Opinion I still like Bomber Thompson

[The Casey Cat]

Thanks also for reminding me of that loss. IMHO we still would have beaten collingwood on gf day. They missed a lot of easy chances and saints couldn't bury them.

Sorry but regardless of the Pies nearly wobbling themselves out of the flag in GF1 there was no way in the world you can make a case we would have gotten close. They well and truly had our measure. Sucked but that's just how it was and was bad enough (the PF) it drove us to great things the year later.

 

[Vdubs]

Sorry but regardless of the Pies nearly wobbling themselves out of the flag in GF1 there was no way in the world you can make a case we would have gotten close. They well and truly had our measure. Sucked but that's just how it was and was bad enough (the PF) it drove us to great things the year later.

So true.

 

[Varcoe2Chapman]

Sorry but regardless of the Pies nearly wobbling themselves out of the flag in GF1 there was no way in the world you can make a case we would have gotten close. They well and truly had our measure. Sucked but that's just how it was and was bad enough (the PF) it drove us to great things the year later.

Fair point. It is interesting to think how those mini failures we had during the last 5 years have spurred us on. Losing 08 and just the 2010 finals series. Essentially making up for flags we could/should have won.
Thinking if we won 08, we had no chance in 09 and who knew from there. But all of this has been discussed.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Sorry but regardless of the Pies nearly wobbling themselves out of the flag in GF1 there was no way in the world you can make a case we would have gotten close. They well and truly had our measure. Sucked but that's just how it was and was bad enough (the PF) it drove us to great things the year later.

Exactly.

1. Thompson would have left regardless of whether we won the flag in 2010.
2. "That" free kick in 2010QF probably saved us from an ultimately much worse scenario - getting thrashed in the GF by the Pies.

Thompson (and perhaps Ablett) leaving definitely rejuvenated the group the 2011 flag.

Couldnt possibly hold a grudge against Thompson (or Ablett) for leaving the club. 44 years we were crying out for success, can't completely turn our backs on those who had an integral part in delivering it!

 

[manboob]

I think that if we'd won in 07/08 that would have been the end of it. The hunger would have gone and players would have drifted away after better money (I don't mean that as a slight on the boys, its just generally how it goes). Instead that fire of 08 has always burned deep inside somewhere and lifted the club and it's players to a new standard of excellence that now is part of a new culture. A culture that I don't think any club even comes close to matching.

2. "That" free kick in 2010QF probably saved us from an ultimately much worse scenario - getting thrashed in the GF by the Pies.

God yeah! I'd rather win a wooden spoon than be thrashed by the pies in the GF.

 

[FreddyTwoShoes]

Don't mind him now. Favorite memory of him is the defense of Otto - "all of you... all of you!". Loved it!
Not sure how I'd feel if the club had fallen off a cliff in 2011 rather than reach the mountain top again. Good to go. No animosity from me.


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[footscore]

If Geelong won the 2007, 2008 flags, no way they would have lost any hunger imo...they play to win the flag every single year and even this year we are going to end up in the top 4 and likely playing off for another premiership.

Players play for the love of the club and the game. They didn't lose the hunger in 2010, they lost direction on the ground because the coach became complacent and fairly slack at his job.

He wasn't thinking clearly and became more interested in his personal financial crisis than the football club.
He pissed off and was the best thing that ever happened to us as we got 4 or 5 new players really consolidating a place in our best 22 and the club appointed the best mind at the time.
Win win situation all round

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Yeah, I'm a Bomber fan. His dry sense of humour absolutely kills me. I was a bit pissed off when he left, but I've gotten over it. I wish he was a permanent member of the media.

 

[Go Hoops]

Yeah, I'm a Bomber fan. His dry sense of humour absolutely kills me. I was a bit pissed off when he left, but I've gotten over it. I wish he was a permanent member of the media.

Me too. All done and dusted. I'm not so sure the media is where he will end up.

 

[footscore]

I wish he was a permanent member of the media.

love the way he casually jokes about on 360 and down talks anything Mark Robinson says

Robbo goes off on one his oscar speeches about what football means to his life and humanity & then there's a pause and Thompson will say something completely off center to switch the subject.

(hence, I sort of just reinstated what you said about his dry sense of humor)

 

[catman 71]

Not quite. Collingwood were clearly the best team in the competition when he took over. And Geelong had just lost the best player in the competition too. But agreed an awful lot of ground work had been done.

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Plus, Collingwood and St. Kilda had gone past us. So, for a new coach to come in, and turn the rot around (by injecting youth) and to win us another flag, when we looked gone a year earlier, is a big effort.

 

[catman 71]

The fact is, Bomber had a contract until the end of 2011, and he broke that contract, and lied about his reason for wanting out of it ("he was burnt-out") .

I hope that he didn't get paid the final year of his contract, and forfeited the money by leaving early, or bought himself out of his contract. If not, Geelong could have sued for breach of contract.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

love the way he casually jokes about on 360 and down talks anything Mark Robinson says

Robbo goes off on one his oscar speeches about what football means to his life and humanity & then there's a pause and Thompson will say something completely off center to switch the subject.

(hence, I sort of just reinstated what you said about his dry sense of humor)

^This lol!

I don't think Bomber has that much regard for Robbo, and I don't think he takes him seriously. Which makes it funny, because Robbo takes Robbo seriously.