AFL 2020: Geelong defeats Western Bulldogs in insane 37-point comeback

Опубликованно 30.08.2020 11:10

The Cats trailed by 37 points in the second quarter before they turned the contest on its head to emerge with a 10.12 (72) to 9.7 (61) victory.

The comeback from 36-points down at quarter time is the biggest quarter time comeback the Cats have known since 1931.

It is also just the third time the Cats have comeback from six goals down in the club’s history and the first time since 1979.

Biggest @GeelongCats comebacks from quarter-time47 points - 1931 prelim vs Carlton36 points - 1979 Round 16 vs St Kilda and TONIGHT@FOXFOOTY #AFLDogsCats— Max Laughton (@maxlaughton) August 28, 2020

According to AFL statistician @sirswampthing, it is also just the fourth time in the history of AFL/VFL football that two teams have come back from more than 36 points down in the same round of football after Essendon also produced a miracle comeback win over Hawthorn on Thursday night.

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The win puts the Cats back on top of the table with just three more games before the finals.

The tough loss sees the Dogs hanging onto their spot in the top eight by a thread and puts them once more in the drop zone.

Even right to the death, though, the Dogs showed finals-calibre football.

Rhys Stanley of the Cats celebrates kicking a goal.

In a see-sawing fourth quarter the two teams traded blows before Geelong showed its class with some big late goals to Tom Hawkins and Gary Rohan.

Those kicks gave the Cats 10 of the last 13 goals of the match after the Dogs exploded out of the blocks with the first six foals of the game.

Hawkins put the Cats in front for the first time with just over five minutes to play when he calmly slotted a tough kick from 5m inside the boundary.

After a fourth quarter shootout that saw five goals kicked in less than 10-minutes, Hawkins’ goal saw the flood gates slammed shut for both clubs while setting up a grandstand finish.

It was only when Rohan snatched up a loose handball from the Dogs and strolled to the top of the goalsquare to kick the match-winner with 43-seconds to play that the Cats could breathe a sigh of relief.

WHO ELSE!Gary Rohan with a ripper

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