AFL 2013 ROUND 10; GEELONG V GOLD COAST; MATCH PREVIEW
Ben Jensen 30 May 2013

By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery GEELONG CATS V GOLD COAST SUNS THE CATS play their first home game at Geelong under lights this Saturday night. Returning for the occasion is triple-Premiership player James Kelly and promising ruckman/forward Nathan Vardy replacing the rested Jackson Thurlow and injured James Podsiadly. Gary Ablett finally returns home for his first match since turning his back on the Cats at the end of 2010. Gary will lead first gamers Tom Nicholls, Timmy Sumner into action, the 201cm tall Nichols set to start in the ruck with Sumner likely to start on the bench.

It is sure to be an absolutely freezing night so you'd better rug up if you're heading down, and get in early even if you've reserve seats. There remain tickets for sale however, a final release opening up at 9am on Friday via Ticketmaster. General admission tickets will go on sale at 5PM Saturday of he game. Finally Saturday also sees some nostalgia, with the VFL side playing Essendon at Windy Hill at 1PM.

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UMPIRES

FIELD: Gary Fila (12) Heath Ryan (14) Shane McInerney (30) EM: Jason Armstrong (26)
BOUNDARY: Tim Morrison Shane Jones Drew Kowalski John Morris
GOAL: David Dixon Stephen Williams EM: Daniel Wilson

TIP: Cats by 53 points

CATS INJURY LIST

Updated 30/5/2013

Paul Chapman (hamstring) - indefinite
Josh Caddy (quad) - test Not named
George Horlin-Smith (quad) - test Not named
Taylor Hunt (shoulder) – 4-6 weeks
Hamish McIntosh (knee) – 1 week
Daniel Menzel (knee) – season
James Podsaidly (knee) – 1 week
Billie Smedts (ankle) - test Named as emergency
Jared Rivers (knee) – 3-4 weeks
Travis Varcoe (shoulder) – 5-6 weeks

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SUNS INJURY LIST

Updated 30/5/2013

Harley Bennell (hamstring) - test Not named in side
Charlie Dixon (ankle) - test Not named in side
Karmichael Hunt (hamstring) – test Not named in side
Jesse Lonergan (hamstring) – 4 weeks
Zac Smith (knee) – season
Seb Tape (knee) - 1 week
Matthew Warnock (arm) - indefinite

LAST TIME

AFL 2012, ROUND 15, SUNDAY 8 JULY 2012 15:15 AEST, METRICON STADIUM

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8 JULY 2012 AFL ROUND 15 2012; GOLD COAST V GEELONG; MATCH PREVIEW

CATS TAKEN TO WIRE BY SUNS ON GOLD COAST
Ben Jensen 8 July 2012

By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery GOLD COAST V GEELONG CATS AGAIN GEELONG has done just enough to get the four Premiership points against a bottom-ranked side, beating Gold Coast by just 14 points at Metricon Stadium this afternoon. In the VFL the Cats had a good win against Box Hill yesterday, and now find themselves forth spot on the ladder, behind Werribee in third on percentage.

GEELONG: 2.6 5.12 12.15 15.20 (110) DEFEATED
GOLD COAST: 4.6 6.9 9.14 13.18 (96)

GOALS
GEELONG: Hawkins 4, Chapman 4, Brown 2, Motlop, T Hunt, Lonergan, Stokes, Kelly
GOLD COAST: Caddy 3, Ablett 2, McKenzie 2, Bennell 2, Day, Brown, Rischitelli, Harbrow

BEST
GEELONG: Selwood, Chapman, Hawkins, Enright, Kelly, Bartel
GOLD COAST: Harbrow, Ablett, Caddy, Bennell, Stanley, Rischitelli

CHANGES
GEELONG: David Wojcinski, Mitch Brown and Cameron Guthrie (in) for Steve Johnson, George Horlin-Smith and Harry Taylor
GOLD COAST: Nil

INJURIES
GEELONG: Nil
GOLD COAST: Wilkinson (knee)

UMPIRES:

FIELD: Brett Rosebury (8) Heath Ryan (14) Chris Kamolins (19) EM: Brent Kronk (40)
BOUNDARY: Nick Liparota, Matthew Konetschka, Nick Wade, Aaron Deckys
GOAL: Shaun Apted, Tristan Symes EM: Troy Mavroudis

CROWD: 15,824 at Metricon Stadium, Carrara

PRE-MATCH TIP: "Cats by 71 points"

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VFL

VFL ROUND 8

ESSENDON V GEELONG

SATURDAY 1 JUNE 2013 13:00 AEST

WINDY HILL!

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