AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Yeah sorry I know my post seemed a bit inflammatory but was meant more as a discussion point on how we mould our perceptions after various types of seasons. I think we all had thoughts like yours a year ago, the sentiment has certainly changed. But it remains a lot easier to be defeatist after (repeated) finals failures than it is to be confident following triumph. I'm certainly not taking anything for granted in season 2023 as far as thinking Geelong are going to wipe the floor with everyone. But I do go in with a lot more hope than after that 2021 prelim!
Are you old enough to at least remember the two Collingwood flags in the 50s very well? Because 2 flags in 64 years since is a tough run for a big club. As for what preceded my lifetime, it doesn't really hold any weight in my enjoyment as a supporter. So the 4 flags in 16 years sits comfortably. '63 doesn't hold too much personal significance. I guess it's nice to look in the record books? Or at least with GFs televised on colour television you can dig up.
Agree on ur top 30 being best.
Considering it's likely an alt account for a known Richmond supporting troll I doubt he would know or care.
Good call. Is kind of weird in that way. We came to have a really strong 25-30 by the end of the year. But unusually weak for a flag winner after that. We are trying to get more experienced bodies into our VFL side.
And just recruited Casey senior coach, Mark Corrigan, to coach VFL team. Another Geelong boy coming home
The reference is to the gloating currently, being above everyone else etc.
what exactly did you get? I know what you got.
Nicely dispatched to a basket case. Scott is someone else's problem now. I think your free ride is in a spot of bother.
History is indeed a great teacher. It taught me that Collingwood had won 11 flags until 1936. If every club were doomed or blessed to perpetually repeat their history you would be on 33 flags by now. Melbourne won 12 flags up until 1964 and then nothing for 57 years. On the flipside, Hawthorn took 36 years to win their first flag and now they go at a rate of 2 decade. Any period of succes or failure isn't guaranteed to continue for any club.
From what the entire world witnessed and the 90K at the ground in the QF, I have more chance of winning lotto than the cats having that much of sweet ride from the umpires ever again. But your probably right, there will be some other arseh*le in HQ that will be pulling the strings for the cats. Your right about the wins drying up, cats old as fk.Yes watch the wins dry up now that someone in one non-Geelong related office has moved to another one
44 gf appearances is proof of a well run club over a long sample size! keep getting there will reap rewards eventually.
You ignored the first part of my post. I agree, 44 gfs is absolutely proof of a well run club. However, the early part of the Pies history is where they were the most successful. Something changed. Nothing is a given.
A 20 year old with a lot of upside who wants to play for Geelong and whose highlight video is very impressive.
I can live with anything that knocks Essendon off equal first on the premiership tally. All 16 flags should’ve been stripped after what they did. Why stop there? Even their VFA ones which don’t count anyway.
