It was an arm wrestle for three quarters as the Dees visited Kardinia Park and slugged it out with the Cats.
You could be forgiven for thinking Geelong’s season was on the brink as the teams lined up to start the last, and in many respects, it was. The Dees had asked the questions of the Cats through the first three quarters, and Geelong answered the only way they know how – with a withering blast of power football that saw them slam on six-straight goals to turn a seven-point deficit into a healthy lead and put enough distance between them and the Demons to run out relatively comfortable winners.
Geelong entered the game without Patrick Dangerfield after playing out last week with a punctured lung, and lost Jeremy Cameron in the first quarter due to a sickening collision with teammate, Gary Rohan, that saw the Coleman Medallist stretchered off.
No Danger. No Cameron.
No worries, as the Cats gave the best indication this year that they are far from a spent force.
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