CATS TOO STRONG FOR DOCKERS
2 April 2011

By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery GEELONG held off Fremantle to win by eleven points at Subiaco Oval tonight. The Cats led for most of the evening, but got a fright when Docker Hayden Ballantyne, earlier described as an annoying midget by the Geelong coach Chris Scott, kicked a goal to cut Geelong's lead to just five points with less than two minutes remaining. Matthew Stokes sealed the match however with his second goal in the final sixty seconds to give Geelong what a fortnight ago seemed an unlikely perfect record two rounds into the 2011 AFL season. Dan Menzel booted three goals including a brilliant banana or check-side for his third.

GEELONG: 5.3 8.6 10.9 13.11 (89) DEFEATED
FREMANTLE: 4.4 7.9 8.12 10.18 (78)

GOALS
GEELONG: Menzel 3, Stokes 2, Varcoe 2, Ling, Bartel, Podsiadly, Duncan, Chapman, Johnson
FREMANTLE: Bradley 3, Ballantyne 2, Mayne, Mundy, Pavlich, Walters, Hill

BEST
GEELONG: Varcoe, Enright, Corey, Menzel, Ling, Bartel
FREMANTLE: Mundy, Hill, Bradley, Pavlich

REPORTS
GEELONG: Nil
FREMANTLE: Nil

INJURIES
GEELONG: Nil
FREMANTLE: Nil

CROWD: 37,004 at Subiaco Oval, Perth

UMPIRES

FIELD: Michael Vozzo (2) Matt Stevic (9) Jason Armstrong (26) EM: Todd Keating (31)
BOUNDARY: Alan Zanich Nathan Doig Jace Collingridge Richard Heptinstall
GOAL: Dale Edwick Brett Rogers EM: Matthew Laycock

THE CATTERY'S PRE-MATCH TIP? Freo probably the stronger side but think we can do another win at the death; Cats by 3 points

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