How Geelong became an AFL Powerhouse for 15 Years

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How Geelong became, and stayed, an AFL powerhouse from 2007 to 2022.

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@TrueFootyAFL 4 ай бұрын

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@liamskis2677 4 ай бұрын

The 15 year dynsasty is the 15 years Joel Selwood spent playing AFL. Rising star and flag in his first season. Premiership captain in his last. Lost the brownlow to the greatest prime ever Gary Ablett Junior by a singular vote. The most courageous player ever. The highest win percentage of any player ever. He isnt the GOAT but The most perfect AFL career of all time.

@metacus9777 4 ай бұрын

I'm still devastated that Joel missed that Brownlow by one vote. I wish it had been a tie with Gaz, it would've been perfect.

@Boxing4K 4 ай бұрын

Just making the point, there is no evidence that the Geelong dynasty is over. They missed the finals last season, but I may be biased, being a cats, but I think they will bounce back into contention.

@ILOVEDADDY69 3 ай бұрын

@@Boxing4K fax, same thing happened in 2015

@bendalgleish8312 Ай бұрын

@@Boxing4K so far this season you are right

@biggi3st3v3 Ай бұрын

@@Boxing4Kmust be feeling pretty chuffed with that call 3 months on, they just don't go away lol

@sirljb8309 4 ай бұрын

It’s crazy to think how far we’ve come in the last 20-25 years. Late 90s we were $8M in debt, Kardinia park was a wreck, club in shambles. 4 flags later and a 15 year+ dynasty and a very healthy club. So proud of the catters

@ianscott424 3 ай бұрын

Frank Costa and Brian Cook - turned that club on its head. Amazing how many people don't understand the relationship between on field and off field performance - clubs that achieve both are the successful ones.

@LivncA_Dis3 Ай бұрын

Geelong is the most consistent team of the modern era

@tikkletehpikkle1758 4 ай бұрын

07-08 cats on their day beat any team. EVER.

@metacus9777 4 ай бұрын

Yep. There were no passengers in those teams.

@BobLazar1 4 ай бұрын

Literally unfair how good they were

@aondaatje 4 ай бұрын

Except Hawthorn in the GF

@lloydklumpp5650 3 ай бұрын

Aberations happen

@aondaatje 3 ай бұрын

@@lloydklumpp5650 yep. 2022 was definitely an aberration

@christiansrensen5958 4 ай бұрын

The symmetry of our score ending in 63 and Port scoring 44 to denote the drought being broken.

@TrueFootyAFL 4 ай бұрын

Haha this is a great observation

@user-fr1my8ec9g 4 ай бұрын

Mad respect to True Footy, the amount of work he puts into these videos that isn't acknowledged insane

@TrueFootyAFL 4 ай бұрын

Thanks mate that’s very kind

@MusiCatsKing 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for doing this. Much is said of our "strong culture" and "lifestyle." It's more than that. Our club actually has a character clause in our club policy. E.g. a misogynist and alleged sexual assaulter, who wrongly avoided jail in the US, Jordan De Goey, wanted to come over and the media was trying to push the idea (probably in an attempt to sabotage our club). Thankfully, Geelong did their due diligence and declared we're not interested. We are Geelong, the greatest team of all.

@MurfsYT13 4 ай бұрын

These are bloody brilliant mate. I could watch these types of videos all day.

@alessio1994 4 ай бұрын

Great video! Greetings from 🇮🇹 and Go Cats!!

@michaelk1262 Ай бұрын

As a Cats fan i was rock hard for about 13 minutes of this video (went soft when 2008 came on)

@louiscosmo4603 4 ай бұрын

i’d love a similar video to see how teams like brisbane 01-04, hawks 08-15 and tigers 17-20 were created and made - list moves, draft, coaching etc

@themaster7552 4 ай бұрын

I think one reason why they were so dominant in 2022 is because they changed their coaching staff after 2021, pretty much all of their assistant coaches were defenders, and getting fresh faces in like Eddie Betts, who also had fresh ideas and had different perspectives, was what helped them go from that shitty chipping sideways defensive game-plan, to a more attacking game style. They changed coaches the right way, a lot of clubs (Carlton) make the mistake of just sacking the head coach because they ain't winning, but keep all the assistant coaches, and the new head coach will just be given the same ideas by those assistants, and the club will keep losing games. That's one thing Geelong got right.

