Match

Melbourne vs Geelong Cats

Commentary / 12 Jul 2014

Pre Game

00:00
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Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
02:15
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Tom Hawkins)
06:36
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Tom Lonergan)
12:04
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Lynden Dunn)
16:05
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Luke Tapscott)
17:52
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Allen Christensen)
20:06
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
23:05
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Joel Selwood)
25:05
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Tom Hawkins)
26:47
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Jordan Murdoch)
27:12
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
27:56
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
29:02
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Shane Kersten)
29:08
The siren has sounded to end Q1.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
01:31
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Steven Motlop)
04:20
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Cameron Guthrie)
07:28
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Brad Hartman)
09:33
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Joel Selwood)
14:42
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Steve Johnson)
16:25
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Jeremy Howe)
18:19
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Rushed)
19:36
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Rushed)
20:13
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Jeremy Howe)
22:09
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Tom Hawkins)
23:35
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Tom Hawkins)
25:07
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Mitch Duncan)
26:38
Cats Interchange - Steve Johnson off due to the blood rule.
27:19
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (James Kelly)
28:06
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Hamish McIntosh)
30:09
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Shane Kersten)
33:14
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Mark Jamar)
33:57
The siren has sounded to end Q2.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
03:49
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Cameron Pedersen)
04:58
SCORE GOAL - Cats (Steve Johnson)
14:29
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Rushed)
16:03
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Steven Motlop)
17:00
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
21:52
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Dean Kent)
24:10
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Mark Blicavs)
26:05
Cats Interchange - Brad Hartman off due to an injury.
26:58
Melbourne is attacking hard to try and finish the term on a high but they are still having trouble finding their targets in their forward fifty and that is allowing Geelong the easy out.
29:09
THREE QUARTER TIME - A disciplined display from Melbourne sees them edge out the Cats for third quarter honours, however they still trail by 55.

Quarter 4

00:00
FINAL TERM - Melbourne had a small win in the third term holding out the Cats but they will need to keep their resolve in order stop the Cats' heaping on further misery.
00:01
SUBSTITUTION DEMONS - Jetta has donned the Red vest and Terlich is into the game.
01:01
GOAL CATS - Motlop tumbles a pass into the arc, it falls to Selwood who, with quick hands, loops the ball over to the running Kersten who snaps truly. That is not the start Melbourne wanted.
03:24
The Cats defence have followed their men forward, the Demon's forward fifty is deserted!
04:39
BEHIND CATS - Horlin-Smith with a set shot from wide on the flank leaves the ball hanging...one behind.
05:58
BEHIND CATS - Motlop with another attempt to curl the check side through is denied by the Dees' defence who helps the ball over the line.
06:35
BEHIND CATS - Horlin-Smith tries to run the ball through the goal mouth from 15 out, his ball bounces one way then the other and finally takes a rank hop into the post for a behind.
08:00
The Dees finally get the ball into their attacking fifty only to immediately 'return' it to Geelong's possession as they once again turn it over without troubling the scorer.
10:09
Riley wins a free kick for laying a great tackle and then seeing no one forward of him proceeds to give away the same free kick after he is caught holding on while waiting for options down field.
11:24
BEHIND CATS - Christensen is normally a great finisher however this afternoon he is having an off day as his running shot on goal is sprayed wide.
13:23
GOAL CATS - Grimes is pinged for holding Bartel, the Geelong veteran will have a chance to bring up his first goal of the afternoon from 20 out...his kick, is good and the Cats go further ahead.
16:09
BEHIND CATS - Taylor has a rare shot on goal, Kersten does his best to shepherd it through but Howe gets gets a hand to it and pushes it through.
16:43
SCORE BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
19:09
The Cats are still pushing, percentage is all important for them, however on this occasion a long shot on goal from Duncan goes out of bounds...there were plenty of players inboard looking for it.
20:25
GOAL DEMONS - Vince kicks his first goal of the game cutting the lead to an even eleven goals.
22:09
Hawkins had the ball outside fifty, instead of attempting the set shot he tried to short pass the ball a little closer to goal and instead put it into the man on the mark.
23:07
Cats Interchange - Brad Hartman off due to an injury.
23:42
Hartman is helped off by the trainers after a bump off the ball, he was caught unawares as he tried to come back into the contest and went to ground.
25:09
It has been an ugly second half, Melbourne well behind at the main break has simply clogged up the Cats' forward line and 'parked the bus', effective but not too pretty!
27:12
Motlop with a burst of speed tries to blow past the defence as he runs the boundary line...despite an attempted 'goose step' he finally loses the ball to Daws.
28:37
There is no one forward for the Demons and the Cats are simply sweeping the ball back as it comes past centre.
29:11
FULL TIME - The Demons lose by eleven goals as the Cats' flex their muscle at the G, Melbourne went on the 'defensive' for the second half and stopped the rout...but it wasn't pretty!