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| Cats Outnumber the Swans in Selwood’s Milestone Of 200th |
The Geelong has celebrated a brave win against the Sydney Swans in the 19th round of the AFL 2015. They made it memorable for their skipper Joel Selwood’s 200th game at Simonds Stadium. Though at the first half Cats were 13 point deficit, finally overcame strongly and dominated over the Swans, got a famous win taking the lead of 32 points. They have also secured the eighth place of the table of in this season, ahead of the Adelaide just on some mere percentage.
Skipper Selwood was outstanding throughout the night. He also scored a goal on the last quarter. This was four consecutive wins for the Cats and this revives their chance of securing their ninth straight final campaign for the title shot. Selwood got excellent support from his fellow-mates Josh Caddy, Steve Motlop and Cam Guthrie. Cats’ defence again proved their solidity and stood firm throughout the game. It was also an emotional occasion for the Swans as their champion Adam Goodes returning in the field for his 366th game of his carrier. Lance Franklin was suffering from the back injury and the Swans were without him. Swans were able to kick only nine goals in the night and the Cats successfully constricted the opposite below ten goals consecutively for the fourth games of AFL 2015. The scorers for the Swans were Jetta, Goodes, Hannebery, Heeney, B.Jack, Tippett, Parker and Mitchell . Jetta kicked the ball twice to the goal. Whereas for Cats the scorers were Hawkins (4), Duncan (2), Lang (2), Caddy (2), Mackie, Gregson, Stokes and Motlop. The best performers of the night for the Cats were Selwood, Bartel, Enright, Motlop, Hawkins, Guthrie, and Kolodjashnij. For the Swans Jetta, Grundy, Kennedy, Hannebery and Heeney were top of their performance. Geelong ended up the game without any injury. But Swans player Ben McGlynn got a hamstring pull and replaced by Zak Jones. The crowd was counted as 27,019 officially in the Simonds Stadium on this matchday.
Despite of such a win GEELONG coach Chris Scott showed his worry about the team that the team did not able to score up. Cats will face Hawthorn on their upcoming match of AFL 2015.
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