List Mgmt. Jeremy Cameron traded to Geelong

[cats_09]

Art vandelay_ needs to stop being a board lurker and start posting again.

If you put him on ignore you won't have to worry about him laughing at your comments

 

[Cursed Cat]

We paid to much

We had a chance to rejuvenate our list post 2020, but we shouldn't be surprised that we snubbed that opportunity, as we have done so consistently for close to a decade now.

In bottom-line-type ways Jeremy Cameron has been on a hiding to nothing - I've enjoyed what he's produced to date (before tonight obviously), but with Tom Lynch the standard he has a lot to live up to.
Overall, I think we keep topping up, topping up, but there is something fundamentally rotten at the core.

 

[My Tilly]

I don't think we overpaid at all.
Cameron's responsible for at least two wins, definitely a game and that would have been the difference between a 5th place finish or the second chance in which we have now.

 

[Seeds]

If you put him on ignore you won't have to worry about him laughing at your comments

I want him to post

 

[Art Vandelay_]

I want him to post

Scarcely interested, same repetitive comments each week. Each year.
Board has lost its verve and needs a freshen up. Football Association board is my only interest now.

Just had a read of the pre-game thread. So much rubbish.

 

[Seeds]

Scarcely interested, same repetitive comments each week. Each year.
Board has lost its verve and needs a freshen up. Football Association board is my only interest now.

Just had a read of the pre-game thread. So much rubbish.

I miss you dude.

 

[Turbocat]

We had a chance to rejuvenate our list post 2020, but we shouldn't be surprised that we snubbed that opportunity, as we have done so consistently for close to a decade now.

In bottom-line-type ways Jeremy Cameron has been on a hiding to nothing - I've enjoyed what he's produced to date (before tonight obviously), but with Tom Lynch the standard he has a lot to live up to.
Overall, I think we keep topping up, topping up, but there is something fundamentally rotten at the core.

I wonder what GWS would have done with the three picks we had... trying to get Cameron from geelong? I suspect they would have made it impossible for us to keep him, taken him as a FA, then would have traded picks and perhaps players to move much earlier into the draft.

 

[catempire]

Fap material

 

[STPer18]

Gets incredible distance on some of those.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Fap material

Remember the heart missing a few beats on that one where the enemy wiped out his legs as he kicked

 

[allrighty]

Scarcely interested, same repetitive comments each week. Each year.
Board has lost its verve and needs a freshen up. Football Association board is my only interest now.

Just had a read of the pre-game thread. So much rubbish.

**** everyone here. **** the AFL. **** the mods. **** GFC, ****ing Lingy, ****ing ****ing ****. ****ing rubbish is in the eye of the beholder. For ****ing ****'s sake.

 

[FredLeDeux]

fu** everyone here. fu** the AFL. fu** the mods. fu** GFC, ******* Lingy, ******* ******* fu**. ******* rubbish is in the eye of the beholder. For ******* fu**'s sake.

And the horse you rode in on.

 

[allrighty]

And the horse you rode in on.

Yes **** that too. Thanks for ****ing picking that ****ing up

 

[cats_09]

I like this article - the unlikely couple at Geelong and the answer why the long sleeves

They’re an unlikely couple, the Prince and the Pauper, whose bond behind-the-scenes is quietly pushing Geelong’s premiership campaign.

Rookie Brad Close and superstar Jeremy Cameron

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have travelled very different paths on their AFL journey but have found a connection on and off the field this season born from their country roots.

Cameron hails originally from the small Victorian town of Dartmoor, which is close to the South Australian border and 20 minutes away from Mount Gambier where Close grew up.

Given the five-year age gap they didn‘t know each other as kids, although Close knew about the legend of Cameron who was picked up by the Greater Western Sydney as a priority 17-year-old selection.

Just over a decade later, fate brought the pair together in Geelong — Close via the rookie draft and Cameron in a blockbuster trade deal.

“They’re a pretty tight couple. They’re never too far away from each other,” says Cats legend Corey Enright, who is their forward line coach.

“They are both pretty similar in some aspects in that they are happy, even though Jezz is a superstar of the competition, he is happy to just sneak into the background as much as he can and go about his business, so I think those two have that in common.”

The unassuming Close, who most fans would only recognise because of the long sleeves on his No. 45 jumper, is the definition of low key and would prefer not to have any spotlight on him in the lead-up to Friday night’s preliminary final against Melbourne.

“I’ll try my best to give you as much as I can,” he says.

When the discussion moves to Cameron, there is a loosening as the pair’s joint love of fishing is brought up.

“We have got a little friendship that’s formed. We have a few similar interests and I guess it has all come from being back from the country.

“He loves his fishing and has taken me out a few times. I’ve been trying to be his deckhand as much as I can as it is a fairly nice boat, which you’d expect.”

While Cameron would earn five times more than Close on his rookie wage, their importance to Geelong’s forward structure is far more even.

In 21 games this year, Close has kicked 15 goals and established himself as the team’s best pressure forward, whose clean hands and unselfish nature have endeared him to teammates and coaches.

Enright, who also liked to let his football on the field do most of the talking during his illustrious career, is a big fan of the rookie’s attitude and work ethic.

“To be really honest, it is not the norm anymore to have someone come in and just be obviously really clear and understanding of what they are here for and have a purpose,” he said.

“He just gets satisfaction out of doing what he does and doing it really well.

“I know he puts a lot of time and work into his game and he’s a beauty because pretty much what you tell him to do he just goes about it as best as he can.”

Close has done it the hard way, first learning his craft as a 15-year-old playing senior football for North Gambier in the Western Border Football League where his father, Andrew, was a legend, having played 382 games.

“Our careers didn’t crossover,” he explains.

