WORKERS at the Shell refinery in the Victorian city of Geelong have taken industrial action in their campaign for generous redundancy entitlements for new employees, before a new owner takes over next week. Shell and the Australian Workers Union said ...
AFL General Manager Football Operations Mark Evans tonight announced Geelong Cats coach Chris Scott would join the coaching panel under Alastair Clarkson for the 2014 Virgin Australia International Rules Series. Scott, who led the Cats to the 2011 ...
St Kilda could lose another experienced player to free agency, with its potential next captain Jarryn Geary being courted by Geelong. Out-of-contract Geary, who turned 26 last month, is an unrestricted free agent. He has not played for the Saints since Round 7 ...
Geelong coach Chris Scott will assist Hawthorn counterpart Alastair Clarkson in the international rules series. The AFL confirmed on Thursday that Scott would join Clarkson and Fremantle's Ross Lyon on Australia's coaching panel for the one-off Test against ...
AN aircraft fuel crisis has been averted after workers at Shell voted to stop industrial action. A meeting at 7pm on Thursday cancelled industrial action and sent if arbitration. AWU state secretary Ben Davis said that the action due to start at 5pm did not occur.
"Chris has done a superb job since taking over as the coach of the Geelong Cats, progressing deep into the finals every season since 2011 while introducing a new breed of young players to keep the club at the top of the ladder," AFL general manager of ...
Spotlight on: Round 18 Matthew Richardson and Midfield Coach Danny Daly preview the round 18 match against West Coast Eagles. 325942_np.jpg. Nathan Gordon of the Tigers in action during the 2014 AFL round 07 match between the Geelong Cats and ...
Round 20 will see Freo travel to Geelong's Simonds Stadium for another date with the Cats. The venue will hold no fears for the club following its Qualifying Final success there in 2013. That was a win that will go down in WA footy lore. While there won't be ...
Once he'd finished his military sentence at the Geelong Gaol in February 1920, Cotter easily slipped back into his old life, and his nickname of 'Brownie'. In a short time, he became a gun for hire, in much demand as rivals shot and clubbed their way to control ...
About 80 people employed at Alcoa's Anglesea coal mine and power station may be thrown a lifeline, with a number of parties expressing interest in buying the site. The station supplied power to the company's aluminium smelter at Point Henry, near Geelong, ...
Greater Western Sydney Giants have lost a sixth player for the remainder of the AFL season, with defender Tim Mohr requiring a knee reconstruction. Mohr was hurt against Geelong last Saturday and scans have revealed a torn anterior cruciate ligament in ...
According to Real Estate Institute Victoria buyers keen to break into the property market or investors wanting to add to their portfolio should look beyond key regional areas such as Bendigo and Geelong for opportunity "to secure a bargain". REIV's latest ...
Kingsbury, 27, was last seen several weeks ago at a property at Moolap, near Geelong, in Victoria's south-west. Police said a man from Indented Head was arrested at Portarlington on Tuesday afternoon. He appeared in the Geelong Magistrates Court this ...
TOM BOYD has earned a massive comparison, literally and figuratively, following his breakout performance in Greater Western Sydney's clash with Geelong on Saturday. The No.1 pick in last year's NAB AFL Draft, Boyd has made steady progress in his first ...
Paul Kingsbury, 27, disappeared on July 6 and has been missing since he was last seen at a Moolap address, near Geelong. A 36-year-old Indented Head man was arrested on Tuesday and charged with kidnapping and three counts each of threats to kill ...
The Indented Head man, 36, will appear in the Geelong Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning. Police fear Paul Kingsbury, 27, from Leopold, met with foul play after he went missing more than two weeks ago from a property in Moolap, near Geelong.
He will appear in Geelong Magistrates' Court this morning. It was reported yesterday that police were investigating whether Mr Kingsbury, of Leopold, was involved in the alleged theft of guns from the home of a prominent Bellarine Peninsula bikie in the days ...
Geelong has brought through a host of new players in recent years, and three more - Jed Bews, Brad Hartman and Darcy Lang - have made their debuts this season. But a couple more promising youngsters - Jarrad Jansen and Jake Kolodjashnij - are ...
Then, of course, there are the great manufacturing states of Victoria and South Australia - with most work done in the suburbs of Melbourne and Adelaide, but also regional cities like Geelong. <i>Illustration: Kerrie Leishman.</i>. Illustration: Kerrie Leishman.
