Downtime Discussions

During the downtime that usually happens at this time of year in a call-centre, many topics of discussion have been put forward, including the player to polarise footy the most (Judd, Cousins, Barrassi, Fevola), the biggest girlyman in footy (Nick Riewoldt), the hardest player ever (Jonathan Brown, Karl Ditterich, Bruce Doull, Leigh Matthews), the greediest / money-grubbingest player ever (jury's still out).

But the subject then turned to the biggest gronk that ever lived.

What is a gronk, I hear you ask? Well, you'd be best looking at http://www.urbandictionary.com/ and to choose your own definition. But for me, the definition is in a name. A person's name can be cringeworthy and generate all sorts of ill-feeling. Those names, for me, belong in the Court of King Gronk, and members of that court include (in no particular order):

• David Beckham - English football star, married to Posh Spice / Victoria Adams-Beckham
• Silvio Berlusconi - playboy Italian prime-minister; key player in the ruination of Italy and Europe in general during the 00s/10s GFC / Euro-crisis
• Warwick Capper - 1980s AFL footballer and now well-known Gold Coast resident / wanker / reality television participant
• Brendan Fevola - 1990s Carlton spearhead and now out-of-favour with the AFL in general
• Pauline Hanson - one-time Member of Parliament and founder of racist political party One Nation; once-convicted but now overturned felon; failed Member of Parliament since the collapse of One Nation and the prison sentence
• Paris Hilton - heiress, famous for being famous, participant in sex-tape
• Kim Il Jung - late "beloved" leader of North Korea and basis of the Team America satire
• Mark "Jacko" Jackson" - 1980s AFL "footballer of great potential" who, starting in the WAFL, moved east to star for no less than four VFL clubs. Now more famous for his off-field exploits which included a "singing" career, and speaking engagements with one other contender
• Bob Kater - Federal Independent Member of Parliament in the Queensland seat of Leichhardt
• The Kardashian Family - enough said, really
• David Kosh - self-opinionated ambulance-chasing co-presenter of the "Sunrise" breakfast television programme on ATN7 in Sydney with an economics major in journalism who doesn't like you to know about it
• Lindsay Lohan - actress, indebted Playboy pin up
• Eddie Maguire - president of the Collingwood Australian Football club, "journalist," radio and television presenter, loud-mouthed hater of felafel and anything to do with any city in Australia except Melbourne 
• Imelda Marcos - one-time Phillipines first-lady, hoarder of shoes
• Mohamar Qadafi - one-time leader of Libya, alleged war-time victim
• Mark "Chopper" Reid - convicted criminal turned writer and talk-circuit speaker, source of comedy sketches and spoofs
• Charlie Sheen - actor, alcoholic, drug-addict, discgraced son of Martin.Shane Warne - once-great cricketer, half of The Shiz or Shurley (Liz Hurley love-interest)
• Karl Stepanovic - slightly less opinionated than another television presenting contender, this contender co-hosts the "Today" breakfast television programme on TCN9 in Sydney. His infamy is in the inappropriate, as well as a "Logie" award that he should not have been given
• Tiger Woods - so-called "world's greatest golfer" whose brain-pants took over and cost him a beautiful wife and family, as well as his golfing talent. A contentious entry here, although he is allegedly friendly with another contender

I am happy to add or subtract names from this list for legal or other reasons, by request through comment to this post below!


pgg
23Dec11
1555 (amended 25/12/11)

Pondering The End of an Era

End of an era

On Tuesday, my days of attending an educational facility as an undergraduate are over. My journey started in March 2002 as a student of computing, and finishes this week as a student of history.

