Cats honour Frank Costa with thrashing of Tigers

Richmond Tigers v Geelong Cats, AFL 2021 round 8, MCG Ben Jensen GEELONG trailed by nine points at half time and although they were written off by Fox Footy ‘expert’ David King they slammed on eight unanswered goals to lead by 35 points at three quarter time. The Cats slammed on another five goals to the Tigers’ one in the final term to win by 63 points, doubling Richmond’s score exactly. Geelong players wore black armbands in honour of former club president Frank Costa who died last weekend at the age of 83; his funeral will be at GMHBA Stadium on Wednesday, tickets will be available from 12noon Monday: https://www.vic.gov.au/Frank-Costa

AFL ROUND 8 2021
RICHMOND TIGERS V GEELONG CATS
FRIDAY 7 MAY 2021, 19:50 AEDT
MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND (MCG)
MATCH PREVIEW

GEELONG 1.3, 6.4, 14.8, 19.12 (126) defeated
RICHMOND TIGERS 4.3, 7.7, 8.9, 9.9 (63)

GOALS
GEELONG CATS: Cameron 6, Rohan 5, Hawkins 4, Smith 2, Close, Higgins
RICHMOND TIGERS: Bolton 3, Aarts 3, Riewoldt, Lynch, Rioli

BEST
GEELONG CATS: Cameron, Rohan, Hawkins, C.Guthrie, Higgins, Duncan, Tuohy
RICHMOND TIGERS: Bolton, Edwards, Martin, Graham

INJURIES
GEELONG CATS: Simpson (‘lower body’), Dahlhaus (ribs/back)
RICHMOND TIGERS: Edwards (ankle)

CHANGES
GEELONG CATS: Stanley (omitted) replaced in selected side by Ratugolea
RICHMOND TIGERS: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
GEELONG CATS: Narkle; replaced Simpson
RICHMOND TIGERS: Naish; replaced Edwards

REPORTS
GEELONG CATS: Nil
RICHMOND TIGERS: Nil

CROWD: 54,857 at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne

GEELONG CATS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: S Higgins, S Simpson, Z Guthrie
OUT: J Clark, Q Narkle (both omitted), G Miers (fractured fibula)
B: L Henderson, M Blicavs, J Henry
HB: T Atkins, T Stewart, J Bews
C: I Smith, C Guthrie, S Menegola
HF: L Dahlhaus, J Cameron, S Higgins
F: G Rohan, T Hawkins, B Parfitt
FOLL: R Stanley, M Duncan, J Selwood
INT: B Close, S Simpson, Z Guthrie, Z Tuohy
EMER: E Ratugolea, Q Narkle, J Clark, M Holmess

RICHMOND TIGERS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: N Vlastuin, D Martin
OUT: D Grimes, T Cotchin (both injured), P Naish (omitted)
B: D Astbury, N Balta, N Broad
HB: J Short, N Vlastuin, B Houli
C: K McIntosh, D Martin, J Ross
HF: D Rioli, L Baker, J Aarts
F: T Lynch, S Bolton, J Riewoldt
FOLL: T Nankervis, M Pickett, S Edwards
INT: R Mansell, R Collier-Dawkins, J Castagna, J Graham
EMER: P Naish, W Martyn, C Coleman-Jones, H Ralphsmith

UMPIRES
FIELD Leigh Haussen, Andrew Stephens, Nathan Williamson EM: Nathan Toner
BOUNDARY Josh Furman, Michael Marantelli, Ben MacDonald, Sam Stagg
GOAL Matthew Dervan, Chelsea Roffey EM: David Rodan