Geelong is “absolutely primed” for a tilt at this year’s premiership, says David King.
King thinks it’ll take a “freak event” to stop the Cats from winning the flag – and he has a statistic that hasn’t been achieved in 15 years to prove it.
Chris Scott’s side made it 11 wins in a row after sweeping aside St Kilda by 45 points on Saturday night without Joel Selwood, Patrick Dangerfield, Mark Blicavs and Gary Rohan.
The ladder leading Cats are playing like a well-oiled machine and don’t appear to have any glaring weaknesses within their ranks.
“If you look right now there’s one team in the competition that is number one this season for turning possession into score,” King told SEN’s Whateley.
“They’re also the best at denying the opposition possession to score. So number one attack, number one defence.
“That hasn’t happened since ’07, so we haven’t seen it for 15 years.
“If you look across the competition, teams are rated high in one or the other. They’re really good defensively or they’re really good on offense, but they’re not great at both, no other team is rated top six in both – they’re one and one.
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“The Cats statistically are so much better than any other team. In my opinion, it would take a freak event for them not to win the flag this year.
“I’m talking about a five-goal center bounce performance against them, or a five-goal forward 50 stoppage performance against them, or a Mason Cox-type night. It’ll be a freak event that will stop Geelong winning this flag, in my opinion.
“They’ve been short Geelong because in my opinion their system was poor. Their system this year is working with better talent than it’s ever worked with and I’m talking for the last 10 years, right back to their famous team of ’07, ’09 and ’11.
“It’s beating teams without having their best 22 in the line-up. We haven’t seen that before. I just think they’re absolutely primed, right time, healthy, not reliant on one player.
“I’m all-in on Geelong. They (Melbourne) are not quite there. It doesn’t mean they can’t win it, but it’ll take a freak event for me.”
The Cats travel north to play Gold Coast on Saturday before finishing their home and away campaign at home against West Coast.
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