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CATS SEASON OVER, CROWS INTO GRAND FINAL
Ben Jensen 24 September 2017

AFL FINALS 2017 FIRST PRELIMINARY FINAL: ADELAIDE CROWS V GEELONG CATS GEELONG's season is over after Friday night's loss to the Crows at the Adelaide Oval, bringing the curtain down on the careers of Tom Lonergan and Andrew Mackie. The Cats were belted six goals to one in the first term but strangely seemed to be still in with a chance after pegging the margin back to within five goals but still went into half time further behind.

The Cats actually held their ground in the third term but a 35 point deficit was never going to be overcome, the Crows going on with it in the last term seven goals to three to book their spot in the AFL grand final. We won't bother dissecting the game too much but once more the Cats were exposed by a superior side and compounded this by making too many unforced mistakes, turning the ball over when making a forward foray or spoiling teammates who had the ball. The move to put former Crow Patrick Dangerfield up forward worked last week against the Swans but on Friday didn't work; it may have had Dangerfield converted his first shot at goal but it wasn't to be.

Hats off to the fans who braved the 'Cats Convoy', catching a but at 6:15AM on Friday, arriving in Adelaide by 3:30PM to see the game. As if that wasn't tough enough the return journey left at 11:30PM, arriving back in Geelong at 9AM Saturday morning.

ADELAIDE: 6.3, 11.7, 14.10, 21.10 (136) DEFEATED
GEELONG: 1.2, 5.8, 8.11, 10.15 (75)

GOALS
ADELAIDE: Cameron 5, Jenkins 4, Walker 2, Betts 2, Lynch 2, Seedsman 2, Jacobs, Otten, M.Crouch, Knight
GEELONG: Dangerfield 2, Cockatoo, Duncan, Selwood, Lang, Hawkins, Motlop, Henderson, Menegola

BEST
ADELAIDE: Laird, Cameron, M.Crouch, Seedsman, B.Crouch, Talia
GEELONG: J.Selwood, Motlop, Taylor, Mackie, Dangerfield

INJURIES
ADELAIDE: -
GEELONG: S.Selwood (hamstring), Lonergan (corked quad), J.Selwood (groin)

CHANGES
ADELAIDE: Nil
GEELONG: Nil

UMPIRES:
FIELD: Rosebury, Stevic, Schmitt EM: Hosking
BOUNDARY: Haala, homson, Kenny Dalgleish, Doig
GOAL: Stephen Williams Luke (Sky) Walker TBA EM: Wilson

CROWD: 53,817, Adelaide Oval

GEELONG CATS	ADELAIDE CROWS
IN: Tom Lonergan, Nakia Cockatoo OUT: James Parsons, Zach Guthrie (both omitted)	IN: A.Otten, R.Sloane OUT: B.Smith (knee), M.McGovern (hamstring)
B: Tom Stewart, Tom Lonergan, Zach Tuohy HB: Andrew Mackie, Lachie Henderson, Jed Bews C: Mitch Duncan, Joel Selwood, Mark Blicavs HF: Steven Motlop, Harry Taylor, Darcy Lang F: Daniel Menzel, Patrick Dangerfield, Tom Hawkins FOLL: Zac Smith, Sam Menegola, Scott Selwood INT: Nakia Cockatoo, Jake Kolodjashnij, Brandan Parfitt, Rhys Stanley EMER: Zach Guthrie, Jordan Murdoch, James Parsons	B: Rory Laird, Daniel Talia, Jake Lever HB: Luke Brown, Kyle Hartigan, Jake Kelly C: Rory Atkins, Rory Sloane, David Mackay HF: Richard Douglas, Taylor Walker, Charlie Cameron F: Tom Lynch, Josh Jenkins, Eddie Betts FOLL: Sam Jacobs, Brad Crouch, Matt Crouch INT: Riley Knight, Paul Seedsman, Hugh Greenwood, Andy Otten EMER: Wayne Milera, Alex Keath, Reilly O'Brien

AFL FINALS 2017 - FIRST PRELIMINARY FINAL

ADELAIDE CROWS V GEELONG CATS

FRIDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2017, 19:50 AEST

ADELAIDE OVAL

FULL MATCH PREVIEW INCLUDING TEAM LISTS

THE CATS CONVOY MAKE THEIR WAY BY BUS TO ADELAIDE

THE CATS CONVOY MAKE THEIR WAY BY BUS TO ADELAIDE [PIC COURTESY ANDY JENSEN]

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