09]

I know they've got individual threads, but congrats to tonight's 2 milestone Cats:

- Mark O'Connor

42

Mark O'connor

Age

27

Ht

189cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.2

3star

K

8.1

3star

HB

5.1

4star

M

4.4

4star

T

2.3

4star

MG

174.8

3star

D

12.4

3star

K

8.9

4star

HB

3.5

2star

M

4.5

4star

T

1.6

3star

MG

199.8

3star

D

10.4

3star

K

4.8

2star

HB

5.6

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

67.4

1star

game #50 in the hoops

- Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

coaching game #235 bringing his tally to #450 games as a player & coach. Fitting to bring up that milestone against the club he played his career at

 

[youneverknow22]

Best of luck guys. Will be cheering for you to win the GF if we lose tonight. My little bro is also a geelong supporter, so it will be a nervous room tonight.

 

[BORIS332]

Huge game for Menegola, Miers, Kolodjashnij, Rohan, even Ablett. Each of them were okay last week, but their record in big games over the past 1-3 years has been below their best. Especially need to get Ablett, Miers and Rohan into the game early.

 

[cats_09]

For those listening on krock

 

[BotsMaster]

I wish we were the envy of the competition and being called scum. Win next 2 then it could happen again. Hoping so!

I think we still are. Well at least the second part of your first sentence.

 

[Catman]

Going to be a nervous day. I have a gender reveal dinner for our first child tonight (was booked well before finals before anyone has a crack!), so I have a decision to make, do I follow it at the dinner, being a complete snob in the process, or go off grid and watch it 'live' when I get home?

Either way, we have a given ourselves a great opportunity to make a Grand Final, we have pretty much a full-strength lineup, something we lacked in last year's PF. Brisbane will be right up for the challenge and we won't get things as easy as we did last week. But bring that form from last week and we will go bloody close.

COME ON CATS, IT'S TIME!

 

[Turbocat]

enjoyed the whole post Turbo, but the quoted resonated most; we've had plenty of experience in not jumping the PF hurdle in recent years, taking that last leap into the unknown would be very exciting - stumble; well ...

Garry Hocking close to the best midfielder I've seen in the hoops; along with the Great Man himself living proof that individuals don't win you (Danger)flags - gotta be 22 contributors.

Id agree before our successful era Budda was the second best GFC player in my mind that I had seen ...obviously recency bias plays a part and Im not that old that I can judge too many in the 70's and back ... players like him burn because he would have played in any side wave put of the field , he would have been in our best 5 to 10 players in that 07 side ..a side that had all time great players. Id love for an honest MalcomB explanation of why we didn't get it done ..my theory has always been that our backline was not good enough but maybe it was our mid group was too downhill and one way. We had a couple of champion backmen but no Scarlett or Harely or even a Lonergan ..although some rated OReily higher than I .. yet now surely we can see than under enough inbound ball no backline holds up... ..anyway

These guys have a chance to write their own story ... and just like Budda.. Danger im sure would like to have a story that involved a great finish to a year. It can be cruel because with every great player that gets a chance on a gf day, so many never ever get that chance. Some good ordinary footballers are Premiership players. Hard luck stories are a part of our sport ..listen to Bob Murphy and one knows he carries a burden that will never dissipate. Walking the Dogs the other day and they were interviewing the PIr player from the 66 GF who was on Barry Breen when he kicked the point that won the St the game .... and its is still there. One could see why a player could be focused on the negative outcome.

Years ago I used to say you could see it. We used to have a footy version of PTSD ..we would hear the helicopters in an "only 19" Vietnam type. Fear of the negative outcome can freeze one. Heights do it for sure , take a ride in a EWP at full extension. I wonder what its like to be on a skyscraper if a gap in between.
Can we look past the gap inbetween the buildings and jump...or do we worry about the fall. In golf... the bunker can be deep, and full of sand .. it can get into your head... dont hit it in the bunker .. and sure enough. ... thats the way to hit it into the bunker. Its not about dont hit it in... its about hit it onto the green.. the bunker is not even there. If we can overcome our the negatives and play to our best .. its all there for us .. if we are prepared to make the leap.

 

[Seeds]

The game is at 6:40pm. Not 7:40pm. big footy is a national forum. Not a victorian one. Default time should be in the place it is played.

 

[Seeds]

Going to be a nervous day. I have a gender reveal dinner for our first child tonight (was booked well before finals before anyone has a crack!), so I have a decision to make, do I follow it at the dinner, being a complete snob in the process, or go off grid and watch it 'live' when I get home?

Either way, we have a given ourselves a great opportunity to make a Grand Final, we have pretty much a full-strength lineup, something we lacked in last year's PF. Brisbane will be right up for the challenge and we won't get things as easy as we did last week. But bring that form from last week and we will go bloody close.

COME ON CATS, IT'S TIME!

Given you are the parent i assume you already know the gender? If so you have nothing to learn by staying so I would go to the pub and watch the game instead. Ps only the grandmothers care about the gender. You could create a new catch phrase. "I skipped my own kids gender reveal for this!" Could not get more millenial than that.

 

[Turbocat]

Going to be a nervous day. I have a gender reveal dinner for our first child tonight (was booked well before finals before anyone has a crack!), so I have a decision to make, do I follow it at the dinner, being a complete snob in the process, or go off grid and watch it 'live' when I get home?

Either way, we have a given ourselves a great opportunity to make a Grand Final, we have pretty much a full-strength lineup, something we lacked in last year's PF. Brisbane will be right up for the challenge and we won't get things as easy as we did last week. But bring that form from last week and we will go bloody close.

COME ON CATS, IT'S TIME!

A what? !!

