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AFL 2016 ROUND 22: BRISBANE LIONS
V GEELONG CATS; MATCH PREVIEW & TEAMS AFL 2016 ROUND 22: BRISBANE LIONS V GEELONG CATS GEELONG travels to Brisbane to play the Lions at the Gabba on Sunday afternoon, and has made two changes for the clash the Cats should win comfortably. Andrew Mackie comes back after a week off 'managed' while Darcy Lang has been recalled after a VFL spell. Out are the 'managed' Jimmy Bartel while Josh Caddy has a calf injury- hopefully he's back soon as the Cats' performance, bad enough last weekend, really dropped off the month or so Caddy was out injured last time. Former Cats Allen Christensen, Trent West and Jarrad Jansen won't be playing but Josh Walker is named at full forward. West, a 2011 Premiership player, retired mid-week; in this his third season at the Lions he has managed four games and decided to call it quits. Christensen won't play again this season with a collarbone injury while Jansen has been dropped. Nakia Cockatoo will miss once more with a knee injury, not named in the VFL squad while there has been a small wake-up call for Steve Motlop who while named in the AFL side has also been named in the VFL side in a forward pocket.
UMPIRES TBA TIP: Cats by 51 points
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AFL 2016 ROUND 22 BRISBANE LIONS V GEELONG CATS SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 2016 15:20 AEST GABBA
VFL 2016 ROUND 20 GEELONG V CASEY SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 2016 11:00 AEST SIMONDS STADIUM
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Updated 20/8/2016 Zac Bates Quad TBC * On long term injury list |
LIONS INJURY LIST Updated 20/8/2016 Claye Beams* Knee Season * On long term injury list |
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AFL 2016 ROUND 3 GEELONG CATS V BRISBANE LIONS SUNDAY 10 APRIL 2016 14:40 AEST SIMONDS STADIUM 10 APRIL 2016 CATS WIN AT HOME IN STYLE 8 APRIL 2016 GEELONG V BRISBANE MATCH PREVIEW CATS WIN AT HOME IN STYLE AFL ROUND 3 2016: GEELONG CATS V BRISBANE LIONS GEELONG defeated Brisbane by 69 points in this evening's twilight match, the first for backman Tom Ruggles who put in a very solid performance. Before the bounce Tom Lonergan was a late change with a calf complaint, replaced in the side by Nakia Cockatoo. Tom Hawkins booted four goals and missed a few more; Shane Kersten missed his first couple chances but ended up with three goals as did Patrick Dangerfield. There were several players performing well on the day and worthy of mention. Radio stations 3AW and K-Rock gave BOG to Joel Selwood; the Geelong station gave 3-2-1 to Selwood, Patrick Dangerfield and Corey Enright while 3AW 5-4-3-2-1 to Selwood, Enright, Mitch Duncan, Steve Motlop and Mitch Robinson. Brisbane's Mitch Robinson played quite a good game but showed he's still the same player Carlton let go of; it started with an encounter with Cats skipper Joel Selwood in Geelong's forward pocket way off the ball with Selwood upended and Robinson mouthing off and taunting him. The two remained in close contact over the following few minutes, at one stage Robinson earning a free kick in his half-back line, while it reached its crescendo with Robinson throwing his body at Selwood at the Lions's half-forward line. A bit of push and shove just short of a melee followed, as the emergency umpire got involved, at least one umpire reporting Robinson for rough conduct. We didn't see the contact so can't comment, judging by the K-Rock commentators plus descriptions on 3AW later on he looks in strife. Ruggles fit in really well down back, part of a quality lineup led by veterans Corey Enright and Harry Taylor, and newer Lachie Henderson, Jake Kolodjashnij and Cameron Guthrie. He had a crack from the word go and will surely hold his position in the side next week. At times Enright looked exposed for pace but only a couple times, the rest of the time he read the play brilliantly. As noted Kersten struggled to put the ball between the big sticks but in the last quarter bagged three goals, to the delight of his teammates. Dan Menzel is a real 'find'; being out since the qualifying final of 2011 against Hawthorn, returning last season for a number of games, he missed at least 100 games of football while the likes of Mitch Duncan and Allen Christensen have gone on with their careers. He was great today though, a class act if the Cats do go deep into September this year he'll be as much a part of that as boon recruits Dangerfield, Zac Smith and Henderson. The Lions had some decent players through the middle and up forward but struggled down back and weren't that effective in the ruck. Tom Bell was our pick ahead of Robinson, he and Pearce Hanley got a fair bit of it, Bell like Robinson and Geelong's Lachie Henderson finding a happier home after leaving Carlton. Former Cats Josh Walker and Allen Christensen were quite hopeless, Walker sadly being quite wayward when having set shots at goal. A tightly packed crowd of 23,320 watched the game, a different look now with the Brownlow and Jennings stands/pavilions being demolished. The club managed the pre-game collection of members items well, a very short queue late we had a new cap; while adequate food outlets were open although queues at half-time were quite long behind the Gary Ablett Terrace possibly due to more people being up that end of the ground with the construction work. Next week the Cats play the Bombers at the MCG on Saturday afternoon in an away fixture, the game being dubbed the 'Country Game' to honour farmers- how they'll do that and why we don't quite know but we'll be really impressed if an array of farm animals and perhaps a combined harvester or milk truck from the Western District makes its ways onto the field at some stage.
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6.2, 10.5, 12.14, 18.17 (125) DEFEATED GOALS BEST INJURIES REPORTS: Mitch Robinson (Brisbane), for engaging in 'rough conduct' against Joel Selwood (Geelong) UMPIRES: Findlay, Jeffery, Mollison (Same umpires as round one) CROWD: 23,320 at Simonds Stadium, Geelong
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VFL 2016 ROUND 20 GEELONG V CASEY SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 2016 11:00 AEST SIMONDS STADIUM
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