The advertisement, published in the Geelong Advertiser on November 2 and authorised by Mr Fowler, stated that Mr Jarvis was the best candidate for the job and Cr Lyons had neither the experience, nor a plan for action, to lead the city through a jobs crisis.
Oswald Noel Coulson was born in Geelong in 1905 and worked as an architect, interior designer and landscape designer. He did the gardens for the 1956 Olympic Games village in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg but the core of his business were ...
A 20-year-old Australian student narrowly escaped dying on the doomed Malaysian Airways flight MH17, after she changed her travel plans at the last minute. Bec McDonald from Geelong in Victoria was due to fly home on the plane, but just days before ...
An 88-year-old man has died in hospital almost two weeks after he was struck by a car in Geelong. The man was trying to cross Bacchus Marsh Road, in Corio, on July 9 when he was hit by a car. He was taken to The Alfred hospital with critical injuries and ...
To Geelong's surprise, even if some late-season musical chairs in the ladder's upper reaches was to end with the ''perfect storm'' of four Victorian-based games in the first week of September, it's highly unlikely to prompt a repeat of last year's historic first final ...
The homicide squad is investigating whether a missing Geelong man has been kidnapped and killed after stealing guns from a prominent bikie gang member. Paul Kingsbury, who has been convicted of drug and firearm related offences, went missing more ...
The Blues have lost well in the past few weeks, competing hard against top-eight sides Geelong, Hawthorn and Collingwood. Now they've finally put together a win over a higher-ranked opponent, and comprehensively. There's a long road ahead, but for this ...
An Australian student who was due to fly home on MH17 and changed her booking at the last moment has spoken about her terrifying near-miss. Bec McDonald, 20, from Geelong in Victoria was on a month-long Contiki tour through Europe that ended in ...
With a $100,000 prize up for grabs, the Falcons have taken their strongest squad of the tournament to Geelong for the match against the VFL's Williamstown at Kardinia Park. Backman Dan Hunt and midfielder Matt Guadagnin will miss the clash through work ...
MORE than $50.5 million will be spent on improving rivers, estuaries and wetlands in the Corangamite catchment area between Port Campbell and Geelong under an eight-year strategy plan. The proposed works would include $4.3m in the Gellibrand River ...
Ward, who taught at Geelong and Sydney Grammar schools and later became the deputy chancellor of the University of New England, was known for his scholarly rigour, his association with the Communist Party for eight years in the 1940s and for his book, ...
Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: News Corp Australia. Geelong coach Chris Scott has admitted he had a "double take'' when his match-winning forward Tom Hawkins clutched at his back against Greater Western Sydney on Saturday. The good news is the ...
Widely regarded as the greatest AFL ruckman of all time, Farmer starred for Geelong in the VFL and for East Perth and West Perth in the WAFL. Although he stood at just 191cm, Farmer's outstanding leap, exquisite tap work and silky skills make him the ...
For a guy who will be aged 33 in week two of the finals series, who was rejected by six AFL clubs, picked up by Geelong at 28 and on Sunday will play his 100th game - against Collingwood at the MCG - having been dropped just once along his amazing ...
2 - Podsiadly was rookie-listed twice before being recruited by Geelong and finally making his AFL debut in 2010. He was first selected by Essendon with selection No.58 in the 2000 Rookie Draft, but didn't play an AFL game. The 193cm, 100kg, forward was ...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott addresses an audience at the Sheraton Hotel in Geelong, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Mr Abbott was in Geelong to open the National Disability Insurance Agency headquarters. AAP Image - Julian Smith. A REVIEW of the National ...
A premiership with Geelong followed in 2011, then a trade to Adelaide in 2013 added a twist in his tale of persistence. On Sunday the 32-year-old will run out for his 100th match. Fittingly it will be against Collingwood, one of many AFL clubs to have decided ...
Geelong skipper Joel Selwood has kept the pressure on Josh Kennedy and Scott Pendlebury in the race for the 2014 Brownlow Medal after leading Geelong to a narrow win over GWS in Round 18. Sportingbet, which is running a weekly rolling leaderboard ...
The Greater Western Sydney Giants host the Geelong Cats at Spotless Stadium on Saturday evening. Join The Roar for live scores from 7:40pm (AEST). The Cats made their way into the top four last round after the Power fell to Richmond. With the Hawks ...
