The Saints V The Cats - A Look At A Brilliant Game
by The Stinger on Jul.07, 2009, under Australian, Football
Well the game of the billenium (I think that’s a word) has come and gone and what a game it was. The Saints flew out of the blocks like some kind of projectile vomit that The Cats had trouble avoiding and spent the next 15 minutes cleaning themselves up while The Voldt and his Saintly cohorts racked up a lead.
Geelong handball expert, little Gary Ablett was able to convince the umpires that vomiting was not part of football (despite what you may have seen on TV) and got a 50 metre penalty against St Kilda just to try and even things up.
Meanwhile in the Geelong forward line, big Cat Full Foward Cam Mooney was having trouble with his hair and was not usable for the first half. St Kilda tagger Steven Baker who has the heart of a lion but the body of a hamster was able to get his head cut early in this match to get his customary attractive bandaged head look going before half time.
The first half was a battle of two teams going all out to win the game…..which was pointless at this stage as there was another half to go. They may as well just not play the first half because it is meaningless. Nothing gets resolved and all you have done is waste our time and got all the players tired.
Anyway, back to the game and the Saints came out trying to cement their lead but the Cats had other ideas. Cam Mooney had fixed his hair at halftime and was starting to get into the game and the midfield had figured out how to get out of their own way and was heading forward.
Actually the midfield battle was a straight up shoot-out, the only thing that was missing were the guns. No, scratch that, all those guys that were out there are guns. The last quarter started with a bang and the Saints had established a four goal lead but if you thought that Geelong were just going to lay down and die, you either had poisoned them and were waiting for the effects to kick in or you haven’t watched any of their matches for about three years.
The Cats came storming back like some kind of Force 9 hurricane that threatened to blow apart St Kilda’s little party. If not for some bizarre umpiring decisions the result may have been different but with a minute and a half remaining St Kilda ruckman Michael Gardiner put on the tights and did his best Super Hero impression to grab a massive pack mark.
Apparently poor little Harry Taylor was caught with Gardiner’s Super Elbow and knocked out. Gardiner went back and kicked the winning goal to the delight of his team-mates and all of the Saints fans around the world. Somewhere across the country, John Worsfold weeps as he thinks of what he let go.
So the match that had been hyped for weeks lived up to all expectations and was won with a minute to go by a superb mark and goal to give the Saints a famous 6 point victory.
If this was a preview of the Grand Final then that game will be a cracker (and also 12 hours long if the preview went 3 hours). Hopefully the result is the same too.
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