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July 12, 2006
Full Squad. Such A Good Thing?
Welcome to the news round up. Must have been a good 4-6 months since we've had one of these! Ahh, the excitement...
Firstly, as of today we officially have no injuries!
"I think we've got every senior-listed player playing and probably training for a full session which is remarkable and hasn't happened in five years. They're all playing, they're all training which is great," Thompson said shortly before the session got underway......A full list to choose from presents a welcome selection headache for the Cats who made multiple changes before last Friday's win against the Blues and won't be afraid to tinker further this week according to Thompson.
"There is a temptation there, we made four changes last week, and I think the changes we made were pretty good ones," he said.
"There's a little bit of incentive there to do it again and we haven't finalised our side at this stage."
Thompson got a good effort across the board from his team against Carlton and he said the same would be required against Port and every game thereafter if the dream of playing finals this season was to become a reality.
"Every week's an enormous challenge for us to win games, we can't make any mistakes or slip-up at all for the rest of the year," he said.
"I think there a lot of reasons why we played like we did earlier in the year and that's not an excuse any more. We've got no excuses, we're playing Port Adelaide, we're in reasonable form and they lost last week with a bit of a hiccup at home, so it'll be game-on and we just need to play our best footy."
A full list sounds great doesn't it? So you'd think we'd be a show if we picked our best 22 to play this Sunday, but then again you know what happened last time we played our "best 22" don't you? See here
In other small noteables Benny Graham will be doing a lap of honour around Skilled Stadium at approximately 12:40pm on Sunday so make sure you don't miss the chance to applaud/boo him as he makes his way around, whichever you deem appropriate.
Also the GFC show will be hitting the road after season 2006.
Geelong Football Club will take to the world stage in October to play an AFL exhibition match in London.The AFL yesterday confirmed the Cats will play their first overseas match in 15 years at The Oval, on October 21, partly as a reward for winning the NAB Cup.
The league has verbally agreed to help fund a Geelong touring party of 50, but is undecided on who the Cats will face on their British venture.
Confirmation of the deal is a massive coup for the club, whose bid to play a pre-season match in New Zealand was turned down by the AFL last season.
Chief executive Brian Cook said the UK trip would be an ideal chance to blood some of the Cats' youngsters, while promoting the club, and the game, abroad.
``We'll play a lot of younger fellows who haven't played much footy and for a lot of them who haven't travelled before, it will be like seeing another world,'' Cook said.
``And it's an opportunity also for us to have a look at some other elite training venues.''
Lastly there is rumors the club is close to striking a deal with the MCG to move our Melbourne home games there in future. It'll be great to be back at the home of football.
Posted by Sammy D at July 12, 2006 09:13 PM