Comments intended as banter between two high-school friends have escalated into a racial abuse investigation following a local football match in Geelong. Indigenous footballer Mikali Harrison, who plays for the Belmont Lions in the Geelong District Football ...
Tac De Boistron was purchased by Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock in 2012 and he came to Australia for the 2012 Spring Racing Carnival, but failed to handle the firm racing surfaces and beat home just a single runner in both the Group 3 Geelong Cup ...
Greater Western Sydney are not prepared to accept honourable losses after their valiant effort against high-flying Geelong. The Giants kicked five of the last six goals at Spotless Stadium on Saturday to go down by just seven points after trailing by 37 early in ...
Geelong coach Chris Scott has confidently predicted his team will play much better over the closing weeks of the AFL home and away season following their late scare against Greater Western Sydney. The Cats made it four consecutive wins and climbed into ...
The two might be playing off for it in Round 23, while Freo also faces Hawthorn and Geelong. A loss to the Saints was the last thing they could afford, and the last they anticipated. Maybe that's where it started to go wrong. Carlton's win over North Melbourne ...
THE Mildura Lady Heat have recorded their best win for the season, downing the top of the table Geelong Supercats by 10 points in Geelong on Saturday night. Ang Wall. With the top three sides losing on the weekend, the Lady Heat have jumped into third ...
Geelong has done enough in 2014 to win 13 of its 17 games, including six of its past seven, as opponents around it begin to falter. The Cats, after Saturday night's narrow scrape against Greater Western Sydney, are in the prime position of second on the ...
St Kilda has missed out on completing the perfect weekend after Sandringham went down to Geelong by 129 points at Trevor Barker Beach Oval on Sunday Afternoon. The Cats piled on the first 11 goals of the game to effectively end the contest early in the ...
Throw in the 32-point round-one victory over the now top-of-the-table Swans and Saturday night's narrow loss to second-placed Geelong confirms there is real movement in the right direction for the Giants. This season GWS have now matched or beaten the ...
In seasons one and two, Greater Western Sydney's fans came to Spotless Stadium anticipating certain defeat. Now they arrive knowing the Giants will be competitive. Perhaps next year, the Giants might even jag games like Saturday night's. Strange things ...
The Giants had every reason to lose by plenty against Geelong. They are a young side entering the final third of a long season, they were coming off a six-day break in Perth and missing five first-choice players. Instead, they pushed a top-four side to the brink ...
Mitch Duncan of the Cats is tackled by Zachary Williams of the Giants during the round 18 AFL match between the Greater Western Sydney Giants and the Geelong Cats at Spotless Stadium on July 19, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty ...
The Cats had to lay a staggering 129 tackles, second higher in AFL\VFL history, to ward off these determined Dogs to ensure the hard-earned 13-point win. In such slippery conditions, the innate talent bubbles to the surface. And Motlop's incredibly one ... Carlton v St Kilda - AFL Live Stream, Preview, Team News and Start Time Rippa.com
... taking over as the coach of the Geelong Cats, progressing deep into the finals every season since 2011 while introducing a new breed of young players to keep the club at the top of the ladder," AFL general manager of football operations Mark Evans ... Chris Scott steps up to the Aussie coaching panel World Footy News
On the Cats, the AFL said "Ken Wood, Manager TPP and List Management said the Geelong Cats Football Club had fully co-operated in the matter and this and other mitigating factors, including that the breach was an administrative error and not ... Lemon's winners and losers, AFL Round 17 The Roar
Geelong have built a club based around family, loyalty and sacrifice and have used that to shape two football generations of Cats. Collingwood have used their brand appeal to attract the players that they need and maintain those crucial to team success.
STEVE JOHNSON (Geelong). Mid $533,700. (-$91,300). AVE: 111.5. Steve Johnson has always been prolific in the SuperCoach arena but his price tag makes him an extremely attractive target for the final rounds. The Cats only just overcame a determined ...
"We all run into each other at the football,'' Modra said. ... And Modra loves the idea of an underdog winning the flag the way Geelong did it the Cats broke their premiership drought and the way the Crows stunned the competition with their first flag ...
... taking over as the coach of the Geelong Cats, progressing deep into the finals every season since 2011 while introducing a new breed of young players to keep the club at the top of the ladder," AFL general manager of football operations Mark Evans ...