Such a wide swing from one to the other. The reason for the change are simple

Computing to German after second semester 2002: Had to do pre-MATH101 to get to the first level of Maths but only got a conceded pass. I needed a full-pass which was going to take another semester. But I passed the Stats component of the course, and did only the one Stats subject in the second semester, gaining a credit. I came to the conclusion that

• One subject a semester is better than trying to cram it all in and just scraping through
• Maths isn’t my thing
• Maybe I should look into something else

German to History after second semester 2006: On finding out that I could do German simply as a walk-in student, whereas to do Chinese (the other language I wanted to learn) needed the approval of the Dean, I went down that path. And enjoyed it immensely, and still find myself translating songs into German, tweeting in German, and trying as often as my health allows to eat and drink German, still keeping in contact with a couple of the exchange-students from my 200-level courses (but where the Australian students have gone is beyond me – I found one on Facebook but haven’t heard back since.)

But after the first semester of the first 300-level course, I was really struggling, and sought the help of a tutor. We spoke generally, and formally, and tried writing, and the like, and I still wasn’t getting the hang of it. But the crunch came with my last essay for the subject. And I hadn’t learned much from my first semester because I tried cramming two subjects into a semester (the second, a 200-level reading course). I gave my essay to my tutor, who corrected it, and I submitted it. But I didn’t ask the tutor to look at the 200-level submission, because the detail required for that wasn’t as in-depth (short-answer as opposed to an essay). The lecturer for the 200-level course picked this up, and referred it to the department head: apparently there was a genitive construction in the opening sentence that, apparently I would not have known about at my level.

What had happened was that the tutor written what I wanted to say instead of, perhaps, talking to me about saying something simpler / more suited to my level. Anyway I had to front the department head on the same day as my exam in the subject (timing much?) and explain myself. I just happened to have a copy of the work that I had given to the tutor, which they accepted. But getting someone to check one’s work before submission was apparently not acceptable: they want to know about my work, not how it should look. Which makes sense, but I still feel that I was being accused of cheating - all I was doing was having someone look over and edit my work. I absolutely knew without doubt that several people were getting their work vetted – one even had her work done by another student (both being native-speakers), but the cheater was obviously struggling with the grammar (which is fair enough: how many people would be fluent in the technical aspects of their native tongue? I only know those of mine because they were taught to me). But I couldn’t say anything: one doesn’t rat out a mate (or two). I got a conceded pass (and a credit in the other subject) and, because I didn’t know if I had to do the course again or continue to the next level, I went back to stats.

Stats to History: It appears that the break I’d taken between STAT176 and the next 200-level stats course was too long, because the whole thing was lost on me. I had no idea what the people were talking about, so I pulled it, taking the semester off. But my initial reason for doing Uni was to write essays (in English at least) which hadn’t happened yet. My interest in History was beckoning, so I thought I’d go over and do a 100-level course to learn how to play the game there. I got a D for my first-ever essay, and had to ask the tutor what that meant. “It’s a distinction”, he said. As 23/30 generally is. I had found my niche!

Then came the Diagnosis, on the eve of my 46th birthday. I had already started my last subject and was at the same place I am at the moment. But the illness spelled a respite in my academic career, which had to wait until full recovery for me to return. Dang!

So here I am, some 5 years and several essays later, looking at the end of a long career. There’s still some coursework to complete, two and a half readings (for tomorrow) and a self-assessment form to complete, but by the end of November I should be a Bachelor of Arts with History and German. What I do with that next year is anyone’s guess- for now I am contemplating a Grad.Dip in either Education or Information Management, or any combination thereof, but not at Club Mac: their funding cuts have spelled a lot of changes which don’t auger well for a good learning environment, so I will be looking at doing so by correspondence (which is how most of my History course was done).

Gaudeamus igitur.

Iuvenes dum sumus.

Gaudeamus igitur.

Iuvenes dum sumus.

Post iucundam iuventutem.

Post molestam senectutem.

Nos habebit humus —

Nos habebit humus.

[which would make sense to your old-school academic – I’ll leave you with that to ponder over!]

A Sad Day Made A Little Less Sad

Jr and fido got tangled up, jr landing on top of fido. Fido retaliated, getting jr above and below the eye. Another time, it was on the middle finger. It’s time for us to make a choice.

Fido was born on 17Dec94 (he was 7½ weeks old when we got him in early Feb95). We watched him grow from a little puppy through all the stages a dog’s life has. We moved house four times, and we had two cats and five birds in that time, but fido was always our first-born fur-baby.