@maxshiraz3447 2 ай бұрын

Geelong's history goes back more than 126 years. AFL needs to recognize pre-VFL history

@michaelk1262 Ай бұрын

ok nuffy

@OwlJohlson 4 ай бұрын

Just like to say, in the depressing moments of the AFL off-season and no footy you bring joy to us all and keep the season alive beyond its ending. You are a legend ❤

@TrueFootyAFL 4 ай бұрын

Thanks mate that means a lot! Glad I've been able to add some value!

@lawlordummett2851 4 ай бұрын

The 11.23 is a bit misleading considering the amount of rushed behinds in the 08 grand final

@klokar21 4 ай бұрын

The AFL changing the rules so no team could rush the ball out of bounds or for a behind is proof of how bad of a game 2008 was.

@agimrakipi4908 2 ай бұрын

Let’s assume 6 were rushed at 17 generally missed they still would’ve beat the hawks but hey it was the hawks day and no one can take that away from them

@PaddyOC19 Ай бұрын

and to think we were close to having an extra 3-4 premierships... there would be no debate in the best team dynasty ever

@Boxing4K 18 күн бұрын

Well, I'm a pretty old, long time Cats fan, and the only year we could genuinely say the premiership got away from us, is 2008, and to a lesser degree, 2010, all the others, we were in the mix, but we, for one reason or another, were found wanting.

@PaddyOC19 18 күн бұрын

@@Boxing4K I think 2013 is definitely close considering we had a reasonable lead at 3qt and almost sent it to extra time but Varcoe missed a relatively simple kick on the run. 2019 PF too was really unlucky, we were on a roll but finished the half with 7.8 and could have easily had a few extra goals which would have silenced the tigers. 2020 was just frustrating but that was definitely a winnable one too in my opinion.

@ytQrash 4 ай бұрын

As a Cats fan since the day I first saw an AFL match, this was great! Succinct yet detailed. P.S. I'm already subscribed and have enjoyed all the content so far.

@TOGFszn Ай бұрын

There back in the run 💪💪

@klokar21 4 ай бұрын

This is your best video yet, well done.

@teddownum7428 4 ай бұрын

Excellent vid, Jesse. Thanks!

@Sammy25100 4 ай бұрын

Great video, really well done here! I love this video essay style content.

@radstevens 4 ай бұрын

great video mate, well done and GO CATS!

@AlexWilliams-yd4dv 4 ай бұрын

Great vid mate

@kurt72oct 12 күн бұрын

Thank You for a wonderful video

@PiesFooty 7 күн бұрын

Good stuff, Jesse!

@VitaminXism 2 ай бұрын

Great video

@3mmzy 4 ай бұрын

Loved this

@anthonyvincenzo- 4 ай бұрын

Love this type of Vid

@EDD8209 4 ай бұрын

Great video as always cats fan though you didn’t mention how we changed the game. Play on at all costs moving it quickly. Also everyone snaps around the corner nowadays but it was originally known as the J curve. Stevie J brought this shot into the game now everyone does it.

@jeremybean-hodges6397 4 ай бұрын

That was great, but it was really only our gameplan for two years. After that, Lyon and Clarkson changed the game again.

@ThePatster93 4 ай бұрын

Been a fan for a while now but your quality of content has had a massive jump up the last month or so. Keen to see more! I am hesitant to share this one with my mates cause im already labeled as a one eye geelong nuffie... can i request a video on Adam Goodes so i can share your channel? 😂

@Swizzy-D 4 ай бұрын

Unreal mate, you’ve done a fantastic job encapsulating how we Catters fans all felt from 2022. The constant heartbreak of Finals losses, the ever mounting criticism, the media hounding the club to stop bucking the trend and to finally commit to dropping down the ladder to get top draft picks. 2022 vindicated the entire club. It may well be the end of a very long and very fun era but we appreciate you shining a spotlight on it for us. So thankyou! P.S: Would love for you to continue this as a series style thing for multiple other teams. Would love to hear more about teams like the 3 Peat Lions, the Bloods 2005 win and culture that set them up long term for success, the greatest team ever to never win it in 2009-2010 St Kilda The under”Dogs” 2016 Premiership win, the Dees 2021 Curse breaker. Any one of them or all of them would be fantastic content.

