Welcome to Scarlo’s Toe, a Geelong Cats Blog dedicated to all things Geelong Cats.

The inspiration for the Blog’s name is fairly self evident. If you’re a Cats fan then it’s a play I am sure you’ve watched 1000 times over, I know I have! I’ve followed this club since I was in diapers, and of all the thousands of individual moments that make up the many hundreds of games I’ve spent my life obsessing over, that is the one that I find myself coming back to the most. 

It’s moment’s like Scarlo’s toe in the 2009 Grand final that make the pain of Nick Davis in 2006 worth it, the joy to offset the devastation. And you have to enjoy them, otherwise what’s the point of the suffering?

Sport is an emotional investment, one you fully expect to pay out dividends of despair more than happiness, yet despite it, you pour your hear and soul in anyway. That’s just how we are wired as sports fans. Those who don’t make similar investments will never understand, and hell, maybe they are smartto stay out. Following Geelong has taught me heartache, psychologically damaged me and ruined many a wekeend.

Yet it’s all worth it for those moments of pure elation footy can bring. Those perfect passages like Scarlo’s toe to Ablett in the middle of the MCG one Sunny September day. Fleeting though they are, these are the moments you can hold onto and make all the pain worth while. They are the moments that connect us as fans of a club. After that goal in the 2009 final I found myself jumping up and down in pure esctacy hugging a total stranger. To this day I have no clue who that man was, I know nothing of his background, but in the moment that didn’t matter. Sport is tribal, it provides that sense of being part of something greater than yourself, and the moments like Scarlo’s Toe serve to bond us as supporters.

Which brings me to the point of this blog. As fans, we know that we have no control over what is happening out on the field, its part of what makes the investment such a leap of faith. But we can shout into that void about what we think SHOULD be happening, and shout I shall, through this blog.