The Cats obviously play a game style in attack that is a little different to ours....and in my opinion they are a class above in their spread of dexterous talent across the 22 players in the line up.

When you hear on the wknd that their best on ground were - J Selwood, Christensen, Mackie, Stokes, Bartel, Motlop, S Johnson

and if you compare to our best on ground against the saints being - Kennedy, McVeigh, Parker, Shaw, Tippett, Mumford then it is a very different style of player a different level of dexterity and flare.

Motlop, Stokes, Johnson and Christensen !

These guys are creators of play - they are very very difficult to contain and make you pay if you let them break 2m in front of you.

To me it appears that the Cats float between two distinct styles of counter attack.........they do like to chip around a little more for then us looking for the straight runner or overlap from one of their fast creative players as above to run and carry. The Cats in my opinion can do this better then we can and they are equal to any team in the comp when attacking in this manor. Equally the Cats and the Hawks have very very good long kicking backs..........They can transition play to a mark downfield better then any other teams in the comp. Cats - Hunt, Mackie, Taylor, Bartel, Enright etc or the Hawks with Guerra, Hodge, Mitchell and others who are injured right now that can smash a ball 2m off the ground 50m plus on your chest. That is a wicked counter attack and very difficult to defend against.

We tend to work the lines when stuck in our defensive 50m or corners of our defensive arc and simply shift our midfield down forward to a contested mark or spoil.....that is unless we use our slingshot which is only a very small % of our attacking game...........

Geelong in these same possies on the field will look to shift wider and open up runners from their backline to run and carry

So two styles that tend to dominate the build up of our attacks. Geelong can certainly loose clearances every other week yet smash teams by 50points !

So HOW DO WE WIN ?

Well one thing I know is that we wont change our gameplan much at all

So can we contain and force errors amongst so many skillful players over 4 qtrs.......can we hold field position upfield against such a good backline as the Cats?

I believe we can - The 2nd against the Hawks in the GF can be replicated and we can dominate contested and uncontested football and we can under too much pressure sit in our 50m and absorb the pressure and then slingshot

In summary we will have to be able to handle both 50m arcs better then the Cats cause we cant play the game in the middle of the field against teams like the Cats nor Hawks.......we have to be the masters of pressure offensively in our 50m arc and defensively in our 50m arc !

Then we can win.............. if we convert