Round 5 2000

Geelong v West Coast
Round 5, 2000

Phil Matera in action. Photo: aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sun, 9 April 2000 (2:10 PM EST)

Venue

Kardinia Park

Attendance

22,623

Result

Lost by 81

Score

GEE 24.18.162 - 11.15.81 WCE

Brownlow

3 B.Sholl (GEE)
2 D.Clarke (GEE)
1 P.Riccardi (GEE)

Ladder

8th

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West Coast suffered a near 200-point turnaround from the previous week, with Geelong stretching the lead at every change and piling on nine goals in the final term to record a thumping 81 point win. Ben Cousins picked up 28 possessions and Chad Morrison had 24, with the pair among 11 individual single goalscorers.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
Geelong		4.3.27		11.6.72		15.15.105		24.18.162
West Coast		1.6.12		6.8.44		7.12.54		11.15.81

Goals: Cousins, Cummings, Gardiner, Gehrig, Kemp, Lewis, Pe.Matera, Ph.Matera, Morrison, Rintoul, Wirrpanda

Best: Cousins, Gehrig, Turnbull, Kemp, Morrison

Injuries: Pe.Matera (neck)

Reports: Pe.Matera for wrestling

Milestones: Banfield 150th game, Lewis final appearance

Named sides

	West Coast				Geelong
B:	44.Wirrpanda	11.McIntosh	8.Metropolis	B:	30.Scarlett	37.Harley	12.Sholl
HB:	18.Jones	27.Jakovich	36.Read	HB:	27.Sanderson	7.Graham	17.McGrath
C:	42.Rintoul	6.Banfield	10.Braun	C:	14.Clarke	15.Riccardi	39.Milburn
HF:	7.Gehrig	50.Turnbull	30.Pe.Matera	HF:	42.P.Lynch	16.J.Mooney	8.Burns
F:	2.Kemp	14.Cummings	33.Ph.Matera	F:	3.Houlihan	26.Stoneham	31.Mensch
R:	19.Gardiner	5.Morrison	9.Cousins	R:	1.King	20.Steinfort	13.Kilpatrick
I:	29.Donnelly	41.Fletcher	23.Glass	I:	34.Rahilly	6.Spriggs	9.Bizzell
	28.Lewis				43.O'Brien
E:	45.Bellotti	34.Bennett	35.Crabb	E:	19.Hall	33.Corrigan	28.Arnott

In: Donnelly, Kemp

Out: White (knee), Williams

From the papers

The Age

"You could tell the Cats were having one of those days when, to the joy of the crowd, Cummings was dragged from the field late in the second quarter after Graham ran the length of the field to kick a goal. Captain's goals are often called team-lifting, Graham's was team-deflating - to the Eagles. They were not in the match thereafter.

West Coast played football for seven minutes in the second quarter, during which they booted five goals. They were within nine points at that point and looked threatening. The Cats responded with three goals in time-on to snuff the revival.

The second half was memorable for Geelong's ability to make almost every piece of play work, no matter how ambitious and far-fetched. Mensch, for instance, took a mark on an angle and accidentally played on. Forced to kick under pressure, he slotted the goal with a banana."

WAFL

Round 2 (7-8 April)

South Fremantle (Gaspar, McGrath) vs Swan Districts

West Perth (Symmons, S.Duckworth) vs Claremont (Bellotti, Crabb)

Subiaco (Holmes) vs East Perth (Wooden, Chambers, Williams, Antonowicz, O'Brien, Haynes, Cox)

Perth vs East Fremantle

Bye: Peel

Injury list

In the lead-up to the match the following players were listed as injured or unavailable:

Player		Injury		Expected duration
White		Knee surgery		Indefinite
Munro		Collarbone		3 weeks
J.Duckworth		Groin		2 weeks
Embley		Ribs		1 week
Stone		Knee		1 week
Kemp		Hamstring		Test
McKenna		Back		Test

References

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/2000/091820000409.html