The ones that hurt...

[LifeSpan-Void]

Re: The one's that hurt....

So we've gone 40 odd posts without a mention of one player, Ben Graham.

I wasn't devastated or anything when he left but in hindsight I'm sure he would have been handy in the Nick Davis game against the Swans. Would have contributed more than Gardiner or Playfair anyway. He was 30 when he left for the US, so had a season or two left.

By Ben's own reckoning he was only a year away from being "washed up" in AFL anyway, and wouldn't have done much except force Geelong to play another lumberer, assuming that he wouldn't have injured himself before the semi anyway. No, we needed Ottens to have been playing in that final because it was the ruck contests that killed us after King went down, Davis crumbing was merely the byproduct of that. No Playfair in the ruck = more even contest = no Davis crumb = no goal = Geelong win the semi (to get belted the week after).

 

[re cat]

Mick Mansfield = Chappy

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Mick Mansfield = Chappy

How many years did Carlton get out of him?

 

[oozeboss]

Seriously: they come/ they go/ others come.

The club & the vision & The Pivot go on eternally, so good luck to them all. And none that have gone elsewhere will be winners on that last game in September any time soon, nor again reap the adulation of the greatest fans of any football team of any code in any country.

Geelong is all.

 

[malvern]

Charlie Gardiner

 

[re cat]

How many years did Carlton get out of him?

2000-01 38 games. I rekon it was a fair trade

 

[Shell]

Re: The one's that hurt....

I was annoyed when Bizzell, Ronnie Burns and Shayne Breuer were moved on, as they were my favourite players at the time.

Lol, Bizzell aka 'the next Gary Ablett'. Saw him on TV on the weekend!! Dunno what show it was (tuned in right at the end) but he was hosting it, and I was like "wtf is that Bizzell"?!?!?!?! We determined it definitely was him before it ended. So there you go...

For me it was Colbert leaving that disappointed me the most. Had to rip off the no.2 off my jumper, was all very sad. (Then put one back on when Harley got it. )

 

[re cat]

Re: The one's that hurt....

Lol, Bizzell aka 'the next Gary Ablett'. Saw him on TV on the weekend!! Dunno what show it was (tuned in right at the end) but he was hosting it, and I was like "wtf is that Bizzell"?!?!?!?! We determined it definitely was him before it ended. So there you go...

For me it was Colbert leaving that disappointed me the most. Had to rip off the no.2 off my jumper, was all very sad. (Then put one back on when Harley got it. )

I bet it was that nose

 

[Vdubs]

Colbert's action certainly hurt and cut. He seemed to be such a likeable potential leader and it was annoying to learn to hate him. BUT, having attended a Save The Cats meeting at KP on a Sunday avo , I could sense that Bomber and Benny were going to be ok. Moreover, Mooney and our other picks have made up for it all.

We never recovered from losing Diesel and Toohey, well not for a long while anyway.

Losing Ablett this year, IF IT OCCURS , seems to me to be the worst loss ever. The best player in the comp at age 26--there just has to be a resolution here, and it's not Dangerfield.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

I was interstate (as I am again now) during the Colbert thing, but didn't Bomber and Moons come across from North, and we got Cory Enright all as part of the deal?

Re Mumford, we got Mitch Duncan for him, and young Motlop for Prismall, both of which are sound future investments IMO.

Yeah we got Mooney and pick 54 I think, which became Boris.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Re: The one's that hurt....

True, but we need to remember who we did draft. From memory North took him with their 3rd pick, which means as premiers we'd only had 2 to that point. One of those was on Harry Taylor, so it's not like we blundered away our first pick.

I'm quite sure Geelong would have taken Thompson eventually, but North got in first. Can't do much about that.

True.

And obviously with the Egan situation we had to take Taylor with our first pick and not risk him going somewhere else, so

I was just a bit annoyed when I saw us take Dawson at 34 because with all the pre draft talk about other clubs being interested in Scott, I didn't think he'd last much further. With the benefit of hindsight, given we took Scott Simpson at 44 (the pick we got for Playfair) and McKenna at 49, we probably could have got Scott first and Dawson or a similarly good ruckman still would have been there in the 40's, but ah well, that's life.

 

[Beth]

Seriously: they come/ they go/ others come.

The club & the vision & The Pivot go on eternally, so good luck to them all. And none that have gone elsewhere will be winners on that last game in September any time soon, nor again reap the adulation of the greatest fans of any football team of any code in any country.

Geelong is all.

We need a little tear emoticon...that was poetic!

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Re: The one's that hurt....

Other than Murphy . Traitor Colbert was the one that really stung. l thought he was the right kind of bloke to carry the club for 10-12 years and usher in a new era...Used to love the courage with which he played.

Did 'The President' Lindner leave us for Adelaide or did we move him on? Gee that bloke could play, you never see him mentioned much anywhere even on here...Super super talent.

Going to find it hard watching Mumford for the next ten years but that wont be as bad as watching someone else a bit further North if that happens...

My info at the time was that he was a very shrewd person and was in fact the highest paid player at the club. Pity we never quite saw the best of him, only glimpses due in part I'd think to leg breaks.

For me it would be Greg Williams. He's in the best 3 players I've ever seen, if Geelong kept him IMO they would have won in '89 and '92. As someone has already posted Geelong was financially in a bit of strife at the time.

 

[vinum coupe]

Re: The one's that hurt....

My info at the time was that he was a very shrewd person and was in fact the highest paid player at the club. Pity we never quite saw the best of him, only glimpses due in part I'd think to leg breaks.

That and the fact I ran into him a heap of times and he was completely inebriated. It can't have helped.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Re: The one's that hurt....

That and the fact I ran into him a heap of times and he was completely inebriated. It can't have helped.

He and Ablett crawling up the stairs at the Woollie Nightclub.