Its funny how they will go on about getting screwed by the umps yet still win the free kick count. Imagine being umpired actually like Richmond and be -10+ most weeks!
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Round 7: the 78 tramline junkie and urine games.
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Its funny how they will go on about getting screwed by the umps yet still win the free kick count. Imagine being umpired actually like Richmond and be -10+ most weeks!
they're getting umpired like a side playing Geelong.
that 50 for a Cameron goal is a footy killer.
first neutral game I turn on in ages, that happens, and I just *smile* switch it off again.
if Geelong and GWS win prelims,
toby green will be suspended and they'll move the GF to Kuntinea Park
Same Easy, was actually looking forward to seeing a decent game. Extremely rare these days.
Then (surprise, surprise) the umpires put their putrid incompetent and potentially corrupt stamp on proceedings and I switch off. Wondering why I even bothered.
McKay gives away a goal when he's NOT even on the mark. Laughable. Momentum gone.
Footy is in terrible shape
i hate to see that, these guys sometimes pay a hefty price for their job
I watched a bit of the Roos game and thought they were seriously disinterested and just waiting for the wooden spoon to get another first draft pick they will waste. We are struggling right now and will probably be in the lower part of the ladder at seasons end but no one can deny we are trying damn hard to win games even though right now we have limited firepower. It is what is called pride in the club and we have it in spades
footy hasn’t really grabbed any demographic outside the European cultures and some of the middle east. The whitest part of my week is a visit to the mcg.
Kudos to all the PRE posters who said the cats could rebuild on the run and not be shackled by ageing stars. I didn’t think they could.
Cameron and Hawkins is why they are still amongst it.
Tigers won flags with Jack and Tommy.
Didn't get to have Jack and Tommy on the park together much in recent seasons.
Makes a huge difference when you have 2 gun Jey Forwards on the park every week.
Are they really rebuilding that quickly or just getting the best out of their older blokes. Their age profile and games profile suggests the latter. Average age 27 years 10 months, 8 players over 200 games, only 1 below 50 playing today. What happens when those 8 over 200 games retire?
Hawkins - 35 -353 games
Tuohy - 34 - 275 ganes
Dangerfield - 34 - 325 games
Stanley - 33 - 201 games
Blicavs - 33 - 253 games
Duncan - 32 - 192 games
Cameron - 31 - 237 games
Guthrie - 31 - 237 games
The only players they had under 25 today were:
Holmes - 21 - 58 games
Miers - 25 - 113 games
Guthrie - 25 - 84 games
Dempsey - 21 - 14 games
Jack Henry - 25 - 125 games
Close - 25 - 83 games
Oliver Henry - 21 - 54 games
De Koning - 23 - 50 games
Bruhn - 21 - 55 games
Stengle - 25 - 67 games
The thing that sticks out for those 8 over 200 games, is the height they are going to lose. Thats the key for me, do they have enough to replace them, Hawkins, Stanley, Blicavs and Cameron are all still really big players the way that they play.
The one thing they've done much better than us, partly through luck on the injury front but also because they have brought some of these players through, is to get their under 22 year olds games. We would have had Gibcus approaching 50 games by the end of this season other than losing him for 2 years due to injury so would be in a similar boat or better than SDK, but a lot of the others we just haven't got games into whereas Geelong have, so a bit of a rebuild, but they have some very key players to replace in the short term.
The keys to Geelong are all in that top bracket., and their home ground Throw in the assassin amongst the others.
They wont be at the top of the heap much longer.
Miers Stengle, Close, jnr Gutthrie, Bruhn arent gonna be getting the Cats into the top 4 without Cameron Hawkins Stewart, Duncan Cam Guthrie, Blicavs etc.
Interesting article the other day (was it SEN?) talking about how Geelong have forced Champion Data to change the way they collect the data on players. Geelong have quite a few players that do multiple roles within a game depending on the state of the game, weather, injuries. So they have tremendous flexibility about where to put people during a game.
