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Cats to play Magpies in first final; five Cats in AFL All-Australian squad

August 22, 2022

Geelong Cats v West Coast Eagles, AFL 2022 round 23 Ben Jensen GEELONG had a slow start but easily accounted for West Coast at GMHBA Stadium on Saturday night by 85 points to honour Patrick Dangerfield’s three hundredth game. Tyson Stengle and Tom Hawkins each helped themselves to four goals while Eagle James Cripps kicked three. Before the first bounce ruckman Jonathan Ceglar came in at the expense of Sam Menegola to play just his second match for the Cats and was one of the best afield. Former Cat Tim Kelly finally had a good game against his old side, easily the Eagles’ best.

The Cats will play Collingwood in the first qualifying final at the MCG on Saturday 3 September in a twilight fixture beginning at 4:35pm. A short time ago the AFL All-Australian squad of 44 players was announced, with five Cats making the squad: Tom Hawkins, Jeremy Cameron, Tom Stewart, Tyson Stengle and Mark Blicavs. The final 22 will be announced Wednesday night.

2022 AFL round 23 Patrick Dangerfield
Patrick Dangerfield marks in the first quarter

AFL 2022 ROUND TWENTY-THREE
GEELONG CATS V WEST COAST EAGLES
SATURDAY 20 AUGUST 2022, 16:35 AEST
GMHBA STADIUM

GEELONG CATS: 6.4, 12.7, 15.12, 19.17 (131) DEFEATED
WEST COAST EAGLES: 3.2, 4.4, 6.4, 7.4 (46)

AFL COACHES ASSOCIATION VOTES
Not announced

GOALS
GEELONG CATS: Hawkins 4, Stengle 4, Guthrie 2, Rohan 2, Selwood 2, Close, Henry, Miers, Smith, Tuohy
WEST COAST EAGLES: Cripps 3, Darling 2, Kelly, Ryan

BEST
GEELONG CATS: Smith, Ceglar, Dangerfield, Blicavs, Stengle, Stewart
WEST COAST EAGLES: Kelly, Williams, Shuey, Hurn, Duggan, Cripps

INJURIES
GEELONG CATS: Jake Kolodjashnij (concussion), Cameron Guthrie (shoulder)
WEST COAST EAGLES: Willie Rioli (abdominal)

CHANGES
GEELONG CATS: Sam Menegola (managed), replaced in selected side by Jonathon Ceglar
WEST COAST EAGLES: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
GEELONG CATS: Tom Atkins (replaced Jake Kolodjashnij)
WEST COAST EAGLES: Greg Clark (replaced Junior Rioli)

REPORTS
GEELONG CATS: –
WEST COAST EAGLES: –

CROWD: TBC at GMHBA Stadium

UMPIRES
FIELD Nicholas Brown, Nathan Williamson, Eleni Tee EMER: Michael Pell
BOUNDARY Simon Blight, Sam Stagg, Ian Burrows, Adam Coote
GOAL Adam Wojcik, Simon Plumridge EMER: Matt Maclure

PREDICTIONS
Ben – Cats 128 points
Oscar – Cats 110 points
Cassie – Cats 80 points

GEELONG CATS – SELECTED SIDE
IN: Isaac Smith, Esava Ratugolea
OUT: Jeremy Cameron, Rhys Stanley (both injured), Tom Atkins (managed)

B: Z.Guthrie, De Koning, Bews
HB: Kolodjashnij, Henry, Stewart
C: Smith, Dangerfield, Holmes
HF: Close, Ratugolea, Parfitt
F: Stengle, Hawkins, Rohan
FOLL: Blicavs, C.Guthrie, Selwood
INT: O’Connor, Tuohy, Menegola, Miers
EMER: Ceglar, Atkins, Dahlhaus, Neale

WEST COAST EAGLES – SELECTED SIDE
IN: Kelly, Rioli, Williams, Culley
OUT: Hough (illness), Waterman, Naitanui, Gaff (all injured), Clark (sub)

B: Hurn, Barrass, Duggan
HB: Foley, Edwards, Jones
C: Petrevski-Seton, Kelly, Redden
HF: Cripps, Darling, Rioli
F: Langdon, Dixon, Ryan
FOLL: Williams, O’Neill, Shuey
INT: Nelson, Bazzo, Rotham, Culley
EMER: Winder, Williams, Witherden, Clark

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THE CATTERY started out as a labour of love, and remains that, by creator and principal contributor Ben Jensen in mid season 2002. His aim was to make the best 'Unofficial' Geelong Football Club site on the net. A consultant by day and webmaster by night, he created his first website back in 1996 whilst at the time studying Engineering and Science at Deakin University in Geelong.