@joelmeeke6180 3 ай бұрын

Why do you think they’re no longer that powerhouse. Because we fall out of finals last year 2023. We did that in 2015 too then got going again. It’s our superior club culture is our reason. Our saviour Frank Costa… one of his biggest values is to never stay complacent… always look to improve in all areas… plus surround yourself with good people…. And “character first talent second”. These are some of the building foundations of our rebuilt culture since 1999. That culture doesn’t just go over night just because we’ve had one of our biggest leaders in Selwood retire. I’m getting fucking frustrated with people falling into the weird trap of believing the jealous critics that “that’s it Geelong powerhouse era’s over”. Not even sufficient enough proof to prove that!

@gwilkes5325 3 ай бұрын

Legit, I did a few predictions this year, and obviously without some outside factors like injuries, random surges from lower teams, etc. I couldn’t have Geelong lower than 6th, still got a good list, experienced, and with 9 games I think at Kardinia, I’m almost certain they’re gonna bounce back right into finals

@melukaussie7128 2 ай бұрын

Amazing insight, especially coming from an unbiased perspective. As a Geelong supporter, I am sick of innuendoes from other supporters that we cheat, who pay players on the side as we offer less salary etc. In this day and age that is impossible with how much scrutiny each club gets in the terms of financial and other aspects of running these clubs. So, thank you! Geelong has a great Culture and I believe that is the core of a club's success. On top of that, the turnaround was Brian Cook who I believe will do the same for Carlton as he has done for West Coast and Geelong. Carlton is a pure example of bad culture with great talent! Also not to forget the late Frank Costa who has invested so much money into our Club. People have to remember Geelong were on the brinks of collapse in the not so past. We may have had to merge or to this day be no existent. Which for the second founding AFL team after Melbourne only be 24 hours, would have been a travesty. Anyone that wants to hate on this comment or Geelong, I couldn't care less to be honest. LOl True footy, I watch most of your videos anyway, regardless on the topic or which team. They are all so insightful and interesting.! Bring on 2024, cannot wait for the season to begin as it will be close! Good luck to all teams and GO Cats!!!

@colincolenso Ай бұрын

Geelong took 2023 to do a rebuild, back on the top of the ladder in 2024 with 7 straight wins. LOL 18 straight years of being competitive. They've changed the way AFL teams think about team building.

@BDub2024 4 ай бұрын

I have two words for BRIAN COOK. He did his magic at Eagles before being shifted out... Then Geelong... now Carlton. And surprise surprise they're back contending for premierships again.

@Boxing4K 4 ай бұрын

I agree, and you could throw in Stephen Wells too, he's very good at spotting talent.

@BDub2024 3 ай бұрын

Remember he organised the grand stands and ground development at Geelong... playing cricket there etc.

@my2cents198 Ай бұрын

And Frank Costa

@therealENENRA 4 ай бұрын

Carn the mighty cats!!

@TimSempreForzaToroFVCG 4 ай бұрын

There’s no team I loathe more than Geelong. Hawthorn and Richmond’s dynasties didn’t annoy me the way Geelong smashing teams every week from 2007 onwards did. I would rather Collingwood win the flag every year than Geelong ever win again. Go Lions 🦁

@melukaussie7128 2 ай бұрын

Tim, can I ask why the hate in Geelong? Funnily enough, I think Brisbane are a great team. Contended for years and will win a flag in the not so distance future. I will be heading to Brisbane for the game! GO Cats!

@denggarambang1151 Ай бұрын

Go Cats!

@6Thouxaan 19 күн бұрын

Far Out, remember when Bomber and Ablett left , the whole city thought. it was over

@DesyncGaming. 4 ай бұрын

Nice vid, you should have touched on how important a lot of their father son picks have been though, Other than the brief mention of Gaz.

@EDD8209 4 ай бұрын

Only father son we had that would of gone in the top ten was hawkins. Gaz and Scarlett wouldn’t have gone in the top thirty or forty. People forget Ablett wasn’t a super star in junior footy.

