Little Goffy

I thought Fred Basset was about the same height as Caleb Daniel (at the shoulder, to be fair).

'Dropped of a cliff' is a pretty remarkable way to describe consecutive 16 win seasons with 125+ percentage. Our midfield only began to struggle in mid 2023 when we lost Oliver. Even then it was still highly capable. This stuff gets so tiresome.

Fair issue raised. Denigrating the honour of Collingwood fans is like trying to barge down an open door. If you called them a worthless sack of [censored] they'd be proud of the sack.

I'm here to help. What bad things can I assist with?

Ahhh, PETA, the second most accurate episode of South Park.

I really rate Basset and would be thrilled if we added him to our coaching panel. The kind of calibre of assistant coach with the credentials to have been pursued by the Eagles and the wisdom to turn them down 🤣

Wholesale [censored]?

I was getting ready to make a joke about quantity over quality but it isn't as funny when it is shown to be true.

Three years on and I still haven't processed the proven fact that my wife can levitate! Maybe I'm blocking it out because she can only do it while screaming 'Fritsch! Fritsch! Fritsch!'

Yep, if you can earn 300k+ and live in some of Australia's lushest countryside near beaches and superb national parks while also still being conveniently close to both a local good-sized city, numerous picturesque towns, and to Melbourne, you'll take it.

Fair call, given a 20 touch Spargo is Brent Harvey. I think it is underestimated how much difference Spargo in form made to our performance. Touch wood for a rejuvenated Spargonaut in 2025.

All this talk of how easy it was for Goodwin to take the dozen good players he inherited from Roos to a premiership just goes to show how hard it must have been for Scott in 2011, who had to overcome the deficiencies of both Allen Christensen AND Trent West not already being premiership players. After the inherited premiership, Chris Scott from 2012-2019 managed 4 wins from 15 finals. I can only assume everyone vigorously pleasuring themselves about Scott's greatness is ready to give Goodwin the same run on the understanding that he'll snag us another flag in 2032?

Five lost preliminary finals must be a point of difference. No, wait, six. Even Ken Hinkley would be impressed.

Not paying attention to Geelong team selection is a credit to your reputation.

I want it because I feel really good about this draft (as always in septmember), but I also want De Koning. Future picks would be needed to make De Koning happen, I suspect. And given that we'll be wanting some 'burnables' to acquire White (touch wood) some smart future pick trading might also give us a head start on getting 2025 trade/draft organised.

Most dominant finals series in the history of the game and the most dominant 50 minutes of grand final football in the history of the game. No matter what way you look at it, you can't tell me the horse is a camel.

Definitely bring him over ASAP so he can play forward and get injured. But seriously, with both Turner and Petty being forward at the moment, Tomlinson going, and May and McDonald boldy attacking the twilight, an additional young defender must be a priority. At 204cm Sam De Koning also gives us height that our defence has not had much of even at its peak. Does Adelaide have anything Geelong want? Feel like a Nibbler to De Koning conversion could be a healthy outcome.

Think of it as life adjacent to football.

Disappointed this thread has been a bit quiet so I'm going to revive it with a return to the heartland

To reiterate - the reason he scores so many of the Blues' goals is because he is nice and fresh from not doing two-way running while his teammates are getting worn out trying to cover the hole he left. Blues fans I know are basically adamant that the team will be better off without him.

Bingo. He's the anti-Nibbler. Just sits there with his mouth open waiting for opportunities on goal to fall in.

Neither is whiskey but if you start pushing it on 8 year olds as being a part of following the footy, I'll take an issue with you.

Not that he's a bad player but I don't think he'd change our midfield dynamic much. Certainly it wouldn't be much of a gain compared to the proverbial 'replacement', which would presumably be one of the young players we're looking to develop. My summary - not worth the salary cap space relative to a kid, and not worth even the relatively modest draft cost in an allegedly deep draft.

Brace yourself. If you've ever been irritated by a celebrity doing a FIFO 'awareness raising' photoshoot, you'll choke on your vomit by the time you know the full Theresa story.

I did some googling and was a bit surprised to see he'd been with us since 2012. Basically makes him the architect of our premiership list - pursing the structural players which made our game plan and our glory possible. No mistaking that there has been a string of misses in the last couple of years, albeit relatively low-cost misses. I suspect trying to find a back-up ruck capable of stepping in full-time if needed while also being content to be 80% forward for potentially years is one of the hardest recruiting tasks there is, especially if you are hoping for that recruit to be a longer term successor to the game's greatest ruckman. The perception last trade period was that Tim Lamb was simply dealing with too much all at once, between the Petty, Oliver and Grundy kerfuffles on top of the usual trade period nonsense. Clearly it would be silly to try to bump Lamb on in the handful of weeks between now and trade period this season, so let's see if we can get some transparency on what people expect. So... What benchmark in this coming trade period needs to be reached in order for Lamb to re-establish himself as our preferred recruiting / list manager?