Mitchell Knevitt is the sort of young prospect that, at a normal club, would be playing a lot of games over the next few years in a rebuild. But, like Sydney, are the Cats even capable of bottoming out? The Swans spent precisely one season out of the finals recently before returning, and the hooped affair have an even more impressive record of still playing in September across the past two decades. Geelong is either well overdue for some years in the wilderness, or the regular rules of renewal don't apply to them. Knevitt's fate rests on the club's attitude.
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