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What you do you mean 2012... Like it happens every week regardless of where the team finished the year beforeI wasn't around BF in 2012. Is this what happens the season after a premiership? Opposition nuffy supporters come in drunk or hungover trying to get their licks in? Or is it this a Geelong-specific thing?
What about the outrageous prediction by Mooney before the game saying he will be an AA hahahahahahahahahahaha
I'm noticing it more this season. Maybe imagining things. But just in random threads, about random things. Not just the basic "haha you lost".What you do you mean 2012... Like it happens every week regardless of where the team finished the year before
I'm noticing it more this season. Maybe imagining things. But just in random threads, about random things. Not just the basic "haha you lost".
Happens everytime we lose which hasn’t been a hell of a lot over the last few yearsI'm noticing it more this season. Maybe imagining things. But just in random threads, about random things. Not just the basic "haha you lost".
Brisbane a chance to be 0-2 after tonight as well. Either them or Melbourne will obviously lose tonight. Dogs play Saints and could easily be 0-2. Collingwood and Port play each other.It seems like 3/4 people here are gonna take the concerned but measured approach until we reach round 6ish at a minimum. Probably 3-3 or 4-2 in all likelihood with a stack of KP games remaining, fitness building and the injury list less destructive.
1/4 will lose their heads and make all manner of grandiose declarations about players, coaches and the water boys.
Yes last night was disappointing because Carlton are decent but not world beaters, and when we played with intent we got glimpses of that. It's a game we still should've been able to win by applying that intensity for maybe 20 more minutes.
Some early adversity and a kick up the backside isn't the end of the world if it draws a response. Premiers aren't made at this stage. Winning the next two is important. At round 6 we reassess but I'd be surprised if we are too far behind the pack at that stage.
Absolute rubbish Sav had Curnow kick 3 on him in the first half before going to McKay just before 1/2 time and giving up a goal to him too Curnow's goals in the second half were against Cameron rolling back through the center and another on Sav.Curnow did also kick goals while matched against SDK, MOC and Zuthrie too. SDK and Sav split the Mackay/Curnow roles and several times blokes rolled over onto new opponents. But don't let me ruin your narrative for you.
Just on the newcomers Bruhn and Bowes. There were two huge moments in that last quarter where each of them had an opportunity to help pull off an unlikely victory.
Unfortunately both players made critical kicking errors under the pressure of the moment.
Had those kicks been different we might be thinking of them a lot differently right now. But as it stands, I'm going to say that it looks unlikely to me that either will be in our best team when it matters.
All good on those numbers. I absolutely accept that you don't have to start 5-0 to have a really good season. But I think the enormity of what we did from 5-4 last season is being forgotten. A 16-game winning streak (13 straight in the H&A) is a monumental achievement in modern football. The prospect of us doing that again (no matter how well we might be playing at the time) is incredibly low. So just getting back to that sort of position after nine games isn't necessarily going to see us likely to have a negotiable path back into the top four before season's end. And, no matter how imposing we might eventually become this year, I don't like our chances of winning from outside that bracket.We were 3 and 2 after 5 rounds last year and 5 and 4 after 9 rounds.
We look slow and sore so far this year.
Absolutely agree, based on Parf's output over the course of his career. But his game in Round 1 really had to be seen to be believed. Or, more correctly, not seen, given how utterly anonymous he was in that match.Geez Parfitt might have a low ceiling and we want to develop other guys but he would add some defensive balance to the midfield. Good tackler and my mind goes back to the Doggies game at Docklands last year - they were streaming up the ground very similarly to what Carlton (and Pies) were doing; Parfitt was huge in arresting it that night.
Yeah that's fair - he wasn't great against the pies. Not alone thoughAbsolutely agree, based on Parf's output over the course of his career. But his game in Round 1 really had to be seen to be believed. Or, more correctly, not seen, given how utterly anonymous he was in that match.
