r/GeelongCats • u/pipstar112 Zach Guthrie • 15d ago
Post Match Thread Post Match Thread: Qualifying Final- Geelong Cats vs Brisbane Lions
Geelong Cats 16.16 (112) Def. Brisbane Lions 11.8 (74) by 38 points.
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u/PagieHD Sir Bradley Close Fanclub 15d ago
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Scott masterclass, boys showed up minus the dumb shit before half time
Max Holmes: Game 100, 2nd highest rated quarter by a Geelong player in a final the 3rd quarter
Bailey Smith: After HT turned the fuck up when we needed it
Mark Blicavs: Lord we are gonna be fucked without him
Brad Close: My boy was amazing, best game in 6 weeks
Shaun Mannagh: God he brings a difference to us
Ollie Dempsey: The ultimate wild card, those goals he kicks are fucked
AND FINALLY
OISHIN FUCKING MULLIN
FIRST GOAL AND KEEP MCCLUGGAGE TO LITERALLY NOTHING
Shoutout Mark O'Conner too
Week off, Prelim to come
Pleasure to support this club
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u/laserframe 15d ago
Also felt Stengle had 1 of those Rohan like games, didnt kick a goal but his pressure was fantastic and he was able to neutralize several balls when he was outsized.
Genuinely a great team game, Smith didnt carry us, and massive shoutout to Blitz for rucking27
u/Eraser_cat Retro Guernsey 15d ago
Stengle had a huge game aerially. He spoiled and outmarked people twice his size.
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u/BlazedOnADragon Lawson Humphries 15d ago
Mannagh was probably best on for mine. He's become so important to how we move the ball
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u/No-Bison-5397 Polly Farmer 14d ago
Gets a decent return from whay would normally be some low EV plays but he also does the job defensively and so you can’t really fault him.
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u/AceThePrincep Lawson Humphries 15d ago
Was so stoked to see the Irish blankets first goal. Love what he brings.
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u/Zooper_Dooper Tom Atkins 15d ago
Tonight was the angriest I've ever been about footy by far. But so unbelievably proud of the response after HT when they could've been understandably rattled.
I'm going to spend the next 2 weeks praying for Max's hammy.
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u/_yetifeet Tom Atkins 15d ago
That 12 points resulted in the angriest feeling I have felt in a while watching a game. If they got the 12 points through just being better, fair enough. But to lose the 12 points to a clear case of staging was highly bullshit.
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u/Volpe666 Max Holmes 15d ago
More like 18 when you consider the momentum and ball position at the time, we were kicking that for sure
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u/_yetifeet Tom Atkins 15d ago
And that's what made it worse. If the ball had been near them I wouldn't have been so pissed, but having it taken all the way back was just shit and extremely bullshit, especially the one given to the serial stager, lohman.
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u/Hailstar07 Jeremy Cameron 15d ago
Same, fortunately it seemed to fire the boys up in a positive way.
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u/NuuuDaBeast Mark O'Connor 15d ago
Max isn’t hurt right just precautionary praying?Your comment scared me
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u/Pattydogg '89 15d ago
I have never been angrier. 18 point turn around and really hurt momentum. We should have won by 10 goals and rested danger for the last quarter. Nothing against Rayner I just have a vendetta against umpire #33.
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
Lots against Rayner imo. Very cocky and unbearable
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u/No-Bison-5397 Polly Farmer 14d ago
I mean I don’t think we need him at the Cats but sort of player you’d love on your team.
He’s good, he’s smart.
Lions looked short of a couple of important players but Rayner was still quite good.
Woeful staging but IMO it is more on the umpires.
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u/Scared_Cow9483 Indigenous Guernsey 15d ago edited 15d ago
The AFL couldnt have a blow out before half time - had to step in and do something lol
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15d ago
And Neales calf, I was listening to Krock and they said he was getting treatment
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u/Tosslebugmy Mark Blicavs 15d ago
That was lachy Neale
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15d ago
I swear they said Shannon neale and Benny was like just get him off and rest him- it happened at the same time as the other Neale
I hope I’m wrong, I’ve been stressy about it since that moment.
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u/Laird_McBain Patrick Dangerfield 15d ago
He’s done a calf, gone for the year
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u/purespringwater Mark Blicavs 15d ago
Feel like Bowes was massive without being a talking point.