Our IVF journey started about 1999, and bore fruit on 21Jul10 when jr came to us as our first-born. Fido and puss were not impressed, and made the usual signs to show this. But as jr grew, that lack of being impressed grew too. Then jr started walking, and fido and puss hated it. Puss can at least escape, but when escape is not possible, he withstands the pats, both gentle and otherwise, for just so long. There was one time when he was considering lashing out, but didn’t.

Fido isn’t as tolerant. He has arthritis, is deaf, and going blind. He doesn’t always know what’s going on, so when a 10kg toddler fell on him, he retaliated the only way he knew how. So yesterday we went to the vets to discuss our options, knowing that we didn’t have too many. We decided to take the lethal option, but to come back today to get the deed done.

The vet was very understanding, and took him out the back to put a catheter in his arm for the injection. But she seemed to be taking such a long time. When she emerged with fido she said that most of the delay was in trying to contact her partner, who was not answering. She offered to take fido from us on a trial basis – they had lost their second dog a couple of months ago and, while fido would not be a replacement, he would certainly fill the void.

I leapt at the opportunity, although mrs_g was not as willing to take it up. She thought we were both crazy. Fido has a number of ailments which do not contribute to his quality of life, but my idea was that this is a vet with access to fido’s medical records, so she knew what she was signing up for. We left the vets without a dog today, but not the way we imagined we would be doing so!

Fido is very well loved both at our place and at the vets’ – he’d been going there all his life and the staff there would have been devastated if we had taken the lethal option. Let’s all hope that he gets on well with this other dog, that the vet’s partner doesn’t mind adopting an older dog (this vet has been with the practice for 6yr and had never done anything like this), and that the trial goes well. Fido is a beautiful little dog who doesn’t deserve to go out the way we’d planned.

* I have spelled fido, puss, and jr with lower-case initials because they’re not their real names, making them regular (not proper) nouns. 

AFL Round 22 wash-up; round 23 fixture and tips

Round 22 hasn’t been the end of the home-and-away year since 1994. Here’s how it played out, with my tips underlined:

Fri 19Aug11

#AFLBluesHawks 1.4 1.8 5.12 8.18 (66) def by 4.4 7.10 8.14 10.18 (79) with full ¼-by-¼ stats here

Sat 21Aug11

#AFLSunsCrows 2.2 5.7 8.8 9.10 (64) def by 9.4 10.7 11.11 18.17 (125)

#AFLEaglesDons 4.3 6.6 12.12 20.14 (134) def 3.0 7.1 9.5 11.11 (66)

#AFLNorthFreo 6.1 10.7 16.10 21.17 (143) def 3.1 3.4 5.7 6.9 (45)

#AFLPiesLions 2.4 7.10 12.16 14.18 (102) def 3.5 5.6 6.6 13.6 (84)

Sun 22Aug11

#AFLSwansSaints 1.5 3.12 6.17 10.23 (83) def 3.3 6.4 9.6 10.8 (68)

#AFLPortDogs 1.0 4.1 9.3 15.7 (97) def by 10.3 15.9 22.12 24.13 (157)

#AFLDeesTigers 4.0 7.1 14.2 17.8 (110) def by 6.2 10.9 11.12 17.15 (117)

