Re: AFL 2011
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:08 pm
Instead of meatloaf he should of been called backin out a loaf....as he sounded so sh*t.
maybe they should get their own appreciation thread - it could even be given 'official' statusJeffles wrote:Anyone else think this Geelong team is seriously underappreciated? 3 premierships in five years and another Grand Final too. You also have to pay tribute to how they've managed to regenerate following th loss of some players.
For me the better story is Chris Scott V Bomber. Chris won a premiership without GAJ and actually played youngsters throughout the seson. Bomber wasn't interested in new talent. He wanted to coach the best and be the best. He thought he couldn't win a premiership without Ablett so he walked, citing burnout. I'll burn out for half a mill per year no worries.Jeffles wrote:Anyone else think this Geelong team is seriously underappreciated? 3 premierships in five years and another Grand Final too. You also have to pay tribute to how they've managed to regenerate following th loss of some players.
bazza wrote:maybe they should get their own appreciation thread - it could even be given 'official' statusJeffles wrote:Anyone else think this Geelong team is seriously underappreciated? 3 premierships in five years and another Grand Final too. You also have to pay tribute to how they've managed to regenerate following th loss of some players.
Well as crazy as that sounds, it's spot on. When the Pod hurt his shoulder, Collingwood was 3 goals up. We were starting to get on a roll after an arm wrestle. Both teams had their fair share of inside 50s, the difference was, the pies were taking marks inside 50, Geelong wasn't because pod wasn't getting his hands on the ball. He went down and that forced a reshuffle, a reshuffle that Scott would not have made if not for the injury. From that point the game turned and the rest is history. Every now and again a negative can actually be a positive, this is one of those occassions.yob wrote:^^ The reason why they won is because... they had injuries. FM that's a new one.
To get official status they need to win 4 premierships in a row. Collingwood's invincibles 4 in a row is the greatest dynasty in history, fact. The fact that it has only been achieved once shows it is almost impossible to achieve. Yet Collingwood did it. I know it was in a different era and all that, but you can't do any more than dominate your own era. If you could bring that team into this day and age and apply them to today's training, fitness, technology and insights into the game, they would still be successful. Players like Coventry and the Colliers would have been superstars. But because the 4 in a row happened so long ago, it gets overlooked by ignoramuses such as yourself. No official thread for Geelong.bazza wrote:maybe they should get their own appreciation thread - it could even be given 'official' statusJeffles wrote:Anyone else think this Geelong team is seriously underappreciated? 3 premierships in five years and another Grand Final too. You also have to pay tribute to how they've managed to regenerate following th loss of some players.
In an amateur state league...Amaru wrote:To get official status they need to win 4 premierships in a row.
Very good point. Big credit to the Geelong board who looked at Fremantle and said, "there's a winner in there."yob wrote:For me the better story is Chris Scott V Bomber. Chris won a premiership without GAJ and actually played youngsters throughout the seson. Bomber wasn't interested in new talent. He wanted to coach the best and be the best. He thought he couldn't win a premiership without Ablett so he walked, citing burnout. I'll burn out for half a mill per year no worries.Jeffles wrote:Anyone else think this Geelong team is seriously underappreciated? 3 premierships in five years and another Grand Final too. You also have to pay tribute to how they've managed to regenerate following th loss of some players.