@swordiexd 3 ай бұрын

I love your channel, and I love the work you put into videos, but this one was missing some absolutely crucial things that were needed to be said. You really rushed through this video, this deserves multiple parts, starting all the way back in the mid 1990's when Frank Costa acquired the club in $8 million dollars in debt to 2023 where they will be back in 2024.

@BDub2024 4 ай бұрын

Every dog has its day, even the Geelong cats. They had a long period of no flags. What goes around comes around and they have a great era. You look at Essendon and the opposite is happening.

@vampyresgraveyard3307 4 ай бұрын

Geelong was the only team to beat Collingwood in 2011, 2 regular season games and the grand final, i tipped Collingwood all games that year except when they played Geelong i tipped Geelong to beat Collingwood because i support the cats.

@gggumball 4 ай бұрын

and in the end it worked out! crazy

@ethanmason2001 4 ай бұрын

Although Geelongs AFL run has been super impressive (from a Hawks fan 😢), not finishing lower than 12th sounds like they haven’t even won the spoon, which they definitely have but only when it was a 12 team comp

@eyeballbilly 4 ай бұрын

decimated by the second world war and travel restrictions when they almost kicked us out of the league hence those spoons

@klokar21 4 ай бұрын

No other team has a longer drought for a wooden spoon than Geelong, their last spoon was in 1958, the next longest drought is your boys in 1965, then it is Sydney by a mile in 1994, goes to show why Hawthorn and Geelong are the two greatest sides of the AFL era.

@ILOVEDADDY69 3 ай бұрын

mate its gonna be a loooonnnnngggg time before we get awarded a spoon. we might of had a shit year last year but we were plagued with injuries. i think this year we can be a threat to the 8 but dont really see us doing much more than that.

@tonyvan. Ай бұрын

I think your choice of words is a bit misleading towards the end when you talk about Geelong's 'dominance' over the last fifteen years. Um what about the Hawks three peat in that period and Richmond's three premierships as well. Dominance is the Boston Celtics of the 1950's - look them up. Good video though. Thanks.

@markuswilmes3694 3 ай бұрын

Different team without j Selwoods leadership and demand for effort

@jimhaze87 Ай бұрын

Awesome Stuff.. Great Content Well Done.. Go Cats..

@BDub2024 4 ай бұрын

Yeh but look at Eagles 10 years of playing finals in the 90s... then a couple years back and they back into contention again with flag in 2006, Ended up being 18 years of power for West Coast.

@gggumball 4 ай бұрын

uhh but was it? didn't they have a bad 2000 and 2001?

@BDub2024 4 ай бұрын

@@gggumball 2 bad years out 18 for sure. What's your point. I think Geelong has missed out on finals 3 times in their block of 15. Its inevitable that a side will get injuries sometimes and take it as an opportunity to reset, as no doubt Geelong has.

@gggumball 4 ай бұрын

@@BDub2024 since 2007 Geelong has missed 2 finals. I watched something on the Eagles 2000 season being really odd with a big win immediately followed by a huge loss, followed by another big win. That was just off topic, my point is that I personally don't consider a time when a team is in a double digit position to be considered a teams powerful era

@michealriseley6261 3 ай бұрын

Having Bomber Thompson and the two blokes at the centre of the Supplements saga at Essendon surely helped. No one likes to talk about that though

@Adrian-vd4te 23 күн бұрын

aids team and aids town just a sold out team to win flags you can keep them...karma bus hits hard

@spindoctor6385 4 ай бұрын

It would be a pretty easy argument to make that they actually underperformed during this period. Four flags in 15 years of consistent top four finishes, with a core group of elite players playing most of it is a little bit light on. If they had not won in 22 (I usually hate "what if" arguments but I am making one anyway) then it would easily be looked at as a big waste of talent. No flag between 11-22 is not a good result. While it is hard to complain about four flags, it could have been better.

@Boxing4K 4 ай бұрын

And IF they'd won in 2008, your point wouldn't even matter.

@spindoctor6385 4 ай бұрын

@@Boxing4K There is still a decade without a flag with that list, even without my "what if" argument and with yours.

