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Player #27 - Scott Selwood
Pictured: It was a big night at the Bayswater Aged Care centre when 22 was called out in each of the first four bingo games.
Scott "Joel's brother" Selwood is one of the 'other' Geelong players, noting 95% of their fans seem to know the 'holy trinity', Hawkins at full forward and Harry Taylor, that's it.
Scott Selwood was one of four brothers to have played AFL football, along with Joel (the good one) and twins Troy and Adam. Clearly the parents of modern AFL kids could learn a thing or two from the Selwood parents (what the hell is a Sharrod, a Farren or one of the 18 different spellings of Rhylijee?) Scott was once the Vice Captain at West Coast Eagles and one of the 14 who captained the side during the 2014 season. Can't believe a club with Ben Cousins, Daniel Kerr, Chad Fletcher etc. would have had leadership issues but there you go.
After West Coast decided one slow inside mid was enough in their side Scott Selwood sought greater opportunity and Geelong, building a side to fall spectacularly off a cliff in either 2019 or 2020, decided that they would bid on him as a Restricted Free Agent, as in the interest from the AFL community was restricted to one team. He was recruited primarily as someone with a famous surname who was under the age of 35 which Geelong don't seem to want to abandon as a strategy any time soon. The last time someone was granted such undeserving opportunity on the basis of a surname in this country Frances Abbott ended up with a scholarship at design school. Coincidentally, guess what Scott's middle name is?
Making his name as a tagger in the footsteps of one of the game's best (Cameron "Considered attractive for a Corio native" Ling), Scott quickly established himself as 'the kid we have to play with because he's the captain's brother'. A tagger who is about as offensive as a Fitzroy North kindergarden curriculum, Scott managed to reduce his output in every statistical category from 2017 to 2018, with the only exception being time on ground which, if you've seen him play, I assume means the time he's physically off his feet on the ground. I guess in all the years Dank and the Weapon spent at Geelong they never quite got around to curing vertigo. He really should invest in some long stops although I bet their u18 talent manager (Mick Turner) probably couldn't help, himself not knowing what the word "stop" means.
Anyway Scott Selwood is contracted for next year and as he'll be 29 before the start of next season so here's to hoping he can match or better his 13 game output of 2018. Tim Kelly is gone after next year so there should still be a list spot open for him then, too.
Scotty, Scooter, Francis. Good luck next year and welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.
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