Review Geelong beat tiggers by 3 points

[The Casey Cat]

The Atkins to midfield experiment is proving a lot more fruitful than last year's failed MOC to midfield experiment.

My word it is.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Any chance someone could put up the last qtr vision

Just got home to watch - and my Fox Footy recording failed

I'm not good at that .

Surely the replay will be on soon enough..

 

[Lana]

Stewart absolutely deserves his impending suspension, make no question about that. However, it's frustrating to know that coverage of that story will almost certainly equal or possibly even dwarf the coverage of the game itself. This match was easily game of the year. That should be the focus. The whole reason we follow this sport is for games like today. Atmospheres as pulsating as today's only occur a few times a year, so you'd think that would merit more attention than anything else. Unfortunately though, you know it won't, since the media prefers negative stories and scandals to anything else. They'll put more energy in to discussing a negative story about a poor action by an individual - a story that's not actually that interesting really, since everyone already agrees the action was extremely poor and deserving of a decent-length ban, so the only debate is how long to ban him for - rather than devoting time to analysing literally the best game of the calendar year.

Bit of a tangent, but on a (just-barely) related note: I do think one of the biggest failures of sports media in general is that disproportionate attention is given to stories that aren't related to the playing of the sport itself. It's actually the biggest reason (among many other reasons) I'm against a mid-season trade period. If you put it in place you'd end up with an Australian version of the January transfer window in European soccer, wherein fans spend more time talking about transfers than they do talking about the actual games. Soccer websites have analytics that tell them that the stories that get the most clicks by far are the ones related to transfers. But having fan attention directed that way isn't a good thing and it's not what I want for our the AFL!!! As soon as the season starts, the media talking points should be overwhelmingly about the games themselves.

Writing the same article for three months about a player leaving a club is easier than writing about the modern sterile atmosphere at the ground, for one thing you'd actually have to turn up, no need to separate yourselves from a 14 year old running a rumour mill twitter account, as you're a professional modern day sports journalist.

Easier to write about a players off-field indiscretions than to piss-off the sponsors by writing out the sports incestuous relationship of the competition with the gambling industry, I wonder how many cases of domestic violence occurred due to Henry's last minute goal.

Any moron can yell out Oh boy Wow Wee and Menengola or criticise every umpiring decision, rage counts as engagement right, I'm sure it doesn't filter down to the kid umpiring the local matches.

Providing a proper tactical breakdown to tactically illiterate population or actual analysis of player performance takes time, resources and actual knowledge of the game and of course the ability to actually write or present.

If you create a fence around the data and footage
Then you have no competition and can put out absolute garbage, the fans will consume any slop you throw their way

 

[rocker_oz33]

David King is a fat head flog .

Who buys he's clothes from Mr Big ..

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Kolo or O’Connor go out you reckon? Both struggled. Can see arguments for either.

 

[Spearman]

I missed the 4Q. Had to make an hour drive and back with the trouble and strife. For some miraculous reason I managed to get the AFL radio thingy to work so I listened in heavy traffic. Now English is my wife's third language. She kept getting startled by the radio call, "Why are they so excited?" "Why is that guy screaming?" You get one guess which station.

Anyway amazing finish, can't wait to watch the quarter replay.

Now I read about what an incredible mark that was by Henry. Good yes, but he's been doing that since day one, really. What I found massively impressive was his slotting that pressure filled kick. That close and on a slight angle. Too easy to muff it, and he didn't. That was great.

 

[r32godzilla]

To all the haters sooking about our win all I can say is .. Go the mighty Catters!!

 

[foxdog50]

Just got home from the game... took my 6 year old son to his 1st Cats game... And what a game ❤
I gave it to this lady next to me... each time Richmond got a goal she carried on like it was the final siren... I was so cool and calm during the whole game...
Enter Geelong last 10 minutes... ead you Richmond scum

 

[Finknottle]

Nope. Average player. Was serviceable today. Always 2nd to the ball and turned it over a fair bit. Tackles well and tries hard, like Parfitt

I think Atkins is as good as Parfitt but has more upside. I know Stengle is too valuable kicking goals but he would be a natural for the midfield.

