{"id":44911,"date":"2021-03-15T00:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44911"},"modified":"2021-03-15T03:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T03:01:16","slug":"lloyd-urges-bombers-to-emulate-cats-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=44911","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd urges Bombers to emulate Cats' successes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon great Matthew Lloyd<\/a> has heaped praise on Geelong's off-season acquisitions, pleading for his old club to emulate the Cats' on-field successes. <\/p>\n

Geelong is one of the big favourites to take out this year's premiership after adding Jeremy Cameron, Shaun Higgins and Isaac Smith<\/a> to its experienced core.<\/p>\n

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While some criticised the amount of assets they sent the GWS Giants for Cameron, Lloyd praised Geelong for its all-in approach.<\/p>\n

"Some will say it was wrong, I love it," he told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

\"Jeremy<\/p>\n

"I would love to be a Geelong supporter, I'd be that excited going into this year with the players they've brought in. <\/p>\n

"They always give you a chance and they always have you believing they can win a premiership. <\/p>\n

"I'd love that at the club I support, the Bombers, because you haven't had that hope like Geelong currently have."<\/p>\n

Geelong coach Chris Scott has been heavily criticised for his side's inability to win finals since winning a premiership in his first season back in 2011, but Lloyd defended the team's post-season record.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/p>\n

"If it wasn't for Richmond I reckon they win the last couple of premierships," he said.<\/p>\n

"They had Richmond on toast in one prelim (2019) and they lose and then they had them on the ropes in another game (2020 grand final). <\/p>\n

"They haven't done a lot wrong, they've just fallen short against the best team in the competition. <\/p>\n

"Yes, the pressure is on, but pressure is a good thing because people expect them to be in the mix again this year."<\/p>\n

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Essendon great Matthew Lloyd has heaped praise on Geelong's off-season acquisitions, pleading for his old club to emulate the Cats' on-field successes. Geelong is one […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44913,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44911\/revisions\/44913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}