I take my hat off to the team for responding so well to the 2008 GF loss. This year, I noticed less empahsis on revolutionising football, scoring 25 goals per game and winning every game to get the minor premiership.
What I noticed instead was a club following the more traditional model for premiership success:
- not busting your gut to necessarially win every single game but doing enough to get the double chance
- resting players as required
- peaking in September rather than August
- less goals (355 less points over the 22 minor round games v 2008, almost 3 goals less per game)
- more traditional defence, more grind (hey, they slowed the game up with the best of them at times yesterday)
Result = premiership. Well played Geelong
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:42 pm
Now I'm reading what I posted last night and the hangover monster has come for an extended stay!