Saturday second AFL Round 23 match is between Geelong Cats and Brisbane Lions with the game to be played at Simonds Stadium. The opening bounce is set to commence at 2:10pm local time with home team Geelong Cats currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Geelong Cats and Brisbane Lions.
WHERE AND WHEN: Simonds Stadium, 2:10pm AEST, Saturday 31 August
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Opening odds comparison:
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| Geelong Cats | 1.06 | 1.05 | 1.04 | 1.05 | 1.06 | 1.06 |
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Brisbane Lions
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9.00 | 9.50 | 10.00 | 9.50 | 9.00 | 9.00 |
Preview:
The Brisbane Lions take on Geelong on Saturday, 2.10pm at Simonds Stadium. The Cats will be big favourites to win here, after beating Sydney by 44 points last week.
Brisbane will be hungry, however, currently sitting in 10th spot with a chance of still making the finals. Brisbane managed a slim victory the last time these two sides met
in round 13, and will be hoping for a similar result. Most of the money will be on the Cats, however, who are playing well at the moment and look like holding on to 2nd
ladder position.
Teams:
Geelong Cats:
B: Mackie Lonergan Enright
HB: Rivers Taylor Guthrie
C: Stokes Selwood Christensen
HF: Caddy Podsiadly Motlop
F: Chapman Hawkins Johnson
FOLL: West Kelly Corey
I/C: Bartel Blicavs Duncan Varcoe
EMG: J Hunt T Hunt Walker
IN: Trent West
OUT: Nathan Vardy
Brisbane Lions:
B: Yeo Patfull Golby
HB: Harwood Maguire Adcock
C: Mayes Rockliff Hanley
HF: Bewick Staker Zorko
F: McGrath Lisle Lester
FOLL: Leuenberger Redden Rich
I/C: Moloney Green Raines Michael
EMG: Docherty Paparone O’Brien
IN: Jordan Lisle, Brent Moloney, Sam Michael
OUT: Daniel Merrett (ankle), Sam Docherty (omitted), Marco Paparone (omitted)
Lions give up on Roos as coach
Besieged Brisbane chairman Angus Johnson has given up on preferred coaching candidate Paul Roos, revealing he’s ruled himself out of the vacant role with the AFL club.
While the sought-after Roos had consistently said he wasn’t interested in replacing the sacked Michael Voss at the Lions, the 2005 Sydney premiership coach had left the door ajar to coaching again in 2014.
But, in a letter to Lions members on Thursday, Johnson said Roos had told him he would not join the club as he couldn’t move his family to Brisbane.
“He contacted me midway through last week and informed me that, due to family reasons, he would be unable to relocate to Brisbane and was therefore ruled out as a candidate,” the chairman wrote.
Struggling Melbourne have also shown interest in Roos, who continues to work in the media and for the Sydney Swans Academy.
Johnson’s position is under pressure with fellow directors Paul Williams and Mick Power leading a rival board ticket, featuring Leigh Matthews, in the aftermath of Voss’s controversial axing two weeks ago.
Johnson aimed to clarify again that the entire Lions board was behind the decision not to renew Voss’s contract while also welcoming the input of Matthews in the search for a new coach.
Matthews is one of six people on the sub-committee to appoint Voss’s replacement.
Johnson stressed he’d tried in the past to have Matthews, who coached the Lions to three premierships, take up a seat on the board.
But he warned that it would now be dangerous to dismantle the current board – cutting adrift himself, Peter McGregor, Cameron Milner and Linda Nash – in favour of the rival ticket.
“I’ve also had an open invitation for two-and-a-half years to Leigh for him to join the Board given the football expertise and presence he would bring,” Johnson said.
“In 2012, the board went as far as amending our club’s constitution, in order to facilitate Leigh’s appointment as a director.
“However, our club simply can’t afford to sacrifice four of the six directors.
“Not when you’re a $45 million business and are required to make the tough but right decisions, and not just the popular ones.”