Shaun Mannagh has quietly become one of the more important players in Geelong's best 22, with one or two BOG performances already this season to drag the Cats over the line for wins. At times it has been Bradley Close, Tyson Stengle or Gryan Miers who has been the X-factor that the team has needed to make good on supply from its midfield in previous years, but with Miers further up the ground and the other two hit-and-miss it has fallen to Mannagh to be on the end of crucial scoring chains. As a HFF, his output is too variable to start, unfortunately.
Shaun Mannagh has quietly become one of the more important players in Geelong's best 22, with one or two BOG performances already this season to drag the Cats over the line for wins. At times it has been Bradley Close, Tyson Stengle or Gryan Miers who has been the X-factor that the team has needed to make good on supply from its midfield in previous years, but with Miers further up the ground and the other two hit-and-miss it has fallen to Mannagh to be on the end of crucial scoring chains. As a HFF, his output is too variable to start, unfortunately.
Shaun Mannagh returns for his first senior start of 2025 tonight, after starting the campaign in the VFL while more established conveyances went around under the bright lights. Perhaps his appearance in the 22 and the apparent consignment of Mitch Duncan to the VFL is a sign of a change in approach by Geelong hierarchy towards its list management, which across the past few decades had not countenanced such a tawdry event as a rebuild. Mannagh is a mature-ager and thus not a 200-gamer, but he might be a transitional player for club and fantasy.
