Cats sew up minor premiership with twelfth win on the trot

Gold Coast Suns v Geelong Cats, AFL 2022 round 22 Ben Jensen GEELONG’s ten goal win over the Gold Coast on Saturday, their twelfth win in a row, sewed up the AFL minor premiership with the Cats taking a two match and approximately ten percentage point lead over next best sides Sydney and Melbourne. The Cats won every quarter starting off with seven goals in the first term, increasing their lead every change finishing up sixty-point winners.

AFL 2022 ROUND TWENTY-TWO
GOLD COAST SUNS V GEELONG CATS
SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 2022, 16:35 AEST
METRICON STADIUM

GEELONG CATS: 7.3, 12.5, 15.9, 18.11 (119) DEFEATED
GOLD COAST SUNS: 2.2, 4.2, 7.2, 9.5 (59)

GOALS
GEELONG CATS: Cameron 3, Stengle 3, Blicavs 2, Holmes 2, Miers 2, Parfitt 2, Cameron Guthrie, Menegola, Hawkins, Tuohy
GOLD COAST SUNS: Rankine 2, Anderson, Davies, Day, Flanders, Hollands, Lukosius, Witts

BEST
GEELONG CATS: Cameron, Blicavs, Holmes, Cameron Guthrie, Stengle, Stewart
GOLD COAST SUNS: Miller, Ainsworth, Ellis, Anderson, Lemmens, Witts

INJURIES
GEELONG CATS: Rhys Stanley (leg)
GOLD COAST SUNS: Day (knee), Rankine (shoulder)

CHANGES
GEELONG CATS: Nil
GOLD COAST SUNS: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
GEELONG CATS: Mark O’Connor, replaced Rhys Stanley in the third quarter
GOLD COAST SUNS: Jeremy Sharp, replaced Sam Day in the third quarter

REPORTS
GEELONG CATS: –
GOLD COAST SUNS: –

CROWD: 14,728 at Metricon Stadium

UMPIRES
FIELD Andrew Stephens, John Howorth, Alex Whetton EMER: Andrew Adair
BOUNDARY Adam Reardon, Chris Delany, Peter Bock, Nick Swanson
GOAL Tom Sullivan, Jesse Baird EMER: Matthew Bridges

Ben – Cats 60 points
Oscar – Suns 7 points
Cassie – Cats 13 points

GEELONG CATS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: Patrick Dangerfield, Joel Selwood, Mark Blicavs, Gary Rohan
OUT: Mitch Duncan, Isaac Smith, Mark O’Connor, Luke Dahlhaus (omitted), Jonathan Ceglar (medical substitute)

B: Z Guthrie, S De Koning, J Bews
HB: J Kolodjashnij, T Stewart, J Henry
C: G Miers, P Dangerfield, J Selwood – C
HF: B Close, J Cameron, T Stengle
F: S Menegola, T Hawkins, T Atkins
FOLL: R Stanley, C Guthrie, B Parfitt
INT: Z Tuohy, M Blicavs, M Holmes, G Rohan
EMER: M Knevitt, E Ratugolea, L Dahlhaus, M O’Connor

GOLD COAST SUNS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: S Day, S Flanders
OUT: J Sharp (Omitted), N Holman (Injured), R Atkins (Medi-Sub)

B: M Andrew, S Collins, J Farrar
HB: J Lukosius, C Graham, B Ellis
C: S Lemmens, T Miller, E Hollands
HF: B Ainsworth, M Chol, I Rankine
F: M Rosas, L Casboult, D Swallow
FOLL: J Witts – C, M Rowell, N Anderson
INT: A Davies, S Day, S Flanders, D Macpherson
EMER: R Atkins, J Bowes, B Fiorini, J Sharp