CATS POUND LIONS AT LAKE GABBA
Ben Jensen 28 April 2012

By Ben Jensen twitter.com/thecattery BRISBANE LIONS V GEELONG CATS GEELONG easily accounted for Brisbane in a very wet game against Brisbane at the Gabba tonight. Geelong had seven goals at half time, four of them to Coleman Medal leader Tom Hawkins, while the Lions had not one goal yet. Dozens of millimetres of rain fell on Brisbane today and this evening, the Gabba draining pretty well under the circumstances but still resembles more of a shallow pool than a football field tonight. Hawkins finished with 6 goals on a night that on paper didn't suit him at all. Paul Chapman, like Steve Johnson struggling with form of late, had two goals while Johnson himself really struggled. Skipper Joel Selwood is certain to come under scrutiny for an off the ball incident with Lion Andrew Raines in which Selwood was floored for over a minute, but it was the earlier contact from Selwood to Raines that may earn Selwood a Match Review Panel rating. In the VFL on Friday night Mitch Brown booted 9 goals as the Cats defeated Bendigo Gold by 86 points.

GEELONG: 4.1 7.5 10.6 12.6 (79) DEFEATED
BRISBANE: 0.5 0.7 1.9 4.17 (41)

GOALS
GEELONG: Hawkins 6, Chapman 2, Motlop, Selwood, Duncan, Corey
BRISBANE: McGrath, Brown, Black, Rockliff

BEST
GEELONG: Hawkins, Chapman, Christensen, T.Hunt, Selwood, Taylor
BRISBANE: Rockliff, Rich, Hudson, Black, Redden

INJURIES
GEELONG: Nil
BRISBANE: Nil; Polkinghorne (ankle) replaced in selected side by Sheldon

UMPIRES:

FIELD: Chris Kamolins (19) Ben Ryan (27) Shane McInerney (30) EM: Brett Kronk (40)
BOUNDARY: Aaron Deckys Nick Liparota Nick Wade Chris Bull
GOAL: Troy Mavroudis Tristan Symes EM: Shaun Apted

CROWD: 15,528 at the Gabba, Brisbane

PRE-MATCH TIP: "Cats by 33 points"

VFL MATCH, FRIDAY NIGHT

GEELONG 5.1 11.5 16.7 23.9 (147) DEFEATED
BENDIGO 1.3 3.7 7.9 8.13 (61)

GOALS
GEELONG: M. Brown 9, J. Walker 4, S. Kersten 3, L. McCarthy 2, O. Stephenson 2, S. Byrnes 2, A. Banjanin
BENDIGO: J. Thompson 4, J. Maddern , T. Colyer , J. Crow , D. Putt

BEST
GEELONG: M. Brown, J. Simpkin, O. Stephenson, D. Gleeson, G. Burbury, T. Gillies
BENDIGO: R. Ladson, B. Duscher, J. Crow, J. Thompson, M. Baguley, B. McPhee