Essendon Vs Geelong Cats (2024)

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Geelong ran over the top of Essendon to finish 12-point winners in Friday night's Community Series match at GMHBA Stadium.

Geelong ran over the top of Essendon to finish 12-point winners in Friday night's Community Series match at GMHBA Stadium.

Geelong too strong for Bombers at GMHBA Stadium. A powerful second half from Geelong proved too much for Essendon VFL in its practice match at GMHBA Stadium on Friday with the Bombers falling 20.7 (127) to 9.14 (68).

It is believed that the co-founder of Australia football, Thomas Wentworth Wills, recommended the formation of the Geelong Football Club in July 1859 making it the second oldest continuously existing club at an elite level of any code in the world, the Melbourne Football Club credited as the oldest, formed earlier the ...

The team became universally known as "the Dons" (from EssenDON); it was not until much later, during the War years of the early 1940s, that they became known as "The Bombers" due to Windy Hill's proximity to the Essendon Aerodrome.

Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton have each been premiers 16 times. Only one team has won four consecutive grand finals, Collingwood in 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930. Gold Coast is the only current team not to have played in a grand final.

In 123 completed seasons, Geelong has contested nineteen VFL/AFL Grand Finals, winning ten premierships the last in 2022. List of Australian Football League premiers.

The Bombers have won 16 premierships - the equal most of any AFL team. When the club's four VFA premierships are added, Essendon becomes the…

They lost just one game, to the Western Bulldogs, out of 25 on the way to the Grand Final where they smashed a listless Melbourne by 60 points – 19.21. 135 to 11.9.

In August 2013, the AFL fined Essendon $2 million, barred the club from the 2013 finals series, and suspended senior coach James Hird and general manager Danny Corcoran as a result of these findings.

What did Geelong Cats used to be called? ›

For many years the Geelong Football Club were known as the Pivotonians, after the city's nickname 'The Pivot'. Seagulls was also an earlier nickname.

Nickname. Geelong has been nicknamed the 'Cats' since 1923, when the Herald sporting local cartoonist, "Wells" (Samuel Garnet Wells), suggested that adopting a black cat as a mascot might bring a football club good luck in his Herald cartoon of 6 July 1923.

Sam De Koning (/ˈkoʊnɪŋ/ KOH-ning; born 26 February 2001) is Australian rules footballer who plays for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League. He made his debut in the round 5 of the 2021 AFL season between Geelong and North Melbourne at GMHBA Stadium.

Essendon captured the 1923 and 1924 VFL Premierships partly due to a group of players nicknamed the 'Mosquito Fleet', all between 160 to 167 cm tall. The modern Essendon team mascot is called 'Skeeta' and is named after the fleet.

It was later agreed by the AFL that the $20,000 would be donated to the Cancer Council of Victoria, Essendon's preferred charity. The following year, the AFL agreed to incorporate a yellow band into the sleeve of the Essendon guernsey for their annual 'Clash for Cancer' game.

The Bombers made the trip in 2021, but before that had not appeared there since 1993. Essendon don't beat Geelong much anywhere.

Essendon's Premierships

The Bombers have won 16 premierships - the equal most of any AFL team. When the club's four VFA premierships are added, Essendon becomes the…

Geelong has a proud history, having won nine AFL and seven VFA premierships in its history.

Ridley suffered a “high-grade” quadriceps strain in round 19 last year against the Western Bulldogs, which sidelined him for the rest of the season. “Jordan underwent scans on his quad this morning and the results have revealed a low-grade quad strain,” the Bombers said in a statement on Saturday.