@Boxing4K 4 ай бұрын

@@spindoctor6385 A decade isn't that long, especially when you are giving yourselves a chance every year. Plenty of teams have been earmarked as starting a "dynasty" that never happened. Melbourne springs to mind, after 2021 all the pundits were peddling the dynasty line. Same with Collingwood in 2010. Most times teams are only really at their best for a few years, if that.

@spindoctor6385 4 ай бұрын

@@Boxing4K A decade is a long time, especially when you are giving yourself a chance every year. That is why it is easy to say they under performed. They had a "dynasty" if you want to call it that but it ended in 2011, since then they are even in flags with Sydney, Melbourne, Collingwood, West Coast and the bulldogs and way behind both Hawthorn and Richmond. That is hardly part of a dynasty. You can celebrate constant finals and top four finishes, but the only real currency is premierships.

@Boxing4K 4 ай бұрын

@@spindoctor6385 Yeah but you're conveniently skipping over the flags in 2007 and 2009. The truth is Geelong has been consistently at the top end of the competition for 20 years. Not too many other teams have that record.

@tommyandrewd 4 ай бұрын

Take out the 2022 Premiership and the video is probably why Geelong is the AFL’s biggest underachiever. Would also love a what if Dangerfield and Jeremy Cameron never joined Geelong video.

@Swizzy-D 2 ай бұрын

Now imagine if all those Home Finals were at Kardinia against MCG Tenants. Could very easily have won another 5 Premierships. Doubt Tigers get through us at Cattery as they couldn’t even beat us there in 2017 when they win the bloody thing, Hawks never bloody played us there. Dees had a horrible record there. Easy to say that when your Home field advantage gets taken away in Finals and gifted to the opposition who didn’t even earn it.

@tommyandrewd 2 ай бұрын

@@Swizzy-D no Victorian team ever played finals at their (traditional) home ground except well Melbourne, they were always played at the MCG and later Waverley.

@Swizzy-D 2 ай бұрын

@@tommyandrewd I know that, I’m just saying it plays a factor

@brettr5547 Ай бұрын

Dodgy real estate deals and brown paper bags and practically control AFL#VFL house

@seanlynch1185 4 ай бұрын

Comparing all the great teams Geelong stands out as having the worst forward line. It is 2nd rate. That's why I put other teams ahead of them.

@tikkletehpikkle1758 4 ай бұрын

07-11 cats had a very good forwardline wouldn’t call it 2nd rate, even if it was they made up for it with a star studded backline and midfield that were likely better then any team from that era.

@seanlynch1185 4 ай бұрын

@@tikkletehpikkle1758 They only had Mooney as their established key position target (average) and the only elite player was Stevie Johnson in that part of the ground. Compare that to Lions, Hawks, even Tigers (if you include T.Lynch). If Tom Hawkins at the time (2007-20011) was the player he would become post 2011 then it would have looked a bit better'. The other great teams had super stars in their forward line. Even Port Adelaide of 2004 makes their forward line look 2nd rate.

@EDD8209 4 ай бұрын

So Chapman isn’t elite? And a very very good second rate forward in Podsiadly plus Stokes and Byrnes not a bad forward.

@seanlynch1185 4 ай бұрын

@@EDD8209 Cats forwadline wasn't shit but they just clearly don't rate alongside the other teams who were stacked. Lions and Hawks were stacked.

@eyeballbilly 4 ай бұрын

if Nathan Ablett had the desire for the footy spotlight it woulda been different, check the tape on his 32 game career, he was one that got away

@aondaatje 4 ай бұрын

15 year powerhouse? 07-11 they where a powerhouse for sure then they didnt win anything for 11 years and snuck one in before coming back down the ladder.

@patrickmilner4149 4 ай бұрын

Here's an unpopular opinion. Sydney didn't deserve to be in the grand final in 2022. Collingwood would have beaten the Cats in the 2022 grand final

@lizardking9529 4 ай бұрын

Not unpopular, just a nuffy opinion. The Pies had their crack in week 1. Wrongfully had the home deck, the crowd, played out of their skins while the Cats weren't at their best and they still couldn't get it done. The way the Cats were on against the Swans they weren't losing to anyone that day.

@ILOVEDADDY69 3 ай бұрын

how did they not deserve to be there? they won the games they needed to win therefore placing them in the grandfinal. pies lost to us fair and also to swans so they defs didn't deserve to be there either lol