Your favourite all time players from .. Geelong

[OldLion]

G Farmer
< time it takes for life to evolve >
D Marshall
G Ablett snr
J Bartell
D Wade ( the Torpedo Years )

 

[Cursed Cat]

Very underrated player.
Were you annoyed when he went to North and won a flag?

I was.

I always thought both Robert Scott and fellow small man Sean Denham were excellent prospects, and I was very disappointed to see both move on to other clubs and taste premiership success.
Geelong got a tantalising taste of their talent, but then had to watch them blossom into hard-nosed professionals at other clubs.
We did get good service from John Barnes though, whom we traded for Denham, and also from Brad Sholl, who we got for Scott.

 

[Cursed Cat]

G Farmer
< time it takes for life to evolve >
D Marshall
G Ablett snr
J Bartell
D Wade ( the Torpedo Years )

masterful display of the subtle understatement

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Memories ! Like ALL your choices there, but buggered if I can recall Mick Gurrie. Was a huge fan of Butch Cassidy, very classy, and the other guy like him was Kevin Higgins.

Couple of others who I liked watching, now you've stirred the archives,
Peter Doyle-super classy, injury prone
Paul Jefferies- great attacking defender
Bernard Toohey- underrated gun HBF.

Mick Gurrie was a local boy, St Peters, played 7 games for the Cats. Same vintage as me and Spiro Malakellis (Tony was a year or two younger)

I should have also had Bewsy, Swap and Bos in my list along with Enright, Bartel Just too many.

I owned the Katamatite Post Office for a few years, Butch Cassidy's mother in law was one of our favourites. Used to knock around with Gary Cameron's brother and deliver mail to the Flanigan family dairy.

 

[Sttew]

Met Paul Couch a few years back, talk about a figjam.

Can't be the Paul Couch from Boggy Creek who was a garbologist?

 

[Mr Ripper]

He may have been a four-letter word, or arguably even an eight-letter word, but Gary Snr was the most exciting, exhilarating footballer I've ever seen. Could do anything.

Edit: Not forgetting Paul Brown for hitting the post from point blank in the '89 reserves granny.

 

[Swampfox]

Graham Farmer

 

[Bluey_McKenna]

Chappy obv.

 

[ralphmalph]

Gary Snr. No peer.

And I think their redheads were always entertaining - scratcher Neal, Neville Bruns etc

 

[Casablanco]

Grant Tanner - champion mullett
Brent Moloney - pains me to see him run around for the bruise-free's but this trade was more than justified.
Paul Lynch - an early model Steve J with a screwed back.
Clint Bizzell - God II

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Gary Ablett Jr & Ronnie Burns

 

[Donnybrook]

Jimmy Bartel
Robert 'Scratcher' Neal
Andrew Bews

 

[Shane_Mag]

Garry Hocking.

 

[Fossie 32]

Yablett snr
Scarlett
Pods

 

[Snoozer]

The man single-handedly responsible for the Geelong dynasty;

M Scarlett.

 

[Poetic Justice]

Single-handedly? That's a little bit short sighted.....


My favourites:
G. Ablett Senior
Billy Brownless (Probably more so post-footy)
Jimmy Bartel

Whilst Ablett Junior was electrifying and arguably the best player in the league, there was a few things about him and in reality probably more so the 2010 dramas and his defection that prevent me from calling him a favourite.

 

[helicopter]

Ablett senior by a mile.

 

[Partridge]

The man single-handedly responsible for the Geelong dynasty;

M Scarlett.

That's actually a pretty good call. It hasn't been reliant on one player but I think he's been easily their most important player for a decade.

 

[IllBeTheJudge]

Gablett Snr, easily
Mark Jackson next

 

[Farang83150]

Mark Bairstow & Neville Bruns.

 

[Snoozer]

Single-handedly? That's a little bit short sighted.....

Not really. Especially when it came directly from the mouth of Mark Thompson. Single-handedly responsible for changing the culture of the football club from one who is satisfied with just being 'good', to one that is uncompromising and strives for excellence. All this, aside from being an outstanding, and their most important player.

 

[UpForGrabs]

Shock horror, it's Gary Ablett Snr.

One of the rare players who you didn't even mind watching if he was tearing your own team a new one.

 

[AllenJakovich13]

Peter Riccardi

 

[keepzitreal]

lots of players to like from the Cats but my favorite perhaps because he is so underrated is Joel Corey...

Liked Billy back in the day for the same reasons.. thought he could have been a pretty good Full Forward stuck in Abletts shadow...

 

[ReebusMaximus]

Monster Mensch.

Didn't he throw a leg over Portia De Rossi at one stage?

Ruined it for everyone. Yet another clanger to add to the stats sheet for the much-maligned Mensch.