Review Cats defeat gallant Pies by 6 points to get into another PF

[Wish Wellingtons]

Elite!!

Would be nice to see him turn up for the first three quarters.

 

[Live in hope]

Really surprised the problems that most of the Cats had with the greasy ball and footings. If anything it got worse after sunset with the dew. Real contrast to Collingwood’s ball handling which generally was one grab. While the excellent Magpies intensity impacted us, IMO our handling of conditions was the biggest problem. Burned multiple sure goal opportunities and was a break on our rhythm.

Likely to have similar conditions for the PF, so really need to drill/practice match this.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

So do we make a change in case he has another bad one against gawn?

Yeah after sleeping on it maybe we have to. Gawn is one he's had a history of playing alright on though, and in that scenario I still think sending Ceglar to out-tap Gawn is a bit of a waste of an on-field position because I don't think he'll be successful there or elsewhere. Rhys you risk him going into his shell again, but there's also a risk Stanley pulls out a great performance. I don't think there's a risk of Ceglar being effective against Gawn, and he's a liability away from hut outs even on a good game.

So I don't know. Maybe you risk him again, maybe you don't

 

[you pick one]

I don’t believe in judging effort/intensity from the stands. That’s full nuffy stuff.

The days of captain coaches are gone so how's it done now?

 

[Feline]

Death, taxes, the “Colllllllliiiiiiiiinggggwoooooooood” chant ending badly for the Pies and Vdubs overrating the opposition.

As soon as I heard that chant I was more confident. It reminded me of 2011 when they went early.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Need to see the matchups but Parfitt just has to come in. Miers possibly vulnerable too.

Miers was ok but is vulnerable.
Parfitt has to come in to defend melbournes stoppage threat. Potentially menegola too.
Id drop kolo even if he is fit to play (which he probably wont be).
Stanley vs ceglar is the one im not sure on.

 

[Schmegg]

IMO Zuthrie seems to have licence to play a peel off, sweeping role and really relishing it. This has the additional benefit as opposition are focused on making our key defensive sweeper Stewart much more accountable, taking him out of the play.

I’m a little surprised that opposition haven’t tried to isolate Zuthrie deep forward because I think his light frame could be exploited but in all other facets Zach has all the attributes. Great story of belief and confidence by the player and club. Big contract increase I suspect!

Thing I like about Zuthrie is he’s always Kick first mentality, buys us so much time, yesterday a 16-1 kick to handball ratio, I’d rather that than a bunch of meaningless handballs selling teammates into trouble in the defensive 50.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Yeah after sleeping on it maybe we have to. Gawn is one he's had a history of playing alright on though, and in that scenario I still think sending Ceglar to out-tap Gawn is a bit of a waste of an on-field position because I don't think he'll be successful there or elsewhere. Rhys you risk him going into his shell again, but there's also a risk Stanley pulls out a great performance. I don't think there's a risk of Ceglar being effective against Gawn, and he's a liability away from hut outs even on a good game.

So I don't know. Maybe you risk him again, maybe you don't

Its a tough one. Ceglar is better at hitouts but rhys gives us much better ground coverage and against gawn and his intercept marking that could really help. You have nailed my worry rhys starts to drop his head when he makes early mistakes and if he does gawn will sense that and start steamrolling him..ceglar throws his weight around much more so i sense is less likely to disintegrate in that manner but doesnt have the same upside that stanley at his best does. But honestly if we neutralise gawn oliver and may i back us against the rest of their side side easily so picking ceglar to neutralise gawn rather than risking stanley could be the right call.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Miers was ok but is vulnerable.
Parfitt has to come in to defend melbournes stoppage threat. Potentially menegola too.
Id drop kolo even if he is fit to play (which he probably wont be).
Stanley vs ceglar is the one im not sure on.

Not with his 6 score involvements in such a low scoring game - not to mention his key part in our 4-man forward defence set-up, which was crucial all day in pushing Collingwood to the flanks.

 

[Wish Wellingtons]

Miers was ok but is vulnerable.
Parfitt has to come in to defend melbournes stoppage threat. Potentially menegola too.
Id drop kolo even if he is fit to play (which he probably wont be).
Stanley vs ceglar is the one im not sure on.

Thought Miers was very average tonight, but so too were Stengle and Close (granted he kicked two crucial goals).

