Two goals were the difference in the game kicked by two players who are the difference between Geelong and St Kilda.
The last comes first in this telling, because Patty Dangerfield’s was the most consequential goal owing to when it was kicked. Dangerfield’s goal had a nerveless class about it. Knowing the Saints would have to scramble a kick forward, he put himself where the ball might drop. And it did.
Geelong’s Jeremy Cameron gathers the ball on the wing.Credit: Channel Seven
He took the mark. There were 75 seconds left, he ran down the clock as long as he could, but if he missed the shot St Kilda would theoretically still have enough time to take it end to end. Kick the goal and it’s all over. So, from 50 metres out he kicked the goal. Class.
The second goal came earlier, in the first quarter, and might end up being goal of the year. The Cats were being assailed at home by the energetic run of the Saints but had yet to be punished on the scoreboard.
The ball was on the wing and Jhye Clark managed to spoil Liam Henry – who had an excellent debut for the Saints – and the ball spilt to Mark Blicavs, whose scrambled kick was smothered. Jeremy Cameron, who was in the centre of the ground, scythed between two Saints, accelerated and kicked towards Brad Close who gathered the ball and made to handball inside to Zach Tuohy. Even Close didn’t reckon on Cameron being there again, but there he was. Cameron intercepted his own player’s handball, scooped the ball in his right hand, ran to the boundary on his left and curled in the goal.
As a feat of athleticism and skill, it was a class above anything else seen across the weekend.
Cameron follows up his initial kick.Credit: Channel Seven
If you wish to distil the game into players and plays – these were the players and these were the plays.
Four points: This goal won’t be beaten for skill and athleticism, and it’s only round one
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17.03.2024
Two goals were the difference in the game kicked by two players who are the difference between Geelong and St Kilda.
The last comes first in this telling, because Patty Dangerfield’s was the most consequential goal owing to when it was kicked. Dangerfield’s goal had a nerveless class about it. Knowing the Saints would have to scramble a kick forward, he put himself where the ball might drop. And it did.
Geelong’s Jeremy Cameron........
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