Brownlow Medal 2022

[ElwoodBlues1]

Geelong tell that story better than any other team in the competition.

Everyone likes to call them dads army, but they have really smashed it out of the park with their approach.

North Melbourne were doing alright too until they stopped being able to attract a decent player.

Probably an art to picking the right dads and I think the Cats have worked on the theory that the odds have to turn your way if you keep making finals and giving yourself a chance.
The other thing which I have said before that favours them is essentially being a regional club ,they have that lure of lifestyle and return home factor along with virtually their own U18 team(Falcons) where most of those kids want to play with the Cats given the choice and the good ones who get taken by other clubs are always teased by the Cats to come back home.. You add strong local comps where they get also get good players from ie Stewart, Atkins, Henry and its a bit easier to keep the momentum going so you dont have to keep hitting up good players in the draft. Great management and recruiting helps for sure...who would have had money on them turning the troublesome Stengle into a AA player, his career was fecked but some how they made him come good...maybe Eddie was the key.