Thought our midfield was very average for three quarters. C Guthrie didn't have his usual impact, Atkins was anonymous until the final term, Danger made too many errors, Stanley and Blicavs were thrashed by their direct opposition... It was grim and held together by Selwood who played a solid game.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Its a tough one. Ceglar is better at hitouts but rhys gives us much better ground coverage and against gawn and his intercept marking that could really help. You have nailed my worry rhys starts to drop his head when he makes early mistakes and if he does gawn will sense that and start steamrolling him..ceglar throws his weight around much more so i sense is less likely to disintegrate in that manner but doesnt have the same upside that stanley at his best does. But honestly if we neutralise gawn oliver and may i back us against the rest of their side side easily so picking ceglar to neutralise gawn rather than risking stanley could be the right call.

Ceglar = In, >>>> Geelong = Out.

 

[Sttew]

Rohan was smokin hot! Can we have him back please?

Do you need him?

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Its a tough one. Ceglar is better at hitouts but rhys gives us much better ground coverage and against gawn and his intercept marking that could really help. You have nailed my worry rhys starts to drop his head when he makes early mistakes and if he does gawn will sense that and start steamrolling him..ceglar throws his weight around much more so i sense is less likely to disintegrate in that manner but doesnt have the same upside that stanley at his best does. But honestly if we neutralise gawn oliver and may i back us against the rest of their side side easily so picking ceglar to neutralise gawn rather than risking stanley could be the right call.

Yeah, I just don't think Ceglar is going to neutralize gawn so I think we do whatever we have to do to get angry Rhys back

 

[cat_shack]

Not with his 6 score involvements in such a low scoring game - not to mention his key part in our 4-man forward defence set-up, which was crucial all day in pushing Collingwood to the flanks.

He also had 0 tackles for the match. Which is quite telling considering the contested nature of the game, and close/Stengle each having 6 tackles. I get the score involvements, but I think at this point Parfitt or Menegola would provide the score involvements as well as tackles.

 

[catsfootyfan89]

Would be nice to see him turn up for the first three quarters.

Would be nice if he got decent ruck service too

 

[kickazz]

Cameron easy BOG. Great goals and his two inboard assist kicks to Rohan and Duncan showed great vision.

 

[nohairandfair]

Ceglar = In, >>>> Geelong = Out.

Won’t happen. Cegler hasn’t got the tank. He would be completely gassed 15 minutes in against Gawn.

 

[Cataholic]

The days of captain coaches are gone so how's it done now?

I think it's distinctly possible to tell when someone is having a crack or not, whether on a sporting field, the workplace, or any other endeavour.

 

[kittypurry]

Personally I don't think we should formulate a plan around beating Melbourne until we actually know we are playing Melbourne!

Stranger things have happened than Brissy winning that game.

Even after last night you'd have to back Stanley in to play either Melbourne or Brisbane after his excellent season--unless he is still carrying a niggle, of course. Stanley goes alright against Melbourne and as long as he doesn't tap to Neale like the Richmond ruck did all game, then he'd go alright against the Lions too. Back him in, and he'll repay us.

I believe in you, Rhys!

On another note how good was last night!!!! A lot of our lads had an off night but we still managed to beat a red hot Collingwood.

We didn't panic after the first quarter and resort to our old style of football. We dug in and we dug in hard. We took the game on and the rest of those cliches. Huge win.

Couldn't be prouder to be a Geelong supporter.

Not sure what I'm going to do with myself next weekend though. I'm used to tuning in for a Geelong semi-final. Maybe I'll rewatch Richmond losing an elimination final lmao.

 

[The_Koulouriotis_Fan]

Blitz didn’t have the best game, he still did some nice things and rucked the last quarter where we won clearances. Just watching the replay, his slips seemed the result of the ball bouncing the wrong way, it bounces to him he doesn’t have to change direction in a split second, while he’s agile he’s still 198cm.

The amount of times we got burned by the bounce of the ball this game is insane

 

[JohnZ]

So do we make a change in case he has another bad one against gawn?

Stanley has always played based on the output of his opponent.

Hes a sure thing to have a good game against Gawn

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

I’m a little shocked at some negativity in this thread.
We just won one of the all time great finals games.
Yes we looked hesitant to take it on, but Collingwood didn’t allow it. The pressure was as high as I’ve seen (since the 09 GF).

We did so well to win this. We will take so
much belief out of it.

 

[you pick one]

How good is it knowing we don't have to go interstate now I thought we played the G superbly yesterday we really have given ourselves every chance.

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

Would be nice to see him turn up for the first three quarters.

Wtf.
When it counted he was immense.
Atrocious post.

 

[patdman]

I wouldn't. Stanley was almost typically disappointing but our best footy is played with him playing well. Risk losing but dare to win by playing. Cegs has been okay and you'll get a competitive game out of him but it's a defensive move to go with him. If we want to win it all Stanley needs to play and play well.

Hopefully today was his steadier and he'll bounce back from here.

A thousand times this. GO CATS!