AFL 2016 ROUND 14: ST KILDA SAINTS V GEELONG CATS; MATCH PREVIEW & TEAMS
Ben Jensen 23 June 2016

AFL ROUND 14 2016: ST KILDA SAINTS V GEELONG CATS CAMERON GUTHRIE, who may well be leading the Geelong best and fairest votes so far this season, is back to play the Saints on Saturday night at Etihad Stadium in place of Josh Caddy who as expected will miss a knee injury. St Kilda has brought back veteran forward Nick Riewoldt along with Paddy McCartin, the number one draft pick in 2014.

Caddy hurt the medial ligament in one of his knees in the big win over the Bulldogs on Saturday night, immediately leaving the ground and appearing on crutches. The injury fortunately requires no surgery but will see him miss up to 8 weeks, leaving him a task to break back into the AFL side when he does get back to full fitness, presumably in August.

Cats coach Chris Scott says Mitch Clark is very close to a recall to the AFL side after great performances in the VFL including the televised game against the Box Hill Hawks last Sunday. Nakia Cockatoo returns to the VFL this week, against Williamstown on Sunday, after a knee injury that last week was listed as a 4-6 week injury and even in Tuesday's injury report as 2-3 weeks.

Last year's matcfh with the Saints ended in a draw, the Saints actually unlucky having had far more shots at goal than the Cats with 14 goals 13 behinds to the Cats' 15 goals 7 behinds. One would expect this season to be quite different though of course the losses to the Magpies and the Blues a few weeks ago prove any side can beat another on a given day. Though you'd hope with so many Geelong playesr in good form of late the Cats should win comfortably, heading into their bye round.

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LAST GAME DETAILS

UMPIRES

FIELD: LUKE FARMER, ROBERT FINDLAY, CRAIG FLEER, JACOB MOLLISON
BOUNDARY: IAN BURROWS, TIM LOUGOON, SHANE THIELE, JORDAN ANDREWS
GOAL: DAVID DIXON, LUKE WALKER EMERGENCY: STEVEN PIPERNO

TIP: Cats by 22 points

MATCH PREVIEW by Willem van Denderen

TBC

CATS INJURY LIST

Updated 23/6/2016

Zac Bates Quad 6 weeks
Josh Caddy Knee 5-6 weeks
Nakia Cockatoo Knee 2-3 weeks
Jordan Cunico Knee 4-6 weeks
Cam Delaney Knee TBC
Cameron Guthrie Illness Test Named in side
George Horlin-Smith Knee 6 weeks
Tom Read Knee 1 week
Scott Selwood Foot 1-2 weeks
Billie Smedts Broken fibula 4-6 weeks
Jackson Thurlow* Knee Season

* On long term injury list

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SAINTS INJURY LIST

Updated 23/6/2016

Sean Dempster Knee 3-4 weeks
Sam Fisher Hamstring 2-3 weeks
Nathan Freeman Hamstring 2-3 weeks
Hugh Goddard Achilles Season
Tom Lee Knee Test Will miss
Billy Longer Concussion Indefinite
Paddy McCartin Concussion/neck Test Named in side
Nick Riewoldt Knee Test Named in side

LAST TIME

AFL 2015 ROUND 21

ST KILDA SAINTS V GEELONG CATS

SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2015 19:20 AEST

ETIHAD STADIUM

IT'S A DRAW! GEELONG AND ST KILDA MATCH ENDS IN STALEMATE
Ben Jensen 23 August 2015

AFL ROUND 21 2015: GEELONG CATS V ST KILDA SAINTS GEELONG and St Kilda played out at draw at Etihad Stadium last night in front of a small crowd of 25,000. The Saints had the upper hand until just before half time, letting the Cats back into the game with a few late goals and repeating that pattern in the third quarter.

But in the last quarter the Saints out-scored the Cats three goals to two with the Cats only snatching back the lead with a couple minutes to go. With one point the different St Kilda's Shane Savage had a shot for goal but could only manage a behind which tied the scores with seconds to go.

The result makes it more difficult for Geelong to make the finals, the main scenario is relying upon Adelaide to lose at home to West Coast next weekend, and for the Cats to defeat Collingwood Friday night then beat Adelaide in the last round. Cat fans will rue the stuff-up by Steve Johnson in the first half, who thought he was going to casually stroll into a goal but found himself tackled by a Saints defender out of sight. Though he finished with four goals including a spectacular one minutes later the five points missed would have made a difference.

23 AUGUST 2015 IT'S A DRAW! GEELONG AND ST KILDA MATCH ENDS IN STALEMATE

21 AUGUST 2015 AFL 2015 ROUND 21: ST KILDA SAINTS V GEELONG CATS MATCH PREVIEW

GEELONG: 5.1, 9.2, 13.4, 15.7 (97) DREW WITH
ST KILDA: 5.4, 8.7, 11.9, 14.13 (97)

GOALS
GEELONG: Johnson 4, Hawkins 3, Vardy 2, Mackie, Taylor, Gregson, Guthrie, Motlop
ST KILDA: Bruce 3, Minchington 3, Hickey 2, Gilbert 2, Membrey, Savage, Riewoldt, Newnes

BEST
GEELONG: Motlop, Johnson, Guthrie, Hawkins, Enright, Taylor
ST KILDA: Steven, Riewoldt, Gilbert, Newnes, Ross, Bruce, Minchington, Fisher

SUBSTITUTES
GEELONG: Nakia Cockatoo who replaced Josh Caddy (knee) at half-time
ST KILDA: Brodie Murdoch who replaced Josh Saunders in the third quarter

INJURIES
GEELONG: Josh Caddy (knee)
ST KILDA: NIL

UMPIRES: Farmer, Mollison, Wallace

CROWD: 25,245 at Etihad Stadium, Melbourne Docklands

VFL

VFL 2016 ROUND 12

WILLIAMSTOWN V GEELONG

SUNDAY 26 JUNE 2016 14:00 AEST

BURBANK OVAL

GEELONG

B: 20. R Gardner 67. T Stewart 34. J Parsons
HB: 50. R Williams 24. J Bews 27. S Menegola
C: 5. N Cockatoo 51. J Tsitas 17. J Cornell
HF: 18. J Cowan 66. J Edwards 15. M Hayball
F: 30. N Vardy 19. M Clark 52. A Hickey
FOLL: 42. P Lucey 11. D Lang 37. M Luxford
INT: 63. S Dobson 69. W Sexton 65. S McLachlan 70. B Rees 71. B Haintz 61. B Raidme 74. M Thompson 64. T Atkins
23P: 73. T House

WILLIAMSTOWN

B: 33. T Currie 31. D Fahey 17. J Charleston
HB: 15. B Bewley 8. P Faulks 7. N Sing
C: 23. B Bese 4. B Jolley 24. W Wheeler
HF: 11. J Dorgan 10. L Masters 2. D Conway
F: 3. S Dunell 13. A Cordy 6. M Gibbons
FOLL: 49. N Meese 1. E Carr 14. A Siposs
INT: 21. A Anastasio 20. S Hetherington 25. S Critchley 18. J Greiser 44. J Owen 35. B Myers 30. A Carr 26. J Johnstone
23P: 43. C Sullivan