Geelong Cats vs Adelaide Crows live scores – 2014 AFL Round 1

The only game on Thursday for AFL Round 1 is between Geelong Cats and Adelaide Crows. The match is to be played at Simonds Stadium with the opening bounce set to commence at 7:10 PM with home team Geelong Cats currently holding favouritism in the market. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Geelong Cats and Adelaide Crows.

Round: Round 1, Friday 7:10 PM March 20, 2014,
Stadium: Simonds Stadium
Weather: 28° Sunny.

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Odds Comparison:


Geelong Cats	1.33	1.32	1.33	1.32	1.33	1.33
Adelaide Crows	3.45	3.50	3.40	3.50	3.45	3.45

All odds are subject to change. Odds listed are correct at the time of the latest update.

Preview:

GEELONG and Adelaide open their season in a game that has been cheekily named the ‘James Podsiadly Cup’. This will be Podsiadly’s first official match for the Crows and his first outing against his former club. Both sides head into the clash with plenty of injury concerns. The Cats will be missing emerging stars Billie Smedts, Allen Christensen, Steven Motlop and Nathan Vardy, while Adelaide will be without a host of first-choice players, including Taylor Walker, Nathan Van Berlo, Richard Douglas and Tom Lynch.

LAST FIVE TIMES

R17, 2013, Adelaide 14.10 (94) d Geelong 14.8 (92) at AAMI Stadium

R18, 2012, Geelong 15.12 (102) d Adelaide 11.9 (75) at Simonds Stadium

R7, 2012, Adelaide 19.8 (122) d Geelong 10.12 (72) at AAMI Stadium

R21, 2011, Geelong 14.12 (96) d Adelaide 12.13 (85) at AAMI Stadium

R14, 2011, Geelong 19.11 (125) d Adelaide 10.13 (73) at Simonds Stadium

THE SIX POINTS

1. The Crows are one of the few teams to have matched it with the Cats in recent seasons. It’s three wins each since 2010.

2. Last year Geelong won seven of eight games at Simonds Stadium, and the Cats have won 20 of their past 22 games at the venue. Adelaide hasn’t beaten the Cats at Geelong since 2003.

3. Only Hawthorn averaged more goals per game in 2013 than Geelong. The Cats kicked an average of 16 goals per game, while Adelaide was ninth with an average of 14 per game.

4. Clearances were one area in which Geelong struggled last year. The Cats were ranked 15th with 34 per game; Adelaide was 11th with 37 per game.

5. Last season the Cats received a total of 486 free kicks. Club captain Joel Selwood was awarded 15 per cent of those. In fact, Selwood received the most frees of any player in the competition, 27 more than the next player.

6. Selwood will start the season at No.3 in the Official AFL Player Ratings. Adelaide dynamo Patrick Dangerfield is No.2.

Teams:

GEELONG CATS

B: Andrew Mackie, Tom Lonergan, Taylor Hunt
HB: Corey Enright, Jared Rivers, Cameron Guthrie
C: Jimmy Bartel, Josh Caddy, Mitch Duncan
HF: Jordan Murdoch, Harry Taylor, Joel Selwood
F: Mitch Brown, Tom Hawkins, Lincoln McCarthy
Foll: Hamish McIntosh, Steve Johnson, Matthew Stokes
Int: Travis Varcoe, Mark Blicavs, James Kelly, George Horlin-Smith

Emg: Jackson Thurlow, Jackson Sheringham, Dawson Simpson

ADELAIDE CROWS

B: Sam Shaw, Ben Rutten, Luke Brown
HB: Mitch Grigg, Daniel Talia, Brodie Martin
C: Brodie Smith, Scott Thompson, David Mackay
HF: Matthew Wright, Shaun McKernan, Matthew Jaensch
F: Eddie Betts, James Podsiadly, Patrick Dangerfield
Foll: Sam Jacobs, Rory Sloane, Jason Porplysia
Int: Lewis Johnston, Jarryd Lyons, Brad Crouch, Sam Kerridge
Emg: Cam Ellis-Yolmen, Josh Jenkins, Matt Crouch

News:

Adelaide’s 32-year-old AFL recruit James Podsiadly is too old to believe in fairytales.

But just in case, coach Brenton Sanderson has reminded Podsiadly they rarely come true as he prepares for a Crows debut against his former club Geelong on Thursday night.

“The fairytale story would be that he would go over there and kick a bag of goals for us and we would win,” Sanderson told reporters on Wednesday.

“It will be an emotional game for James, I’m sure. He won a premiership there and he played there for four or five seasons.

“From our point of view, internally we’re just hoping he competes at every contest. If he can jag a couple of goals to go along with that, it would be fantastic.”

Apart from dealing with last week’s death of his strategy coach Dean Bailey, Sanderson has picked Podsiadly’s brain for inside knowledge of the Cats.

And Podsiadly, cut by Geelong at the end of last season, has delivered some valuable insights.

“We have certainly leaned on Podsy a fair bit in the last couple of weeks just to make sure that there is nothing we haven’t missed,” he said.

“There’s probably a little bit of pressure on him too, playing against his former club in round one, but he has been really good. There’s probably a few things that we weren’t entirely across.

“We certainly feel like we have got enough information. It’s whether we can execute it.”

The Crows, with six front-liners out injured, travel to Geelong as rank outsiders to open their season with a win.

But Sanderson believed the Cats, who will celebrate Brownlow medallist Jimmy Bartel’s 250th game, were beatable.

“I don’t think there’s any good time to play Geelong when it’s at Geelong … it’s the toughest road trip in the AFL,” he said.

“It will be a tough assignment for us. But we’re certainly going over there to win and play well.

“We’re fit and we’re strong and there seems to be really good resilience amongst the boys at the moment, even though we have had a couple of injuries recently.

“I’m still really happy with the guys we have put into the side.”

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