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I’m gutted, surely this means Jordan Clark will want out. After a solid first season, then this year he has ended up behind our interesting rotation of players out on the wing that at times has felt like squeezing in names rather than positional players. His GF Sprint win shows genuine pace from the back line but he also has that confidence to take the game on.
Maybe we felt the need to repay Isaac for the miss after the siren in 2016..
Isaac Smith announces shock move to Geelong
We’ve played plenty of youth and new recruits. Myers, Parfitt and Henry have all become key players the last two seasons.
Fogarty and Simpson have been in and out with injury and unfortunately for them, they are a similar size and type. Brad Close was good coming in for Ablett this year.
Jordan Clark is concerning, he had a great debut year and then did his shoulder before finals. It’s a shame he hasn’t got back in the side and there are rumours he wants out.
Charlie Constable had a good first half of the season (I think last year) and he has struggled to get a game.
Generally I am concerned about the rumours of some of our key young talent seeking opportunities elsewhere and some of our mature recruiting has been mixed but top draft picks are not guaranteed success. Our highest pick in recent years Nakia Cockatoo has struggled with injury. Billie Smedts, Jackson Thurlow?
Free Agency requires a blend of using draft picks well but also remaining a destination that Free Agents will want to move to, Wellsy and Co will have been planning for Cameron years ago.
Free Agents that have gone well, Jared Rivers, Lachie Henderson, Zac Tuohy, Luke Dalhaus and obviously Dangerfield. Those with questions Josh Caddy, I love seeing Gary Rohan play well but he divisive amongst fans, Jack Stevens, Rhys Stanley (mainly due to injury). Those that went not so well Hamish McIntosh, Mitch Clark, Zac Smith and possibly some in that middle category might later be seen as failures.
We’ve made a habit of mature age recruits which is a lot less risky Tim Kelly, Tom Stewart, Sam Menegola, Tom Atkins and experimental stuff like Blics and Mark O Connor. This mixture of recruiting is why we have remained competitive – time will tell whether it works and bring in more finals and hopefully flags but the team has been written as being on the edge of a precipice since 2010.
Scrubs over stars
As a fellow Brit can I ask – where should Geelong play home finals?
In relation to the rest, I think paid could be proven to be the correct term by someone skilled in etymology.
It’s a gruelling sport physically so I think there is something about six months being an optimum season length, look at the NFL.
I’ve seen previous Roar articles and comments looking at how the fixtures are structured, I agree it’s unfair at the moment, it will be interesting to see how the Lions go next year having to play more of the top teams more regularly. ‘Rebuilding’ teams maybe at a disadvantage as they could from an easier fixture to a harder one when perhaps they aren’t ready. One of the ideas was creating tiers towards the second half of the season, top tier players for home finals, middle tier plays for wildcard final spot and bottom tier plays for 1st draft picks. Not sure it would have worked this though as the competition was pretty even in that the ladder altered a lot during the later weeks.
I like the Anzac traditions and others it’s the quirk of being an exclusively Australian sport.
I agree on the guernsey issue for clashes would help the spectators and players.
Football (Soccer) could learn a lot from AFL, the treatment of umpires by players would be my starting point. Whilst the chanting and singing in football brings an atmosphere some of the idiotic behaviour of fans is crazy. Derby matches here are potential for all out war, there isn’t zero level incident in AFL but mixed crowds is the norm it’s pretty family friendly.
A Briton's perspective on the problems plaguing AFL
Chris Scott is good a posing philosophical answers to statistical anomalies but the poor starts in finals has been costly during this era where we’ve rebuilt on the go – I’m not a fan of bottoming out like Melbourne or the Sixers, top picks aren’t always guaranteed greatness.
With regards to the ground I think the main gripe is that it’s more of the opponent’s home ground than it is Geelong’s. The purpose of being higher up the ladder is that you earn an advantage yet Geelong are the only club in the league that don’t, Geelong is clearly not in Melbourne.
The MCG isn’t neutral, it’s the home for Pies and Tigers etc. I’m from the UK the idea that Liverpool could earn a home game and play it at Old Trafford is just ludicrous and then that argument is because ‘you can fit more people in’.
If Kardinia Park continues to be redeveloped at what size does it become big enough. Many finals outside of Victoria are played in front of smaller crowds, what are the thresholds on this, 50k, 60k? Geelong are always going to struggle to get an equal crowd in the ‘G against the other home teams. When you hear 60-80k opposition fans scream ball or whatever the call is in a game that’s decided by 2 kicks or less and your team has earned a so called advantage and the commentary team don’t even put that argument across or Carro ‘Tiger fan’ Wilson basically tells the coach to stop talking about it, you might feel a bit bitter. We weren’t good enough on Friday, we picked Jackson Thurlow over Brodie Grundy, but what is the point of us finishing top.
Pies into prelim after conquering Cats
We had a horrible start to the year with injury, particularly down back, felt like we lost a key position player in the first quarter of at least 3 or 4 games. So we didn’t bank many early wins. In recent weeks our general form, lack of cohesion and the loss of Blics and Hawks, I think it’s going to be tough for us to make finals and certainly we are a long shot to win it, which feels strange as that first quarter against the Bombers was electric and wasn’t that long ago. However I still think there is a false dichotomy of recruit or go to the draft, you have to juggle both. Embarrassed to remind everyone but we picked up Tanner Bruhn, Ollie Henry, Jack Bowes and Jhye Clark last year following a Premiership.
They've faded too far in 2023 - where to now for Geelong?