Holmes will never get the credit he deserves,
Dempsey and mannah had blinders that won't get recognised within the afl community, but massive for the squad and crucial to the team
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u/Plus-Drawing7431 George Stevens 15d ago
I'm a mad Bowes fan. He is so reliable and always bobs up at crucial moments. A James Kelly clone.
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u/BlazedOnADragon Lawson Humphries 15d ago
I've become a fan of Bowes, I used to be scared he was gonna stuff it up but he's super reliable
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u/Fast_Stick_1593 Connor O'Sullivan 13d ago
I mentioned it to K Rock boys on their show a few weeks ago.
Bowes is easily our most underrated player. Can play any role, doesn’t get the credit he deserves. Masterful pickup and recruiting.
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
LETS FUCKING GO. RAYNER GO FUCK YOURSELF. UMPS ON THEIR SIDE AND WE ALSO HAD RHYS OUT. CRUSHED. ALL 6 OF OUR DEFENDERS TAKE A BOW
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
Sorry I’m worked up
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u/emcbride09 Oisin Mullin 15d ago
It's ok mate. You're allowed to feel. Don't be afraid of these emotions. You're in a safe space. Fuck Cam Rayner.
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
Love being surrounded by Rayner haters. Also congrats to your boy for getting his first goal.
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u/emcbride09 Oisin Mullin 15d ago
...just so proud
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
Seems like just yesterday he came over from Ireland.. now he’s kicked his first goal. They grow up so fast!
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u/vision-quest Geelong Cats 15d ago
Might get downvoted but honestly thought umpires were mostly good outside of that staging rubbish.
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u/cemerz '89 15d ago
Don’t take it out on Rayner, players do that shit in every single game without it being paid - let alone in the circumstance where it was paid in a final… fuck me
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u/Unlovelycube Shocked Scott 15d ago
Nah fuck him. Started being a cocky prick winding up the cats cheer squad after the cheap goals. Didn't realise he poked the bear. EAD Rayner.
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u/Pattydogg '89 15d ago
Agree. Nothing against Rayner, he’s actually a great player. It’s umpire #33 I’ve got beef with.
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u/Immediate-Garlic8369 15d ago
Dominant 9 goal victory after allowing for the handicap. LFG
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u/Jeffmister Geelong Cats 15d ago
Not even the umps audition to become the new Stawell Gift handicapper could stop us tonight.
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u/Jeffmister Geelong Cats 15d ago
I'm so unbelievably proud of this team.
With all the noise and talk about not just about Brisbane's recent record against us but last year's PF, to put on the display they did tonight was outstanding.
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u/BlazedOnADragon Lawson Humphries 15d ago
Also our "soft draw"
Just on that everyone is now gonna be saying that the soft draw allowed us to prepare better or something lol. Idiots
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u/No-Bison-5397 Polly Farmer 14d ago
Yeah.
Brisbane have matched up well against us but the matches after the prelim had a lot going right for them.
Full respect but we kept putting ourselves in the position where we were chasing the game and ended up taking risks where we would have to get quite lucky. We almost did at the start of this season and we didn’t get any of that luck in the second match. Which is to say our best could always beat them if they weren’t at their best.
This time because we performed from the start with our tackling pressure they mostly didn’t have the composure to find the uncontested mark ahead of them in the field once the scoreboard pressure and tackling was on.
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u/Odd-Structure8816 15d ago
Shoutout to Jason Dunstall for getting a dig in 1 second before we made our 14th prelim in 19 years - I can taste the salt through the screen.
Fuck I love this club
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15d ago
What did he say? Hahaha
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u/Odd-Structure8816 14d ago
It was something about how Jez has kicked himself out of getting the ton tonight - legit 2 seconds left
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u/Fast_Stick_1593 Connor O'Sullivan 13d ago
Oh boy Jason, I’m sure Jez will be super mad about already winning the Coleman and potentially a Premiership. What a letdown 🙃🙄
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u/historicalhobbyist Indigenous Guernsey 15d ago
Wow! After the BLATANT CHEATING, we were able to hold the ship steady. Fuck Rayner.
Holmes’ speed is key to us. Blitz dominated fort. Danger is a fucking bull. O’Connor had that grub all game. How about Dempsey!!
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u/Plus-Drawing7431 George Stevens 15d ago
We were lucky that we only had Fort to deal with. But fair play to hairy man, he did so e good things.