#AFLCatsBye

Gives me 4/8. Makes the ladder look like this

Collingwood 20 19 1 0 178.96% 76 2407 1345

Geelong 20 18 2 0 157.67% 72 2313 1467

Hawthorn 20 16 4 0 145.31% 64 2136 1470

West Coast 20 15 5 0 126.33% 60 2001 1584

Carlton 21 14 6 1 133.77% 58 2159 1614

St Kilda 20 10 9 1 108.37% 42 1670 1541

Sydney 20 10 9 1 106.13% 42 1679 1582

Essendon 21 10 10 1 99.67% 42 2097 2104

North 20 9 11 0 104.09% 36 1932 1856

Fremantle 20 9 11 0 87.58% 36 1678 1916

Bulldogs 20 8 12 0 95.20% 32 1886 1981

Richmond 20 7 12 1 84.68% 30 1857 2193

Melbourne 20 7 12 1 82.89% 30 1758 2121

Adelaide 20 7 13 0 82.67% 28 1593 1927

Brisbane 20 4 16 0 81.99% 16 1666 2032

Gold Coast 20 3 17 0 54.03% 12 1355 2508

Port Adelaide 20 2 18 0 61.21% 8 1493 2439  

Had a go at the ladder predictor on the AFL website and saw it coming out like this (with my tips as above). Will have to revisit it with these results and the following tips for Round 23: 

Fri 27Aug11

#AFLDockersPies @ Subi from 10:40 AEST

Sat 28Aug11

#AFLHawksDogs @ the G from 14:10

#AFLCatsSwans @ Skilled from 14:10

#AFLSaintsNorth @ Etihad from 19:10

#AFLLionsEagles @ the Gabba from 19:10

Sun 29Aug11

#AFLCrowsTigers @ AAMI from 13:10

#AFLDeesSuns @ the G from 14:10

#AFLDonsPort @ Etihad from 16:40

AFL Round 21 wash-up and Round 22 fixture and tips

More lop-sided results but not as much game coverage from me this week.

Fri 12Aug11 (my tip)

#AFLSaintsPies 2.1 6.3 7.7 10.10 (70) def by 5.2 8.4 11.4 14.5 (89)

Sat 13Aug11

#AFLHawkSport 8.1 17.4 23.6 31.11 (197) def 0.2 2.2 5.2 5.2 (32) with ¼-by-¼ stats here.

#AFLFreoBlues 3.0 4.2 7.7 12.13 (85) def by 5.5 7.10 11.16 16.19 (115) with ¼-by-¼ stats here.

#AFLDogsDons 1.3 6.3 11.8 15.11 (101) def by 7.0 14.3 18.6 23.12 (150)

#AFLLionsSuns 5.2 7.5 10.11 18.15 (123) def 1.4 3.6 4.9 8.13 (61)

Sun 14Aug11

#AFLEaglesDees 1.2 3.4 8.7 9.8 (62) def by 3.2 10.9 13.9 16.14 (110)

#AFLTigersSwans 1.4 5.8 8.12 14.15 (99) def 2.6 3.9 5.11 7.14 (56)!! Maybe John Longmire and his charges should concentrate more on retaining their spot in the 8 than making insurance company ads!

#AFLCrowsCats 2.3 5.6 8.10 12.13 (85) def by 2.3 8.7 11.10 14.12 (96)!! Bicks has the establishment worried: when Craig threw in the towel / had the towel thrown at him, little did we know that, three weeks later, his charges would be giving premiership-contenders such a scare! 

Makes me 7 / 8 for the round and the ladder resemble this

Collingwood          19 18 1 0 2305 1261 182.79% 72
Geelong                 20 18 2 0 2313 1467 157.67% 72
Hawthorn               19 15 4 0 2058 1404 146.58% 60
Carlton                  20 14 5 1 2093 1536 136.26% 58
West Coast           19 14 5 0 1867 1507 123.89% 56
St Kilda                 19 10 8 1 1602 1458 109.88% 42
Essendon              20 10 9 1 2020 1970 102.54% 42
Sydney                 19 9 9 1 1596 1514 105.42% 38
Fremantle             19 9 10 0 1633 1773 92.10% 36
North Melbourne  19 8 11 0 1789 1811 98.79% 32
Melbourne            19 7 11 1 1648 2004 82.24% 30
Western Bulldogs  19 7 12 0 1729 1884 91.77% 28
Richmond             19 6 12 1 1740 2083 83.53% 26
Adelaide              19 6 13 0 1468 1863 78.80% 24
Brisbane              19 4 15 0 1582 1930 81.97% 16
Gold Coast          19 3 16 0 1291 2383 54.18% 12
Port Adelaide      19 2 17 0 1396 2282 61.17% 8  

Next week we have (my tip)

Fri 19Aug11

#AFLBluesHawks – Carlton has their work cut out for them in order to beat the rampaging Hawks. Both clubs are vying for that vital second-chance in September, but I think the Hawks’ll do it. Happy to be proven wrong, though

Sat 20Aug11

#AFLSunsCrows – the Crows were are batting 1000 under Bickley up until their foray with the Cats but the Suns are a better thing than anywhere else at AAMI so I’m backing the darkie.

