Luke Hodge escapes Brain Damage

After last weeks incident involving a scuffle between Luke Hodge and Steve Johnson, a highly advanced piece of software, that is almost 99.99% accurate in its results, has come to the conclusion that Luke Hodge was very lucky to escape form the incident with out being struck by Steve Johnson. Scientists, Doctors, and Brain Specialists are all in agreement that if Steve Johnson had connected with the Hodge, he would have had to have his whole face reconstructed, as a result of serverley broken bones and damaged facial tissue. The Picture above is the image the software produced which shows just how bad things could have been for Hodge.

Garry Ablett - Marquee Man

With one of Geelongs star premiership players, Garry Ablett, coming out of contract at the end of the 2010 season, AFL club-to-be, Gold Coast, to be included in the 2011 premiership season, have made it clear that Garry Ablett will be their number 1 man. Along with other players like Lance "Buddy" Franklin and Nick Reidwolt also coming out of contract, Gold Coast would love to poach these players. Fox Sports spoke with Graeme Downie who said "My view is you go for the best player," "Any club would love to have Gary Ablett, he is an amazing player. Everyone says how good his father was. I'd have Gary before his father." However, with all this in mind, Franklin has come out and said he has no intentions on leaving the Hawks, as he wants to be a one team man throughout his career. No comments have been made by Ablett as of yet, but with such a tradition of Abletts playing for Geelong, it would be hard to imagine he leave the club, especially being the power team they are these days.

Geelong Cats Super Kick

There is now a link to a great game from The Geelong Cats Website called Super Kick!

Choose from one of your favourite Geelong Cats Stars and kick as many goals as you can from different distances and angles, but remember to adjust for the wind!

Play Now!

Bomber to stay a Catter.

Geelongs premiership coach, Mark "Bomber" Thompson is just one of seven AFL coaches who come out of contract at the end of the season. However, Bomber and the club are in no hurry to cement an extension for Bomber has stated that he has no plans to leave the club. He has made it clear though, that he would like a committment before the end of the season, and when the club was asked if an offer would be put forward before round 22, Fox Sports qouted Cats Chief Executive, Brian Cook "Very much so". The club is comfortable that Bomber is comfortable in the position he is in, he's very laidback about it. If he was to agree to the offer tomorrow, it would be accepted from the clubs point of view, if he was to wait 2,3 or 4 months even, it would still be the same. He is likely to be offered a 2 year deal. With all this in mind Geelong are likely to be under the supervision of Bomber untill atleast 2011.

Steve Johnson gets Green-light.

Geelong all-australian star forward, Steve Johnson has been cleared by the AFL tribunal over an incident involving Hawthorns Luke Hodge. Steve was cited during the game after allegedley, trying to "strike" Luke, for being angry at him over an incident that happened moments before, involving team mate Matthew Stokes. The Cats could have pleaded guilty and received 45 points towards any future suspension, but with his impeccable record in previous seasons, they believed him when he said he was trying to brush Hodge off, and took it to the tribunal who also believed him. Fox Sports quote Steve Johnson to have said “I believe that if I had of attempted to strike him I would have struck him,”.

Geelong Victorious

The much anticipated round 1 clash between Geelong and Hawthorn was a great game, seeing Geelong win by 8 points. Geelong (15.21.111) were evenly matched by Hawthorn (16.7.103) , however, in the 3rd quarter Geelong broke away and managed a 37 point lead at 3 quarter time. The Hawks came back in the last term with Geelong seeming to go to sleep, but still came short. Franklin and Roughead had a good game with kicking 5 and 4 goals respectivley, while Osborne, Dew, Gamble, Johnson, Mooney and Rooke kicked 2 a piece. Geelong currentley sit 7th on the ladder whilst Hawthorn are 10th.

Delicious!

Delicious is a bookmarking site where people can save websites that they find useful which they think other people would find useful too. When you bookmark a site, you put taggs on it for people to find it easier. Delicious might be useful for your school, if you wanted to find school friends blogs, or social networking pages. It might also be useful for your sporting club, so you can search for news on your club with ease. It might also be useful for special interest websites, so it can help you to find websites that relate to your special interest. Here is a link to my bookmarks.

Geelong Cats Poll

Come and vote on my poll, it might give you an idea of how many people support or like Geelong Football Club.

Geelong Win NAB Cup 2009

Geelong once again enforced the clubs stregnth on Friday night with their 76 point win over the Collingwood Magpies. The only setback was a serious looking knee injury from Josh Hunt who appears to have damaged his anterior cruciate ligament. This is Geelongs second pre-season title in the past 4 years with their win over Adelaide in 2006. The crowd of 37,277 people watched a great game that saw Joel Selwood win the Micheal Tuck Medal being best affield on the night. As the Cats accepted the cup coach "Bomber" Thompson announced that $50,000 would be donated to the Victorian Bush Fire Appeal. The future looks like another bright one for the Cats this Home and Away Season.

Man Utd FC Review...

Brandon has created a blog about the EPL Club Manchester United .If you are a United fan or just like soccer in general, have a look at it. The blog so far has Player Profiles on Carlos Tevez, Edwin Van Der Sar and Cristiano Ronaldo. The profiles cover how many goals they have scored, and how many apperances they have made for the club. The blog also includes a poll on which "A-League" club is your favourite, but has written every English Premier League club instead. The blog can do with some more posts and infromation on different aspects of Manchester United but so far so good.

Geelong To Induct "Premiership Stars"

Geelong premiership stars, Tom Harley, Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey, Gary Ablett and Cameron Ling are to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame, at the season launch and Hall Of Fame Dinner. On Wednesday 18th of March, the catters will join other premiership team mates Matthew Scarllett and Darren Milburn in the Hall Of Fame. The night will also see the team presented with their 2009 guernseys, along with the rookies being presented theirs. Billy Brownless, another Hall Of Famer, will host the night with money cant buy items and silent auctions happening through out the night.

NAB Cup Grand Final

Geelong has beaten a rookie Carlton Squad on saturday with a score of 2.9.12 (84) to 0.9.3 (67), to secure a spot in the Grand Final against Collingwood, (CFC Blog),this friday. Geelongs coach Mark "Bomber" Thompson, has told Fox Sports that they will play their best squad in the game. "We'll probably bring all the guys back that didn't play - Bartel, Mackie, Selwood," "We've rotated four or five guys every game and probably our best 15 players have had a rest and we'll play our best side Friday night." Despite Carlton playing a weakened team, with no Judd, Fevola, Murphy or Gibbs, they pushed Geelong through out the game. Geelong were sluggish at times, but ultimatley successful. Harry Taylor had a stand out match, along with Gary Abblett Jr.

Geelong Football Club

Geelong Football Club is regarded as one of the best in the league at this point in time, after having a record breaking season and winning the 2007 AFL Grand Final Geelong broke its 44 year premiership drought. Geelong also went on to lose just a single game in the 2008 home and away season, but were unfrotunatley beaten by Hawthorne in the Grand Final, leaving many fans disapointed in the club. With a strong team out to play in the 2009 season, and more new recruits, Geelong should be able to continue its strong team through out the season. We are currentley in the semi final in the 2009 NAB Cup, to play against Carlton, after having beaten Adelaide and Port Adelaide in previous rounds.