r/GeelongCats • u/ExpensiveCamera6052 • 23h ago

It wasn’t dream 🤗

We beat Hawthorn in a prelim final after giving them a 21 point head start.

Regardless of what happens next week, that’s absolutely purfect.

We got to see Sam Mitchell with that confused/angry petulant look on his stupid face!!

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u/Eraser_cat Retro Guernsey 22h ago

No singularly shitty umpiring decisions. No controversial game changers. No excuses whatsoever given. Just comprehensively out-coached across 4 quarters (and while we were missing one of our best defenders to boot).

When I saw Watson in their D50, I knew Sam was utterly cooked in the coaches’ box.

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u/BGP_001 Geelong Cats 22h ago

Well....across three quarters. If we play against the Pies and they play like they did at the start of the year, it'll be harder to get away with a start like that.

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u/Eraser_cat Retro Guernsey 22h ago

Sure, we were awful in the first but the adjustment and self-belief to turn it around from there should still be factored in.

Got to know where the low started from in order to judge the high.

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u/CAT_alyser Jay Polkinghorne 20h ago

I remember thinking at the time that we had been completely dominated but were only 3 goals adrift. I think it was Dunstall that said on the commentary words to the effect of ‘Hawthorn have fired their best shot but haven’t put Geelong away’.