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Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:58 am
by Booney
Brodlach wrote:Geelong to make a significant announcements at 12:30 today, maybe a Selwood retirement?


100%

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:12 pm
by stan
Yep he hungs up the boots and well done to him. Fair career there.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:22 pm
by Eagles2014
stan wrote:Yep he hungs up the boots and well done to him. Fair career there.


Made the right call, finish on a high as premiership captain. He would have hated starting on the bench every week, get out while on top and wife expecting first child. Awesome career!

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:27 pm
by Rik E Boy
A sad day for the Cats today but what a career this bloke has had. There's no way a Cat could put in short steps and then be able to look this bloke in the eye. At the end of last season I thought he was cooked and it certainly looked a case of one year too many when he got repeatedly swamped against Collingwood. When he was dumped on his arse by the ducking heir apparent :D the Catters showed exactly what they thought about that! Whoever gets the next captaincy job has massive boots to fill. He literally could not do anymore than he has done for his club and his community as well. Joel Selwood, we salute you!

A champion bows out with class.

regards,

REB

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:44 pm
by amber_fluid
What’s next for Selwood?
Did he mention anything?
Surely the Cats will try keep him involved somehow

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 3:05 pm
by Lightning McQueen
amber_fluid wrote:What’s next for Selwood?
Did he mention anything?
Surely the Cats will try keep him involved somehow

Timber merchant.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 3:06 pm
by Lightning McQueen
Arguably the best captain of our era, he'd be my #1.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 3:10 pm
by whufc
Lightning McQueen wrote:Arguably the best captain of our era, he'd be my #1.


Yeah Him and Vossy would have to be the two surely.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 3:11 pm
by am Bays
whufc wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:Arguably the best captain of our era, he'd be my #1.


Yeah Him and Vossy would have to be the two surely.


Both excellent, But I'll take Luke Hodge still

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:03 pm
by whufc
am Bays wrote:
whufc wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:Arguably the best captain of our era, he'd be my #1.


Yeah Him and Vossy would have to be the two surely.


Both excellent, But I'll take Luke Hodge still


Yeah all three were both class acts on and off the field.

All three shared the ability to get in and seriously win their own footy.....when the chips were down they were the ones able to lift the side, not reliant on a single other person.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:28 pm
by locky801
Well played Joel, the bandage cupboard wont have to be stocked as much now. Been a wonderful career and a great way to go out

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:58 pm
by amber_fluid
Lightning McQueen wrote:Arguably the best captain of our era, he'd be my #1.


Sticks Kernahan went alright too

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:49 am
by Brodlach
Ex-Cats player sues club over alleged gang rape (Herald Sun article)

The Geelong Football Club is being sued by a former footballer who claims he was gang raped by three older players at a Cats’ residence for country recruits.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 8:27 am
by Hector
Brodlach wrote:Ex-Cats player sues club over alleged gang rape (Herald Sun article)

The Geelong Football Club is being sued by a former footballer who claims he was gang raped by three older players at a Cats’ residence for country recruits.


Ex-Cats player sues club over alleged gang rape, failing to protect him from sexual abuse

The Geelong Football Club is being sued by a former footballer who claims he was gang raped by three older players at a Cats’ residence for country recruits.

A former Geelong footballer has accused a trio of players of a historic gang rape as he sues the Cats for failing to protect him from sexual abuse.
The ex-player claims he was just 15 or 16 when he was cornered in the shower at the club’s Aberdeen House, a residence for country recruits, and sexually assaulted by three older athletes in the early 1980s.

The man, a prominent Indigenous Elder now in his late 50s, filed Supreme Court action against the Cats this week for a trial by jury, claiming the club had a “duty to take reasonable care of his welfare, safety and supervision” while he was living at the football house as a minor.

“My client has shown a lot of courage and strength in coming forward about his abuse,” said Arnold Thomas & Becker lawyer Angela Di Carluccio.

“He is a proud and well respected Indigenous man who has fought hard in his life to overcome his trauma and to contribute positively to his community.”

The former sportsman, who does not wish to be named, had played for the club’s Under 19s side but left the game soon after the alleged assault.

In documents before the court, he claims the Cats were “vicariously liable for the abuse” because they employed the three alleged perpetrators.

Those three players have not been named in the writ, and have not been added as co-defendants.

“(Geelong FC) placed senior players in a position where they had authority, power, trust, control and the ability to achieve intimacy over the plaintiff, which afforded them the opportunity to abuse (him),” the document states.

“The Plaintiff was vulnerable by reason of his age, displacement from family and dislocation from his home.”

