Geelong are such a great club

[Mongrel Dee 56]

This team is awesome. I just love watching them play hard tough fast un comprising , unselfish football.

This is what keeps me going to the football.

Peter Jackson needs to bottle some of what Geelong have and make our mob drink it.

[jumbo returns 6,741]

Agree - Tigers lose 3 in a row now.

Pretenders.

Ordinary list.

[Gorgoroth 12,974]

I always try and arch he cats games, I remember when they were crap too.

My best mate is a cats supporter, once we had something in common.......

[Dee Fan 3,247]

Just to see Richmond lose three in a row, after winning three in a row, makes the weekend worthwhile.

[ThreeOneSix 954]

Agree - Tigers lose 3 in a row now.

Pretenders.

Ordinary list.

I don't know about ordinary list, but they don't play like a team.

Individually, they have some very dynamic players, Cotchin, Deledio, Jack R, Martin and even players like Jackson, King, Newman and Vickery would be very good players in the top sides, but the Tigers just don't play as a team, they tend to just whack it on the boot.

Essendon, Sydney and Geelong stand out this year, they are all well disciplined and they play for each other.

[Mongrel Dee 56]

Deledio is one of the best downhill skiers I have seen. He hates a physical contest and was totally pushed aside by the cats.

[rjay 24,997]

With the disappointment of our club at least I can get some joy from football watching the GFC play, they are just so good. My partner is a Geelong girl and I spend a fair bit of time down there and the club is the pride of the town. Good on them.

[H_T 3,049]

Not much will have changed after this weekend in the last 6 years. Geelong are still 'the greatest team of all' much to many media experts and posters here surprise who had written them off (I still haven't), our team Melbourne is still cellar dweller material and Richmond will be ninth!

[DemonDave 1,089]

Deledio is one of the best downhill skiers I have seen. He hates a physical contest and was totally pushed aside by the cats.

Went completely missing in the last half. I was hoping the AFL website would have qtr by qtr stats to appease myself, but they dont yet.

Once he and Cotchin disappeared, the Cats midfield ran riot...

[rjay 24,997]

Went completely missing in the last half. I was hoping the AFL website would have qtr by qtr stats to appease myself, but they dont yet.

Once he and Cotchin disappeared, the Cats midfield ran riot...

Was a lot to do with Maric getting injured, with Vickery out of the game as well he couldn't get a break and had no power to get off the ground or even hold his ground and the Cats just blew em away after that.

He's not too smart is our Ivan and nor are the Tiges or our favourite commentator Luke Darcy. When Harry Taylor ran him down the ground in the 2nd quarter the Mullett was supposed to be resting at FF, Darcy thought it was great that he then started taking off the other way and making Harry chase him. Call me stupid but he was supposed to be getting a break and trying to stretch the Cats defence, one of his team mates should have taken Harry and let Ivan hang back around the centre for the relief kick, get his break and get back into the ruck.

[Meggs 595]

I went to the G tonight and was bored. Bored bored bored.

Sick of Geelong sick of their superior football sick to the guts that Stephen Wells has several picks after us that end up far superior to our early picks just sick!

Anyway I wish that somehow my team could bore and sicken me that way instead of the shite we will have put up with tomorrow...

[P-man 13,366]

I don't hate Richmond, but seeing them lose makes me happy for some reason...

[Soidee 1,496]

I went to the G tonight and was bored. Bored bored bored.

Sick of Geelong sick of their superior football sick to the guts that Stephen Wells has several picks after us that end up far superior to our early picks just sick!

Anyway I wish that somehow my team could bore and sicken me that way instead of the shite we will have put up with tomorrow...

Bravo Bravo! And wait for it...you will be violently ill Sunday evening.

[Chook 15,013]

Nothing Geelong did tonight was particularly spectacular, but since the muppets on Channel 7 started talking about the Cats' seemingly never-ending dynasty I knew we'd see a thread about it here. It's the same with our post-match threads. Someone says something on the telly and you can bet it'll be brought up here as if it's some amazing discovery.

No disrespect to anyone who posted on this thread, of course!

[P-man 13,366]

I just realised why it makes me happy. Probably something to do with the Tigers fans who attempt to provide reassurance by pointing to their own team as evidence that things can turn around.

Maybe make a final first before claiming your team as a successful model.

[P-man 13,366]

As for Geelong, they are a marvel. It's almost eery to think that their next generation could keep the juggernaut rolling.

[Sir Why You Little 37,053]

Geelong prove beyond any doubt that the MFC should not have gone down the Tanking, sorry list management road.

At years end you take the draft picks you get and teach the team to win.

[RalphiusMaximus 6,079]

I do love watching the Cats play. The Hawks as well. They win games through the skills of their players rather than a rigid and disciplined gameplan (although they have the ability to do that too). It's amazing to see the flare and awareness of their better players and the way they bring their teammates into the play. I really hope that the list we are building will be able to do something similar in the future, although I suspect we are more likely to resemble a Richmond/Collingwood hybrid.

[angrydee 842]

I just realised why it makes me happy. Probably something to do with the Tigers fans who attempt to provide reassurance by pointing to their own team as evidence that things can turn around.

Maybe make a final first before claiming your team as a successful model.

Our own mastercoach keeps pointing out Richmond as one of his models.

Says it all really.

Geelong are a joy to watch - anything but boring.

[Tony Tea 2,809]

I cry with envy every time Selwood smashes into a pack, reefs out the hard ball, bursts away and either slots a goal or pinpoints the ball into a Geelong chest. Superstar.

[What 18,810]

its amazing they lost the greatest player of the modern era, and havent missed a beat

Shows the value of a great rectuiting staff, and also shows that one man doesn't make a team, even if he is one of the greats

[Gorgoroth 12,974]

Nothing Geelong did tonight was particularly spectacular, but since the muppets on Channel 7 started talking about the Cats' seemingly never-ending dynasty I knew we'd see a thread about it here. It's the same with our post-match threads. Someone says something on the telly and you can bet it'll be brought up here as if it's some amazing discovery.

No disrespect to anyone who posted on this thread, of course!

Correct, all they did is have 22 players have a dip for the whole game, used the ball pretty bloody well, never panic, never gave up and when it was their turn to go they bloody went!

If we could get 18 players to do that we would be in a better position than what we are in.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

A lot of what Geelong do isn't difficult, run hard and fast with the ball, run hard and fast without the ball and talk to each other.

Somehow Melbourne can't manage that.

[robbiefrom13 887]

Odd to read a whole thread without disagreeing once.

[robbiefrom13 887]

Out of the different points made, which ones did I agree with most? Playing for each other, not panicking - this is what stands out for me. Nothing really to do with complying with game plans or mongrel attitudes or hardness - all the stuff that's endlessly thrashed out on Demonland. Best of all I liked WYL's comment

Geelong prove beyond any doubt that the MFC should not have gone down the Tanking, sorry list management road.
At years end you take the draft picks you get and teach the team to win.

How good it would feel to be pleased with the guys we have, and seeing them being taught to win.

Geelong players excel at looking for each other, executing skills, thinking under pressure, believing; the loss of Ablett having no impact, and the success of their recruits, shows that the club's success is not really about "the cattle", but about team fundamentals. I know they have got the cattle, but it's not so long ago that they were no good at all - until the teaching took effect. In WYL's post, before the teaching began, there was acceptance of the class list.