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Dockers Upset Reigning Premiers

by rickb — Mon, 2012-04-02 05:37 — Last Updated: Tue, 2012-04-03 18:21

Geelong won the 2011 Premiership and despite the loss of some key players to retirement, this is still a formidable side which plays well away. Nevertheless the Cats have had trouble with the Fremantle Dockers. Last year there was one nail-biting finish and the first quarter for 2012 showed that the fans were in for more of the same.  read more »

Geelong Proves Greatness In Epic Grand Final

by janetl — Thu, 2011-10-06 05:32 — Last Updated: Thu, 2011-10-06 05:47

Those who condemned Geelong to the “too old, too slow” basket will be adding “too good” to the slogan after the Cats produced a powerhouse final quarter to win the 2011 AFL Premiership. Geelong held a narrow seven point lead at the final change and the game looked to be set for a close and exciting finish. The much talked about second Premiership Cup for retiring Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse was not to be, as the Cats ran over the top of the 2010 Premiers in front of 99,537 screaming fans.  read more »

AFL Grand Final Teams Announced

by johnson — Thu, 2011-09-29 07:25 — Last Updated: Fri, 2011-09-30 10:05

Johnson Leung reporting for AFANA from Melbourne

Collingwood and Geelong have announced their starting teams for Saturday's AFL Grand Final. In the only change to either team, Pies midfielder Dayne Beams, who only had two possessions in last week's Preliminary Final win over Hawthorn, is out with groin soreness and has been replaced by Alex Fasolo. Pies ruckman Darren Jolly and key defender Ben Reid, who suffered upper-leg injuries in the match, have been retained in the team.  read more »

Cats Too Classy For Weary West Coast

by janetl — Wed, 2011-09-28 09:01 — Last Updated: Mon, 2012-02-27 19:51

Brook Kilpatrick reporting for AFANA from Australia

Geelong booked their passage into a Grand Final face-off with reigning Premiers Collingwood after a comfortable 48 point win over the West Coast Eagles at the MCG on Saturday. First year coach Chris Scott has proved many critics wrong by taking the Cats back to the Grand Final, in the wake of losing the game’s best player in Gary Ablett Jr to the Gold Coast Suns.  read more »

Eagles Win Cat Fight

by rickb — Tue, 2011-07-12 04:12 — Last Updated: Wed, 2011-07-13 21:53

A sellout crowd of over 40,000 fans packed Patersons Stadium to see the West Coast Eagles take on a determined Geelong Cats. This was a chance for the Eagles to prove that they were real contenders for the Finals even without the in-form Quinten Lynch, who had been suspended for rough contact the week before. Geelong have not lost two games in a row for so long that people have arguments about when that was. The script was supposed to read that the Eagles would put up a valiant fight but go down in the end by five or six goals – but it didn’t go according to the script by a long way.  read more »

Round 16 Injury Update

by Lisa Albergo — Wed, 2010-07-14 19:31 — Last Updated: Fri, 2010-07-16 08:35

COLLINGWOOD
Brad Dick, shoulder, 1 week
Anthony Corrie, knee, 1-2 weeks
Nick Maxwell, calf, 1-2 weeks  read more »

Round 15 Injury Report

by Lisa Albergo — Tue, 2010-07-06 20:10 — Last Updated: Wed, 2010-07-07 19:14

FREMANTLE
Michael Barlow, broken leg, season
Greg Broughton, hamstring, 1 week
Antoni Grover, hamstring, 1-2 weeks
Chris Mayne, ankle, 1 week  read more »

Round 13 Week Two Tribunal

by Lisa Albergo — Tue, 2010-06-29 21:41 — Last Updated: Mon, 2010-07-05 07:25

Charges Laid:

Steven Baker, striking Geelong's Steve Johnson: assessed as intentional conduct (three points), low impact (one point) and high contact (two points), equaling six activation points, Level Three offense, 225 demerits, and a 2 game suspension. His prior record of seven games suspended within the past three years increases the penalty 50% to 337.50 demerits and a three game suspension.  read more »

Tiger Cleared In Quiet Tribunal Week

by Lisa Albergo — Tue, 2010-04-20 21:27 — Last Updated: Wed, 2010-04-21 14:55

by Lisa Albergo reporting for AFANA from Chicago

TRIBUNAL

Charges Laid:  read more »

Cats Wobbly Again

by rickb — Tue, 2009-06-23 07:07 — Last Updated: Tue, 2009-06-23 10:11

Rick Browner reporting for AFANA from Subiaco Oval

It is hard to believe that this time last year the struggling Fremantle Dockers produced one of the closest matches of the year against the big name Geelong Cats. Had it not been for a wayward shot on goal by Matthew Pavlich in the last seconds of the game (his shot hit the goal post on the siren) Fremantle would have snatched the surprise victory of the 2008 season. One year later the teams matched up again in similar circumstances.  read more »

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