match report coll v cats

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Match report from a very cold WA loungeroom

WA is pretending to be melb this week,its freezing,and our fire is stuffed.Oh well on with the game.
1st qtr
geelong let it be known they are here to play early on,they kick the first goal and are winning the centre breaks.
but we fight back and Bucks hits the post,and then Cloke takes a strong mark and goals.
he leads again but this time drops the mark but his second effort is superb and he handballs to lockyer who misses what he should have nailed.
cats go forward and Johnno opens his clanger account and gives away a free in the square and a goal results.
Bucks kicks a long goal but Cloke is pinged for the shepherd as he let it go thru,very dubious decision.
cats finish off the quarter with 3 goals,2 resulting from free kicks.
Bucks got reported for rubbing his bleeding face on lings shoulder and Ling squealed like a little piggy to the ump and was sent off as well for his trouble.
we are down 14-35 at qtr time but lead 16-4 in the clanger award.
2nd qtr
cats are winning easily at the bounces and the backline are under pressure as an 8 minute arm wrestle takes place.
Cloke passes to Lockyer and he goals,scotland passes to leon on the lead and he goals
Ant and josh both snap points,Cloke is working hard but his disposal is way off at times,i made a note at this point that he should stay a backman and maybe cole go forward.But that didnt happen.MM wasnt listening.
Cloke then jumped into the ruck and a perfect tap to locks resulted in a goal.
Cats get a couple of goals,one resulting from Cole dropping a sitter.
and they finish the qtr peppering the goals but luckily for us only 3 pts come out of it.
51-34 at the half.
3rd qtr
cats get 2 goals in the first minute both from center clearances,King is killing us,Mckee is ok around the ground but we are being slaughtered at the bounces.
Ant and then Tarks get goals and then the cats goal again.
5 goals in 7 minutes,reflect the way the game is being played,its a shootout.
Boofa steals the ball off king and goals,30 sec later cats goal again.
Didak passes to Boofa who is wearing a black arm band,no other players had one on,maybe his dog died?and he misses the shot at goal.
Cole is then responsible for the next 7 points to the cats,one from a weak tackle and the other from a shocking kick.
We somehow scramble forward very unconvincingly and Didak has a shot and josh marks it on the line and slots thru a banana goal.
leon snaps one from 40 and 10 seconds later Ant bangs one thru from 70.
cats get a goal as kingsley outsmarts presti,tarks misses an easy shot,and Didak finishes the qtr with a long bomb from 55.
we go in 9 points down with all the momentum.
final qtr.
dont know what happened to the momentum as the cats slam on 3 goals in 2 minutes to kill the game.
For most of the night our entry into the 50 has been haphazard,and devoid of system.
another weak effort at the ball from cole sets up another cat goal.
Boofa,Obree and rupert get goals late in the game but its a 28 point hiding 127-99
We were out tackled,outmarked,outrun,outcoached,outplayed,outsmarted and out everything else you can think of except for theclangers,we won that stat.
the forward structure is too reliant on talls,and the smalls dont crumb often enough,how often do you see the smalls trying for mark of the year and the opposition crumb and clear.
this is where we are missing brodie,and we miss a bit of shite from molloy.
we are back in the pack now,next weeks game is a must and i hope a few changes are made.
votes.
2.Lockyer,Rocca,Bucks
1.Cloke,Clement,McKee,Fraser
season tally
16 .Buckley,Lika
14. Rocca
10. Cloke,Burns
9. Lockyer
7. Freeborn
6. Mckee,Fraser,leon davis
5. Tarrant
4. McGough,Johnson,wakelin,Holland ,Presti.
3.Clement
2. Betheras,Boofa,Steinfort,Richo,Scotland,
1.Cummings