AFL 2013 ROUND 20; GEELONG V PORT ADELAIDE; MATCH PREVIEW
Ben Jensen 8 August 2013

By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery GEELONG CATS V PORT ADELAIDE ANOTHER WEEK another five changes for Geelong, who host Port Adelaide at home on Saturday afternoon. The Cats got slaughtered in the ruck by North Melbourne and have reacted by dropping Trent West and bringing in Josh Walker who comes off the Rookie list due to the long term injury of Dawson Simpson. Also dropped are the two Hunts Travis and Josh, Mark Blicavs and Billie Smedts. This leaves the ruck duties to Nathan Vardy and Walker with the outside possibility of James Podsiadly or Tom Hawkins also playing a role, we say outside given the injury problems those two have, the latter with a chronic back complaint.

Joining Walker on the inclusions are Podsiadly, Allen Christensen, Jared Rivers and Jesse Stringer. Ken Hinkley has made just the one change bringing back Nathan Blee for injury Daniel Stewart. In their earlier match this season the Cats bounced back after the loss to the Magpies with a 48 point win over Port, Hawkins and Podsiadly booting ten goals between them. In the VFL Geelong travels to Williamstown on Sunday, the match part of Asian Community Football Day put on by the VFL and Williamstown.

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LAST GAME DETAILS

UMPIRES

FIELD: Brett Rosebury (8) Heath Ryan (14) Shane McInerney (30) EM: Stuart Wenn (22)
BOUNDARY: Gerard Large John Morris Adam Coote Matthew Tomkins
GOAL: Adam Wojcik Mark Canning EM: Daniel Wilson

CROWD: 24,784 at Simonds Stadium, Geelong

TIP: Cats by 57 points

CATS INJURY LIST

Updated 8/8/2013

Jed Bews Foot Test
Paul Chapman Hamstring Test
Allen Christensen Hamstring Test
Joel Hamling Ankle Round 20
Lincoln McCarthy Navicular Indefinite
Hamish McIntosh Ankle Round 22
Daniel Menzel Snapped LARS graft (left knee) Season
Jackson Sheringham Shoulder and hamstring Round 20
Dawson Simpson Sprained MCL Preliminary Finals

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POWER INJURY LIST

Updated 8/8/2013

Dom Cassisi (hamstring) - 2 weeks
Brett Ebert (adductor) - 2 weeks
Jarrad Redden (hip/shoulder) - season
Daniel Stewart (hip) - 1 week

LAST TIME

AFL ROUND 9, 2013; SATURDAY 17 MAY 2013 13:45 AEST

AAMI STADIUM

CATS CRUISE TO EASY VICTORY OVER POWER
Ben Jensen 25 May 2013

GEELONG easily accounted for Port Adelaide by 48 points at AAMI Stadium tonight. Big forwards Tom Hawkins and James Podsiadly had a feast kicking six and four goals respectively while Steve Johnson was all but hospitalised with leather poisoning.

25 MAY 2013 CATS CRUISE TO EASY VICTORY OVER POWER

23 MAY 2013 AFL 2013 ROUND 9; PORT ADELAIDE V GEELONG; MATCH PREVIEW

GEELONG 7.1, 10.4, 15.6, 18.8 (116) ) DEFEATED
PORT ADELAIDE 0.4, 3.6, 4.10, 9.14 (68)

GOALS
GEELONG: Hawkins 6, Podsiadly 4, Motlop 2, Schroder 2, Johnson, Bartel, Burbury, Thurlow
PORT ADELAIDE: Schulz 3, Thomas 2, Mitchell 2, Redden, Monfries

BEST
GEELONG: Johnson, Hawkins, Bartel, Motlop, Taylor, Stokes, Motlop, Christensen, Podsiadly, Blicavs
PORT ADELAIDE: Boak, Wingard, Schulz, Gray, Monfries

INJURIES
GEELONG: Joel Selwood (elbow), Allen Christensen (knock to head)
PORT ADELAIDE: Nil

SUBS
GEELONG: Josh Hunt, replaced injured Joel Selwood in the fourth quarter
PORT ADELAIDE: Matt Broadbent replaced Andrew Moore in the third quarter

CHANGES (ON FRIDAY)
GEELONG: Josh Caddy, Billie Smedts replaced by Mitch Brown and Jordan Schroder
PORT ADELAIDE: Matt Broadbent replaced Andrew Moore in the third quarter

UMPIRES:

FIELD: Craig Fleer (2) Jeff Dalgleish (7) Jacob Mollison (32) EM: Leigh Haussen (42)
BOUNDARY: Mark Hill Matthew Konetschka Chris Bull Jonathan Creasey
GOAL: Steven Axon Daniel Hoskin EM: Mathew Wilson

CROWD: 21,309 at AAMI Stadium

PRE-MATCH TIP: "Cats by 43 points"

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VFL

VFL ROUND 17, 2013

WILLIAMSTOWN V GEELONG

SUNDAY 11 AUGUST 2013 14:00 AEST

BURBANK OVAL

GEELONG

B J. Hunt Bathie Bews
HB Eardley Brown Cowan
C Thurlow T. Selwood T. Hunt
HF Murdoch Blicavs Smedts
F Burbury Kersten Schroder
R West Horlin-Smith Chapman
Int Sully Gleeson Sheringham Hall Hollmer Raidme Hartman Barham

WILLIAMSTOWN

B Pearce Markovic Lockwood
HB Sicily* Witkowski Lower
C McNamara Jolley McCallum
HF Anastasio Roberts Howard
F Cordy Veszpremi Carr
R C. Wood Wheeler Prismall
Int Jong Conway Hoghton Charleston Stockdale Greenwood Casley Masters Redpath