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Start tonight. Cats vs Bombers @ Kitty Park.

On Kayo and Foxtel ... Anyone tuning in?

 
19 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Start tonight. Cats vs Bombers @ Kitty Park.

On Kayo and Foxtel ... Anyone tuning in?

So Geelong haven’t had to travel at all this pre-season. [censored]

12 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

So Geelong haven’t had to travel at all this pre-season. [censored]

Couple of them are traveling to court!!

  • Whispering_Jack changed the title to 2025 NON MFC Practice Matches
 

Kako and Caddy kick a few and the media to wet it's collective pants

44 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

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2 average teams. Cats with only 1 injury concern

Surely the Cats disappear forever now (have predicted this since 2017)

16 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Kako and Caddy kick a few and the media to wet it's collective pants

Apart from them and Langford, can’t see too many more kicking their goals.

Dodo did a magnificent job of getting that list together. Incompetence for over 20 years. Took them long enough to get rid of him.

 
1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Start tonight. Cats vs Bombers @ Kitty Park.

On Kayo and Foxtel ... Anyone tuning in?

Happy new year Luc!

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Just now, layzie said:

Happy new year Luc!

Many thanks layzie.  Hope yours is fab.

I'm back on DL now that the season is close ... will be a very good year for the mighty dees ❤️💙


Of course the only time they send these guys down to that $hithole is during a worthless practice match. Now that Hawthorn are temporarily good again after 1 season, they’ll never be sent there again for another 10 years. 🤡🤦‍♂️

Listening to the commentators you would think they are all paid up Cats members the way they talk about them… sickening 


4 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

So Geelong haven’t had to travel at all this pre-season. [censored]

It’s practice. 
Do they travel during the season?

35 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

Geez Nate Caddy is a solid forward. He would have worked so well with JVR.

Yeah but we have Jeffo!

Watching Kako tonight shows we don’t need to be to worried about loosing Pickett if those sorts of players are in the draft 

2 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Watching Kako tonight shows we don’t need to be to worried about loosing Pickett if those sorts of players are in the draft 

he wasn't in the draft tho, not really - he was in the peptides' academy 

you can see why they were prepared to trade us their pick so we couldn't nominate him

hopefully marcus prassad is as promising for us as he is for them

1 hour ago, GS_1905 said:

Geez Nate Caddy is a solid forward. He would have worked so well with JVR.

Windsor is pretty sweet though… him streaming across the MCG Is a thing of beauty 


It's so hard to know what to take out of these games. A lot of times in the TAB* when an unexpected horse won a race the punters would rush back to the form guides on the wall to check whether there was a factor they had missed. Usually this wouldn't improve one's punting; but the same during the year if, say, Kako kicks 40 goals or Geelong drops down to 12th we'll then overrate hindsight.

As for watching these games I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes to have these kind of things, plus other sports, on in the background. I suspect if I was born in America I'd be spoiled for choice for nightly sports viewing (assuming I liked their biggest sports in this parallel universe.)

 

* This is ancient history. I'd guess the only people still in TABs are tragics who either can't afford pay TV or are Luddites who even resisted using email for years.

 
1 hour ago, Go Ds said:

It's so hard to know what to take out of these games. A lot of times in the TAB* when an unexpected horse won a race the punters would rush back to the form guides on the wall to check whether there was a factor they had missed. Usually this wouldn't improve one's punting; but the same during the year if, say, Kako kicks 40 goals or Geelong drops down to 12th we'll then overrate hindsight.

As for watching these games I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes to have these kind of things, plus other sports, on in the background. I suspect if I was born in America I'd be spoiled for choice for nightly sports viewing (assuming I liked their biggest sports in this parallel universe.)

 

* This is ancient history. I'd guess the only people still in TABs are tragics who either can't afford pay TV or are Luddites who even resisted using email for years.

Teams don't defend much in practice matches and sometimes just fully experiment so the results are totally meaningless.

Positional changes, player roles and performances of new recruits is the reason to watch them.


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