Voice of the Outer

Blakey May Be Out

BREAKING NEWS: MARK Blake looks set to join Andrew Mackie on the sidelines for Geelongs semi-final showdown against Fremantle tomorrow night.

The Cats are poised to make two changes to make room for returning key big men Tom Lonergan and forward James Podsiadly.

The Herald Sun revealed this morning that premiership hero Mackie could also be a [...]

Geelong hoping to have history on its side

GEELONG has not lost two games in a row since rounds 14-15 last year and a confident Jimmy Bartel expects his team to bounce back strongly from last week’s narrow loss to St Kilda.

Only twice in the club’s outstanding past four years has it been defeated twice in a row, giving Bartel reason to believe [...]

Polly Farmer a “trailblazer”

JACK Clarke was one of Western Australia’s finest ruckman. He was a boy from the bush who drove to the big smoke each week to play football for East Fremantle in the WAFL.

He never came to Melbourne to show just how good he was but represented WA as a co-ruckman with Graham ”Polly” Farmer when [...]

Cats desperate to redeem themselves

GEELONG star Gary Ablett says the Cats know what went wrong against St Kilda last Friday night and are desperate to redeem themselves.

The reigning premiers put in a dismal first half in their qualifying final, then stormed home to fall four points short, forcing them into a sudden-death semi-final against Fremantle this Friday night.

”It was [...]

2003 Lions Show Cats it’s Possible

CONTEMPLATING the final he had just witnessed last Friday night, Alastair Lynch was overcome by a sense of déjà vu that took him back seven years.

In the first week of September 2003, on a similarly soggy night at the MCG, the Brisbane Lions were on a mission to win a third straight premiership but stumbled [...]

Harvey Claims the Pressure is all on Geelong!

Fremantle coach Mark Harvey believes all the pressure will be on Geelong in Friday night’s AFL semi-final at the MCG, claiming his team has nothing to lose.

The Dockers are $6 outsiders against defending premiers Geelong ($1.11) but Harvey said Fremantle’s underdog status would play in their favour.

“We’ve got nothing to lose now,” Harvey said.

“They’re expected [...]

Memories of 2007 for Blakey

Versatile Hawkins likely to get the nod as Cats’ second ruckman.

THREE years ago, Geelong entered a grand final with an agonising decision over Mark Blake. It faces similar issues over its ruckman this year.

As they decided when they eventually dropped Blake and won the 2007 grand final the Cats should, and probably will, again leave [...]

Pods Should Be Back This Week

GEELONG’S find of the year, veteran full-forward James Podsiadly, will almost certainly come into the Cats’ side this week, leaving the club to decide whether it will leave out Mark Blake or Tom Hawkins.

Mark Thompson yesterday hinted that a small forward – probably Shannon Byrnes – could be the casualty to make way for Podsiadly, [...]

Do We Have The Answers?

Watching the 2nd Qualifying Final on Friday night I had to lament that Geelong still seem to lack a plan to overcome the frontal pressure tactics that teams like St Kilda & Collingwood use. Now let’s face it Bomber and the coaching staff have known they will be playing the Saints for several weeks and [...]

Woeful Umpiring Costs Us the Game

GEELONG coach Mark Thompson was left to ponder what might have been when a goal by Cameron Ling that could have snatched victory was overturned in the dying stages last night at the MCG.

An angry Thompson would not comment on the decision, which handed a free kick, victory and a spot in the preliminary final [...]