Geelong - Too old, too slow?

[TigerTime88]

Credit to them. They might be old but they dominated like a premiership team should.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Geelong needed that one. Finished on top this year, been up there for a number of years before and had fallen short. Not today.

Indeed
A loss today and it becomes an albatross
Such a relief

 

[Strange Cat]

Wondered that too
With all.the focus on youth are you better off fielding a more mature team?

You need a balanced team imo

 

[catstragic]

Congratulations Geelong. Best side all year. Deserved this flag.

Chris Scott take a bow. Coached brilliantly all season. Atkins into the midfield, Blicavs in a range of roles, turning Stengle into arguably the best small forward in the comp…his management all season with the senior players was superb.

Those like myself thinking “the cliff” was coming this year have egg on our faces and rightly so. The cats are going nowhere fast.

Joel Selwood will retire and will be impossible to replace. However, in comes max Holmes who is already a star at such a young age. They will also bring tanner bruhn and potentially ollie Henry. Their list will be better next season than it was this season.

Top 4 next season is a lock. They will be challenging again and probably in 2024 as well.

We could be good next season, but I think we fall off a fair bit in 2024/2025. Will most likely be losing Danger/Selwood/Blitz/Hawk/Toughy/Stanley/Smith/Duncan/Rohan by then, which is 9 of our best 22 today.

That said we have this Dempsey kid who I reckons a rare talent.

Scariest thing is we have lost Wells (our head of recruiting who picked up Kelly/Gola/Stewart/Stengle from obscurity).

 

[Atavistic]

I know they won today, but that was extremely mediocre. Even before Higgins got injured, they moved the ball at a snail's pace and look miles off the better teams in the competition right now. The new rules do nothing to help them either, their senior citizens are struggling to keep up the pace. Their coach is also very negative-minded, and doesn't seem too keen on changing his ways.

A lot of people consider the loss against Adelaide as an anomaly, but Adelaide are a fast team. Even with their inexperience, I'm not surprised Geelong struggled that game.

They have Jeremy Cameron and a 31 year old Dangerfield to come back, but I'm not convinced that is anywhere near enough to be contenders this year.

I agree. It's a wonder any of them can get out of bed in the morning, let alone get on an AFL field. Adelaide for premiers.

 

[Bazza97]

Like many here I had my doubts on them. Credit where it's due they proved me wrong, Geelong were simply awesome in the 2nd half of this season and most importantly yesterday. Well done Catters!

 

[darrenmorgan]

So proud. Damn I love this club

 

[Bunnings]

I know they won today, but that was extremely mediocre. Even before Higgins got injured, they moved the ball at a snail's pace and look miles off the better teams in the competition right now. The new rules do nothing to help them either, their senior citizens are struggling to keep up the pace. Their coach is also very negative-minded, and doesn't seem too keen on changing his ways.

A lot of people consider the loss against Adelaide as an anomaly, but Adelaide are a fast team. Even with their inexperience, I'm not surprised Geelong struggled that game.

They have Jeremy Cameron and a 31 year old Dangerfield to come back, but I'm not convinced that is anywhere near enough to be contenders this year.

Very concerning

 

[PerthBoy86]

The cliff has come. Happened to us, happened to Richmond, Geelong's turn now.

 

[Lingsface]

The cliff has come. Happened to us, happened to Richmond, Geelong's turn now.

Our cliff is a swimming starting block and yours is Everest atm.

 

[PerthBoy86]

Our cliff is a swimming starting block and yours is Everest atm.

It's not how far you fall but how long it takes you to get back up that matters.

 

[Lingsface]

It's not how far you fall but how long it takes you to get back up that matters.

Well that sounds good but if you fall along way it takes longer to get back up that seems quite simple….maybe go try it.

 

[Trent the flight Steward]

We've still got Hawkins, Cameron, danger, Stewart who will be top 40 in the comp, another year into henry and bruhn, add clark, we certainly need midfielders and I'd expect to get a 21-26 year via a trade or free agency at the end, get a full preseason into Guthrie

Retire
Smith
Tuohy
Ceglar
Trade
Ratagolou
Parfitt

 

[PerthBoy86]

Well that sounds good but if you fall along way it takes longer to get back up that seems quite simple….maybe go try it.

Don't want to be all arrogant about it, we may be down for ages, but history shows we're never down for long. At this point I just hope we're on the right track.

Cats have 4 flags since 2007. If I were a Cats fan I'd be pretty happy with that even if they didn't win another for 20 years.

 

[Lingsface]

Don't want to be all arrogant about it, we may be down for ages, but history shows we're never down for long. At this point I just hope we're on the right track.

Cats have 4 flags since 2007. If I were a Cats fan I'd be pretty happy with that even if they didn't win another for 20 years.

Yes I am happy because I grew up watching you guys deprive us of it for 20 years haha. If we are down for a bit so be it but I believe we are still a mid row side next year and won’t bottom out, but we do need to address some future concerns.

 

[Lingsface]

We've still got Hawkins, Cameron, danger, Stewart who will be top 40 in the comp, another year into henry and bruhn, add clark, we certainly need midfielders and I'd expect to get a 21-26 year via a trade or free agency at the end, get a full preseason into Guthrie

Retire
Smith
Tuohy
Ceglar
Trade
Ratagolou
Parfitt

We need a smith type though! We have no power running link players.

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

Too old, too slow.

They are finally finished.

Absolutely. It took 12 years for people to be right.

After being there live last year I no longer care.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

We need a smith type though! We have no power running link players.

But but but Holmes and Miers are guns.

 

[Trent the flight Steward]

If we get parish as a free agent, Guthrie gets a full preseason in, as do all players after playing finals for the last 8 years it will make a big difference

 

[BigVic]

The cliff is here for Geelong. Called it many years ago about their eventual demise

 

[Xtreme]

FINALLY

And may they stay out of the finals for at least the next 10 years

 

[joe444]

The cliff has come. Happened to us, happened to Richmond, Geelong's turn now

And somehow we end the year with perhaps the 4th-best percentage, 6 games lost under 2 goals, a league-leading 16 first quarters won.

The number one in the league for earliest substitutions caused by injury on average.

A season without playing North, Hawthorn, WC twice.

For much of the year, it seemed like a huge dark practical dose of karma for everything going right last year. Getting only 3 free kicks in the game tonight (excluding the one that was reversed) just topped it all off.

 

[Lingsface]

But but but Holmes and Miers are guns.

Holmes is great he is our midfielder with assets that can make it but our depth is not there at all gone are the days where players can spend the game in there and you can have 3 good ones and the rest shit.

 

[BF Tiger]

Do NOT Write Off Geelong.

Yes, I want to see it, but… (see above)

 

[STPer18]

However many finals in the last 15 years, four flags - a stress free September doesn't sound too bad.