Little Goffy

On 21/09/2024 at 13:46, adonski said:

A 30 touch a game Spargo probably is the best player in the history of the game!

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.

7 hours ago, ANG13 said:

Thanks. Apologies to @Little Goffy, I seriously have paid zero attention to team selection and had no idea Sam had been left out. 

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.

24 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

The Single De Koning Play?

Left out of the prelim.

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.

3 hours ago, Redleg said:

Is there meaningful life outside football?

2 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Is there a meaning of life outside football?

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

1 hour ago, sisso said:

Yes from me: always seems to be one of the Blues most dangerous small forwards no idea why they’d let him go actually 

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.

1 hour ago, Roost it far said:

No, no and no……another average player who doesn’t chase, harass or run. Faaaaaaarrrrrrrrkkkkkk!

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

2 hours ago, Oxdee said:

You do realise gambling isn’t illegal? The world  is full of vices

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.

On 15/09/2024 at 20:18, Engorged Onion said:

Huh? 😇 I mean you don't usually write [censored] on here @Mel Bourne - I think I need to do some research....

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?

Wow, Hinkley cops a $20,000 fine.

The AFL is really keen to protect the Hawks' new branding. Can't have anyone pointing out it is a pile of arrogant, vacuous [censored].

Too many players with too much of a disturbance to their pre-season meant that there were always gaps in the defensive running to block options, which meant that there were too many ways for opponents to evade the pressure we did apply.

The more that happens, the harder it is too maintain the morale necessary to keep running to cover and to apply pressure.

I suspect that it was an awareness of this problem which made us attempt to develop a better attacking style in order to balance the extra goals we were inevitably going to leak. Unfortunately, well, we didn't make it work.

The proverbial 'big preseason' could restore that defensive running system and make the pressure efforts much more effective - bringing back the 'edge' as described in the OP.

Having said that, we really have to work on our attacking system. Interesting challenge for the new forward line coach, for sure. That could be a destiny-shaping recruitment decision.

3 hours ago, bobby1554 said:

Everyone was saying that about us after 2021

Everyone was saying that about us after 2018!

retires-ish immediately-ish

Thin skinned attention-seeking twerps at Hawthorn getting a public dose of disrespect and their captain becoming completely fussed over it.

Luv t' see it.

Port still managing to appear psychologically brittle despite holding on to win a final by less than a goal. 

Magic.

All in all that was a great night of footy.

Nnnnnnooooope.

If Carlton thought he was worth anything they would have held him and facilitated a trade for at least a basic burnable pick to use for the Camporeale twins.

My main concern is that he appears to be an utter [censored].

11 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

The person who I believe should move on is Gutnick himself - I once supported the bloke but that was 20 years ago. Today, he has zero credibility when it comes to football.

11 hours ago, rpfc said:

Err, ok, then.

As Kamala would say - “we’re not going back.”

10 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Bizarre that Brad Green would even reach out to Joe or even take the time to sit down and seek advice..

Laughable. 

10 hours ago, Chelly said:

Or get him to pay out the balance of the pledge he made when he became pres?

9 hours ago, Mach5 said:

Both Jewish AND non-Jewish... well, that settles it.

Seriously, I had my doubts about Green having the nous for this position, even in a temporary capacity. This certainly doesn’t settle my nerves.

9 hours ago, Clayton van Oliver said:

Gee there's a reason to be concerned that the old boys' club has finally won its way back into influence over the last month. Why is Brad Green meeting with Joe [censored] Gutnik? Is he gonna sit down with each of us amd get our opinions? 

6 hours ago, Cranky Franky said:

Joe has a very interesting history. I wouldn't be taking any advice from him on football matters.

What next ?  Getting Cam Schwab back as an advisor !!

5 hours ago, hardtack said:

I’m an atheist and all of my atheistic, agnostic, and believer friends, think that Joe has lost the plot.

That irritated me so much I wanted to go on a long rant but the collective effort here is superb.

Joe Gutnik is not a man we want pulling any strings or holding any proxy influence around the club. He used to be 'just a bit' bonkers and his extreme vanity served the club well in a crucial moment, but these days he is absolutely a noxious menace.

1 hour ago, Sydee said:

Ants can carry up to 20x their own body weight you’d think their hamstrings were pretty good right 

Yeah but they've got six of them and even then they only last a few months.

Unlikely to ever get a full season out of Cerra or an ant.

On the other hand, get an ant to climb into the stitching and every shot on goal would be a rushed behind.

Bulldogs in such a crisis I'm tempted to pencil them in for the 2026 premiership.

But more seriously, it seems like soon enough the Dogs are going to be left with the deepest set of top quality talls in the game but only one midfielder under 30.