saintsRrising wrote:Oh When the Saints wrote:Most of the Cats improvement over 3 years has come from experience and fitness.
They have had only 3 players retire from their list in 4 years. That's phenomenal. The rest have just kept plugging away as a group.
No according to Roge it is only fitness.
Evidently an extra 50 games per player counts for naught
No, you're being silly now.
What I've said all along - and maintain, is that fitness overrides all other factors.
You can do everything, cross every t, dot every i, cover every base - but if your players aren't fit and on the park they count for squat.
Every premiership team over the past decade at least, has had this above other teams - a fit list in September.
This is what seperates them from the rest - not all the other crap you go on about.
All clubs do the same things that Geelong do. You talk about addressing holes in their list - every club does this.
You talk about getting Guru Ray in - every club does this.
You talk about all sorts of shiit that you see as being the reason for a club's success - but it's frogshyt. All clubs do just about everything the same. If not the same, very, very similarly.
As I said, the difference between the top 4 clubs and the rest is injuries and their development (ie. the extra 50 games you mentioned above).
The difference between the premier and the other top 4 clubs, is luck.
If not for an ounce of luck, Geelong would not have even been in the GF.
If not for an ounce of luck, Port would not have been in the GF.
If not for an ounce of luck, a fit West Coast may have handed Collingwood their 3rd GF loss this decade.
In 2004, if not for an ounce of luck we may have been belted by Brisbane for the 3 time in a month in the GF.
In 2006, if not for an ounce of luck Geelong may have beaten West Coast for their first flag in 43 years - and John Worsfold would be known as the greatest talent waster of all time.
For some reason, and I don't know what it is, football culture does not allow people to point to injuries for a reason for a loss, and it doesn't allow people to face reality and admit that luck is the single most important factor in the game.