“I had him as a coach for a few years in juniors, which was good, and he also helped out seniors as well, I got to share a grand final in the seniors with him as he was an assistant coach, which was a good moment too.”

Mount Gambier was in Glenelg’s country zone, so Close travelled down for a few games in the under-16s with the SANFL team.

He went back a couple of years later and stayed in Adelaide for a few months playing under-18s and training with the state squad before deciding to return home to finish school.

“After not playing a game in the state 18s, the dream (of playing AFL) I thought probably wasn’t ever going to be there,” Close says.

But there was an itch he still wanted to scratch with his football, so he returned to the big smoke again.

“I wanted to take my footy to the highest level I could, so I headed back to the SANFL,” Close explains.

“I shocked myself by breaking into the league side after four rounds in my first year there.

“I then found a regular spot in 2019 and then it was a real surprise to have contact from some AFL clubs.

“From there it was knowing that clubs were watching and I just had to try and play good footy for the rest of that year.”

One of those who was watching was the best in the business, Geelong’s veteran recruiter Stephen Wells.

He has had the happy knack of finding elite small forwards in the most unexpected places, with premiership heroes Mathew Stokes

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and Shannon Brynes two memorable cases.

Both had been ignored by every club before being given a lifeline by the Cats list guru.

Stokes was a zoo keeper in Adelaide when Wells found him, while Byrnes was the Cats’ last pick in the 2002 rookie draft.

Close wasn’t on the Cats’ radar until early into the 2019 season, but his performance during the finals where Glenelg broke a 33-year premiership drought got him over the line.

Wells then read out the 21-year-old’s name at No. 14 in the November rookie draft.

“To his great credit, he has got an opportunity and he always remained confident that if he were given an opportunity he would do everything he could to make the most of it and that is what he is doing at the moment,” Wells said.

“He was playing half-forward and a bit on the wing with Glenelg, running all over the ground as a link-up player and demonstrated that terrific running ability.

“We selected him in the rookie draft and then came over here, trained well and got an opportunity. The guys just love playing with him.”

Close joined the select club of kicking a goal with his first kick in AFL football when he made his debut against Fremantle in Round 8, 2020.

He played eight games before losing his spot for the finals — to be fair he was replaced by one of the greatest players ever Gary Ablett Jr — with the experience fuelling his desire to avoid something similar in 2021.

A foot injury delayed his start to the season but he hasn‘t missed a beat since returning to the side in round 4.

“Being an emergency for a grand final, that was a pretty cool experience being a part of it all and it just gave me the hunger to make sure I was in the side for this season,” he said.

“It has been a pretty crazy two years with the Covid-interrupted seasons.

“I don’t really know what a normal year is, but I guess in a way it has probably helped as well and now I find myself playing finals the last couple of weeks.

“I’m still pinching myself.”

For the record there are some valid reasons for his trademark long-sleeved jumper and moustache.

“The (moustache) has always been around, I look a bit baby-faced without anything on there so I always keep a little bit,” he says.

“And with the long sleeves, there were some shocking days out in Mount Gambier and even in Adelaide, and Geelong is no better so everywhere I go the weather is no good.

“I haven’t really had any hot days to pull the short sleeves on I guess. Actually today out at training she was a warm one and I think a few of the boys saw my arms for the first time and were shocked.

“I reckon I need a few more years in the gym before we go there.”

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[rocker_oz33]

He's really layed back .

But he's video on AFL 360 of the game Bris vs the dogs was a pisser.

Reporting from Darty HQ.....

 

[Seeds]

Yeah it was a complete waste of time.

we really could use those draft picks going foward,

 

[AWOL]

If anyone has the means and ability to compile a video of every one of Jezza’s goal celebrations this season, I along with many others would be very appreciative.
I’m talking celebrating his own goals, but even more specifically his celebrations of his teammates goals. Would be epic and thoroughly entertaining.
I would but I’m both time poor and technologically a spud.
Thanks in advance!!

 

[Mad_Hatter]

We could be barred from the draft for a dozen seasons and it still wouldn't equal what Jezza has brought to this club.
Holy shit what a guy.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

If anyone has the means and ability to compile a video of every one of Jezza’s goal celebrations this season, I along with many others would be very appreciative.
I’m talking celebrating his own goals, but even more specifically his celebrations of his teammates goals. Would be epic and thoroughly entertaining.
I would but I’m both time poor and technologically a spud.
Thanks in advance!!

I'm already of the opinion that even if you extended that to ALL of Jezzas's post-goal celebrations in both GWS and Geelong colours, his 'let's crack open a tinny' clebration in the 2022 Grand Final is the clear winner. He will never top that one.

 

[MacStradbroke]

We could be barred from the draft for a dozen seasons and it still wouldn't equal what Jezza has brought to this club.
Holy s**t what a guy.

Jezza, Danger, Tuohy, we have brought in the games genuine characters. They go alright on the park too!

 

[year of the cat]

I think we won this trade.

 

[David the Cat]

I think we won this trade.

Understatement of the year.

You know...as a personality I thought Jezza was a bit vanilla when he was at GWS....think I was a bit off the mark there....

 

[CatToTheFuture]

All he ever wanted was to settle down on a nice farm with some cows to hang premiership medals on. Glad we gave him that opportunity

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Understatement of the year.

You know...as a personality I thought Jezza was a bit vanilla when he was at GWS....think I was a bit off the mark there....

even Damian B who keeps carrying on in his article about the worlds first billion dollar value trade of 3x first round picks which he cannot even get correct in the first place ( it was 3 late firsts and we got 2 second rounders back) would struggle badly to not claim this as a geelong huge win.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

We could be barred from the draft for a dozen seasons and it still wouldn't equal what Jezza has brought to this club.
Holy s**t what a guy.

can i just say, i think your profile image will cause alot of AFL supporters to enter therapy sessions.