Posts Tagged "Jimmy Bartel"

Round two was billed as a round of sub-plots in every game, and that’s exactly the way it worked out. All nine matches had headlines of their own and gave us some sort of indication of how ths season will pan out.

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Last week I read about Brenton Sanderson’s intent to rest a number of star players for the opening rounds of the NAB Cup. It’s got me thinking about how different clubs approach the pre-season competition.

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The AFL fishbowl is kidding itself if it thinks Geelong’s attempted raid on Port Adelaide club champion Travis Boak is an isolated incident.

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Geelong has played eight debutant’s in 2012, the most of any club aside from Greater Western Sydney. This particular statistic would suggest that Geelong’s rebuilding phase is well under way, but they continue to lurk behind the top four and are still being floated by a few as some sort of flag threat.

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All of us have at some point in the last six years written Geelong off. For some, the “end of the era” was after the 2008 Grand Final.

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Watch Geelong champion Jimmy Bartel and learn: that is the message from new Western Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney to his players.

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Over Australian football’s storied history, which two sides have had a rivalry as good as this? Not clubs, but teams of a particular era, when the competition gets personal.

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I was surprised last year when many so-called experts wrote off Geelong before and during the 2011 season.

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In case you live under a rock (or Sydney), you would have heard Geelong smashed Collingwood by 96 points in the so-called ‘mockbuster’ on Friday night.

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Geelong midfielder Jimmy Bartel denies the Cats are looking wobbly heading into next month’s finals series following their upset loss to Sydney.

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With only a few weeks to go before the AFL finals series commences, I have assembled what the All-Australian should look like.

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Sydney’s Adam Goodes, Hawthorn’s Luke Hodge and Geelong’s Jimmy Bartel are the AFL superstars who bring fans through the gates.

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First-year Geelong coach Chris Scott inherited a team used to success and he says when times are tough he knows the Cats can still produce special efforts.

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Adelaide forward Taylor Walker was the subject of some bizarre criticism over the weekend after Fox Sports cameras caught him having a beer in the stands while watching a curtain raiser match at AAMI Stadium. The overreaction by many within the footy community was embarrassing.

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Geelong’s Jimmy Bartel and other out of contract AFL aces should be lured to GWS by thoughts of premierships as well as money, according to Giants coach Kevin Sheedy.

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Colin Carter was officially elected Geelong president at the AFL club’s board meeting on Tuesday night. Carter was elected following the departure of long-serving president Frank Costa.

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St Kilda, Geelong and Collingwood have dominated All-Australian nominations, with more than half of the 40-man preliminary squad coming from those three AFL clubs.

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Geelong Cats’ premiership hopes are on a knife-edge after yet another loss this weekend. And while it would be wrong to write them off just yet, they seem to be only hanging in there by a thread.

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The Western Bulldogs bounced back from their shock loss to West Coast with an impressive 18-point win over Brisbane at the Gabba last Saturday night.

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Geelong coach Mark Thompson says his AFL side will forever believe anything is possible after their extraordinary comeback win over Hawthorn at the MCG on Saturday.

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