their pride wasplugger66 wrote:They were injured.evertonfc wrote:I hate that the Geelong players have a rest up their sleeve. Annoying.
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their pride wasplugger66 wrote:They were injured.evertonfc wrote:I hate that the Geelong players have a rest up their sleeve. Annoying.
And if spider didn't break his collar bone, and they didn't have jarmen, then we would all be the lauding the st.kilda 'method' for preparing teams for the gf.remboy wrote:Don't flirt with winning form. Quite often teams that win flags are the ones that have kept their side together.
I remember Adelaide actually doing the opposite to resting players in 97 and 98. They'd flog them on the track for a month starting from about two months out from the finals. Then they'd taper their training and freshen them up for the finals. They used to play a couple of ordinary H&A games during the heavy training weeks but ran over the top of sides in the finals (especially the two grand finals).
Exactly, totally agree with you.kaos theory wrote:FFS can we drop this BS about 'resting'?
If the cats were 'resting' players how come Harry Tayor, who was knocked out played?
Their players were injuried, so they didn't play, simple. If we have players that are struggling because of injury, which will improve with a rest, then they will not play either. Simple.
But let's assume they did rest players. How well did that go for them? Do you think their coach looked happy with their performance?
This is the same as the BS about its good to 'drop' a few games, because the pressure builds & affects the confidence of the players......That's crap!
The pressure builds & you lose confidence when you continually LOSE games!
The cats didn't lose the GF last yr, becuase they didn't lose many games during the yr or because they didn't 'rest' players. They lost because they couldn't kick striaght and take advantage of their forward entries and shots on goal up to half time. The game should have been decided at half time.
Completely agree, they are suffering from the first hard contest they have had in years. I wouldn't be surprised if Bartel misses, he was not great against Brisbane. I don't care what the perception in the media is regarding Bomber, he isn't happy and he isn't relaxed. Very evident to see in the footage of him at half time last week giving sprays to anyone that happened to be close by.Mr Magic wrote:I think the media and the wider football community have 'bought into' the Geelong PR bullshyte.
I have absolutely no doubt that the game against us took a lot out of Geelong - far more than they're willing to publicly acknowledge.
IMO they have been more than happy to allow the speculation on whether they are resting players to continue on unabated becasue it takes the focus away from the fact that they initiated a physical contest with us, in the belief that they could again bully us into submission, and it didn't work.
It's much better to portray ,we didn't lose' and what's more 'we care so little about the list that we'll let 7 players have a rest' than admit publicly that we are no longer invincible against the Saints.
So close to the truth it isn't funny. Catters were sore and sorry after the game against the Saints - burst an offa valve and never once headed us. Many of their players went in so hard that they couldn't come up the following week.Mr Magic wrote:I think the media and the wider football community have 'bought into' the Geelong PR bullshyte.
I have absolutely no doubt that the game against us took a lot out of Geelong - far more than they're willing to publicly acknowledge.
IMO they have been more than happy to allow the speculation on whether they are resting players to continue on unabated becasue it takes the focus away from the fact that they initiated a physical contest with us, in the belief that they could again bully us into submission, and it didn't work.
It's much better to portray ,we didn't lose' and what's more 'we care so little about the list that we'll let 7 players have a rest' than admit publicly that we are no longer invincible against the Saints.
Yes and yes!joffaboy wrote:So close to the truth it isn't funny. Catters were sore and sorry after the game against the Saints - burst an offa valve and never once headed us. Many of their players went in so hard that they couldn't come up the following week.Mr Magic wrote:I think the media and the wider football community have 'bought into' the Geelong PR bullshyte.
I have absolutely no doubt that the game against us took a lot out of Geelong - far more than they're willing to publicly acknowledge.
IMO they have been more than happy to allow the speculation on whether they are resting players to continue on unabated becasue it takes the focus away from the fact that they initiated a physical contest with us, in the belief that they could again bully us into submission, and it didn't work.
It's much better to portray ,we didn't lose' and what's more 'we care so little about the list that we'll let 7 players have a rest' than admit publicly that we are no longer invincible against the Saints.
The facts are this. The Cats have physically intimidated us over the past three or four years. Thought they could do so again and stated such before the game. they copped a physical beating and also a psychological one as well.
All this we dont care about the result was so much BS. The utter dejection on their faces at the end of the game showed us all that this was not the case. They were bewildered, they were confused. they had physically dominated every team for three years but here they were beaten up. Their confidence in their invincibility dented.
So what do they do? they put up a BS defence about "resting" players, get flogged and then Harley says how "dark" they are on losing.
So they were OK about losing to a real premiership threat but upset about losing to a team after they had "rested" half the team. Interesting.
Just one other thing. They would have cast a glance at the saints team and noticed not one player out through injury (Geary dropped and Schneider personal). They would have seen the Saints travel interstate and power over the top of the local team in the 4th qtr (when they were supposed to be knackered) in 22 deg heat.
if you scratch the surface, you can see that they are only fooling themselves at the moment.
if you think RL would not play sore players, then why is Ball getting 40% of TOG? He must be sorespert wrote:I think you will find some Cat players pulled up sore and Bomber had every right to field a fit team rather than risk players who are not 100%. Saints players probably pulled up a little better than the Cats after the big game, and I'm sure RL wouldn't play sore players, as it would be going against the grain this year.
I dont think he has ever got 40% time this year and last week he played about 60% which would be his everage for the year.saintly wrote:if you think RL would not play sore players, then why is Ball getting 40% of TOG? He must be sorespert wrote:I think you will find some Cat players pulled up sore and Bomber had every right to field a fit team rather than risk players who are not 100%. Saints players probably pulled up a little better than the Cats after the big game, and I'm sure RL wouldn't play sore players, as it would be going against the grain this year.