Simple fact is, they went prelim in '04, within 3 seconds of a prelim in '05 (I mentioned not ruthlessly finishing teams off, that semi was the best example ever of why, until last year, Geelong was notorious for losing close games), we won the NAB in '06 & blew two teams off the park in rnds 1 & 2.

Then somehow we lost 8 out of the next 9 games of the season for some reason. And what makes that all the more confounding is that they won 7 of the next 11 to come within 2 games of playing finals again - at that point in time we were the hottest side outside the top 8 & if we'd managed to make 8th, might've even gotten to another semi on exposed form.

Funny thing was, at round 5 last year, I was beginning to see '06 all over again.... we'd had 2 massive wins & lost 3 close ones... fortunately, last year, that 3rd loss was a real kick in the guts & they started playing ruthlessly & the famous "lid" was put on their season until GF day....

So outta curiosity, what reasons did you put on the '06 slump??