Team of Quarter Century (2000 - 2024)

[Sttew]

Here is the Herald Sun’s Cats team:

GEELONG

best TEAM 2000-24

B: Darren Milburn, Matthew Scarlett, Tom Harley

HB: Corey Enright, Harry Taylor, Tom Stewart

C: Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey, Cam Guthrie

HF: Steve Johnson, Jeremy Cameron, Gary Ablett

F: Tyson Stengle, Tom Hawkins, Paul Chapman

FOLL: Brad Ottens, Patrick Dangerfield, Joel Selwood

INT: Cameron Ling, Mark Blicavs, James Kelly, Andrew Mackie, Steven King. COACH: Mark Thompson

Thoughts? I’m inclined to swap Chris Scott as coach for Bomber. 2 premierships each, but longevity on Scott’s side.

Also, no Duncan. Do we need Steven King as backup ruckman with Blicavs and Hawkins in team?

 

[terry_bright]

Here is the Herald Sun’s Cats team:

GEELONG

best TEAM 2000-24

B: Darren Milburn, Matthew Scarlett, Tom Harley

HB: Corey Enright, Harry Taylor, Tom Stewart

C: Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey, Cam Guthrie

HF: Steve Johnson, Jeremy Cameron, Gary Ablett

F: Tyson Stengle, Tom Hawkins, Paul Chapman

FOLL: Brad Ottens, Patrick Dangerfield, Joel Selwood

INT: Cameron Ling, Mark Blicavs, James Kelly, Andrew Mackie, Steven King. COACH: Mark Thompson

Thoughts? I’m inclined to swap Chris Scott as coach for Bomber. 2 premierships each, but longevity on Scott’s side.

Also, no Duncan. Do we need Steven King as backup ruckman with Blicavs and Hawkins in team?

Flip of the coin for coach IMO.
I'd drop King & Stengle, replace with Mooney and Duncan.

 

[cats_09]

From the article:

Every player in the team - repeat EVERY - has earned an All-Australian jumper during their career...

...The unluckiest player to miss is Mitch Duncan who has been consistently good for a long time and played in two flags but he lost out to Steven King as the back-up ruckman and his current teammate Cam Guthrie who has won two best fairests, one in a premiership year.

King was the dominant big man in the game in the early 2000s, captaining the club, winning multiple best and fairests and a flag.

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[you pick one]

They are ****ing joking no Gary Hocking.

 

[cats_09]

They are ****ing joking no Gary Hocking.

Not sure if serious

This is for team of the last 25 years - with Hocking retiring following the 2001 season, he would have needed phenomenal couple of seasons to end his career to squeeze into the side

Riccardi is one who would have been on the fringes of selection, but as they said, his best seasons were the late 90s rather than the early 00s

 

[you pick one]

Not sure if serious

This is for team of the last 25 years - with Hocking retiring following the 2001 season, he would have needed phenomenal couple of seasons to end his career to squeeze into the side

Riccardi is one who would have been on the fringes of selection, but as they said, his best seasons were the late 90s rather than the early 00s

I took it as a players career was evaluated if listed during that time does Cameron's time at GWS count and so on.

 

[cats_09]

I took it as a players career was evaluated if listed during that time does Cameron's time at GWS count and so on.

It doesn't really go into any detail on what criteria they used such as, "is Cameron's selection based on Geelong only form or combined GWS/Geelong form"

The comment about Riccardi is the only time in the article it mentioned the time period in regards to a players selection

Stengle over Stokes seemed to come down to the corner earning an AA Blazer in his first season with us, though longevity wise I'd have thought Stokes or Duncan over Tyson


It really just seems more an excuse for Scott Gullan to name his favourite players to have pulled on the Hoops since the turn of the century

 

[you pick one]

It doesn't really go into any detail on what criteria they used such as, "is Cameron's selection based on Geelong only form or combined GWS/Geelong form"

The comment about Riccardi is the only time in the article it mentioned the time period in regards to a players selection

Stengle over Stokes seemed to come down to the corner earning an AA Blazer in his first season with us, though longevity wise I'd have thought Stokes or Duncan over Tyson


It really just seems more an excuse for Scott Gullan to name his favourite players to have pulled on the Hoops since the turn of the century

One way or the other it would be hard to pick a bad team we have been blessed.

 

[iameviljez]

B: Darren Milburn, Matthew Scarlett, Tom Harley
HB: Corey Enright, Harry Taylor, Tom Stewart
C: Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey, Cam Guthrie
HF: Steve Johnson, Jeremy Cameron, Gary Ablett
F: Tyson Stengle, Tom Hawkins, Paul Chapman
FOLL: Brad Ottens, Patrick Dangerfield, Joel Selwood
INT: Cameron Ling, Mark Blicavs, James Kelly, Andrew Mackie, Steven King. COACH: Mark Thompson

Hmm.

