Undermanned Giants pull off huge win in Geelong

Geelong Cats v GWS Giants, AFL 2021 round 21, Ben Jensen GEELONG lost their first match in well over a month with the Greater Western Sydney Giants pulling off a huge upset at Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium with a severely depleted side to sneak back into the top eight with a chance at playing finals. The Cats retained second position after the Bulldogs lost on Sunday to Essendon. Next up for the Cats is St Kilda in a ‘home’ game.

The VFL women’s side will hopefully get to play their grand final against Collingwood next weekend but that hinges upon the Daniel Andrews Victorian Government, who ruled all VFL and VFLW games be called off this weekend along with community sport under the latest Coronavirus/Covid19 restrictions.

AFL ROUND 21 2021
GEELONG CATS V GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY GIANTS
FRIDAY 6 AUGUST, 19:50 AEST
GMHBA STADIUM

GWS GIANTS: 1.3, 3.9, 5.10, 8.17 (65) DEFEATED
GEELONG CATS: 4.3, 7.4, 11.5, 13.6 (84)

GOALS
GWS GIANTS: Greene 4, Brown 2, Taranto 2, Himmelberg 2, Buntine, Sproule, Bruhn
GEELONG CATS: Henry 2, Ratugolea 2, Kolodjashnij, Blicavs, Hawkins, Tuohy

BEST
GWS GIANTS: Taranto, Greene, Taylor, Cumming, Whitfield, Ward, Himmelberg
GEELONG CATS: Bews, Selwood, Stewart, Henry, Kolodjashnij

INJURIES
GWS GIANTS: Nil reported
GEELONG CATS: Dangerfield (throat), Rohan (leg), Tuohy (hamstring)

CHANGES
GWS GIANTS : Kelly (quad) replaced in selected side by Buntine, Daniels (hamstring)
GEELONG CATS: Brandan Parfitt (hip) replaced in selected side by Quinton Narkle

SUBSTITUTES
GWS GIANTS: Shipley, replaced Daniels
GEELONG CATS: Quinton Narkle, replaced Patrick Dangerfield

REPORTS
GWS GIANTS: –
GEELONG CATS: –

CROWD: 0 at GMHBA Stadium, Geelong

UMPIRES
FIELD Matt Stevic, Robert O’Gorman, Robert Findlay EM: Cameron Dore
BOUNDARY Damien Main, Patrick Cran, Ian Burrows, James Scully
GOAL Jesse Baird, Daniel Wilson EM: David Rodan

GEELONG CATS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: Max Holmes
OUT: Smith (managed), Narkle (omitted)
B: Henry, Blicavs, Kreuger
HB: Stewart, Z.Guthrie, Kolodjashnij
C: Holmes, C.Guthrie, Tuohy
HF: Dahlhaus, Ratugolea, Higgins
F: Dangerfield, Hawkins, Rohan
FOLL: Stanley, Selwood, Parfitt
INT: Bews, Clark, Menegola, Close
EMER: Smith, Evans, Narkle, Constable

GWS GIANTS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: Stein, de Boer, Sproule, Riccardi, Briggs, Brown
OUT: Davis, Lloyd, Hopper, Green, Reid (all injured), Hogan, Mumford (both managed)
B: Stein, Taylor, Cumming
HB: Perryman, Haynes, Ash
C: O’Halloran, de Boer, Whitfield
HF: Daniels, Himmelberg, Greene
F: Sproule, Riccardi, Taranto
FOLL: Briggs, Ward, Kelly
INT: Bruhn, Brown, Peatling, Idun
EMER: Shipley, Wehr, Angwin, Buntine