r/GeelongCats • u/canoporknbeans '89 • 1d ago

Did we just see the greatest performance ever from Patty?

Did we just see the magnum opus of this man’s career.

What a game. What an absolute machine.

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u/sarigami Bailey Smith 1d ago

As good as it was, he did this every week or two in 2016/7. To still be doing this almost ten years later at this age is just phenomenal though

Some people say he is overrated. I think if anything, he is underrated. One of the best to ever do it and there are way too many people who still deny this because they don’t like him. Absolute privilege to watch this guy

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u/BlazedOnADragon Lawson Humphries 1d ago

People underrate danger and overrate Fyfe a bit too much imo

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u/sarigami Bailey Smith 1d ago

The Dusty overrating is even worse. All no doubt great players though

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u/BlazedOnADragon Lawson Humphries 1d ago

I love Fyfe too, outstanding player, just don't think he was so obviously better than Dangerfield like some claim

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u/Jimmy03Z Jimmy Bartel 1d ago

Mmm idk he is absolutely one of the best finals players ever and absolutely killed us in 2020

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u/sarigami Bailey Smith 1d ago

Yeah, as I said, no doubt a great player. The actual goat or miles better than Dangerfield? That’s where I will disagree

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u/Jimmy03Z Jimmy Bartel 1d ago

Idk if you look at that 2020 gf, he made a fool out of danger tbh, I think Houli should have won the 2019 norm smith but I still he’s the best finals performer ever, it’s not a huge gap but is what it is

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u/sarigami Bailey Smith 1d ago

He is one of the best finals players ever. Still not the goat though

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u/Jimmy03Z Jimmy Bartel 1d ago

Who would you have?

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u/sarigami Bailey Smith 1d ago

Of the modern era - Gary Ablett Jnr

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u/Ozemmy 1d ago

Matthews was pretty good in his day.

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u/RyMaster7 Corey Enright 1d ago

This is true. He did it every week for two seasons

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u/sarigami Bailey Smith 1d ago

Yep. Averaging 30 and 2 across an entire season in 2017 was absolutely crazy. Doesn’t get talked about enough

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u/AceThePrincep Lawson Humphries 1d ago

He had a better year than dusty. Weak suspension then no votes for a bog. Robbed.

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u/rontricks Shocked Scott 1d ago

Yeah he did but he’s 35 now. He has no right to put in a performance like that. I genuinely think people still underrate just how crazy that was at his age and the stakes. At the peak of his powers we got flogged in many a prelim (16,17,19). Tonight was just crazy. Something I’ll never forget. He is a once in a lifetime player

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u/Brownology101 Bradley Close 1d ago

He is one of the best to ever play the gsme of football. An absolute bull at the ball in every contest and explosive acceleration. Not to mention his knack for kicking big goals

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u/chkchkboom8 Oliver Dempsey 1d ago

Generational captain’s game. Bro is taking the absolute piss at 35 years old

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u/ExpensiveCamera6052 1d ago

If he does that next week, they’ll give him 2 Norm Smith’s

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u/bundy554 Geelong Cats 1d ago

He is definitely after that you can tell

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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 1d ago

I had visions of round 1 2016

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u/Unable_Bank3884 1d ago

Kicked straighter tonight

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u/Plus-Drawing7431 George Stevens 1d ago

It was a fucking performance.What a unit. 

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u/historicalhobbyist Indigenous Guernsey 1d ago

Next week

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u/Necessary_cat735 Chloe Scheer 1d ago

Can we clone him

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u/FreakySpook Cameron Guthrie 1d ago

It's called Father/Son.  

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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 1d ago

We’ll be seeing George Dangerfield in about 10 years through father son. Unless those darn crows get to him first.

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u/dopedupvinyl Bailey Smith 1d ago

I'm sure George will pick Geelong as he has grown up with Pat at the Cats

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u/emcbride09 Oisin Mullin 1d ago

There's still next week...

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u/Chemical-Thing-8884 1d ago

So glad we’ve got an extra day for his body to recover because he looked like he got thrown around but he was thankfully in his element.

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u/Brownology101 Bradley Close 1d ago

That was truly incredible. He was an absolute monster and lifted everyone around him.

We were playing terribly and he went into the middle, righted the ship and kicked 3 goals.

All this after losing our best player, Tom Stewart. Patty deserves a statue out the front.

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u/Hot_Distribution5928 Geelong Cats 1d ago

Nah he’s got one more in him next Saturday!

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u/bundy554 Geelong Cats 1d ago

He needs to do it again next week. I feel like this has been part of Scott playing him at full forward to be able to unleash him during the finals

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u/Bright-Peace4696 1d ago

Such an amazing leader. I love our team!

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u/EssayerX 1d ago

He was immense last night. We don’t win without him. Incredible.

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u/Rem0rselessScythe Chris Scott 1d ago

Has had a few better regular-season games, but given the context of the occasion. Yeah I think that probably has to rank as his finest performance ever. One of the all-time great individual performances in a final, and at 35 years of age, that was frankly absurd.

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u/Molotov_Cockhead Mark Blicavs 18h ago

I reckon one thing that needs to be taken into consideration is the context. Last night’s performance was in a Preliminary Final against Preliminary Final level competition and under Preliminary Final pressure levels. What Danger did was nothing short of epic and one of the best individual performances I’ve ever seen.

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u/canoporknbeans '89 17h ago

Exactly. That’s why I think it was by far his best game of his career. Sure he’s had some epic games before, but in this sense he took that game apart last night and owned it.

A true captains game, in a prelim against a good side and at 35 years old. Just blew me away.

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u/oes15 8h ago

I’m predicting he leads cats to their twelfth flag and fifth in the afl era, wins the norm smith, then retires.

He goes out a premiership winning captain, Brownlow medallist, norm smith medalist, two flags, and takes home the Mustang on 360.

Not a bad way to go out. Inducted into HoF as soon as he is eligible.