Round 20 will see Freo travel to Geelong's Simonds Stadium for another date with the Cats. The venue will hold no fears for the club following its Qualifying Final success there in 2013. That was a win that will go down in WA footy lore. While there ...
After the first eight matches are played, just one match will be left to wrap up the round: the traditional Easter Monday showdown between bitter rivals the Geelong Cats and Hawthorn. Again the Cats and Hawks will resume their well-known rivalry to end ...
The last time Melbourne beat Geelong, Neale Daniher was at the helm. That was six coaches and eight years ago. The Cats barely got out of a canter on their way to a 66-point win here, and had they converted better the margin could easily have blown out ...
Can the Cats play three ruckmen in the finals? Geelong played Dawson Simpson, Hamish McIntosh and Mark Blicavs in a number of games early in the season, and it worked reasonably well. But in more recent times they have stuck with Blicavs but have ...
Fox Footy and tabloid pundits lined up to complain that Malthouse is an unacceptable person to have around Australian football, their principal complaint being that he hurts their tiny tender feelings by being cranky. They also took the ... The Blues ...
The science that's behind it, none of us football players understand. But hopefully by round 22 or ... INJURED Geelong midfielder Mathew Stokes has lifted the lid on the heavy training phase his teammates have been going through. The Cats, who are ...
At 206cm, Madden towered over his opponents and gave Carlton's midfielders first use of the football. A premiership player in 1987 ... The recruitment of Brad Ottens by Geelong is arguably the catalyst for the Cats' era of dominance. After showing ...
Let's be clear - the football media are the remora suckerfish attached to the belly of a shark. They're scavengers whose livelihood depends on the scraps generated by ... None of them got home, allowing Geelong to consolidate in second spot, which they ...
They are two of the most charismatic and well-known AFL personalities of the past 15 years. But, above all ... One of his finest games -- and moments -- came against Geelong in 2005. ... Akermanis celebrates his freakish goal against the Cats in 2005.
Not only does John Longmire have the most in-form team in the AFL, he also has the most settled, with the Swans using just 30 players this season, the least in the competition. The Swans look certain to host a home final, and with Hannebery, Tippett ...
Geelong coach Chris Scott has welcomed AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan's willingness to listen to the coaches' perspective as the League considers ways to improve the game's aesthetics. Scott, who was among 11 senior coaches who gathered ... the wider AFL ...
Geelong coach Chris Scott has criticised his team's performance in their narrow win over GWS on Saturday night, but says the Cats always take a 'glass half full' approach and he is excited by the improvement left in his players. Fox Sports; 20 ... BEN ...
There's two blokes at Geelong -- Joel Selwood and Steve Johnson -- who are over the injuries. Can't you tell? Johnson was feared to have had a back problem and, to be honest, still don't know what was wrong with Selwood for four weeks. Anyway, they are ...
FORMER Geelong key position prospect Marc Woolnough could empathise with both Fremantle's Anthony Morabito and the Western Bulldogs' Tom Williams when the duo hit the headlines last week. Williams retired after battling injuries for most of his career ...
Nonetheless, it makes for an austere comparison with, say, the Malcolm Blight era at Geelong. In 1992, the Cats averaged nearly 140 points a game. Wooden spooner Sydney averaged more than 90. Blight's philosophy was that football should be fun and he ... Jack Viney's plea for Paul Roos to stay Melbourne FC
Playing the percentages -- Stokes returns to a very strong Geelong line-up and a boost in percentage must be on their mind. Still undecided -- it's a great chance to try Simpson and McIntosh without Blicavs against Mumford as the Cats look to fine tune ...
A guarded Prendergast refused to comment on specific cases, but it is believed Tuesday's meeting saw several instances raised including that of Geelong's Allen Christensen in early June. ... The AFL's football operations boss, Mark Evans, said the ...
The dual Brownlow medallist - and no stranger to bizarre ways of getting suspended, #pressurepoint - was full of remorse when he fronted the AFL Tribunal. "Football is an instinctive game. You have a thought and that's followed by an action," he said ...
Sky News · SportsFan · AFL · NRL · Racing Network · MOG Music · LifeStyle · Foxtel & T-Box · Yellow Pages · Telstra .... AFL side. Matt McDonough and Nathan Gordon were instrumental in the hard-fought win of Richmond's VFL team against Geelong last ...
