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Geelong v Adelaide: Mitch Clark kicks six goals, Nakia Cockatoo excites in NAB ...

WITH Geelong champion Corey Enright likely to retire at the end of the season, the search is on for his replacement. Enter Billie Smedts, fresh off his best pre-season since arriving at the club in 2010. Smedts finished with 14 disposals, six marks and ... >> view original

Final NAB Challenge teams: Cats v Crows

2. Billie Smedts, 3. Jimmy Bartel, 4. Andrew Mackie, 5. Nakia Cockatoo, 7. Harry Taylor, 9. James Kelly, 11. Darcy Lang, 12. Sam Blease, 13. Tom Lonergan, 14. Joel Selwood, 16. Dawson Simpson, 19. Mitch Clark, 21. Jordan Murdoch, 22. Mitch Duncan, 23. >> view original

Steve Johnson to play for Geelong VFL side

Nakia Cockatoo takes off for Geelong; Steve Johnson will play his first compet... STEVE Johnson will kick off his Round 1 preparations in the VFL on Saturday, not certain he will play on beyond this season. The mercurial Norm Smith medallist has been ... >> view original

Squads: Crows name Danger, top Cat is back

ADELAIDE'S Patrick Dangerfield is likely to kick off his 2015 season under lights against Geelong at Simonds Stadium after being named in the Crows squad for Thursday night's NAB Challenge game. If he plays, the 24-year-old free agent, who has been ... >> view original

Geelong's Daniel Menzel's AFL comeback stalled by hamstring injury

Geelong's Daniel Menzel has suffered another setback with the luckless forward straining a hamstring at training this week. Menzel, 23, last played for the Cats in the 2011 qualifying final, but his career has been cruelled since by four knee ... >> view original

Land owners cash in on 100-hectare blocks outside Geelong

A Geelong land owner has cashed in on one of the last development approvals granted by former planning minister Matthew Guy before the Napthine government was voted out. Three almost neighbouring sites totalling about 100 hectares on the north-west ... >> view original

Is this the year Geelong misses the top eight?

The concern for the Cats, King writes in Footy15, is that those players filled most of the placings in Geelong's best-and-fairest last year. “Only Cameron Guthrie and Mitch Duncan finished inside the top 10 for the under-25 bracket,” he says. “At least ... >> view original

Joel Selwood to lead Geelong Cats for fourth straight AFL season

The Geelong Cats have confirmed Joel Selwood will skipper their side for a fourth straight season. Selwood, who was named All-Australian captain for the second time last year, will head a smaller leadership group in 2015 that does not include star ... >> view original

Essendon Bombers coach James Hird keen to recruit former Geelong Cats big ...

Essendon coach James Hird believes former Cat Mitch Brown and ex-St Kilda veteran Clint Jones are still capable of playing in the AFL. The pair are among 13 top-up players drafted in by the Bombers for the NAB Challenge to serve as cover for the club's ... >> view original

Police yet to identify pedestrian killed on Geelong Road

A man who was hit and killed by a truck in Brooklyn two weeks ago has not yet been identified. The man, believed to be between 30 and 50 years old, was killed while crossing Geelong Road about 1.45am on February 17. It was the same day that 23-year-old ... >> view original