Geelong Cats vs Western Bulldogs: AFL live scores

absolute star of the competition now, amazing how quickly he has come along since 2017!

I'd say looking at the game neutrally; the dogs are great and will be better with their missing players of course, a game against them come finals time will again be a 50/50 flip of the coin. But that was far from the Cats at their best as we were also missing Duncan, Henderson & Miers, 2 of our stars and a regular forward. Hendo's injusry pre-game made us lose structure as O'Connor had to be moved down back from the middle, meaning the Bont and Liba got a free-ride when they would have otherwise been tagged. Danger & Guthrie are also underdone coming back from serious injuries, they'll be a lot better come September. And finally the slippery conditions which prevented us from playing our natural kick mark game. Anyone who actually watches the cats would tell you that was not their natural or A-game, and instead an arm-wrestled territory game due to the conditions. I think winning 7 out of 8 games against the top 8 sides speaks volumes for how well a team is going, which is ironically, the opposite of the tigers atm...

Agreed Cat, I was at the famous Melbourne game a few years back, the one Touhy won after the siren and if anything you could have described that game as "life used" -given that we were 35 down in the last quarter and they missed 2-3 more chances to seal it as we made the unthinkable comeback. This game was just a classic 50-50 game which could have gone either way, and in the end a bit of desperation and class got us over the line. Deservedly so if you ask me, we had a 7 minute patch at the start of the third in which we could have blown the game open, but poor set shots and decision making cost us as they went up the other end and scored twice instead.

True, but he also got the ball moving forward for our last two goals, so in the big moments he still managed to stand up. He's rusty as hell atm which is understandable given his missed 11 weeks so far this year, he'll get better and better as we roll along towards final. And hopefully he can turn the set shot woes around again like he did late last year, because 0.3 from those spots is poor.

Maybe reread Cals post. Dave.

It’s a shame you regularly reference your posts to the Tigers! Give it a rest mate!

I think Tiger supporters are pretty comfortable in their own skin- so to speak. No need for us to denigrate successful teams, oh wait Cats aren’t that successful. But in short if you want a Tiger comment – Cats are still looking like the September proverbial speed bump and a dead cat bounce got them over the line in this game. Doggy fans should be very happy. They now know they can beat them at the G with a fully fit team come finals. I don’t think Cats can put anyone else in that team that could further boost them – you should be worried.

Yep your lads will feel the wrath of the dogs mids Hope Martin is back Nort will be out. Should be a close tussle.

As long as they don't all come back next week...

Older & wiser!

They like to bleed in finals Hopefully the dogs play Cats in a final & Melb. The two flag favourites are clearly the best so far!

Thanks Pete :laughing:

Chuck they left the players scrummage for the ball longer in play which was pleasing!

Yea Nics losing Nort early didn’t help & Martin prior to game threw out our Structure! I was impressed with our fight for the contest that alone was worth more than the 4 points we lost! When Dunks, Treloar ,Wood , Martin & Nort are back we will be a formidable team!

Dab are you an expert? Dogs were missing Nort & Martin it threw our structure out the window but we only lost by a kick! When we have Naughton , Martin ,Wood , Treloar , Dunkley back we will do Ok Hope we play Melbourne at the MCG in a final!

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Doubt he will play this year Bevo clearly wants him to dominate not be a passenger!

Do you think young JUH is close or needs more time

With Martin & Nort out it hurt our structure but the team played well could have pinched a victory but Geelong were brilliant!

Yea these things happen Move on