Sheedy said Geelong's three flags came off the back of its father-son selections, saying he believed Brisbane's effort was better in his view than the Cats' three flags in five seasons. As far as the current Swans go, the legendary coach said with only ... Sydney hammer Carlton for record-equalling 12th straight victory The Guardian
ANALYSIS: CATS' CHAPPY CHAT FALLS FLAT. "I think it's arrogance to say that's just what we do, that we've got a great culture and great leaders who always stand up when the game is on the line. To say that would completely eliminate the luck involved. MOTLOP HELPS CATS BEAT BOMBERS IN THRILLER The Cattery
"This year, I thought we really challenged Hawthorn, we massively challenged Geelong ... [and] I'm very confident to say that last week of football, regardless of how Sydney may have thought they played, I thought we forced them to have to play deep ...
After being thrashed by the Swans last Saturday night, Carlton is likely to make several changes to take on North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium this Friday. Andrew Walker will miss after the Blues decided the dashing defender will have an arthroscope on ...
(Photo: Michael Willson/AFL Media) ... Dempsey's consistent defensive efforts and ongoing commitment to the cause of his football team since returning from a club imposed banishment to the VFL - due to poor training standards, and a progression of ...
The Nauru domestic competition is made up of six teams that are based on AFL club names and colors. They are the Bulldogs, Magpies, Cats, Bombers, Kangaroos and Hawks. The Bulldogs have won the last three Grand Finals (and were Premiers and ...
Greater Western Sydney defender Josh Hunt will face his old team for the first time after earning a recall for Saturday night's clash against Geelong at Spotless Stadium. Hunt, who has spent the past two weeks in the NEAFL, will be joined by tall ...
Based on the video evidence available and a medical report from the Western Bulldogs Football Club, the incident was assessed as intentional conduct (three points), low impact (one point) and body contact (one point). This is a total of five ... Ballantyne Rubbed Out Again TripleM Sydney
An MCG-less round in a seemingly clear cut weekend of football appears to be in order. Carlton host North Melbourne Friday, Saturday St Kilda takes on Fremantle, Geelong travels to western Sydney to take on the Giants, Port Adelaide will host Melbourne ...
Riley, who played his fourth match for Melbourne against Geelong at the MCG last Saturday, after playing 12 games for Adelaide from 2012-13, was one of the red and blue's best last round. It was his best effort yet for the club, after he came as a ...
St Kilda and Fremantle begin the Saturday afternoon football in Round 19 when they clash at Etihad Stadium. Saints have ... The second game on Saturday sees the GWS Giants coming up against the Geelong Cats at Spotless Stadium. Geelong will be ...
Over the past couple of years, there's been two guaranteed methods of getting football fans to unleash torrents of venom about something not connected to their club. One, it almost goes ... The criticisms of Maxwell over recent times have come from ...
Therefore, a goal in football is probably the equivalent of 30 points in AFL or five goals. So, putting it into an AFL context, could you imagine the Geelong Cats slamming five goals in one attempt past a hapless and disjointed Hawthorn Hawks? What ...
Fox Sports football correspondent Julian de Stoop discusses the imminent retirement of Collingwood captain Nick Maxwell. .... Corey Enright is the standout candidate to farewell the Cattery. The five-time All-Australian is weighing up his future and ...
These youngsters are becoming more and more 'relevant' in both Ultimate Footy and the AFL itself. The starting point for this relevance comes from the high quality of their football education - the defensive aspect of the game is something that coach ...
Collingwood's young star John Greening seemed to be sailing towards football greatness and a possible Brownlow Medal in 1972 when he was knocked out in one of the most controversial incidents in the VFL-AFL history. ... Geelong's Tom Lonergan suffered ...
By the time our seniors took the field the weather had turned again and we faced the Cats, the cream of the competition on their home ground in appalling conditions. You had to feel for Jack Redpath having his first game against Harry Taylor in such ...
Geelong veteran and triple premiership player James Kelly, who was a late withdrawal last weekend, will face Melbourne on Saturday at the MCG. WEST COAST ruckman Nic Naitanui is one of five inclusions for the Eagles' clash with the Brisbane Lions on ... Hawthorn in danger of missing AFL top four The Age 3 things we learned in AFL Round 16 Rippa.com
The Swans eventually poked their beaks in front to move one win ahead, but Hawthorn, Port Adelaide, Fremantle and Geelong have the wafer-thin mint of percentage between them. They're sufficiently clear of the trailing pack but it's hard to predict ...
