AFL 2013 ROUND 11; GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY V GEELONG; MATCH PREVIEW
Ben Jensen 6 June 2013

By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery GWS GIANTS V GEELONG CATS FIVE CHANGES to the Geelong side to face the Kevin Sheedy-led GWS Giants at Škoda Stadium this Saturday afternoon in the first of the 'bye' rounds for this season. Just six games are on this weekend with the Lions, Blues, Hawks, Tigers, Power and the Bulldogs having the week off. Harry Taylor and Mark Blicavs have been rested or 'managed' while Steven Motlop and George Burbury miss with injury. Jordan Schroder has been omitted. Returning are Billie Smedts, Jackson Thurlow, Jordan Murdoch (fresh from the News Corp AGM in Sydney), James Podsiadly from injury while Jesse Stringer returns after nearly a year-long absence.

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UMPIRES

FIELD: Justin Schmitt (17) Troy Pannell (28) Andrew Mitchell (31) EM: Brendan Hosking (16)
BOUNDARY: Michael Saunders Luke Roberts Robert Taylor Scott Gordon
GOAL: James Savage Dale Puren EM: Sergio Villagra

TIP: Cats by 81 points

CATS INJURY LIST

Updated 6/6/2013

Paul Chapman (hamstring) - indefinite
Josh Cowan (Achilles) - TBA
Taylor Hunt (shoulder) – 3-5 weeks
Linton McCarthy (navicular, eg. the foot) - indefinite
Hamish McIntosh (knee) – 1-2 weeks
James Podsiadly (knee) - Available Named in side
Billie Smedts (ankle) - Available Named in side
Steven Motlop (knee) - Unknown
George Burbury (quad) - Unknown
Jared Rivers (knee) – 4 weeks
Travis Varcoe (shoulder) - 6 weeks

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GIANTS INJURY LIST

Updated 6/6/2013

Chad Cornes (knee) - indefinite
Phil Davis (back) – 2 weeks
Jon Patton (knee) - season
Andrew Phillips (hamstring) – 1 week
James Stewart (back) - indefinite

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AFL 2012, ROUND 10, SIMONDS STADIUM

SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2012 13:45 AEST

MATCH REPORT - CATS PUT UNDER THE PUMP, RUN OVER GIANTS IN SECOND HALF

MATCH PREVIEW - AFL ROUND 10 2012; GEELONG V GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY

CATS PUT UNDER THE PUMP, RUN OVER GIANTS IN SECOND HALF
Ben Jensen 2 June 2012

By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery GEELONG CATS V GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY GEELONG were fairly unimpressive for at least half of the game against Greater Western Sydney today but still managed to win by 65 points. GWS led for pretty much all of the first half, the Cats not putting on much of a show. Earlier in the VFL comeback kid Dan Menzel injured his 'good' knee in his much anticipated comeback game, and the AFL side made three changes, Corey Enright (brake foot), Joel Corey (shoulder) and Motlop (shoulder) all replaced in the selected side by Jesse Stringer, Tom Gillies and Billie Smedts. Harry Taylor played up forward in place of Hawkins and performed really well, having always been such a good marker of the ball all he had to do was work on his goal kicking. In his 100th match he kicked six goals, including one after the final siren. Steve Johnson kicked five, James Podsiadly three while for the Giants there were just three multiple goalkickers in Jeremy Cameron, Dylan Shiel and Adam Treloar each with two goals.

GEELONG: 4.2 7.3 13.8 19.12 (126) DEFEATED
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY: 4.2 7.3 8.5 9.7 (61)

GOALS
GEELONG: Taylor 6, Johnson 5, Podsiadly 3, Chapman 2, Guthrie, Stephenson, Stringer
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY: Cameron 2, Shiel 2, Treloar 2, Greene, Ward, Tyson

BEST
GEELONG: Johnson, Bartel, Scarlett, Kelly, Chapman, Mackie, Taylor, Selwood
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY: Ward, Scully, Shiel, Coniglio, Greene, Cameron, Giles, Adams

CHANGES
GEELONG: Corey Enright (brake foot), Joel Corey (shoulder) and Motlop (shoulder) all replaced in the selected side by Jesse Stringer, Tom Gillies and Billie Smedts
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY: Nil

INJURIES
GEELONG: Joel Selwood (thigh)
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY: Jacob Townsend (jabber jaw)

UMPIRES:

FIELD: Craig Fleer (2) Matthew Leppard (11) Shane McInerney (30) EM: Stefan Grun (13)
BOUNDARY: Mitch Lefevre, Graham Bergroth, Chris Morrison, Matthew Jenkinson
GOAL: Peter Gonis, Darren Mills EM: Chelsea Roffey

CROWD: 17,243 at Simonds Stadium, Geelong

PRE-MATCH TIP: "Cats by 87 points"

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VFL ROUND 9

GEELONG V NORTHERN BLUDS

SUNDAY 9JUNE 2013 13:00 AEST

SIMONDS STADIUM

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