Preview Changes vs. Richmond Tigers R13

[Mutineer]

I wonder if it’s still zero, with dekoening now the #1 ruck?

2023

Injury blows for two big Cats, but Hawkins' recovery on track

While Tom Hawkins is making good progress in his recovery, Geelong has seen two talls suffer injuries

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2024

Season over for Conway - K ROCK 95.5

Toby Conway’s season is over after being booked in for surgery on a foot injury that has sidelined the young...

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[MsTopG]

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Curtin Borlase

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Don't really care. Murphy will do. Butts inj

 

[1970crow]

Even though they would know making finals isn't easy from this position, 3 teams did make it from here last year. There's 11 rounds left, I would be worried if any club had a mindset to give up on finals when they are still mathematically possible at this stage of a season. Need to obviously win this week and start taking some scalps though, very minimal margin for error.

Are you happy for the team you support to give up on a season at the midway point? We aren't in North or Richmond territory here. If the club took your mentality I would be seriously worried that they just give up when it gets a bit hard. Sydney went on a run from 4-8 at this stage last year and are now flying in 2024, what if they had the same attitude as you midway last year and gave up on the season? They certainly wouldn't be in their current position.

Port is still sitting 4th and I wouldn't say their form has looked fantastic; Melbourne just got belted by 92 points and were top 4 before that game; Collingwood can't field a forwardline for the next month. Changes to the top 8 from here seem fairly likely given no team outside of Sydney has had a consistent run of good form and have mounting injury lists.

IF Nicks takes us to finals from here, I'm happy to see what he can do in 2025. IF he doesn't, we need to move him on.

Serious question, how do you know that Sydney wouldn’t be in the same position if they’d approached last year differently?

 

[FR0GGY]

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Curtin Borlase

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Don't really care. Murphy will do. Butts inj

We played this game awhile ago