Back in the day they used to call that 'birth'

 

[Pollywaffle]

Going to be a nervous day. I have a gender reveal dinner for our first child tonight (was booked well before finals before anyone has a crack!), so I have a decision to make, do I follow it at the dinner, being a complete snob in the process, or go off grid and watch it 'live' when I get home?

Depends how old your kid is

 

[cats_09]

The game is at 6:40pm. Not 7:40pm. big footy is a national forum. Not a victorian one. Default time should be in the place it is played.

Updated to note that the listed time is AEDT

 

[Tony Barber]

I was talking to someone yesterday. "Can't pick the Tigers v port winner, but the result will be under 10 points"
" can't pick the cats v bris winner. But one side won't lose if that makes sense. One side will get on top due to attack. Winner will win by about 25pts"

 

[AWOL]

Given you are the parent i assume you already know the gender? If so you have nothing to learn by staying so I would go to the pub and watch the game instead. Ps only the grandmothers care about the gender. You could create a new catch phrase. "I skipped my own kids gender reveal for this!" Could not get more millenial than that.

What’s this dinner with family / friends or going to the pub thing you speak of??

Biggest issue for me (and all melburnians) will be selecting which seat on the lounge setting I sit on to watch it by myself...

 

[Tony Barber]

The game is at 6:40pm. Not 7:40pm. big footy is a national forum. Not a victorian one. Default time should be in the place it is played.

Jesus, is there anything you don't cry about?

 

[Mad_Hatter]

God I dunno.

I'm not usually one to look too far forward, especially being a Cats fan as that tends to lead to heartbreak, HOWEVER I can't help thinking about the Grand Final and the chance that we could lose a Premiership to richmond, while giving them back to back and arguably surpassing our Greatest team by winning 3 in 4 (which could/should have been 4 in a row.. geez let that sink in...) which is insane (we under-achieved massively, atleast 2 Flags IMO and we COULD have won 5 in a row if not for having to learn from "mistakes" or "lessons" which not many other teams have to...).
I know if we win it's an amazing achievement, especially against the tigers but I cannot help but be nervous and a tad scared of the potential for it to go against us.

Now I know all of you will say "well we gotta get over the lions first" and you are absolutely correct, I think as a Cats fan I tend to expect heartbreak, and as we know with our sport the ultimate success is a tiny degree away from the ultimate disappointment which I'm not really coping with at the moment.

For what it's worth I think we win tonight and I believe we have a very good chance to knock off the tigers the following week, but damn anything but that makes me so freaking nervous.

 

[Cataholic]

Can we just bounce the ball already, and get this game behind us?!

 

[Heckler]

Why I don't feel nervous.
I know what to expect tonight
I know Lions played 1 game in 29 days
I know the Lions will be anxious
I know Cats play well at the Gabba
I know the Cats are good enough
I know we have a full list
I know players are injury free
I know the Hub helped team bonding
I know the players have the skills
I know the team has the experience
I know the game plan works
I know the team is in good form
I know the team is full of confidence
I know players are hungry for success
I know there is a score to settle with the Tigers
I know the players are focused
I know they will deliver
I know YOU know this too.
BRING IT ON

 

[AM]

Win and we live to fight another week, lose and the character of the players and coaches will be questioned..

Really! Not by me if there's a committed fighting performance.

 

[Chinacats]

God I dunno.

I'm not usually one to look too far forward, especially being a Cats fan as that tends to lead to heartbreak, HOWEVER I can't help thinking about the Grand Final and the chance that we could lose a Premiership to richmond, while giving them back to back and arguably surpassing our Greatest team by winning 3 in 4 (which could/should have been 4 in a row.. geez let that sink in...) which is insane (we under-achieved massively, atleast 2 Flags IMO and we COULD have won 5 in a row if not for having to learn from "mistakes" or "lessons" which not many other teams have to...).
I know if we win it's an amazing achievement, especially against the tigers but I cannot help but be nervous and a tad scared of the potential for it to go against us.

Now I know all of you will say "well we gotta get over the lions first" and you are absolutely correct, I think as a Cats fan I tend to expect heartbreak, and as we know with our sport the ultimate success is a tiny degree away from the ultimate disappointment which I'm not really coping with at the moment.

For what it's worth I think we win tonight and I believe we have a very good chance to knock off the tigers the following week, but damn anything but that makes me so freaking nervous.

My brother is a tigers fan . And yes a mad tigers fan. I had a good 30 year run. TBH if cats don’t win it I’d prefer tigers. Brisbane has just been given all the advantages this year. Wouldn’t seem right.

 

[Nickoo]

Watching Richmond who were beaten by Brisbane win the PF last night am more than convinced than even that Cats will probably fall short tonight. Last weeks win still showed problems in underperformance still from a number of players and this has not been the case from Brisbane's QF win two weeks ago. I'm not sure we have the game-breakers either that could break things open or respond when we are down.

 

[Tony Barber]

Going to be a nervous day. I have a gender reveal dinner for our first child tonight (was booked well before finals before anyone has a crack!), so I have a decision to make, do I follow it at the dinner, being a complete snob in the process, or go off grid and watch it 'live' when I get home?

Either way, we have a given ourselves a great opportunity to make a Grand Final, we have pretty much a full-strength lineup, something we lacked in last year's PF. Brisbane will be right up for the challenge and we won't get things as easy as we did last week. But bring that form from last week and we will go bloody close.

COME ON CATS, IT'S TIME!

I've never heard of such a thing.

What is the world coming to?

Congrats btw.

 

[Catman]

Given you are the parent i assume you already know the gender? If so you have nothing to learn by staying so I would go to the pub and watch the game instead. Ps only the grandmothers care about the gender. You could create a new catch phrase. "I skipped my own kids gender reveal for this!" Could not get more millenial than that.

Yes we do. And trust me I would rather do that. But I also don't want to be sleeping on the couch for the next month!