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I reckon if Hawk's surgery is successful he will go on 2 more years,I think Neale might look for greener pastures back in the West,shameThis x 10000
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I think next year will be Hawks last..I reckon if Hawk's surgery is successful he will go on 2 more years,I think Neale might look for greener pastures back in the West,shame
I won't grumble either way.I think next year will be Hawks last..
I reckon if Hawk's surgery is successful he will go on 2 more years,I think Neale might look for greener pastures back in the West,shame
Based on the bolded you answered your own question.What exactly are we basing this on? We're not the Giants, if a player is required and getting regular gametime they don't tend to leave, regardless of where they're from. It's obviously a possibility, but some seem to be treating it as a foregone conclusion which it simply isn't.
Neale looks entrenched in the culture from what I've seen. Best mates with Holmes, and seems to be being groomed as the club poster boy with some of his media work post game.
I can see a scenario where he leaves if he's playing VFL all year, but if he gets a decent block of games I'd expect him to re-sign.
It's no more of a possibility than anyone else requesting a trade, that's my point.Based on the bolded you answered your own question.
So Sam signs on, while TDK puts talks on hold.... Interesting....
Well we've had success with Father/Son's could it be now we are trying to go the Brother/Brother method?
Doubt the Carlton posters in question were seriousI wouldn't even do Holmesy alone...let alone add two firsts in
How good can this kid eventually become? He's barely played a season and already has a premiership with kudos being directed his way left, right and centre.
Are we looking at one of the best defenders of all-time? Quite possibly if he keeps to his current trajectory
in all my time supporting geelong i don’t remember not having a great key back. scarlett, lonergan, taylor and now de koning what a treatWho knows.
The question is always what and when is his ceiling.
He potentially has already found it, which as a young kid playing sub 20 games (as he was for the majority of the season) is phenominal, but if he stays at this level he will only be.... one of the best tall defenders in the comp.
IF he can elevate his game further, and there's absolutely no reason why he couldn't, we could be seeing the emergence of the next generational key back talent.
Not if he wins another AA. But it’d be awesome to see him go with a 4th flag like SelwoodI think next year will be Hawks last..
To extend a little further for us older folk. As a young fella i watched Jack Hawkins and Gary Malarkey, both absolute stars.in all my time supporting geelong i don’t remember not having a great key back. scarlett, lonergan, taylor and now de koning what a treat
We are missing a couple of premierships in the early 90’s due to our lack of quality defenders at the time. It was maddening.in all my time supporting geelong i don’t remember not having a great key back. scarlett, lonergan, taylor and now de koning what a treat
I think Graham was exceptional as well, in all facets as a defender- marking, attacking play, defensive nous, kicking outTo extend a little further for us older folk. As a young fella i watched Jack Hawkins and Gary Malarkey, both absolute stars.
Probably the mid/late 90s was the weakest period for us key defender wise. Darcy, McGrath, Graham, O’Reilly etc all handy but nothing on the guys you have mentioned, a couple of them a little undersized too which didn’t help. A player like Tim Darcy would’ve been an excellent flanker but was forced to play full back due to lack of options. That’s my memory of it anyway.
Yeah I don’t. Good player, got nothing on Scarlett, Taylor & Dekoning.I think Graham was exceptional as well, in all facets as a defender- marking, attacking play, defensive nous, kicking out
He would have been a great player in the recent era where defenders get more help from teammates and are rarely exposed 1 on 1. In his era he could be exploited as an isolated defender on a key forward, and defenders were often left in this situation back when he played. But he wasn’t on his own in that regard. Playing 1 on 1 vs Lockett, dunstall, salmon, Carey, etc was a formidable and often futile task.I think Graham was exceptional as well, in all facets as a defender- marking, attacking play, defensive nous, kicking out
I can't recall too many times he was molested 1 on 1, but that may be selective memory loss.H
He would have been a great player in the recent era where defenders get more help from teammates and are rarely exposed 1 on 1. In his era he could be exploited as an isolated defender on a key forward, and defenders were often left in this situation back when he played. But he wasn’t on his own in that regard. Playing 1 on 1 vs Lockett, dunstall, salmon, Carey, etc was a formidable and often futile task.
A+ players cf A.Yeah I don’t. Good player, got nothing on Scarlett, Taylor & Dekoning.
Yeah I don’t. Good player, got nothing on Scarlett, Taylor & Dekoning.
Oh Egan was a tragedy. To think we lost Egan and Nathan Ablett off the back of that first flag..In the current era of the intercept roll off defender graham would have been lethal if he played now. The game style of when he played didnt match his best skill set but he was still good for us. I agree he wasnt as good as scarlett or taylor but he was still very good. Egan (sad how that ended), lonergan, rivers, henderson and now dekoning were all very good..we have been blessed for kpds the last 20 years.