#AFLEaglesDons – Essendon are so champing at the bit for a place in the 8 but West Coast are already in there, and for a reason, and they should be stronger at TVFKAS

#AFLNorthFreo – Fremantle will want to back up a little stronger after their 5-goal loss to Carlton and, against the in-and-out-of-form Roos, will want to gain some respect and regain their place in the 8

#AFLPiesLions – Surely the Pies would be $1 favourites for this foregone conclusion?!

Sun 21Aug11

#AFLSwansSaints – One of the most boring match-ups of recent years. Both sides are in wont of a win and a possible berth in the 8, but the Saints are on fire and will probably take this one

#AFLPortDogs – another foregone conclusion

#AFLDeesTigers – the battle for the top of the bottom, and either side should take it … but which one to choose?!

AFL Round 20 (to COB Sunday); AFL Round 21 tips

Three matches today, comments on two of them, both as close as you can get; the third as lop-sided as yesterday's.


Brisbane's Lions reached 100 points within 15min of the last. The urban-myth is that first to 100 wins the match. But not today! And weren't Crows' fans ecstatic! That has new / caretaker Mark Bickley batting 1.000 for his coaching career!
Brisbane 5.1 11.6 14.7 16.9 (105)
Adelaide 6.3 9.5 10.11 16.14 (110)
Brisbane
Cornelius 4.2; McGrath 3.0; Karnezis, Clark 2.0; Rockliff, Polkinghorn 1.1; Leuenberger, Banfield, Hanley 1.0; Dyson 0.2; Redden, Raines, rushed 0.1
356 Possessions: Rockliff 34; Black 26; Raines 23; Redden 22
79 Tackles: Stiller 8; Redden, Buchanan, McGrath, Leuenberger 7; Black 6
45 Hitouts: Leuenberger 31
12 Frees: McGrath, Leuenberger 2
Adelaide
Walker 4.1; Gunston 3.3; Wright, van Berlo, Johncock 2.0; Jacobs 1.1; Riley, Henderson 1.0; rushed 0.3; Petrenko, Reilly, Dangerfield, Sloane, Thompson, Vince 0.1

76 Tackles:  van Berlo 8; Thompson 7; Reilly, Wright, Riley 5

43 Hitouts: Jacobs 30; Maric 13 

26 Frees: Jacobs, Thompson 3; van Berlo, Wright, Talia 2

Full ¼-by-¼ stats at http://j.mp/p3EgZg

Hawthorn and North went toe-to-toe at Launnie this arv with an unexpected result. OK, it was expected that Hawthorn would win, being a top-4 side against a bottom-8 side, but not the way it went! North were actually leading with not-very-long to go: Matt Campbell booted 5 (4 in the last quarter) and had the Roos' noses just ahead. But with just seconds to go, bang bang - one from Smith and one from Buddy sealed the Roos' fate and the four points for Hawthorn. 

Hawthorn 2.1 6.6 9.8 15.13 (103)

North 3.7 5.7 9.7 13.8 (86)

Hawthorn

Franklin 3.2; Smith 3.1; Breust 2.0; Rioli 1.2; Hale, Ladson 1.1; Whitecross, Lewis, Sewel, Burgoyne 1.0; rushed 0.3; Hodge, Suckling, Shiels 0.1  

