Cat Hatters,
The Pontiff's Seed is very strong indeed.
There's little doubting that Gary Ablett Jnr is the best player in the caper...on a week in, week out basis.
SC Roos says so, so it must be right.
37 touches, all of them effectual.
Swans were pretty well smashed in the forwards as the lack of multiple goal kickers in the score box in a ten goal football lesson will tell anyone, with Bradshaw for instance, sat on like a pumpkin.
As always, Geelong had loose men everywhere in the opposition's backline; the Swan's backs appeared to be paralysed by the fear of having goals kicked on them, and look what happened.
Except The Great Irishman, who tried his heart out and did some good work, but he'll be the first to tell you you can't do it all on your own, unless you are The Son Of God.
The Goodes Train might have even pinched a Brownlow point in a badly beaten side, given that he's the umpire's pet, but probably not.
Don't know that any particular structural problems were exposed, just a simple case of class will always win out in the end.
An absolute disgrace that Shane "Mummy" Mumford was rubbed out for two weeks by the court jesters and fools down at the Tribunal for putting a decent innocent tackle on Ablett, who must by now have been added to the list of protected species.
And a guiltless man gets his marching orders with no priors and no intent.
What a travesty of 'justice'.
The Three Wise Men obviously rejected Mumford's defence of "I was always taught, yr honour, yr worship, that the whole purpose of a good tackle was to grind the other bloke's face into the dirt".
Mumford, the former Cat, wasn't even reported, but there's an assumption by the powers that be that he had some kind of vendetta going in revenge for omission by Geelong from their 2009 Grand Final line-up.
Errant nonsense.
Mummy said before the game "I've moved on, they've moved on..." and what's to say anyone doesn't believe him, apart from conspiracy theorists?
The bloke would have to be very disappointed to be on the receiving end of special treatment and the resultant bad taste in the mouth.
The Tribunal members, Wayne Henwood, David Pittman and Wayne Schimmelbusch, are just about due for a session in the Room Full Of Mirrors down on the Balmain Road, for mine.
As a result, Sydney have no ruckmen, apart from Mike Pyke, who is still missing the lineout from his rugby union days.
SC Roos took his yardstick to Kardina Park and found it to be about a foot short.
Purple patch aside, will have to do better than that to loom as any kind of threat in September.
The question was raised in the Front Bar down at The Local mid-week as to who SC Roos might put on Big Bad Barry Hall on the wastelands of Manuka Oval this weekend.
It was mentioned over drinks that someone had heard that Tagh Kennelly was quoted on interview saying that it will be "rather weird" playing against BBB, but then pointed out that Barry is in reality just a big soft fluffy puppy.
So, the imbibers speculated, SC Roos would be thinking about putting a hard man on a hard man.
In that case, The Great Irishman springs to mind as the pea.
Although, it was agreed, you could get Lewis "The Ugliest Man In Football" Roberts-Thompson to put in a merciless close tagging job, climb all over Hall like a cheap suit, give him the complete shits, discreetly knee him in the balls in backplay, and provoke the round arm haymaker.
Then it would be Goodbye Mr Chips, once and for all.
GEELONG: 4.0, 7.4, 12.8, 19.12 (126). Goals: Podsiadly 5, Varcoe 3, Chapman 3, Ablett 2, Johnson 2, Blake, Hogan, Kelly, Byrnes
SYDNEY: 3.0, 5.2, 7.3, 9.5 (59). Goals: Jack 2, Goodes, White, McVeigh, Barlow, Bradshaw, O'Keefe, Rohan.
At Kardinia Park.
Crowd: 25,970.
For the Mighty Tiges, the easiest two premiership points they'll get all season - except for the other bye.
More than the Storm will get.
After having a bushman's holiday coaching Straya to a predictable win over the Kiwis while nervously watching his marquee player turn out for the opposition, SC Sheens is now resting comfortably after undergoing the first round of hair loss restoration prescription treatment down at Ashley & Martin.
Happy to leave the team up to Folkesy, Roycey & Skando for a fortnight.
WEST TIGERS: Bye.
