AFLW 2024 AFLW season - Geelong & the greater league...

[cats_09]

Never good when a player goes to ground like this with no one around

 

[winty]

Do the AFL really want the AFLW to succeed? First there was North Melbourne playing a home game at 5pm on Friday night at Whitten Oval instead of Arden Street, and now this...

 

[winty]

You love to see it....

Cat's out of the bag: Elite volleyballer to join Geelong

Volleyballer Caitie Tipping is set to join Geelong after several clubs were interested in the 191cm cross-coder

www.afl.com.au

 

[cats_09]

You love to see it....

Cat's out of the bag: Elite volleyballer to join Geelong

Volleyballer Caitie Tipping is set to join Geelong after several clubs were interested in the 191cm cross-coder

www.afl.com.au

That'll definitely help our ruck stocks

 

[OzeSparky]

That'll definitely help our ruck stocks

We need her now.

 

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[cats_09]

Coaches votes

Coaches Votes | Gold Coast v Geelong​

VOTES	PLAYER	TEAM
8	Mikayla Bowen	GEEL
8	Nina Morrison	GEEL
8	Aishling Moloney	GEEL
4	Becky Webster	GEEL
2	Darcy Moloney	GEEL

Geelong has cleaned up all 30 coaches votes in their big win over Gold Coast on Saturday.

Mikayla Bowen, Nina Morrison and Aishling Moloney all received eight votes for a trio of dominant performances against the Suns.

Bowen amassed a career high 25 disposals and kicked a goal, dishing off 10 score involvements and three goal assists in a sensational display.

Morrison led through the middle with 26 possessions and seven clearances, while Moloney was lively down forward booting four goals from her 13 disposals.

Becky Webster received four votes from the coaches for her performance, collecting 21 disposals and six inside 50's across half back.

Darcy Moloney rounded out the voting after picking up a career high 22 possessions, receiving two votes from the coaches.

 

[cats_09]

Georgie Prespakis will be a test for the Week 5 clash against Hawthorn.

After missing the previous two games, midfielder Georgie Prespakis will be a test to play against the Hawks on Thursday night at GMHBA Stadium.

Geelong Cats Assistant General Manager – Football Brett Johnson

Brett Johnson

Age

43

Ht

179cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.2

3star

K

7.8

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.0

4star

No current season stats available

D

11.6

3star

K

7.6

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

1.2

3star

says the Club is confident that Prespakis will return to face Hawthorn. 

"Georgie will participate in full training this evening, and if all goes well, we anticipate that she’ll be ready for our upcoming match against the Hawks,” Johnson said.   

After having surgery on her toe, Chloe Scheer is back in at the Club, with a timeline on her return to be confirmed.   

“It is great to have Chloe back in at the Club and around the team. As Chloe continues to progress over the next couple of weeks, we’ll have a clearer idea regarding her expected return date.” 

The Cats AFLW team returns to Geelong with GMHBA Stadium to host two blockbuster match-ups in the next seven days. Be there as Geelong takes on Hawthorn this Thursday, followed by a Tuesday night showdown with the Dockers!

Secure your ticket today via Ticketmaster.

Catch all the action via Fox Footy and Kayo, or you can listen via K rock Football here.

Geelong Cats Deakin Health Update Week 5​

Player	Injury	Timeline
Georgie Prespakis	Quad	Test
Chloe Scheer	Toe	TBC
Lilly Pearce	Knee	Season

 

[cats_09]

Good to see Claudia's game acknowledged

 

[cats_09]

Thorne unlucky

 

[cats_09]

This is shocking from Carlton - played out of their skins against us, and then this against North

 

[goyoucatters]

This is shocking from Carlton - played out of their skins against us, and then this against North

You can call it shocking from Carlton, sure. Or you can call out how pathetic it was from us to get torched by what is a clearly mediocre team.

It seemed like a monumentally atrocious performance from us at the time. And so it has proved.

 

[PzBlinky]

You can call it shocking from Carlton, sure. Or you can call out how pathetic it was from us to get torched by what is a clearly mediocre team.

It seemed like a monumentally atrocious performance from us at the time. And so it has proved.

I think the Melbourne and Carlton games could bite us on the bum. The Dees haven't exactly set the world on fire...we're the only team they've beaten.

 

[goyoucatters]

I think the Melbourne and Carlton games could bite us on the bum. The Dees haven't exactly set the world on fire...we're the only team they've beaten.

They both look really bad losses. Losing at home against what looks a middling team was certainly not great. And any loss to Carlton at this point in time is pretty indefensible for this group.

 

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[cats_09]

You can call it shocking from Carlton, sure. Or you can call out how pathetic it was from us to get torched by what is a clearly mediocre team.

It seemed like a monumentally atrocious performance from us at the time. And so it has proved.

I meant the lack of defensive effort from Carlton in that passage was shocking - the fact that two North players were running into an open goal with no pressure, had time to fumble the ball before being able to pick it up and then handball to an open teammate in the goal square, was extremely poor from a Carlton perspective

Our effort against Carlton wasn't great, and the loss against Melbourne was frustrating from the position we were in - I'd rate that one as the worse loss of the two

But then when looking across the league this season, North is a clear standout, while Adelaide & Richmond are also looking solid, and then there's a lot of teams who all look around a similar level, with that group including us

Tonight we play Hawthorn who've had commanding wins over Carlton, Collingwood & St Kilda, but also comfortably beaten by Adelaide. Out of those wins for Hawthorn, they beat St Kilda by 57 and if we go back to week 1, St Kilda beat GC by 54 and we just beat GC by 69

With teams not yet playing each other in a season, it can be hard to get a full read on where teams really sit in the pecking - we're seeing teams win by 50pts one week and then lose by that margin the next week, so maybe we've got lot of mediocre teams?

So I think we've got a clear favourite (a team we drew with & we're also the only team who they've trailed at any stage this season), a couple a teams below them, and then a large number of teams on the next set of rungs & on any given day they can make other teams look silly, while also being made to look silly themselves. And then at the bottom of the ladder, we've got a few teams that are really struggling - GC is the only one of those teams we face this season, so well done to anyone who plays two or three of GC, Bulldogs & Collingwood, as they are currently looking most off the pace

 

[winty]

This is shocking from Carlton - played out of their skins against us, and then this against North

I wonder if the conditions played a role in our performance against Carlton, and that our team is better equipped in the dry than in the wet. It was bucketing down all game against Carlton and we were trying to play dry weather footy and were punished for it. Was similar to the Collingwood game last season too.

 

[goyoucatters]

I wonder if the conditions played a role in our performance against Carlton, and that our team is better equipped in the dry than in the wet. It was bucketing down all game against Carlton and we were trying to play dry weather footy and were punished for it. Was similar to the Collingwood game last season too.

I gather that's exactly what we did. Tried to play dry weather footy when it was absolutely throwing it down. And didn't really change our approach for the entire game.

Monumentally stupid and naive, I would have thought.

 

[cats_09]

Rohan's hair is starting to grow back over the stitches - he looks in good spirits tonight

 

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[cats_09]

So, it's not raining but it's ****ing cold at the game

So we've gone from playing on some serious rain against Carlton, to the warmth against GC on Saturday and now it's pretty bloody cold with my watch telling me it's 10c

 

[winty]

Decent grab by Darby there.

 

[cats_09]

One thing and hate, even from our own fans is that as soon as a player lays a tackle, the call of "ball" from the crowd

Can we try to learn the rules please, because it's stupid yelling it out when the player has barely taken possession before being tackled

 

[cats_09]

Pres definitely running better than earlier in the season, at least in the early stages

 

[winty]

That pass by Kenny then was elite.