AFL commentator Cameron Mooney says he fears for Geelong’s future as the Cats continue to add ageing players to their list in a last-grasp attempt to secure a premiership.

Mooney, a three-time premiership winner with Geelong and North Melbourne, said the decision to add Hawks defender Isaac Smith and set sights on Shaun Higgins and Jeremy Cameron for 2021 showed the Cats’ hand to rivals.

“It’s clearly obvious that they still think they’re in that window,” he said on SEN.

“They’re going to keep going as hard as they can to try and get that premiership.

“Has it gone past them now? Unfortunately sometimes you just run into teams or clubs at the top of their game and Richmond right now are just at the top of the tree when it comes to the AFL.”

Mooney strongly advised against allowing in-demand West Aussie Jordan Clark the option to head home, despite interest from both West Coast and Fremantle.

“He’s got a lot of talent. He started his career off so brilliantly well,” Mooney said.

“Everyone at Geelong thought, ‘yes we’ve got this next star coming through’.

“You’ve got to keep as much of that talent on your list as you can.”

Geelong took the fifth oldest list into the 2020 season, with an equal competition-high seven players over the age of 30.

“Right now, they’re all in,” Mooney warned.

“They’ve still got Paddy Dangerfield, still got Tommy Hawkins coming off arguably his best year, still got (Joel) Selwood who has got a good 12 months left in him at least. They’ve got the up-and-comers in (Brandan) Parfitt and these kind of guys.

“So they clearly think that this is their time to have another crack, but they’ve been saying that for a few years.

“You do worry though that if they keep going down this path of bringing in the older guys and not bringing in any talent or youth, what will they look like say in three years or four years’ time, when guys all retire.

“If it’s not now, it’s when for the club. When worries me if it doesn’t come now. It really does.

“I think they could fall into a bit of a hole in the next few years if they don’t start bringing in some young kids to fill the space of those older guys when they finally leave.”

Geelong has missed the finals just once in the past decade, but have just one premiership (2011) to show for their efforts.

The Cats were beaten by Richmond in this year’s grand final and have been preliminary final losers five times in 10 years (2010, 13, 16, 17 and 19).