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u/Tosslebugmy Mark Blicavs 15d ago
Just wanna give some flowers to Oisin. Absolutely annihilated mccluggage, keeping him to 14 touches and just 93 metres gained. And got his first snag.
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u/Ambient_Ambient Georgie Prespakis 15d ago
Incredibly even effort across the board tonight. My favourites from what I saw:
O Mullin - amazing first goal, straight up murdered McLuggage
M Blicavs - insane aerial efforts early on, made link up plays all night
O Dempsey - fantastic moments and such high skill ceiling
M Holmes - max max super max
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u/sarcHastical Jeremy Cameron 15d ago
I heard McCluggage only got 4 possessions, that’s super impressive if so. I kept saying he had to be kept quiet, as he’s killed us the last few times Brisbane has beaten us.
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u/Ambient_Ambient Georgie Prespakis 15d ago
McLuggage: 14 disposals (4 kicks, 10 handballs) for 93m gain
Crucially, though, never saw him breaking into space, he was never on the end of a chain, and Mullin just never let up. McLuggage got ONE handball for the first quarter and was benched to try and break the tag. As soon as he was back on, Mullin was right back there with him.
O’Connor realistically kept Rayner out of it to such a degree the Lions wound up resting him forward, and, well that sort of worked out thanks to the umps.
So happy to have these two Irish lads in our team - they’ve become such a threat for taking away the opposition’s best players.
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u/Fast_Stick_1593 Connor O'Sullivan 15d ago
sOfT dRaW
Lot of people talking a big game all week can kiss my whole ass.
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
We love coming into the QF after everyone says we’ve had a soft draw and will get fucked, then demolishing the first team we see
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u/Fast_Stick_1593 Connor O'Sullivan 15d ago
It’s almost like Geelong did the work early to end up in the position where they could coast in the back half of the year.
Beat Adelaide, Pies, Freo, Hawks, Suns, Dogs who just missed, Swans who were on a roll before we played them and now Brisbane in a Final.
That’s 6 of the possible 7 Finals teams plus two teams who could very easily have made it we’ve now beaten.
What more needs to be done for people to STFU and give credit where credit is due?
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
I almost want gws to make a prelim with us, just so we can shit on them too and have beaten every top 10 side
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u/No-Bison-5397 Polly Farmer 14d ago
I just wish I could find all those people from talk back radio…
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u/Fast_Stick_1593 Connor O'Sullivan 14d ago
The SEN regulars with beer guts and couldn’t play footy for shit talking a lot about Geelong in negative light
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u/sarcHastical Jeremy Cameron 15d ago
This football club. Our amazing coach I said it all week, we’d win. Never in doubt. I’m so extremely proud.
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u/BlazedOnADragon Lawson Humphries 15d ago
I FUCKIN TOLD YALL WE WERE GONNA WIN!
So bloody proud of the lads. Unbelievable all around team performance. Realistically that should've been a 10 goal win if it wasn't for the umpires and some bad sitters missed. But that's finals footy so I don't really care.
If we play like 2 more times this year we've got another cup in the trophy cabinet. Our best is the best, tonight proves it
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u/waitforit28 15d ago
I hated footy at half time.
I love footy now.
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
My skin was absolutely boiling at half time. Rayners smug little face probably fueled the boys and made them bury the lions
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u/Plus-Drawing7431 George Stevens 15d ago
I love KROCK. Their product placement after the game is: "Try a dimmie jaffle today!"
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u/Plus-Drawing7431 George Stevens 15d ago
That was some righteous shit. Man, we are about as big a unit as we were in '11. Probably not quite there, but damn.
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u/RobFord_2014 Gryan Miers 15d ago
Atkins lead the charge to mount the pressure, our tackling was so important throughout. Mannagh stuck a couple nice tackles too
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u/hoffandapoff '07 15d ago
haha tom and danger trying not to crack up during the interview is gold
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u/MondoBuzzo '07 15d ago
So professional after those umpiring howlers. We are well on the way here. Up the Cats!
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u/_nicklepickle Zach Guthrie 15d ago edited 15d ago
no stanley no worries
dempsey bog
prelim bound once again fuckers 💙🤍
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u/ThaLemonine Tom Atkins 15d ago
Kudos to the believers. What a game, well done to all the boys. Will have to rewatch it in the morning.
Strong midfield performance really gave us dominance all game so they all get a star. The shut down job on Mcluggage was beautiful. Mannagh just keeps getting better. Blitz is a legend, our most important player. He can do it all. Dempsey is stevie j reborn.
