Patrick Voss, Josh Treacy and best-on-ground Luke Jackson have belatedly straightened up the wayward Dockers and trimmed Geelong\u2019s advantage at half-time of an engrossing first-versus-third blockbuster at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n
General field play has been on Fremantle\u2019s terms, their outside run a feature.<\/p>\n
The Dockers have largely owned territory and, in the closing stages of the second quarter, began neutralising the Cats\u2019 early dominance at stoppage.<\/p>\n
But Freo\u2019s waywardness \u2013 a contagious string of nine consecutive behinds and two no-scores either side of quarter-time \u2013 saw them crash to a 28-point deficit at one stage. The normally reliable Jye Amiss \u2013 with 0.3 and one wild out-on-the-full \u2013 has been the worst offender.<\/p>\n
In contrast, Geelong have been efficient in attack on relatively limited opportunity and hungry on turnover. So far, the Cats have capitalised on virtually every Docker blue, in field play and in front of the sticks. Can they keep it going? There\u2019s a whole half of footy to go.<\/p>\n
Geelong lead 56-47 at half-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Voss, Josh Treacy and best-on-ground Luke Jackson have belatedly straightened up the wayward Dockers and trimmed Geelong\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-744376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}