Hiberbliss
Here at The Terrace, it’s been a long time between premiership drinks. We’ve just awoken from almost two months of post-premiership hiberbliss and, we’re delighted to say, we’ve still got that special tingle inside. So much so we’re looking forward to reliving the glory again, and again and again. Did someone say glory again?
Today, it’s the second biggest day (after Monday night football day, if you know what we mean) in the football calendar: draft day. Yawn. We might just head back to the cat cave to enjoy a few more weeks of hiberbliss before we wake to the magic of Christmas and find the special premiership DVD pack – rumour has it the KROCK commentary is worth the wait, Cats y-fronts and Harmsy and Paul Daffey’s 2009 Footy Almanac inside our premiership garry hocking…ummm…I mean stocking.
In the meantime, enjoy reading this cracking article about Bill McMaster and Stephen Wells, Geelong’s recruiting officers from the last 36 years. I think you’ll agree they’ve done a fine job. Unfortunately one of our favourite finds, the ‘Mummy’ Mumford, won’t be with us to celebrate back to back in ’10. On that note, who has been, in your opinion, the most anticipated but ultimately disappointing recruit or draft pick in recent times? Brett Spinks? Steven Hooper? Brian Peake? Gary Ayres? Stephen O’Reilly? Brent Grgic?
Zzzzzzz……….
The Terrace
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Dear Buddha
For my money it is undoubtedly G Ayres who I believe to this day was a Hawthorn spy sent to destroy us. And for quite some time he did just that including ending the career of GOD. Never let us forget that it was Ayres who singlehandedly in the face of overwhelming pressure cut down possibly our greatest ever player by calling an end to Gazza’s brilliant efforts. Would you believe in the ‘two’s’ at the G against Richmond (of all teams). What a DISGRACE! Damn you Ayres…Damn you I say…but for you we would have been the greatest team of all MUCH sooner!
Swap
PS: NEVER EVER let a former Hawthorn player coach Geelong again for they cannot be trusted!
It was just before my time, but until a Fighter-Jet lands at the Cattery Brian Peake will always take the cake with his helicopter entrance to the Cats faithful.
As a Dual Geelong/East Freo supporter lets just say Harry Taylor’s instant success has made feel a lot better about Peake’s time (Or soap opera if you will) with the Cats.
A piece of class and speed with WA and the Sharks, Peake was awarded “Player of the State Carnival”. He was refered to often as “The Best Player in Australia”.
He then came to Sleepy Hollow and promptly slept. He showed next to nothing but lazy inconsistency and spent many a game playing like a wounded kitten for a small number of seasons at the Cats.
Finally Geelong threw him even the Captaincy in final season to see if that might jolt him in to a third of the player he was in the West. In fairness to Peake it was the only thing that saw him play some decent football.
However, it never matched his pre-helicopter form or arguably the form he showed the next year back across the desert at East Fremantle Oval.
I heard him interviewed on the radio once and he said “His inconsistency was Geelong’s fault for playing him out of postion, also that he only chose Geelong out of the ten VFL club’s after him cause they told him he could surf there.. and that despite being so hardly done by he still supported us”.
Great to know after all those tough things we made him do: such as what we can safely presume was giving him the largest amount money ever for a VFL player at the time. And then handing him the captaincy after seeing such little value for that cash, to see if it would maybe help his confidence and the club could save some face…
Yet he can still find it in his heart to support The Hoops.. what a trooper!