Oppo Camp Non Geelong football (AFL) discussion 2024, Part I

[CatToTheFuture]

Why will they steal votes from each other?

Seems I misinterpreted the system. Thought it was votes by game

 

[The_Koulouriotis_Fan]

I just read on SEN that Collingwood’s injuries are a ‘tipping point’
I think this version of the team is cooked.

The injuries are not insignificant - Pendles, Elliot, De Goey, Hoskin-Elliot. Cox is injured but it’s cox, Mitchell is injured but cooked and Dan McStay doesn’t get a game anyway, the rest are fringe players.

You’d think they lose Pendles, Sidebottom, Elliot, Mitchell maybe even Cox at the end of the year.

They’ve been solidly beaten in a few early games with a full list, had two draws and three wins by 6 points or less.

They’re a bit like us, had one last dance to win a flag with a healthy crop of hungry veterans and talented youth and now they’ll have to transition.

But they have the Daicos brothers to build around and still some good players in their prime so I can’t see them dropping down too long.

 

[OzeSparky]

I just read on SEN that Collingwood’s injuries are a ‘tipping point’
I think this version of the team is cooked.

The injuries are not insignificant - Pendles, Elliot, De Goey, Hoskin-Elliot. Cox is injured but it’s cox, Mitchell is injured but cooked and Dan McStay doesn’t get a game anyway, the rest are fringe players.

You’d think they lose Pendles, Sidebottom, Elliot, Mitchell maybe even Cox at the end of the year.

They’ve been solidly beaten in a few early games with a full list, had two draws and three wins by 6 points or less.

They’re a bit like us, had one last dance to win a flag with a healthy crop of hungry veterans and talented youth and now they’ll have to transition.

But they have the Daicos brothers to build around and still some good players in their prime so I can’t see them dropping down too long.

I heard that Nick D has been called up to the Olympic diving team. So they will lose him for 3 weeks in at the end of July.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

I just read on SEN that Collingwood’s injuries are a ‘tipping point’
I think this version of the team is cooked.

The injuries are not insignificant - Pendles, Elliot, De Goey, Hoskin-Elliot. Cox is injured but it’s cox, Mitchell is injured but cooked and Dan McStay doesn’t get a game anyway, the rest are fringe players.

You’d think they lose Pendles, Sidebottom, Elliot, Mitchell maybe even Cox at the end of the year.

They’ve been solidly beaten in a few early games with a full list, had two draws and three wins by 6 points or less.

They’re a bit like us, had one last dance to win a flag with a healthy crop of hungry veterans and talented youth and now they’ll have to transition.

But they have the Daicos brothers to build around and still some good players in their prime so I can’t see them dropping down too long.

They have the elite young player and we have the list with an elite young player sized hole. I feel like ours is a more solvable problem

 

[The_Koulouriotis_Fan]

They have the elite young player and we have the list with an elite young player sized hole. I feel like ours is a more solvable problem

Yeah our youth 21 and under is very exciting. I also think they’ll be slower burn elite players á la Bartel, Ablett, Johnson

 

[Footy Smarts]

They have the elite young player and we have the list with an elite young player sized hole. I feel like ours is a more solvable problem

Holmes has received coaches votes in more games this year than any other player in the league. He should be a walk up start for AA as a 21 year old. Does he not count as elite or not count as young?

 

[Hinkley29]

They have the elite young player and we have the list with an elite young player sized hole. I feel like ours is a more solvable problem

If we were west coast, hawthorn or Melbourne we would go the mega tank for one season, get the elite young player in the draft and then go hard from there.

But we aren’t, so we won’t.

And I am glad about that.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Yeah our youth 21 and under is very exciting. I also think they’ll be slower burn elite players á la Bartel, Ablett, Johnson

Holmes, Clark, and Dempsey certainly gave the potential to be a Fyfe, Butters, Heeney combo but there's a way to go

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Holmes has received coaches votes in more games this year than any other player in the league. He should be a walk up start for AA as a 21 year old. Does he not count as elite or not count as young?

Fair call

 

[CatToTheFuture]

If we were west coast, hawthorn or Melbourne we would go the mega tank for one season, get the elite young player in the draft and then go hard from there.

But we aren’t, so we won’t.

And I am glad about that.

Even if we did, there's no Harley Reid this year. Even the guys in pick 1 convo have questions on them. You may as well have a pick 10-20

 

[Munich]

Geez the competition is of an ordinary standard......hence the weird results, and to some degree, us still sitting in 3rd spot despite playing very poor footy.

It's wild isn't it

 

[cats_09]

 

[winty]

 

[cats_09]

 

[cats_09]

 

[Munich]

Gold once again

 

[Munich]

It's got to be this guy surely

x.com

x.com

 

[cats_09]

It's got to be this guy surely

x.com

x.com

How do we get him to Geelong

 

[Munich]

How do we get him to Geelong

I think we're way too conservative a club to deserve this guy.

His talents would be wasted!

 

[Cataholic]

Don't know how or why they think they have a case to do so.

It was a copy book example of the stuff they're trying to eliminate from the game.

 

[Munich]

Don't know how or why they think they have a case to do so.

It was a copy book example of the stuff they're trying to eliminate from the game.

Agree it looked like a textbook sling.

 

[cats_09]

Don't know how or why they think they have a case to do so.

It was a copy book example of the stuff they're trying to eliminate from the game.

Seems like they are trying to get it downgraded to just 1 week rather than the case dismissed

 

[Cataholic]

Seems like they are trying to get it downgraded to just 1 week rather than the case dismissed

Yeah, but I just can't see how they think it qualifies for, or deserves, a discount of any sort.

Was comfortably a 2 game sling.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Man Zita is hilarious. I like him

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Don't know how or why they think they have a case to do so.

It was a copy book example of the stuff they're trying to eliminate from the game.

They're trying to argue it to the same as Jhye Clark's. That's a different scale