Chad Warner and Patrick Cripps have a mutual connection who is having a big impact on their seasons, while the Blues may have found an unlikely missing piece to their forward puzzle.
Other than being damn fine midfielders from Western Australia, Chad Warner and Patrick Cripps don’t have too much in common in the way they play. They do, however, have a mutual connection who is having a big impact on their seasons.
The Blues have suffered a glut of injuries to their small and medium-sized forwards. Lachie Fogarty has just come back from six weeks out. Jesse Motlop played his first game of the year in the VFL. Matthew Cotrell and David Cuningham are injured. In Nic Newman, Adam Saad, the improved Jordan Boyd and Cowan, the Blues have cover for small and running defenders, and need Williams more at the other end.
Geelong, aided partly by a softer draw, were flying in their first seven games, then they lost Patrick Dangerfield, and lost games. Their thrashing in Darwin last weekend came without Dangerfield, Tom Hawkins, Jeremy Cameron, Mitch Duncan and Sam De Koning. Injuries cruelled their premiership defence last year.Like the Cats, the Giants jumped brilliantly, but their wobbles began after Sam Taylor and Stephen Coniglio were injured.
An Indigenous man, Lloyd Johnston’s somersault to celebrate his goal in Sir Doug Nicholls round even drew applause from a partisan Carlton crowd. In just his seventh game, Leek Aleer covered himself in glory with a Leo Barry-type pack mark in defence to save the day for Greater Western Sydney. It was his second clutch grab in the closing stages to deny Geelong the last-gasp goal they were desperately searching for.
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