B: Harley, Scarlett, Enright
HB: Stewart, Taylor, C Guthrie
C: Corey, Bartel, Selwood
HF: Chapman, Cameron, Stokes
FF: Stengle, Hawkins, SJ
R: King, Ablett, Dangerfield
INT: Sanderson, Ling, Blicavs, Milburn
EMG: Kelly, Graham, Kelly

Coach: Scott

 

[catscratchfever]

B: Harley, Scarlett, Enright
HB: Stewart, Harry, Mackie
C: Corey, Bartel, Selwood
HF: Chappy, Jezza, Stevie J
F: Tyson, Tomahawk, Gryan
R: Ottens, GAJ, Danger


INT: Cling, Blitz, King
EMG: Kelly, Cuthrie, Zuthrie

Coach: Chris Scott

 

[Sttew]

Hmm.

B: Harley, Scarlett, Enright
HB: Stewart, Taylor, C Guthrie
C: Corey, Bartel, Selwood
HF: Chapman, Cameron, Stokes
FF: Stengle, Hawkins, SJ
R: King, Ablett, Dangerfield
INT: Sanderson, Ling, Blicavs, Milburn
EMG: Kelly, Graham, Kelly

Coach: Scott

No Ottens?

 

[iameviljez]

No Ottens?

I had King in front of him, and in terms of second ruck, Blicavs is in front of both.

King was genuinely the best ruck in the AFL at his peak. Ottens wasn't.

 

[Vdubs]

Hmm.

B: Harley, Scarlett, Enright
HB: Stewart, Taylor, C Guthrie
C: Corey, Bartel, Selwood
HF: Chapman, Cameron, Stokes
FF: Stengle, Hawkins, SJ
R: King, Ablett, Dangerfield
INT: Sanderson, Ling, Blicavs, Milburn
EMG: Kelly, Graham, Kelly

Coach: Scott

Tim Kelly as emerg?
2 seasons as a Cat
No Ottens?

 

[Vdubs]

I had King in front of him, and in terms of second ruck, Blicavs is in front of both.

King was genuinely the best ruck in the AFL at his peak. Ottens wasn't.

No Ottens- no 07 flag.

 

[Sttew]

I had King in front of him, and in terms of second ruck, Blicavs is in front of both.

King was genuinely the best ruck in the AFL at his peak. Ottens wasn't.

Ottens a better mark and around the ground IMO. I agree with Vdubs. No Ottens no 07 premiership

 

[iameviljez]

No Ottens- no 07 flag.

Sure, but it's not King's fault that we weren't in flag contention in 2000 till 2003.

 

[iameviljez]

Ottens a better mark and around the ground IMO. I agree with Vdubs. No Ottens no 07 premiership

Completely disagree with the "around the ground" bit, that was King's forte. Ottens was better up forward, and obviously more durable, but Kingy was better around the ground, and in the era before Dean Cox and ridiculously high team possession counts, too.

I think we tend to disregard how good some of our best players from our non-premiership eras were. IMO if you threw Ben Graham, Leigh Colbert, Ronnie Burns or Steven King (the non-cooked version) into our 07-11 era, they'd be in this team as well.

 

[iameviljez]

Tim Kelly as emerg?
2 seasons as a Cat
No Ottens?

Jeremy Cameron starting CHF from only 4 seasons as a Cat.

 

[Vdubs]

Completely disagree with the "around the ground" bit, that was King's forte. Ottens was better up forward, and obviously more durable, but Kingy was better around the ground, and in the era before Dean Cox and ridiculously high team possession counts, too.

I think we tend to disregard how good some of our best players from our non-premiership eras were. IMO if you threw Ben Graham, Leigh Colbert, Ronnie Burns or Steven King (the non-cooked version) into our 07-11 era, they'd be in this team as well.

And Riccardi

 

[Vdubs]

Jeremy Cameron starting CHF from only 4 seasons as a Cat.

Freak player with more upside than than all Cats I've seen since the other #5.

 

[iameviljez]

Freak player with more upside than than all Cats I've seen since the other #5.

More than GAJ???

 

[Mr Meow]

Here is the Herald Sun’s Cats team:

GEELONG

best TEAM 2000-24

B: Darren Milburn, Matthew Scarlett, Tom Harley

HB: Corey Enright, Harry Taylor, Tom Stewart

C: Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey, Cam Guthrie

HF: Steve Johnson, Jeremy Cameron, Gary Ablett

F: Tyson Stengle, Tom Hawkins, Paul Chapman

FOLL: Brad Ottens, Patrick Dangerfield, Joel Selwood

INT: Cameron Ling, Mark Blicavs, James Kelly, Andrew Mackie, Steven King. COACH: Mark Thompson

Thoughts? I’m inclined to swap Chris Scott as coach for Bomber. 2 premierships each, but longevity on Scott’s side.

Also, no Duncan. Do we need Steven King as backup ruckman with Blicavs and Hawkins in team?

One of Stewart or Milburn can surely play tall enough to remove Harley and add a half back/wingman with excellent skills: Duncan.

If Holmes backs up his 2024 over the next 2 seasons he's an automatic in for King (rather a wingman than a second ruckman). Blicavs can fill that role.

Otherwise not much to complain about.

 

[Vdubs]

More than GAJ???

Close.
JC's very best is magical
I'd go
1.Senior
2.Junior
=2.JC
4.Danger
now that you've asked

 

[Hinkley29]

No Ottens- no 07 flag.

I could have played in the ruck and we would have won that flag.

 

[Vdubs]

I could have played in the ruck and we would have won that flag.

and in the Prelim?