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Dockers star midfielder Hayden Young was tackled awkwardly by Sam De Koning and took a lot of contact through his legs.
He’s had a number of leg and soft tissue injuries in recent times and has only recently returned to the side.
Young is being helped off and was walking better as time went on, the Dockers will hope their star isn’t injured once again.
Cats 68, Freo 59 with 10 mins to go in Q3.
Brayshaw’s fearlessness went against him as he tried to jump with Oisin Mullin, instead he crashed into his back and took him down awkwardly.
That led to a 50m penalty and Mullin kicked a goal from around 20m out.
Cats 68, Freo 59 with 10 mins to go in Q3.
Ollie Henry showed some toughness marking a long kick from Max Holmes while flying across the pack.
Henry has a nasty cut on his head so has tape stretching around his head. Yet he still pulled in the mark and then went back and kicked the goal.
This is a cracking match.
Cats 62, Freo 59 with 12 mins to go in Q3.
The Dockers are flying out of the blocks to start this second half with Neil Erasmus kicking a running goal and Luke Jackson having an impact all over the ground.
They have the lead back as well.
“This is finals-like pressure tonight, if you make a mistake, you bleed,” David King said on Kayo Sports.
Freo 59, Cats 56 with 15 mins to go in Q3.
Dockers star Andrew Brayshaw showed his courage sprinting in for a spoil and taking an accidental blow to the head from Cats big man Shannon Neale.
Brayshaw got the free kick and doesn’t appear to be showing any signs of concussion, which is great news.
It’s been a competitive start to the second half.
Luke Jackson marked deep on the goal line and has snapped his third goal.
Cats 56, Freo 53 with 17 mins to go in Q3.
Patrick Voss, Josh Treacy and best-on-ground Luke Jackson have belatedly straightened up the wayward Dockers and trimmed Geelong’s advantage at half-time of an engrossing first-versus-third blockbuster at Optus Stadium.
General field play has been on Fremantle’s terms, their outside run a feature.
The Dockers have largely owned territory and, in the closing stages of the second quarter, began neutralising the Cats’ early dominance at stoppage.
But Freo’s waywardness – a contagious string of nine consecutive behinds and two no-scores either side of quarter-time – saw them crash to a 28-point deficit at one stage. The normally reliable Jye Amiss – with 0.3 and one wild out-on-the-full – has been the worst offender.
In contrast, Geelong have been efficient in attack on relatively limited opportunity and hungry on turnover. So far, the Cats have capitalised on virtually every Docker blue, in field play and in front of the sticks. Can they keep it going? There’s a whole half of footy to go.
Geelong lead 56-47 at half-time.
The Dockers looked in trouble until Shai Bolton pulled in a stunning mark and the home side found their kicking boots again.
Add to that, the Cats slowed down a bit after a stellar opening.
This should be a cracking second half after Luke Jackson’s late goal cut the lead to nine points.
Josh Treacy has stood up when the Dockers needed him most as they’ve cut the lead to under three goals.
Treacy has booted a goal and the run has go back into the Freo game as well.
Cats 56, Freo 41 with two mins to go in Q2.