He would want to go big on possessions and tackles in the VFL to warrant selection for the seniors again at this point. Because a recall based on reputation alone doesn't seem like the most trustworthy path to pursue with him right now.
Absolutely agree, based on Parf's output over the course of his career. But his game in Round 1 really had to be seen to be believed. Or, more correctly, not seen, given how utterly anonymous he was in that match.
He would want to go big on possessions and tackles in the VFL to warrant selection for the seniors again at this point. Because a recall based on reputation alone doesn't seem like the most trustworthy path to pursue with him right now.
I wasn't around BF in 2012. Is this what happens the season after a premiership? Opposition nuffy supporters come in drunk or hungover trying to get their licks in? Or is it this a Geelong-specific thing?
So many had down games, didn't they.Really?
Bowes was playing his first game for the club and I'd have him in our top 6 or 7 players last night. While half the team was spudding up the first quarter, he was a shining beacon of kicks that actually hit their target. I would've loved to have seen him kick that goal, but he overall he played a great game.
Bruhn was down from last week, and that kick that missed the target also wasn't great. But again - he's 20 and playing his second game for a club and failed one clutch moment. That's a weak reason to write him off.
Speaking of failing clutch moments...
Did you happen to notice how many of Guthrie's possessions in the last quarter went straight to the opposition or disadvantaged our players?
Or what about Cameron - our best player by a long way - when he belted the ball inside F50 to Close... surrounded by 4 Blues?
If we judged people by a single mistake in the heat of the contest, we wouldn't have 22 on the field next week. We'd have none.
(P.S. Is this over the top? Maybe - but I'm kinda pissed off about the snap write-offs of these guys and Esava when there's way bigger team-wide problems to deal with.)
EDIT: added "last night" to Bowes' comment, though if he keeps up that kind of performance he'll be in our top 6-7 players if the others don't lift their game.
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Just on the newcomers Bruhn and Bowes. There were two huge moments in that last quarter where each of them had an opportunity to help pull off an unlikely victory.
Unfortunately both players made critical kicking errors under the pressure of the moment.
Had those kicks been different we might be thinking of them a lot differently right now. But as it stands, I'm going to say that it looks unlikely to me that either will be in our best team when it matters.
If Ollie stays fit and forward he'll kick 50 this year.This year? Maybe not. More about the years to come with those two (and Henry).
The Bowes moment was bizarre. Having been really rather good for most of the night, that was an utterly shambolic shot on goal. Could definitely see the prospect of us winning the game if he'd kicked that. And I felt it did just about as much to calm their sense of 'losing control' as it did to stifle our momentum. Felt sorry for him, as he was clearly one of our better contributors on the night.So many had down games, didn't they.
But I guess there's always a bit of extra interest in the new recruits and where they sit in the scheme of things, especially since we're a side that's going (I hope) to have a lot of competition for spots at some point.
My point was that they could have really made a huge impression if those moments had gone differently - and especially if it had led to us getting over the line.
The Bowes moment was bizarre. Having been really rather good for most of the night, that was an utterly shambolic shot on goal. Could definitely see the prospect of us winning the game if he'd kicked that. And I felt it did just about as much to calm their sense of 'losing control' as it did to stifle our momentum. Felt sorry for him, as he was clearly one of our better contributors on the night.
With the Bruhn one, I'm maybe wildly generous in cutting him some slack with that missed target. He'd just won the ball in a fierce contest, which included a head clash as he took possession. I wonder whether he was somewhat dazed as he spun out of the congestion and looked to find a player inside F50. Yes, it could have simply been a bad skill error under fatigue. But the blood streaming from his opponent's face seemed to indicate that the contact was a little more than incidental.
Overall, then, I'm firmly in the camp that's OK with how the likes of Bowes, Henry and Bruhn are going thus far. They're not shooting the lights out, that's for sure. But for players just joining our system (and, in a couple of cases, only two seasons into their careers), I still have high hopes for their long-term prospects as quality senior players in the hoops.