TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL IF CATS WANT TO KICK ON

LAST year l wrote in about the Cats and Groundhog Day. Well we’re still on the same merry-goround and that elephant in the room is turning into a herd. Once again those first quarters are killing us. The controlled game style might stand up in most home-and-away games but it gets destroyed in the cauldron of finals.

This, together with the fact that Chris Scott continues to play older guys in preference to the young players, means the club could be heading for some really lean years.

His treatment of Charlie Constable has been mind-boggling and Narkle, Clark and Evans not much better. We will lose the first three. Then we get to his favourites – it took two years of abysmal form from Dahlhaus to finally get dropped. Kolodjashnij is the invisible man who gets pencilled in (permanent marker) every week and contributes nothing and the faith in Ratugolea is astounding when he takes one mark and drops 10. The development of players must be seriously questioned as well. So many get to a certain level and then plateau and the same guys are continually inept in the spotlight of finals.

We have the most finals experience of any team but unfortunately it’s a losing experience. Some say competing every year is far better than not making the eight. I can see the argument but my reply is, the worst feeling supporters can have is losing a final and we’ve had 15 under Scott.

The coach spills out the same tripe at the end of every year and is just too pig-headed to admit he’s got it wrong. The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome. Stop the insanity, Geelong, it’s time for new voices, young players and a complete overhaul of the existing game style. Geoff Short, Marshall