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April 17, 2007
Cats deal with injury ravaged Dees
Young guns Brent Prismall (left) & Tom Hawkins (right) kicked 7 goals between them against Melbourne.
GEELONG 5.8 11.8 14.10 15.19 (109)
MELBOURNE 2.1 4.4 5.9 8.9 (57)
GOALS: Geelong: T Hawkins 4 B Prismall 3 J Bartel T Varcoe B Ottens S Byrnes C Mooney P Chapman D Milburn C Ling. Melbourne: B Green 4 B Moloney 2 T Johnstone S Godfrey.
BEST: Geelong: J Bartel B Prismall G Ablett C Ling T Hawkins P Chapman. Melbourne: B Green C Bruce B Moloney T Johnstone J McDonald N Carroll.
INJURIES: Geelong: N Ablett (hamstring) replaced in selected side by J Selwood. Melbourne: Nil.
REPORTS: Nil.
CROWD: 38,438 at the MCG.
Geelong managed to do what some perceive has been a weakness in their game over the years on Sunday. They went out and comfortably beat an opposition whom under the circumstances they should beat comfortably.
However it wasn't a total cakewalk for the Cats. When my mates & I heard the guy behind us say that Nathan Ablett was out despite being out in the warm up we just presumed it was some deviant Demons supporter extracting the urine. That was until we saw Nathan run down the race & the MCG announcer conform Joel Selwood had come in for him.
This wasn't good news, surely we couldn't lose to a Melbourne side horribly out of form and missing Robertson, Neitz, McLean & Rivers could we? Thankfully it didn't hurt us one bit. It gave Tomahawk a bit more of an extended run than planned but it worked well until the 2nd half where he tired & Joel Selwood got another crack at AFL football, turning in his best performance yet despite being in the stands seconds before the bounce eating a Mars bar.
Geelong started comfortably with Hawkins booting our first & Milburn playing on a forward flank added a 2nd before Brent Moloney (remember him?) kicked two nice goals in the space of a minute to pull Melbourne back in the game. Melbourne's thoughtless gameplan of bombing it long into a forward line devoid of its usual key forwards unsurprisingly didn't work and we took control of the game, only bad kicking stopped it from being a massacre in the first 30 minutes. Still, we went into the huddle up by 25 points.
Melbourne finally stopped bombing it in long in the 2nd quarter, but it didn't do them any favours as there midfield, lacking targets, just mucked around with the sherrin and ultimately turned it over while we were once again rebounding out of half back via Bartel, Wojcinski, Enright & Scarlett. Brad Green was swung forward and played a lone hand for them, despite Scarlett being a good match up we kept Josh Hunt on him as Scarlett was providing too much on the counter to stick him back in the square. Shockingly we managed to kick straight via Tom Hawkins booting 3 and it was almost game over as we went into the half time up by 46 points.
Not much to report in the 2nd half, we knew we had the game under control and that changed our mentality. Melbourne also flooded back late in the game to limit the damage. If we hadn't kicked 1.9 in the last quarter we would have won by 100 and probably deservedly so.
Jimmy Bartel was easily the best player on the field, racking up 35 touches, taking some great grabs in defense and getting forward to kick our only last quarter goal. Brent Prismall played the best game of his short AFL career gathing 20 odd classy touches and slotting 3 composed goals. Gazza was well, Gazza while David Johnson kept Aaron Davey incredibly quiet. Chappy was his nuggety self as usual, while Mark Blake has come on in leaps & bounds since Round 1. You could visibly see his confidence going through the roof as he set off on runs, sold dummys to midfielders and even broke a tackle! Lastly as mentioned before Tomahawk was great in the first half kicking 4.1 and dishing off a goal to Prismall in the 3rd quarter.
Geelongblog.com Player of The Year
Round 3:
5. James Bartel
4. Brent Prismall
2.5. David Johnson
2.5. Gary Ablett
0.5. Paul Chapman
0.5. Mark Blake
Leaderboard:
1. Nathan Ablett - 7
1. Jimmy Bartel - 7
3. David Wojcinski - 6
4. Gary Ablett - 5.5
5. Corey Enright - 5
6. Paul Chapman - 4.5
7. Brent Prismall - 4
8. David Johnson - 2.5
9. Matthew Scarlett - 2
10. Cameron Mooney - 1
11. Mark Blake - 0.5
Next week it is off to Tassie to face Hawthorn on Sunday. We certainly owe Hawthorn one after last season where they thumped us twice. They always seem to shut down our gameplan so this is definitely going to be a hard match for us travelling to Tasmania for the first time.
Posted by Sammy D at April 17, 2007 12:59 PM
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