Dual All-Australian Kane Cornes believes reigning premier Geelong is taking part in like a staff that’s “satisfied” after dropping its third-straight recreation to open the season.
Sunday’s loss to Gold Coast noticed the Cats grew to become the one staff remaining that’s but to win a recreation in 2023, sitting 18th on the ladder with a proportion of 83.
And Cornes instructed the alarm bells needs to be ringing, highlighting feedback from Jeremy Cameron on former AFL participant’s Tom Sheridan’s Tommy Talks podcast as additional trigger from concern the place the star ahead spoke about his “horrible” first steps again to 2023 pre-season.
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“The knee blew up, limping down the road 300 metres in, skin folds were over 120. All you think about is beer fumes and just food, that many Maccas burgers and hash browns, egg and bacons,” Cameron stated on the Tommy Talks podcast.
“It’s a proper month of just (going for it), then it comes a time and it’s like overnight, the fingers just click and you’re like: ‘We have to do it again here’. It’s just a horrible feeling when that comes.
“I still haven’t looked the dietitian in the eye.”
Cornes questioned how different Cats would’ve fared coming off the membership’s post-premiership celebrations, noting how he already had queries on the membership for trying “a little bit comfortable” in its Round 1 loss to Collingwood.
“Jeremy Cameron can probably get away with that … he’s got the talent to do that and flick the switch,” he stated on SEN.
“But if his teammates have also celebrated like that, I’ll ask you the question — can Zach Tuohy get away with living off beer fumes and hash browns for breakfast?
“Can Tom Atkins do the same — because he’s not the same player that was jumping on landmines for his teammates last year. Can Zach Guthrie, Gryan Miers and Brad Close do it?
“Tyson Stengle is a shadow of the All-Australian player that he was last year. Can he do it?
“This is a group that is satisfied.”
It comes after North Melbourne legend David King declared on Fox Footy’s First Crack he thinks Geelong is “cooked” and that its premiership period has come to an finish.
Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley thinks there’s “little doubt” the Cats would have a way of complacency with the way in which they’re presently taking part in.
And whereas Geelong coach Chris Scott post-match insisted the membership will “react” and never “overreact” in its bid to get its season transferring in the correct path, Buckley pointed to how the membership has dropped away in a number of areas to easily not appear like the identical staff as final yr.
“Chris Scott knows that reactions — and he would see it as an over-reaction — will come. I don’t think it will be an over-reaction, it’ll just be an analysis and a breakdown of what is actually taking place for them,” the Magpies nice stated on SEN.
“They’re just not defending. Only one team has given up more scores on turnover than Geelong and that’s Hawthorn. Until the weekend when they beat North, we thought they were very poor in their first two games.
“Geelong are last at clearances — they’ve won the least number of clearances in the competition — and we know that’s always been the starting point of any contest.
“They’re third-last for disposal efficiency, their short kicks are last and their effective kicks are last.
“The one thing that really stands out, is after Round 10 last year, they were 18th for long kicks. So they were finding short targets and were high in contested marks, but they still kept flow in their game.
“It said to me they were working really hard for the ball carrier to progress the ball forward to their dangerous forward line.
“In the first three rounds of this year, they’re first for long kicks and last for short kicks, so they’re just going long to contests more often.
“They’re missing that synergy that Chris Scott spoke about that is marginal to whether you win or you lose.
“It’s a come-to-Jesus moment for them. They’ve go to work out exactly where they’re going to go from here.”
Asked if the footy world over-estimated the Cats’ low season recruits, Buckley stated: “Their recruits were never for this year.
“Tanner Bruhn was going to add a little bit to the midfield mix. Jack Bowes should be (helping them improve), but Pick 7 helps them in the long run. And Ollie Henry is going to be better in the next two or three years.
“It’s probably as much about how they look in the next two or three years as opposed to really wanting to go to the well again.”
Originally printed as ‘Satisfied’: Cornes’ brutal evaluation of Cats as star’s post-flag feedback scrutinised
Source: www.news.com.au
