Roast Geelong can't develop young players

[WatWouldCyrilDo]

Wouldn’t that be because we are blooding young kids? Young kids aren’t gonna be world beaters overnight

Blooding young kids but they haven't been developed well enough to fill the breach

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Wouldn’t that be because we are blooding young kids? Young kids aren’t gonna be world beaters overnight

Blooding young kids?

Just 3 players <50 games and 27 years 7 months average age.

Near full strength and nowhere near it.

 

[FootyLad0]

Blooding young kids?

Just 3 players <50 games and 27 years 7 months average age.

Near full strength and nowhere near it.

Old blokes bumping up that average age.
We’ll have a huge drop in that number next year.

 

[matey]

Cats kids look average as the oldies are fading away.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Old blokes bumping up that average age.
We’ll have a huge drop in that number next year.

Yep, that tends to be the case I find. Old blokes do bump up the average age.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Cats kids look average as the oldies are fading away.

Cats kids look shit and oldies are cooked. So I agree with you only moreso.

 

[matey]

Kids killing Hawthorn's at the moment.

Bruhn will be a bull. Reminds of Taylor Adams and Liberatore.
Dempsey is already entrenched in the best 22.
Conway, Clark, Holmes, De Koning, Henry . . . Cats will make finals this year and that will be invaluable experience for this next group.

This is debatable!

 

[blaisee]

Genuine bottom four team which will finish middle of the road due to unique home ground advantage

 

[STPer18]

Genuine bottom four team which will finish middle of the road due to unique home ground advantage

Not bottom two?

 

[WatWouldCyrilDo]

This is debatable!

Not even debatable

 

[RUNVS]

Holmes looks good.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Holmes looks good.

Holmes is head and shoulders their best young player. He's arguably top 3 at the club right now. Id have only Stewart and Cameron in front of him. He's the next Dangerfield but with better ball use IMO.

 

[Footy Smarts]

Weird to talk about our kids after that. We left the fringe ones out and Bruhn was injured. Our older players deserved one last crack. They failed and the cliff has come fast.

I'll be disappointed if we don't move out some struggling older players now and look to get more games into the youngsters that have shown a bit this year.

 

[Xtreme]

Genuine bottom four team which will finish middle of the road due to unique home ground advantage

Chris Scott's H&A win percentage in free-fall mode now

 

[Matrix10]

Old blokes bumping up that average age.
We’ll have a huge drop in that number next year.

Cats will have a huge drop full stop next year , with a few more years added .

 

[NetworkNerd]

Won't be too long & the Cats will be out of the 8 imo.

Their performance against was where they were truly at.

This week

Win lose or draw, one of Freo/GC will move above the Cats
Melbourne just need to beat North by 20pts+ or so and the Cats drop to 9th

 

[Xtreme]

Melbourne just need to beat North by 20pts+ or so and the Cats drop to 9th

Richmond fans rejoicing

 

[NetworkNerd]

This week

Win lose or draw, one of Freo/GC will move above the Cats
Melbourne just need to beat North by 20pts+ or so and the Cats drop to 9th

Silly Port. Geelong are safe now

 

[FootyLad0]

Cats will have a huge drop full stop next year , with a few more years added .

How many years have you said that now?

 

[unfollowed]

We developed Gary Jnr into the greatest player many say they have ever seen.

 

[Matrix10]

How many years have you said that now?

First time , good luck. Going to need a bit

 

[RUNVS]

We developed Gary Jnr into the greatest player many say they have ever seen.

I don't particulary agree with the premise of the thread but in saying that you can't use a player who retired years ago as an example of Geelong being able to develop players.

 

[unfollowed]

I don't particulary agree with the premise of the thread but in saying that you can't use a player who retired years ago as an example of Geelong being able to develop players.

The OP said we have an ‘abysmal’ record of it.

“Abysmal” is quite a strong word that entirely suggests it’s a very old and ongoing problem, not just a recent development.

He even mentioned Tim Kelly who we developed fantastically and he left Geelong a year before Ablett retired.

I guess the OP needs to clarify what years he’s choosing to use as the parameter here otherwise it’s nothing more than a cherry picked timeframe to try and troll.

 

[JackFlash]

Geelong have little younger talent, they are looking at a few years in the doldrums. The current group are not good enough by a long way.

 

[unfollowed]

Geelong have little younger talent, they are looking at a few years in the doldrums. The current group are not good enough by a long way.

Hopefully some years out of the 8 will finally provide us with some better picks to snare some solid youth.