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GEELONG 80 4.3 7.5 9.10 11.14 COLLINGWOOD 64 2.4 6.5 7.8 9.10 MICHAEL BEST HORAN’S

Geelong: G Ablett, Scarlett, Corey, Ling, Enright, Chapman. Collingwood: Cloke, Lockyer, Licuria, Burns, H Shaw, Clarke.

Goals: Geelong: Ling 2, S Johnson 2, Mooney, Stokes, Enright, Wojcinski, Selwood, Chapman, Bartel. Collingwood: Cloke 4, Medhurst, Lockyer, Burns, Maxwell, Rocca.

Reports: Nil. MEDICAL Too strong: veteran Geelong ruckman overpowers Magpie youngster Tyson Goldsack at the MCG on Saturday. Picture: MICHAEL DODGE ROOM

GEELONG The ladder-leading Cats celebrated their 10th straight Big Cats purring

win, emerging without a FB123 scratch from the tight contest against the Pies. Michael Horan Scarlett racked up 21 disposals, three ANALYSE inside 50s and seven rebound 50s. MUCH has been made of the THIS COLLINGWOOD Scarlett was involved in score-chains Collingwood kids this season that resulted in 6.3 as he constantly ran No more wounded Pies came GEELONG and Collingwood played true and how, in the absence of off the struggling Rocca. out of Saturday’s match, but several injured senior players, to their 2007 styles. The Cats had 1.26 suddenly there is a more they have managed to keep their kicks to every handball and played WOULD urgent focus on the return of side in the fight for a top-four through the corridor 32 per cent of the YOU BELIEVE injured defenders James berth. Ling Scarlett time, while the Magpies had 1.93 kicks to

Clement, Simon C All true and, indeed, admirable. every handball and attacked through the CAT has been astray Prestigiacomo and Rhyce But on Saturday the Magpies ran corridor to their big men up forward. Had Cameron Mooney been able to corridor 17 per cent of the time. Geelong with his goal kicking in the past two slap bang into a superior unit of fully M Shaw, as well as skipper convert from set shots the difference at , during the grown men in Geelong jumpers who let had 171 handballs to Collingwood’s 119. weeks . He has kicked 4.10, which them know, as talented and promising the end would have been a more includes 2.7 from set shots. His numbers next two weeks. realistic four or five goals. Y as they may be, there is a way to go yet didn’t improve on Saturday, kicking 1.4. before they get to the top. At the other end, Anthony Rocca THE >> LOG ON The Cats were efficient, organised may as well have still been suspended. STAT He should talk to Magpie , K strong and relentless to secure a 10th Just four effective disposals were a sad who went into the game with a season consecutive win and before a finals-like return and his opponent Matthew THE kicking in front of goal was dismal FOR MORE Scarlett’s ability to run off and set up tally of 19.25, but found his radar against MCG crowd of 85,497 they showed they but what got the Cats over the line was are entitled to be warm premiership forwards thrusts was, statistically, the Geelong to finish with 4.1. PICTURES OF PAGE 16-JUL-2007 DHS favourites. killer for Collingwood. No fewer than the amount of shots in the corridor. THE WEEKEND’S The margin of 16 points was, in truth, nine scoring shots — and six goals — Geelong kicked 8.4 from the corridor to LIL’ AFL MATCHES very flattering to Collingwood. originated from the hands of Scarlett. the Pies’ 2.1. RIPPER In the modern game, teams play only The ability of to stifle heraldsun.com.au/sport as well as they are allowed and Gee- a key opponent every week, the won- AFTER a shocking first quarter in which long’s intensity made the Magpies look derful talent of Gary Ablett, the excit- YOU’RE ordinary. At times when it came to ing emergence of , the KIDDING he was smashed by Paul Licuria, Cat Joel Umpires: hitting targets, the Pies were so ever present threat of Steve Johnson Corey bounced back in the second half Margetts, McBurney, Rosebury. hassled, so harried they wouldn’t have up forward and the overall work-rate ANTHONY Rocca put in his second with 20 disposals. He racked up a game- hit water if they fell out of a boat. and sheer talent make the Cats the high 34 touches for the game, including Crowd: In contrast, Geelong was always best equipped mature list in the AFL. shocker from the past three games with 85,497 at the MCG. threatening. The Cats spread well and Certainly against Collingwood they seven disposals, only four of which were 11 contested possessions. run hard, then sweep through the were men among boys. effective. His direct opponent Matthew Michael Horan

