Where and when: GMHBA Stadium, Saturday April 13, 1.45pm AEST
Last time they met: Kardinia Park, round seven, 2018: Geelong 14.9 (93) defeated Greater Western Sydney 4.8 (32).
The Cats held the visitors to just two goals to the final break, en route to a comfortable victory. Tom Hawkins kicked four goals, while first-year midfielder Tim Kelly (30 touches) continued a brilliant start to his career. The wasteful Giants played into the Cats’ hands as Tom Stewart and Mark Blicavs dominated in defence.
What it means for Geelong: Taking another contender’s scalp. A 3-0 start to the season looks strong, but extending their unbeaten record ahead of games against Hawthorn and West Coast would provide a platform for a genuine flag tilt.
What it means for GWS: Proving themselves on the road. Despite varying away success last season, the Giants have now lost their last three on the road against contenders Melbourne, Collingwood and West Coast. Yet to win in Geelong from four attempts.
How Geelong wins: The Cats’ blistering start to the season has come as the No.2 ranked contested ball side in the competition. If they continue that against the 14th-ranked Giants, it will go a long way towards moving to 4-0.
How GWS wins: By moving the ball quick. Last week against Richmond, Jeremy Cameron and Jeremy Finlayson combined for 12 majors off the back of fluent ball movement. If the Giants get stuck going slow and long against the Cats’ defence they’ll be in for a tough night at the office.
The stat: The cohesion of the Giants’ attack of Jeremy Cameron, Harry Himmelberg and Jeremy Finlayson has them ranked No.3 in the competition for marks inside 50.
The match-up: Mark Blicavs v Jeremy Cameron
Cameron’s bag of seven last week saw him rocket up the Schick AFL Ratings board to now be the eighth-ranked key forward in the competition. Cameron, who has kicked just five goals in three matches in Geelong, comes up against the No.4-ranked key defender in the game in what shapes as a pivotal battle.
It’s a big week for: Shane Mumford
Returns to his old stamping ground with the Giants’ midfield under his control. In his first game since 2017 Mumford split the honours with Tiger Toby Nankervis last week – despite all of his 14 disposals coming as handballs. This week presents a different challenge against the more agile Rhys Stanley.
Big call: Esava Ratugolea to break free of his early season shackles with a dominant display in attack – five contested marks and three goals.
Prediction: Geelong by 20 points
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Final teams for #AFLCatsGiants: No late changes.
Should I bring in Mumford against Stanley?
You have until next week to check Mummy before his price rise. But so far it still looks like Gawn and Grundy, to go R2 and R1 so you are running the risk of wasting a trade. Is it really worth it?
Don’t be sleeping on Stanley 😉 improving every game and covers the ground extremely well.
Also what Jeannot said !
hoping kelly isn’t a late out
Copped the De Boer tag. I actually think it would’ve been better if he missed! Will score like a rookie today and lose value. Good for those that don’t have him though.
Lovely day at the catery. Perrrrfect conditions for footy. Go Cats.
NO LATE CHANGES
FINAL INTERCHANGES
Geelong: Jordan Clark, Charlie Constable, Sam Menegola, Gryan Miers
Greater Western Sydney: Callan Ward, Brent Daniels, Daniel Lloyd, Adam Kennedy
Bloody hell im gunna end up sun burnt. Would’ve put the house on it that I didn’t need sun screen today at the footy.
maybe danger goes bigger than grundy today
Have to feel bad for Ward, seeing him on the bench, head in his hands, just know it will be the worse. It’s a horrible feeling witnessing that 🙁
Kelly coping a hard tag from de boer low score incoming
Williams and Clark don’t feel like scoring?
Fan-f**kin’-tastic.
Cogs disposals a shocking
Why are the umpires calling play on when kicking around the corner as soon as they take a step. The player kicking isn’t going over the mark as he’s given himself the space he’s allowed but the umpires call play on after a single step and they haven’t even got to the man in the mark. Not the only rule that confuses me.
Calling play on is also the signal for another field umpire to take over coz the ball may have gone out of viewing control.
Another thing to watch is when they say ‘all clear’.