340 Possessions: Mitchell 31; Suckling 26; Sewell 25; Hodge 24 

76 Tackles: Shiels 10; Mitchell, Breust 7; Guerra, Whitecross, Ladson 6; Franklin 5

62 Hitouts: Bailey 26; Birchall 23

26 Frees: Lewis 4; Sewell, Birchall 3 

North

Campbell 5.1; Petrie 2.0; Petersen, Harvey 1.1; Goldstein, Ziebel, Wells, Richardson 1.0; rushed 0.3; Harper, Garlett 0.1  

301 Possessions: McMahon 29; Ziebell 27; Harvey 26  

78 Tackles: McMahon, Garlett, Petrie, Thomas 6; Ziebell, Rawlings, Goldstein, Swallow 5

48 Hitouts: Goldstein 37

27 Frees: McMahon 5; Goldstein 4; Petrie 3 

Full ¼-by-¼ stats at http://j.mp/pcm6Z7

So, in a nutshell

• St Kilda def Fremantle 113-72
• Geelong def Gold Coast 188-38
• Carlton def Melbourne 134-58
• Essendon def Sydney 100-99 (Actually, it was Adam Goodes who lost the game for the Swans with the very last kick)
• Port def by Collingwood 21-159
• Brisbane def by Adelaide 105-110
• Hawthorn def North 103-86
• Eagles def Richmond 147-90

Ladder is at http://www.afl.com.au/ladder/tabid/74/default.aspx although there is a round-by-round ladder somewhere else...


Next week we have (my tips):

#AFLSaintsPies

#AFLHawksPort

#AFLFreoBlues

#AFLDogsDons - tough call 

#AFLLionsSuns - I called it the other way around last time ... won't happen again

#AFLDeesEagles

#AFLTigersSwans

#AFLCrowsCats

#AFLNorthBye

Buenos noches

AFL Round 20 (to COB Saturday)

A round of surprise results. Many of the lop-sided games were top 8-vs-bottom 8 but not all!


Take Saints v Freo for example. Fremantle are a top-8 side (although their recent form has them sliding out) and St Kilda are top-8 contenders (in the same vein as Collingwood in David Williamson's The Club). Freo's last quarter was abysmal, showing them and us, at the wrong time of the year, that they're no closer to their first flag than they've ever been:
St Kilda 3.8 7.11 10.13 16.17 (113)
Fremantle 1.1 7.7 10.10 10.11 (71)
St Kilda
Milne 4.4; Koschitzke, dal Santo, Schneider 2.0; Gram, Goddard 1.1; Ray, Fisher, Armitage, McEvoy 1.0; rushed 0.5; Steven, Riewoldt, Peake 0.2
412 Possessions: Jones 29; Blake 27; dal Santo 25; Gram, Fisher 24; Montagna 23; Scheider 21
60 Tackles: dal Santo 8; McEvoy 6; Gram, Koschitzke, Ray 4
54 Hit-Outs: McEvoy 29; Koschitzke 21
22 Frees: Dempster, Milne 3
Fremantle 
Mayne, McPhee 2.1; Ibbotson, Barlow, Johnson, Grover, Mzungu, Suban 1.0; rushed 0.6; Pavlich, Pearce, Hill 0.1
328 Possessions: Mzungu 30; Barlow 26; Lower 22; Pavlich 21

78 Tackles: Barlow 8; Lower, Ibbotson 7; Duffield, Pearce 6; Mzungu, Pavlich, Pearce 5

38 Hit-Outs: Mayne 26

17 Frees: Barlow, Lower, Johnson, Clarke, Ballantyne 2

Full ¼-by-¼ stats (except ¼-time) at http://j.mp/punupl

Carlton v Melbourne went as expected, but when I turned it on, the Dees were ahead by 25 to 19. But that was the end of the rot. Jeff "Jeffie" Garlett, then Bret "T-Bird" Thornton kicked successive goals, and that was the end of the rot: Melbourne only scored another 3 points for the rest of the half, but were allowed to salvage some dignity in the second. If the Blues play like that for their next three matches, they can kiss their finals-win dream goodbye!

