Geelong Cats Vs Richmond Match Centre. RICHMOND has rediscovered its finals roar after a 1. Geelong with an unrelenting brand of pressure that carried them to a 5. MCG on Friday night. Before Friday nights game, the Tigers hadnt won a final since 2. Damien Hardwicks men looked at home on the big stage from the opening bounce, dominating the match with their frenzied attack on the ball and the man. Full match coverage and stats. The only thing that kept Geelong in the game was Richmonds failure to convert its dominance of general play on to the scoreboard, and it looked like the Tigers might pay a heavy price for its 3. Cats levelled the scores midway through the third term after a rare dominant burst. If Richmond carried any finals scars, this is when they would have surfaced. But the Tigers class of 2. Dustin Martin leading the way yet again, they piled on 1. Every Tiger rated from the second qualifying final. If there were any doubts, Martin underlined how his mix of brute force and class is tailor made for September. The Brownlow Medal favourite finished with 2. DIRECTORY 83. The Kristen Archives are a free erotic story resource for consenting adults. Please come back often. If you find a broken link, please help us by. Five things we learned from Geelong v Richmond. Martin set up goals on either side of three quarter time the first to Shane Edwards after he shook off Tom Stewart at half back and the second to Shaun Grigg after he broke two tackles and hit his teammate with a pin point 5. Richmond 2. 0 points up and broke any last remnants of Geelong resistance. Richmond captain Trent Cotchin 2. Jack DeJohnette Drummerworld Gallery with Videos, Pictures, Sounds and Bio. Cashner had to settle for a oneyear, 10 million contract last offseason, but he had a nice year in Texas with a 3. 40 ERA and 1. 32 WHIP across 166 23 innings. Local Penn State Sports. Local sports stories from State College, PA and Centre County. Alex Rance avenged his poor round 2. Harry Taylor with a classy performance in defence, Dion Prestia was an able sidekick for Martin and Cotchin in the midfield, while Kane Lambert and Josh Caddy were dangerous in attack and Nick Vlastuin was impassable across half back. Richmond coach Damien Hardwick said he was proud of the way his players responded when they were challenged in the third quarter. They started to get on top in and around the clearances and we just couldnt get our hands on the ball in that period, Hardwick said. But credit to Trent, Dustin, Alex and Jack, our leaders stood up and started to get the momentum back our way. Its a sign of the growing maturity of those players and our footy club overall. Im really happy for the players. Theyve worked incredibly hard this season so its a big pat on the back to them. In winning just its third final since 1. Richmond also broke a 1. Geelong that had begun with its 1. Etihad Stadium. WATCH Tigers feast on Cats with ferocious pressure. Although Richmonds 2. Tigers fans, most of the group were part of three elimination finals losses under Hardwick from 2. Never miss another hot celeb story The juiciest celebrity news from all around the web on a single page. The Ocean by Led Zeppelin song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position. Race Results From Coast to Coast. Jimmy Trulli holds off Sean Becker to win a spooky good finish at Marysville Raceway seasonfinale on Saturday. GAMEBREAKER Dusty dominates on the big stage. After slumping to 1. Richmond is through to its first preliminary final since its 2. Brisbane Lions and its diehard fans can start to realistically dream of a Grand Final appearance and perhaps even the clubs first flag since 1. Geelongs loss continued its poor finals record since claiming the 2. Grand Final, the Cats having now lost seven of their past nine finals.  Constantly tackled, chased and harassed, the Cats looked ragged and flustered. Unable to find space or generate fluent passages of play, they went goalless in the first quarter for the first time in 2. It then looked like Geelong would be held goalless in a first half for the first time since round 1. Steve Motlop goaled at the 2. Geelong coach Chris Scott said his team just didnt have enough good performers to win. Every Cat rated from the second qualifying finalWe were on the back foot early in the game and were probably just hanging in there, the couple of goals close to half time gave us a bit of hope. But even then we just didnt really have many players playing well, if you want to simplify it, he said. And their late goal in the third quarter gave them a little bit of hope, but still we were 1. Sometimes when you have a big percentage of your players not playing well and youre still in the game at three quarter time, things can change really quickly. Unfortunately, it just really changed for them and then the dam wall burst. We tried to open it up and score and that just made it worse. Mitch Duncan 2. Cats best player, while Zach Tuohy 2. Patrick Dangerfield 3. Scott Selwood 2. Joel Selwood 1. 9 possessions understandably looked underdone after returning from a month off with an ankle injury. MEDICAL ROOMGeelong Cameron Guthrie went into the Cats rooms early in the third term with a right calf injury and did not take any further part in the game.  Jake Kolodjashnij also emerged from the game with a calf injury. Geelong coach Chris Scott said after the game Guthries injury was significant, with the Cats optimistic Kolodjashnijs was not as severe. However, Scott conceded both players might not play again in the finals. Richmond Alex Rance came from the ground midway through the first term with a head cut after ducking into a tackle from Harry Taylor. The key defender returned soon after being cleaned up on the interchange bench. NEXT UPThe Tigers are through to a preliminary final in two weeks time at the MCG, where they will play one of Greater Western Sydney, Port Adelaide or West Coast. The Cats will host the winner of the Sydney Essendon elimination final at the MCG on Friday night. GEELONG        0. RICHMOND     2. 4       3. GOALSGeelong Motlop, Dangerfield, Parsons, Hawkins, Taylor. Richmond Townsend 2, Caddy 2, Butler, Vlastuin, Edwards, Prestia, Grigg, Lambert, Castagna, Cotchin, Riewoldt. BEST Geelong Duncan, Tuohy, Dangerfield, S. Selwood, Lonergan, Smith  Richmond Martin, Prestia, Rance, Cotchin, Vlastuin, Lambert. INJURIES Geelong C. Guthrie calf, Kolodjashnij calfRichmond Nil  Reports Nil. Umpires Stevic, Nicholls, Mc. Inerney. Official crowd 9.