Having been founded in 1859, the Geelong Cats are the second oldest football club in the AFL and is also one of the oldest in the world. The Cats have won seven premierships, garnering a reputation as both world beaters and underachievers, highlighted by their record breaking 2007 Grand final triumph over Port Adelaide and their 2008 Premiership loss to the Hawthorn Hawks.
See the 2010 Geelong Cats fixtures.
The Brisbane Lions will ask the AFL for special permission to play a practice match the week before the start of the season after Saturday’s NAB Challenge Series match against Geelong was cancelled because of Melbourne’s stormy weather.
A massive downpour engulfed Visy Park shortly before the scheduled 3pm start, with hailstones the size of [...] Read article
There is a reason why the football world, leaving aside the players and their agents, are up in arms about the issue of third-party payments. It’s because this issue isn’t going to stop at just Chris Judd and Gary Ablett.
Two weeks ago, all anyone knew about outside deals was Judd’s partnership with Visy. Heck, I [...] Read article
As the season 2010 approaches, up to seven clubs loom as genuine premiership threats. Geelong are the ‘Yul Brynner’ of the ‘Magnificent Seven’, the leader of the pack.
With a gun midfield, and stable book ends, they look to be just as competitive as in the past 3 years. Not even the retirement of Captain [...] Read article
New Richmond coach Damien Hardwick says there were signs of his new game plan was clicking as the Tigers thumped reigning premiers Geelong 15.12 (102) to 7.9 (51) in an AFL practice match on Saturday.
The Cats fielded a vastly understrength side, missing about 12 first-choice players including captain Cameron Ling and stars Gary Ablett, Joel [...] Read article
North Melbourne’s wealth of young talent was outstanding as they opened the AFL NAB Cup with a shock 14-point win over Geelong.
The reigning pre-season and regular-season premiers trailled by 46 points midway through the third term on Sunday at Etihad Stadium and North then withstood their comeback to win 2.11.11 (95) to 2.10.3 (71).
Matt Campbell, [...] Read article
Brady Rawlings will be nearly as nervous as his young North Melbourne team-mates on Sunday when they open the AFL NAB Cup against Geelong.
The Etihad Stadium twilight clash against the reigning regular and pre-season premiers will be the first game in North’s new era.
Brad Scott will make his senior coaching debut, the Kangaroos are well-established [...] Read article
Geelong forward Steve Johnson is confident the hip problem which troubled him throughout the second half of last AFL season will no longer hold him back.
The skilful 26-year-old started last year in career-best form, kicking 32 goals in the first 10 rounds.
But he kicked just eight more for the year, missing seven of the club’s [...] Read article
Mathew Stokes’ AFL career is on hold for at least the next three months as the Geelong forward faces his cocaine charges.
Geelong announced a range of club penalties for the 25-year-old on Monday, including suspension until round eight of the regular season, a $5000 fine and the demand that he finds full-time work until [...] Read article
Maybe it’s the frustrating search for parking or the smell of the local junior footy club’s sausage sizzle, or perhaps the sight of the dodgy scoreboard and antiquated timer, but watching Aussie Rules at a suburban venue certainly has its charm.
Indeed, my senses were on ‘nostalgic overdrive’ on Saturday morning as I made my way [...]
For Carlton fans, there is a second disturbing picture Brendan Fevola creates for them in 2010. It’s the vacant goalsquare laid bare after his 11 years spearheading the AFL club’s attack.
How the Blues fill it, and the 100-goals-a-season hole Fevola leaves behind, will determine their season.
Already Carlton coach Brett Ratten has rolled out the possible [...]
For Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams, it’s a sunny dawn after a dark, wretched nightmare.
He’s consigned to history a horrid 2009, a season when Port was cast as a financial basket case beset by internal schisms, coaching controversy and inexplicable on-field collapses.
Williams last year was forced to accept his pay being cut in half to [...]
The Western Bulldogs believe captain Brad Johnson’s absence from their opening round blockbuster against Collingwood will pay off later in the season.
The Dogs had hoped the 33-year-old, 349-gamer, who had been steadily recovering from a calf injury sustained five weeks ago, could play some part in Saturday night’s NAB Cup grand final against St Kilda.
But, [...]
Hawthorn have recalled former Western Bulldogs fringe player Wayde Skipper for their final AFL practice match as they seek to solve their ruck woes.
Skipper, who will have to be elevated from the rookie list if he is to play in the home and away season, is part of the Hawks’ 26-man squad to play a [...]
It is a date that is etched in the minds of sporting fanatics around Australia. Thursday March 25, 2010 is the date when the new AFL season begins.
For the serious stat analysers, it is seen as the deadline for when their AFL Fantasy Dream Team must be submitted.
Many see the date as the [...]
It’s not every year we get two premiership favourites at close to full strength playing off for a piece of silverware in March. But this is a unique situation and a great opportunity to see who can draw first blood between two teams I’m predicting, and hoping, will be this year’s grand finalists.
In many respects, [...]
Tanking has a new meaning in the AFL, after the league announced plans to store players’ blood and urine samples long-term among upgraded measures to deter drug cheats.
Samples will be kept on ice for eight years in the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) deep freeze facility, known as The Tank, to allow for repeated testing [...]
Western Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade is fighting an uphill battle to dispel two popular theories surrounding his club and the approaching AFL season.
The first is that the lack of a dominant power forward was what stood between the Bulldogs and a grand final over the past two seasons – and that problem has been solved [...]
There’s a mix of good and bad news at Fremantle in 2010. The good news at a club which has reached the AFL finals just twice in 15 seasons? The Dockers are armed with a wealth of talented youngsters capable of finally achieving a period of sustained success.
The bad news? That period is unlikely to [...]
