Pretty much the second half of the season, he was a bit of a non-entity. Great start to the year though; basically when the crazy Irishman stopped providing a big consistent target, he struggled more. Garlett seemed better in the last two months.
Yeah, the big guy was stiff. Clearly my Collingwood bias led me to prefer Swan to Wessels.
Franklin over Pavlich is a horrible call, with Hall and Riewoldt already in the team. Otherwise i was pretty close. Hayes is stiff, but there are only 22 spots i suppose. Tend to agree with the viewpoint that as Sandilands averaged 110 mins a game, a second specialist ruckman is a pretty big luxury.
no Leigh Brown is a travesty.
Pavlich was very ordinary for a big stretch of the year when he was injured. On first half form he deserved it, but after that...Franklin over Pavlich is a horrible call, with Hall and Riewoldt already in the team. Otherwise i was pretty close. Hayes is stiff, but there are only 22 spots i suppose. Tend to agree with the viewpoint that as Sandilands averaged 110 mins a game, a second specialist ruckman is a pretty big luxury.
It had been foreshadowed via the shortlisting process, but no Leigh Brown is a travesty.
He's a great player, but who would you omit for him? (Lemme take a wild guess and say Pendlebury or Didak?)
In terms of importance, he probably had a better year than Pendlebury, Selwood, Johnson and probably even Chapman, however in a team who finished mid table he was never going to get the nod over them.
I agree, Swallow will win our b&f, over Rawlings probably, but Swallow can't play as a small forward like Harvey can.
As much as he's given us grief about still having it all to prove in PF and GFs, and being jealous of the Cats - and he's right on both counts, if not about the "hatred" - I think he might be feeling that with the age of the Geelong team and maybe Ablett heading north at the end of the year, this might be the last time they'll be an absolute top tier team for a few years, and hence, he can maybe feel the chase's breath on his neck, and is getting a bit edgy.
I love Thompson as coach, but his new 'relaxed ****yness' persona is interesting. If he had been doing it for the last 4 years it'd be fair enough. But it kind of has mainly emerged this year. To me that suggests Ablett's possibility departure has had an effect.
