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| Round: 23 Venue: Kardinia Park Date: Sat, 30-08-2014 7:40 pm Crowd: 24,659 | |||||
| Geelong | 5.2.32 | 11.6.72 | 16.13.109 | 21.17.143 | C: Chris Scott |
| Brisbane | 2.4.16 | 7.5.47 | 10.6.66 | 12.9.81 | C: Justin Leppitsch |
| GEEL by 16 | GEEL by 25 | GEEL by 43 | GEEL by 62 | ||
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| Brownlow Medal | 3 Mitch Duncan (GEEL) | 2 Joel Selwood (GEEL) | 1 Tom Hawkins (GEEL) |
Match Report
Geelong made short work of Brisbane as it tuned up for the finals with a big win over the Lions at Kardinia Park on Saturday night. The Cats won every quarter as it went on to win by more than 10 goals in front of 24,659 fans at its home venue.
The Cats opened the match with two goals in the first five minutes - one each to Corey Enright and Josh Caddy - and then kicked three further goals to two for the first term to establish a 16-point quarter-time lead. An entertaining second quarter saw 11 goals kicked, five by the visitors and six by the home team and Geelong led by 25 points a the long break.
Brisbane threatened briefly in the third quarter, with goals to Josh Green and Claye Beams cutting the margin to 14 but Geelong closed out the term with five of the last six goals and led by 43 points at the last change of ends. The Cats put the foot on the pedal in the last quarter, adding a further 5.4 to the Lions' 2.3 and cruised to a 62-point victory.
Mitch Duncan was outstanding for the Cats, with (35 disposals and eight marks), with Tom Hawkins (seven goals, 10 marks) a tower of strength up forward and Joel Selwood (29 touches and nine tackles) also very good. For Brisbane, Pearce Hanley was brilliant, with 31 possessions and two tackles, while Stefan Martin (32 disposals, six marks) and Lewis Taylor (22 touches and a goal) playing fine games.
Despite the loss, Brisbane will be relatively happy with the second half of its season. The Lions has a 1-8 record after nine games but there last 12 matches yielded seven wins and gave first-year coach Justin Leppitsch a good springboard for 2015.
Geelong, meanwhile, now moves on to the "real stuff", contending its eight consecutive finals series. The Cats will take on the Hawks in a Qualifying Final on Friday night.
GOALS
Geelong: Hawkins 7; Caddy 3; Selwood, Murdoch 2; Enright, Varcoe, Stokes, Walker, Bartel, Thurlow, Brown
Brisbane: Green 3; Beams 2; Merrett, Martin, Bewick, Aish, Taylor, McStay, Lester
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Geelong: Duncan, Selwood, Hawkins, Enright, Stokes, Caddy, Taylor
Brisbane: Hanley, Martin, Lester, Taylor
BEST - THE SUNDAY AGE
Geelong: Hawkins, Duncan, Selwood, Enright, Caddy, Bartel
Brisbane: Hanley, Martin, Taylor, O'Brien, Leuenberger, Green
INJURIES
Geelong: Nil
Brisbane: Nil
SUBSTITUTES
Geelong: Billy Smedts replaced Tom Lonergan at three-quarter time
Brisbane: Mitch Golby replaced Jackson Paine at three-quarter time
UMPIRES: Leppard, Findlay, Mollison
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Seven Network
COMMENTATORS: Brian Taylor, Luke Darcy, Matthew Richardson, Cameron Ling
Source
Match Report by Andrew GigaczFootnotes
Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.