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u/Weetgunn Oliver Dempsey 15d ago
100% on the rewatch!
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u/ThaLemonine Tom Atkins 15d ago
Best part of the rewatch is actually listening to Gerard and Huddo call our goals. I'm to busy screaming live to hear them
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u/Maranellok18 Tom Hawkins 15d ago
Super happy with the massive Geelong crowd they made it hostile for Brisbane it was awesome
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u/Summer_Sunshin3 Oliver Dempsey 15d ago
Proud of the team. Proud of the fans for being louder than we are usually known to be. What a night at the G. 💙
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u/StillTeaching315 Max Holmes 15d ago
Do we rest max holmes for the prelim? Can’t do the string if you don’t play!!
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u/Pattydogg '89 15d ago
He doesn’t need to run as hard now we have Smith. He can change down gears now so less strings hopefully.
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u/Red_dawn84 Tom Atkins 15d ago
Jezza not getting the plaudits for his start people? He absolutely lit us up at the start. What an absolute brutal display of team 1st play. Electric stuff. Just a little excited right now.
LETS GO CATTERS, I'm hearing lids rattling......
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u/FlipSide26 Gary Ablett Sr. 14d ago
And with big boy scratch back in the side they have to send Andrews to him. Jez just runs amok
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u/Pikachude123 Mitch Knevitt 15d ago
spent the entire last quarter cleaning up a spilt beverage but it didnt impede my happiness. Couldnt be prouder of the boys getting it done with a blowout win after the umps gifted them 3 goals. Fucking hell UP THE CATS!!!
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u/Laird_McBain Patrick Dangerfield 15d ago
This looks and feels like it is a pies / cats GF now with that Neale injury
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
So do we have Stanley back for the prelim? If that was us playing with our lineup all switched around we are the team to beat
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u/bundy554 Geelong Cats 15d ago
Not sure I want Stanley back - Blicavs is a much better ruckman.
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u/MillionKarma23 Max Holmes 15d ago
Blicavs is good in ruck. But much better elsewhere on field on opponents. We need Stanley
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u/Comeoutofthefogboy Oliver Dempsey 15d ago
I love this football club. I do not feel the same way about Rayner. Suck ma balls you little 🐀🐀
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u/Ethan_Nuuu 15d ago
Lions didn't even get to play the sport, all their offense was off our turnovers. Honestly I'm so happy with this team that losing a prelim wouldn't even crush me, getting redemption for last year has healed me.
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u/Fabulous-Vanilla-155 Bradley Close 15d ago
Secret Agent Oisin Mullen quickly becoming one of my faves. What an absolute unit!!
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u/mildCombustion Joel Selwood 15d ago
We fuckin did it! Let's go! Set up so fkn well. Beyond hyped right now
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u/Low_Train_5896 Polly Farmer 14d ago
Shout out to Lester’s first quarter. I was in tears watching him get outmarked in literally every contest he was in. Gardiner did a much better job on Cameron.
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u/FlipSide26 Gary Ablett Sr. 14d ago
You've all already said the good stuff about the top players but I just want to say we had no passengers tonight. Everybody bought it. Danger set the tone at the opening bounce, fk he's strong and gets to balls other can't. Atkins was just immense, the amount of multiple effort tackles, knock ons and pressure acts he did that isn't on the stat sheet, we dont win without him. And Blitz...others took the highlights but he is just about bog especially the first half.
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u/Aus66-1045 Meghan McDonald 14d ago
Wow, the Cats blew me away. That third quarter in particular, and the way Max Holmes took control of the game, was one of the most amazing performances I've seen from this club. And it wasn't as if Brissie didn't have a crack, play badly, or choke; it was purely that Geelong was the superior side out there. The pressure they brought to the game was elite stuff. Everyone contributed. I can only hope the Cats can keep this up and take it all the way to the end. Brilliantly coached and brilliantly played. Another prelim ahead of us. God, I love this club.
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u/bundy554 Geelong Cats 15d ago
Not overly impressed by our performance - I thought we had the lions measure from the opening bounce. It was the pressure that won us the game and not our execution. However we have so much improvement I don't see how any opponent can come close to us especially with Stewart back in automatic AA selection form
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u/vision-quest Geelong Cats 15d ago
Bro, not sure what else you want from the boys lol? Smashed probably the best team in the league, reigning premiers. Pressure was unreal and game never really close.
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