Two hands up mean they are indicating they think it’s a goal, one hand up means they are indicating they think it’s a behind. A goal umpire has to stand at attention to indicate he thinks there is a score, so a field umpire calls all clear to signal a hand over to the goal umpire to make the call. That’s when an all clear is called with both hands down. Any discrepancies is when they go for a chat to verify.
When a goal umpire is patting himself on the chest, that’s an indication to the boundary umpires to stop running it’s a behind. He also indicates to them with hand up it’s on the full and hand down when out of bounce. Umpires are trained to emphasis the calls, hence the over acting sometimes.
Hope that helps answer some often confusing situations.
…….and yes I was an umpire, white maggot, and a few other descriptions, as well as a junior coach, and retired just after the two umpire system was becoming compulsory.
Cheers Guys
Thanks for the insight AA. Genuinely some things I will keep my eye out for from your post.
Cheers
They’re going to put the spotlight on danger’s elbow to de Boer…
Tim Kelly been very disappointing..
You gunna get some down days. Can’t be up all the time as much as we would like. Stick with him.
copping a hard tag mate … hasnt learnt how to shake it … not often tagged!!
Hopefully Kelly can scramble to 70.
You beauty, I’m picking up Kelly in 2 weeks for 450k.
Yeah, I was going to trade him or Dahl in this round. Dodged two bullets there…
Hoping Danger, Clark and Williams can have big last quarters and reach 100, 50 and 80 respectively.
Good game of footy at three quarter time – Cats by 1!!
Geelong Cats: 10.8.68
Tom Hawkins 106
Gary Ablett jnr 91
Rhys Stanley 78
Tom Stewart 77
Mitch Duncan 75
Brandan Parfitt 66
Joel Selwood 66
Mark Blicavs 66
P. Dangerfield* 60
Charlie Constable 55
Mark O’Connor 55
Gryan Miers 55
Tom Atkins 48
Esava Ratugolea 45
Harry Taylor 43
Gary Rohan 37
Jake Kolodjashnij 36
Luke Dahlhaus 36
Jordan Clark 35
Sam Menegola 32
Tim Kelly 30
Jack Henry 28
Western Sydney Giants: 10.7.67
Lachie Whitfield 110
Jacob Hopper 100
Tim Taranto 96
Stephen Coniglio 85
Josh Kelly 73
Jeremy Cameron 69
Shane Mumford 63
Phil Davis 60
Daniel Lloyd 59
Jeremy Finlayson 58
Adam Tomlinson 57
Matthew de Boer 56
Nick Haynes 54
Heath Shaw 53
Brent Daniels 52
Zac Williams 50
H. Himmelberg 48
Adam Kennedy 47
Sam Taylor 45
Sam J. Reid 37
Matthew Buntine 23
Callan Ward 6
What is happening to Menegola come on move it
Is it the Scott Twins’ goal to just perpetually screw with Supercoach players?
My fwd line in going to struggle to crack 300 this week, and I’m only fielding 2 rookies.
But it’s been solid so far.
Whitfield a must next week.
Despite obviously wanting to, I don’t see a way for me to get Whitfield in.
How are going to make that happen, TOF?
Take Atkins 68 TU
See how butters goes TD
Oh well, was waiting on final adjustments and missed getting Scott on field
Sorry guys I forgot to mention my stepson-in-law took Dangerfield and dumped Hawkins in Tech League.
Luckily he couldn’t make a decision on who to dump Scott for and spend his remaining 650k on.
….and yes,…..Heeney, Grundy, Neale and Whitfield were all the contenders, but he was so indecisive he was advised to hold.
He’s having divorce papers printed as we speak…….
There goes my dream to get 4 Geelong Fwds
Oops, got distracted by the chin waggin forgot to tell ‘im to move the capt. from Scott to Rocky……ahhh well, Yo-Yo will have to do.
Dusty to t kelly continues my year of hell. I want 2018 back!!
Hey Wighty
That’s why you can’t always use stats and rely on history and why I went Boak over Kelly this week. Same score as Kelly early in early stages 2 Nd qtr
Long season though and you could still prove to be right
Kelly was clearly impaired by his injured for the record. Was limping around alot of the game and had no explosive pace.
Realistically should not have played. Disappointing game from 3/4 of the Geelong team today just an off week.