Match stats
| Geelong | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 3 | Bartel, Jimmy | 16 | 6 | 12 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 30y 269d | 270 | 188 |
| 46 | Blicavs, Mark | 3 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 23y 155d | 43 | 10 |
| 1 | Brown, Mitch | 12 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24y 2d | 14 | 9 |
| 23 | Caddy, Josh | 11 | 5 | 13 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 21y 336d | 56 | 38 |
| 22 | Duncan, Mitch | 13 | 8 | 22 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23y 81d | 98 | 86 |
| 44 | Enright, Corey | 15 | 8 | 15 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32y 350d | 286 | 61 |
| 29 | Guthrie, Cameron | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 22y 11d | 62 | 10 |
| 26 | Hawkins, Tom | 11 | 10 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 26y 40d | 145 | 280 |
| 33 | Horlin-Smith, George | 8 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 21y 251d | 30 | 18 |
| 9 | Kelly, James | 13 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 30y 244d | 254 | 87 |
| 13 | Lonergan, Tom | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30y 105d | 143 | 52 |
| 4 | Mackie, Andrew | 7 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30y 23d | 218 | 90 |
| 6 | McCarthy, Lincoln | 7 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20y 312d | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | Murdoch, Jordan | 6 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 22y 160d | 40 | 36 |
| 25 | Rivers, Jared | 8 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29y 316d | 180 | 18 |
| 14 | Selwood, Joel | 15 | 6 | 14 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 26y 96d | 182 | 112 |
| 2 | Smedts, Billie | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22y 83d | 33 | 18 |
| 27 | Stokes, Mathew | 13 | 1 | 17 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 29y 281d | 173 | 199 |
| 7 | Taylor, Harry | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 28y 79d | 157 | 40 |
| 40 | Thurlow, Jackson | 13 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20y 155d | 8 | 4 |
| 5 | Varcoe, Travis | 9 | 2 | 11 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 26y 142d | 136 | 130 |
| 34 | Walker, Josh | 6 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21y 291d | 15 | 12 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 199 | 94 | 184 | 383 | 21 | 17 | 23 | 64 | 15 | 11 | 25y 255d | 2547 | 1498 | |
| Brisbane | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 7 | Adcock, Jed | 11 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 28y 288d | 185 | 42 |
| 4 | Aish, James | 9 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 18y 295d | 21 | 6 |
| 17 | Beams, Claye | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22y 363d | 28 | 21 |
| 8 | Bewick, Rohan | 3 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24y 324d | 63 | 47 |
| 45 | Bourke, Jordon | 9 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 19y 292d | 1 | 0 |
| 42 | Clarke, Justin | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 20y 285d | 36 | 1 |
| 5 | Crisp, Jack | 8 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20y 332d | 18 | 10 |
| 34 | Freeman, Jonathan | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20y 125d | 4 | 6 |
| 27 | Gardiner, Darcy | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18y 342d | 17 | 2 |
| 41 | Golby, Mitchell | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22y 331d | 51 | 6 |
| 6 | Green, Josh | 8 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22y 6d | 54 | 72 |
| 11 | Hanley, Pearce | 20 | 2 | 11 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25y 288d | 96 | 35 |
| 35 | Lester, Ryan | 7 | 3 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 22y 4d | 52 | 12 |
| 23 | Leuenberger, Matthew | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 26y 84d | 94 | 20 |
| 12 | Martin, Stefan | 11 | 6 | 21 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27y 286d | 74 | 28 |
| 32 | Mayes, Sam | 6 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20y 102d | 39 | 23 |
| 25 | McStay, Daniel | 5 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19y 67d | 9 | 7 |
| 21 | Merrett, Daniel | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29y 261d | 171 | 69 |
| 47 | O'Brien, Zac | 12 | 3 | 18 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23y 307d | 5 | 1 |
| 39 | Paine, Jackson | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21y 70d | 12 | 11 |
| 24 | Patfull, Joel | 9 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 29y 266d | 182 | 24 |
| 28 | Taylor, Lewis | 11 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19y 194d | 22 | 12 |
| Rushed | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 155 | 72 | 175 | 330 | 12 | 9 | 52 | 45 | 11 | 15 | 23y 8d | 1234 | 455 | |
Match highlights
Tom Hawkins kicked 7 goals for Geelong against Brisbane (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)Stefan Martin had 21 handballs for Brisbane vs. Geelong (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)
Mitch Duncan had 22 handballs for Geelong vs. Brisbane (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)
Joel Patfull played his last game for Brisbane (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)