Cats go a game clear with hard-fought win over Power

Port Adelaide Power v Geelong Cats, AFL 2022 round 19 Ben Jensen GEELONG held off a determined Port Adelaide side at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday evening. It was an occasion for big forwards with Tom Hawkins and Jeremy Cameron kicking seven between term and while he only kicked two goals, Charlie Dixon was Port Adelaide’s best player. Tom Atkins was the unanimous best on ground picking up a maximum ten votes in the AFL Coaches Association award. The win gives the Cats a one match buffer over rivals Brisbane, Melbourne and new challenger Collingwood; Fremantle has now dropped out of the top four but a win over the Demons this weekend in the ‘Brayshaw Cup’ will see the Dockers return. The Cats play the Western Bulldogs on Saturday night at GMHBA Stadium, a match the Cats can afford to drop but the Bulldogs can’t if they want to make the finals.

AFL 2022 ROUND NINETEEN
PORT ADELAIDE POWER V GEELONG CATS
SATURDAY 23 JULY 2022, 16:35 AEST
ADELAIDE OVAL

GEELONG CATS: 5.1, 11.3, 12.6, 16.10 (106) DEFEATED
PORT ADELAIDE: 4.3, 5.5, 13.7, 14.10 (94)

AFL COACHES ASSOCIATION VOTES:

10 Tom Atkins (Geelong), 7 Charlie Dixon (Port), 5 Brad Close (Geelong), 3 Tom Hawkins(Geelong), 2 Sam Powell-Pepper (Port), 2 Jeremy Finlayson (Port), 1 Gary Rohan (Geelong)

GOALS
GEELONG CATS: Hawkins 4, Cameron 3, Rohan 2, Stengle 2, Holmes, Dangerfield, Miers, Close, Smith
PORT ADELAIDE: Georgiades 3, Powell-Pepper 2, Marshall 2, Dixon 2, Farrell, Gray, McEntee, Boak, Amon

BEST
GEELONG CATS: Atkins, Cameron, Hawkins, Guthrie, Close, Tuohy
PORT ADELAIDE: Dixon, Powell-Pepper, Amon, Georgiades, Boak, Burton

INJURIES
GEELONG CATS: Rhys Stanley (knee)
PORT ADELAIDE: Charlie Dixon (ankle), Dan Houston (concussion)

CHANGES
GEELONG CATS: Nil
PORT ADELAIDE: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
GEELONG CATS: Shannon Neale (replaced Rhys Stanley during the third quarter)
PORT ADELAIDE: Riley Bonner (replaced Dan Houston at three-quarter time)

REPORTS
GEELONG CATS: Nil
PORT ADELAIDE: Nil

CROWD: 30,937 at Adelaide Oval

UMPIRES
FIELD Justin Power, Brett Rosebury, Jamie Broadbent EMER: Giles Lewis
BOUNDARY Jason Moore, Sean Burton, Chris Bull, Michael Baker
GOAL Daniel Hoskin, Rhys Negerman EMER: Brodie Kenny-Bell

PREDICTIONS
Ben – Cats 36 points
Oscar – Power 10 points
Cassie – Cats 15 points

GEELONG CATS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: Nil (Jed Bews, last week’s medi-sub elevated)
OUT: Sam Menegola (concussion)
B: O’Connor, De Koning, Z.Guthrie
HB: Bews, Henry, Tuohy
C: Duncan, Blicavs, Smith
HF: Rohan, Cameron, Dangerfield
F: Close, Hawkins, Stengle
FOLL: Stanley, C.Guthrie, Selwood
INT: Kolodjashnij, Holmes, Atkins, Miers
EMER: Parfitt, Stevens, Dahlhaus, Neale

PORT ADELAIDE POWER – SELECTED SIDE
IN: McEntee; (and Burgoyne last week’s medi-sub elevated)
OUT: Mead, Bonner (both omitted)

B: Burton, Jonas, Clurey
HB: Byrne-Jones, Aliir, Houston
C: Amon, Drew, Farrell
HF: Butters, Marshall, Rozee
F: Gray, Dixon, Powell-Pepper
FOLL: Finlayson, Wines, Boak
INT: Bergman, Georgiades, Burgoyne, McEntee
EMER: Bonner, Duursma, McKenzie, Mead