The writ, which has been served to the club, also alleges that Geelong FC failed to protect minors from abuse, to separate minors from adults at Aberdeen House, to supervise the house parent and provide channels to report incidents.

As a result of the alleged assault, the ex-player claims to have suffered a psychiatric injury that led to a loss of earnings and earning capacity, and medical and like expenses.

Ms Di Carluccio said the Cats had “a duty to care for his welfare and safety” while he lived at the property.

“There was a failure to properly supervise Aberdeen House or separate my client from players who were adult men,” she said.

A Geelong FC spokeswoman said the club was unable to comment.

During a recent sale of Aberdeen House, the vendors reported that people in the community would walk up to them and tell them of the Cats’ link to the property, and that they “went to some wild parties here”.

A listing agent selling the home in 2021 told the Geelong Advertiser it was purchased by the club during its 1963 premiership year, and operated as a residence for country players.

The agent said the property was retained by the Cats until the late 1980s or early 1990s, and previously had a unit in the backyard where the house mother resided.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:57 am
by mighty_tiger_79
Danger with a partially collapsed lung and cracked ribs

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:25 pm
by Booney
During Chris Scott’s 300 Games
- Carlton have gone through 5 coaches
- Essendon have gone through 6 coaches
- St.Kilda have gone through 5 coaches
- North Melbourne have gone through 5 coaches

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:36 pm
by Dutchy
Booney wrote:During Chris Scott’s 300 Games
- Carlton have gone through 5 coaches
- Essendon have gone through 6 coaches
- St.Kilda have gone through 5 coaches
- North Melbourne have gone through 5* coaches


*includes caretaker coaches

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:40 pm
by whufc
I know Geelong have been all in regarding a list to win a flag here and now and they have achieved that, so it has to be considered somewhat. successful.

IF Geelong are to miss the finals and with a Tassie team on the horizon will this force Geelong to go into a full rebuild mode and release/trade more of the over 30's than they had originally planned.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:51 pm
by Booney
whufc wrote:I know Geelong have been all in regarding a list to win a flag here and now and they have achieved that, so it has to be considered somewhat. successful.

IF Geelong are to miss the finals and with a Tassie team on the horizon will this force Geelong to go into a full rebuild mode and release/trade more of the over 30's than they had originally planned.


Hawkins, Smith - 34
Tuohy, Dangerfield - 33
Stanley, Ceglar, Blicavs - 32
Rohan, Duncan, Menegola - 31
Guthrie, Stewart, Cameron - 30

13 players that you could argue have their best football behind them. We've been writing them off as too old for a long time but it feels like the end is getting closer now and the reason is many of these are their keys, still.

Cameron and Hawkins still one of the best 1/2 forward duos in the comp.
Stanley, Blicavs and Ceglar are their ruck division.
Stewart and Tuohy are their back line generals.
Dangerfield, Smith, Duncan (fading quickly though) and Guthrie are still some of their best mids.

System and culture will ensure they remain in the race but the likes of Parfitt, Bruhn, Homes, Clark and Atkins need to push Dangerfield, Smith, Duncan and Guthrie out of the midfield and make it theirs in the next 18 months.

Re: Geelong

PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 2:17 pm
by Mr Beefy
Booney wrote:
whufc wrote:I know Geelong have been all in regarding a list to win a flag here and now and they have achieved that, so it has to be considered somewhat. successful.

IF Geelong are to miss the finals and with a Tassie team on the horizon will this force Geelong to go into a full rebuild mode and release/trade more of the over 30's than they had originally planned.


Hawkins, Smith - 34
Tuohy, Dangerfield - 33
Stanley, Ceglar, Blicavs - 32
Rohan, Duncan, Menegola - 31
Guthrie, Stewart, Cameron - 30

13 players that you could argue have their best football behind them. We've been writing them off as too old for a long time but it feels like the end is getting closer now and the reason is many of these are their keys, still.

Cameron and Hawkins still one of the best 1/2 forward duos in the comp.
Stanley, Blicavs and Ceglar are their ruck division.
Stewart and Tuohy are their back line generals.
Dangerfield, Smith, Duncan (fading quickly though) and Guthrie are still some of their best mids.

System and culture will ensure they remain in the race but the likes of Parfitt, Bruhn, Homes, Clark and Atkins need to push Dangerfield, Smith, Duncan and Guthrie out of the midfield and make it theirs in the next 18 months.

Out of those listed, Id imagine Smith. Tuohy, Menegola are certainties not to be there next year. Ceglar might be delisted, Hawkins might retire.