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29/12/2025

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese continues to rule out a Royal Commission into the Boxing Day Test pitch fiasco; meanwhile MCG pitch curation squad facing down calls to resign.

06/10/2025

Big news in Colac

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05/10/2025

Uh oh

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01/10/2025

It's been a big day. Not only was umpires bouncing the ball banned, the interchanged expanded from four to five, "Mad Monday" is now banned for the Cats. Woke Wednesday suggested as a replacement.

https://www.thecattery.com.au/2025/10/01/cats-mad-monday-banned-on-same-day-ball-up-bounces-and-substitute-rule-abolished/

It didn’t take long for a reaction, some may say overreaction, to the Geelong Cats players’ “Mad Monday” costumes. Costumes included Brad Close as Troy West aka ‘Catma…

01/10/2025

When we started following the game on a weekly basis there were two field umpires, 20 players selected in a match (two on the bench in your can believe that kids), and most stoppages started with a 'central' umpire bouncing the ball to a ruck contest.

Today the AFL announced the bounce will be abolished completely. So will the substitute - but instead of going back to 22 players in a match, we'll go to 23 and a formal interchange bench of five.

Things obviously change, have the changes today gone too far; are they solving problems or creating them?

When we started following football in the 1980s teams of 20 were selected with three emergencies each weekend; that is, two interchange players. The game and indeed each stoppage was started and re…

30/09/2025

Mad Monday

https://www.thecattery.com.au/2025/09/30/geelong-mad-monday-antics-divide-football-world/

28/09/2025

The morning after a defeat like that it never gets any easier; that one really hurt! The question remains; what the hell happened and how did it all go so wrong? To quote Ernest Hemmingway, defeat came gradually and suddenly.

https://www.thecattery.com.au/2025/09/28/the-morning-after-what-happened-to-the-cats/

25/09/2025

Umpires and match day officials: right down to the ball handlers

https://www.thecattery.com.au/2025/09/26/2025-afl-grand-final-umpires-and-officials-announced/

2025 AFL Grand Final – Geelong Cats v Brisbane Lions Umpires and match day officials for the 2025 AFL Grand Final between Geelong and Brisbane have been announced. Of the four field umpires A…

25/09/2025

Thanks to Gatorade March to the 'G is back for Grand Final Day! Join the Cats marching band as we march together from Fed Square to the ‘G on Saturday pregame before we take on the Lions 🤩

📍 Meet at Fed Square
🕚 March departs 11 am
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25/09/2025

Rhys Stanley and Lachie Neale recalled for 2025 AFL Grand Final

https://www.thecattery.com.au/2025/09/25/geelong-cats-v-brisbane-lions-2025-afl-grand-final-match-preview-and-team-lists-rhys-stanley-comes-in-for-tom-stewart-lachie-neale-to-play/

Geelong Cats v Fremantle Dockers, AFL 2025 round 1, match preview and team listsBen Jensen GEELONG COACH CHRIS SCOTT has named Rhys Stanley as the replacement for injured vice captain Tom Stewart, …

20/09/2025

Geelong Cats v Hawthorn Hawks, AFL 2025 Second Preliminary Final THE CATS led by Patrick Dangerfield and Bailey Smith overcame a wobbly start to the match to comprehensively defeat Hawthorn at the …