Carlton 6.1 14.2 18.7 21.8 (134)

Melbourne 3.7 3.10 6.12 7.16 (58)

Carlton

Ellard 3.1; Garlett 2.2; Judd, Gibbs 2. 1; Walker, Scotland 2.0; Robinson, Kreuzer, Thornton, Betts, Joseph, McLean, Warnock, Henderson 1.0; rushed 0.2; Simpson 0.1

371 Possessions: Scotland 32; Judd, Murphy 31; Gibbs 27; Simpson 22; Robinson 21

62 Tackles: Yarran 8; Judd 6; Robinson, Betts, Kreuzer 5

42 Hit-Outs: Warnock 36 

20 Frees: Betts 3; Scotland, Judd, Murphy, Gibbs 2

Melbourne

Dunn 2.2; Watts 2.1; Green 1.2; Davey 1.1; Howe 1.0; rushed 0.3; Bate, Scully 0.2; Martin, Gysberts, Trengove 0.1  

333 Possessions: Trengove 24; Gysberts 22; Moloney, Jones, Garland, Watts 21

74 Tackles: Trengove 9; Moloney, McKenzie 8; Dunn 7; Scully 6; Gysberts, Macdonald 5

30 Hit-Outs: Martin 15; Gawn 10

21 Frees: Trengove 3; Gysberts, Macdonald, Jones 2

Full ¼-by-¼ stats at http://j.mp/rtNeJm

Collingwood and Geelong proved why they're at the top and why Port and Gold Coast are at the bottom. Both top-sides absolutely crushed both bottom-sides, with calls for Tredders' resignation in the same vein as Craig's earlier this month (before it comes to being pushed like Bailey earlier this week)

Port Adelaide 0.1 1.2 2.2 3.3 (21)

Collingwood 6.5 12.12 16.16 23.21 (159)

Port
Banner 2.0; Stewart 1.0; rushed 0.3

314 Possessions: Boak 31; Pearce 26; Cassisi 23; Banner 21

64 Tackles: Banner 8; Hartlett 6; Salter 5

35 Hit-Outs: Lobbe 27

13 Frees: Banner, Boak, Gray, Pettigrew 2

Pies

Blair 4.1; Cloke 3.6 (that's more like we'd expect; Swan, Beams 3.1; Brown 2.2; Krakouer 2.1; Fasolo 1.3; Pendlebury, Ball, Sidebottom, Rounds, Jolly 1.0; rushed 0.4; Davis 0.2

425 Possessions: Swan 37; Beams 32; Pendlebury 31; Blair, Ball 25; Davis, Thomas 23; Sidebottom 22; Johnson 21

98 Tackles!!!: Pendlebury 9; Ball, Davis, Rounds 7; Swan, Maxwell, Wood 6

55 Hit-Outs: Wood 33; Jolly 22

15 Frees: Jolly, Cloke, Fasolo, Brown 2

Geelong 8.1 18.4 21.8 29.14 (188)

Gold Coast 3.0 3.0 6.1 6.2 (38)

Cats

Johnson 6.1; Podsiadly 5.1; Mooney 3.3; J Selwood 3.0; Christensen 2.3; Chapman, Bartel 2.0; Stokes 1.1;  Wojcinski, Milburn, Ling 1.0; rushed 0.3; Varcoe 0.2

466 Possessions: Varcoe, J Selwood 33; Johnson 31; Chapman 30; Christensen 28; Wojcinski 26; Milburn, Duncan 25

61 Tackles: Chapman, West 6; J Selwood, Kelly, Ling, Corey 4

36 Hit-Outs: West 29

24 Frees: Chapman 4; J Selwood, Christensen 3

Suns

Bennell 2.1; Stanley 2.0; McKenzie, Fraser 1.0; rushed 0.1

331 Possessions: Bock 27; Harbrow 23; Rischitelli 22; Brennan, Bennell 21

54 Tackles: Weller, Brown 2

33 Hit-Outs: Smith 17; Fraser 14

14 Frees: Lynch, Weller 2

Full ¼-by-¼ stats (except ¼-time) at http://j.mp/pb9fVs