OFFICIAL STATISTICS 51

DISPOSALS MARKS FREES SCORE RANKING DISPOSALS MARKS FREES SCORE RANKING FIRST TOG % TOG % CATS 1234T KICKS H/BALLS EFF % CT CON. POSS UNC. POSS INSIDE 50s CLEARANCES CLANGERS FA TACKLES GB ASSISTS TOT AV MAGPIES 1234T KICKS H/BALLS EFF % CT CON. POSS UNC. POSS INSIDE 50s CLEARANCES CLANGERS FA TACKLES GB ASSISTS TOT AV P.CHAPMAN 7853231587416 9 14 4 3 3 0 2 4 1 2 0 91 119 112 T.LOCKYER 767828235821116 20 0 3 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 82 135 105 J.SELWOOD 28852312117807 6 17321 2 1 61 0 08111573 T.CLOKE 654520155853108 12612 2 0 24 1 19513480 M.SCARLETT 7563212018104 3 16 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 100 106 75 H.SHAW 6344171256525 6 10 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 100 115 111 C.ENRIGHT 72492212108626 6 14202 1 1 51 0 09610585 S.WAKELIN 6633181268919 5 12000 0 0 10 0 010011480 C.LING 5455191098915 7 13 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 0 0 94 105 91 S.BURNS 5728221012770410 13 1 5 2 3 0 3 1 1 1 56 105 100 S.JOHNSON 5465201646018 8 12915 2 0 22 1 4859998 S.PENDLEBURY 67342010108528 7 13331 1 0 50 1 1809096 J.COREY 4 10 13 7 34 16 18 65 1 8 11 23 3 5 4 2 2 2 0 0 0 86 95 104 P.LICURIA 7839271017811109 18 3 0 3 0 2 3 0 0 2 75 89 77 B.OTTENS 3355164127502 116 161 3 0 40 0 0709188 L.DAVIS 3523131309202 5 8 511 1 0 50 4 2868375 G.ABLETT 10 7 7 8 32 18 14 78 0 3 6 26 2 5 4 0 2 0 0 1 1 92 84 113 S.O’BREE 3872201377503 8 12 4 6 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 79 83 77 T.HARLEY 635317899426 5 11100 2 0 00 0 0938356 N.MAXWELL 533213858504 5 8 213 2 0 51 0 1877479 A.MACKIE 8563221757308 5 18 4 1 4 1 2 3 0 0 1 96 77 78 M.CLARKE 1926181268906 3 14 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 79 70 72 D.MILBURN 551415788704 4 12211 0 0 30 1 09173109 D.SWAN 1618161516918 4 11103 1 1 40 1 08967107 D.WOJCINSKI 2532125710002 6 7 2 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 88 73 76 D.THOMAS 4284181088308 6 12 4 0 4 0 3 2 0 1 0 84 65 78 M.EGAN 334414597925 5 9 000 0 0 20 0 0897166 B.JOHNSON 5635191457904 2 17203 1 1 20 0 1866178 C.MOONEY 3443141227128 8 6 3 0 5 1 1 0 1 4 0 97 71 86 J.FRASER 6326171077109 2 15 3 1 3 0 1 3 0 0 1 75 56 81 J.BARTEL 47752313105715 5 18544 0 1 21 1 17966121 T.GOLDSACK 2851161066304 7 8 104 0 1 30 0 0935668 T.HAWKINS 123511568224 7 4 1 0 3 1 1 2 0 1 1 64 58 56 H.O’BRIEN 344011747303 6 5 1 1 3 0 3 2 0 0 0 100 54 55 M.STOKES 630211749104 4 7 302 0 1 31 0 2795779 A.DIDAK 3722141225706 5 9 313 1 1 40 0 1894974 J.KELLY 5073155106701 6 9 1 1 3 0 1 5 0 0 0 71 55 75 S.ILES 053210468004 2 7 1 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 65 35 66 J.HUNT 114612668301 4 6 103 0 1 30 0 0794775 A.ROCCA 10337525724 5 2 303 1 2 11 0 1993277 M.BLAKE 12317257105 1 6 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 37 30 47 P.MEDHURST 20103306723 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 65 28 50 T.VARCOE 12104137500 1 3 100 0 0 20 0 1422254 C.BRYAN 20002205001 1 1 113 1 1 20 0 0357 41 RUSHED 3 RUSHED 0 TOTALS 96 93 107 91 387 216 171 77 15 102 128 257 52 31 51 16 18 58 11 14 13 1702 1817 TOTALS 84 108 72 85 349 230 119 78 15 126 114 228 48 27 46 18 16 62 9 10 12 1602 1727 HIT OUTS (Adv %) FREES GOALS DISTANCE OF GOALS HIT OUTS (Adv %) FREES GOALS DISTANCE OF GOALS TEAM 29 (7%) D50 MID F50 OOF FREE PLAY MARK 0-15 15-30 30-40 40+ TEAM 20 (25%) D50 MID F50 OOF FREE PLAY MARK 0-15 15-30 30-40 40+ OTTENS 15 (13%) 31120 1 5 5 4214 FRASER 10 (30%) 11434 1 3 5 2214 BLAKE 12 (0%) ROCCA 3 (0%) EFF% - % of disposals effective C - Contested CON.POSS - Contested Possesions UNC.POSS - Uncontested Possesions CLEARANCE - Clear ball from stoppage CLANGER - Errors including frees against TOG% - % Time on ground TOT - Match total AV - Average +