 

[Stocks_go_Up]

Stewart will get 3.. Head high bumps happen every month and usually get 1-2 weeks.. Because Prestia won't play next week then impact will come into it. Marlon Pickett has been rubbed out for doing worse (jumping elbow out) - he's only lucky because he is weak the impact wasn't as big as Stewarts.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

To paraphrase Bob Hawke, to the mod that did this, you are a bum.
CC is an ornament to the site.

 

[foxdog50]

And some of our fans still think Atkins is no good and should not be in our best 22, they should take up twiddle sticks haha

We should name and shame them

 

[rocker_oz33]

Just got home from the game... took my 6 year old son to his 1st Cats game... And what a game ❤
I gave it to this lady next to me... each time Richmond got a goal she carried on like it was the final siren... I was so cool and calm during the whole game...
Enter Geelong last 10 minutes... ead you Richmond scum

Did you hear Ball every time tigers laid a tackle..

I seen 2 lady's head to toe in tigers stuff.

I said to the Mrs I hope it ends in tears for them ..lol.

 

[foxdog50]

You'd think Hawkins will have a rest next week and Neale might fill his boots.

Hawk was smashed by Tarrant tonight.

I actually thought Tarrant didn't beat Hawkins, it was just a game that didn't play well for him

 

[The Casey Cat]

And some of our fans still think Atkins is no good and should not be in our best 22.

Nope. Average player. Was serviceable today. Always 2nd to the ball and turned it over a fair bit.

F!cken nonsense.

 

[Spearman]

Is Prestia a bit soft? I'm not saying Stewart missed him but jebus he went down like a bag of s**t.

it looked like point of shoulder to point of chin, otherwise known as the button in boxing circles
you could tell by DP's body language he was short-circuited on the way down

don't know about longer term effects, he did walk off the field so hopefully will be okay soon

 

[Spearman]

What do people see as being the 'trigger' for the boys in the last?

It was almost like 'sleep mode' in the third before they burst back to life in the last.

that's the kind of thing I like to look for too,
waiting for the replay

 

[foxdog50]

Did you hear Ball every time tigers laid a tackle..

I seen 2 lady's head to toe in tigers stuff.

I said to the Mrs I hope it ends in tears for them ..lol.

Jeepers you must of been next to me because honestly they say Collingwood fans are feral... Enter Richmond fans

 

[foxdog50]

I think Atkins is as good as Parfitt but has more upside. I know Stengle is too valuable kicking goals but he would be a natural for the midfield.

Atkins is definitely more consistent

 

[The Casey Cat]

Why do people make things up? Elbow??

False reporting not helping:

'I've just made a horrible error': Cat shattered after big bump

Dion Prestia was left dazed and confused after being collected by a forceful elbow from Geelong's Tom Stewart

www.afl.com.au

'Forceful elbow' apparently. Absolute rubbish. A forceful elbow was Solomon on Ling 12 years ago.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Jeepers you must of been next to me because honestly they say Collingwood fans are feral... Enter Richmond fans

They were pretty bad.

We were in the Olympic stand ..


Old Wog vs Richmond maybe 2-3 years back was calling them malaka,'s ...lol..
Pretty fair ..

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Geelong gets 9

home games a season

 

[The Casey Cat]

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To paraphrase Bob Hawke, to the mod that did this, you are a bum.
CC is an ornament to the site.

What was it for?

 

[Tony Barber]

I just did something I rarely do.
I read another teams board. (Richmond)

So in light of that I’m revising a Stewart suspension down from 4 weeks to two so I can enjoy further reading.

 

[Romeoh1]

Nope. Average player. Was serviceable today. Always 2nd to the ball and turned it over a fair bit. Tackles well and tries hard, like Parfitt

Keep digging that hole.
ps. Clear first to the ball at the crucial centre bounce with 2 minutes to go. Atkins-Stengle-Henry- goal that wins the match.