Geelong has put old rivals Hawthorn to the sword, and relaxed worries that 2020 would be a protective low-scoring season with a dazzling efficiency at Kardinia Park.
After the very first 4 quarters of football in the rebooted season, there had actually been grumbling from fans and experts at the low-scoring grind of Richmond’s MCG draw with Collingwood.
Simply 10 objectives for the match shone an unfavorable spotlight on the move to shortened 16- minute quarters for the 2020 season.
Then Geelong and Hawthorn came out at Kardinia Park and quickly proved they didn’t need great deals of time to put points on the board.
The Felines finished off a four-quarter effort to win 17.6 (108) to 7.5 (47).
Packing
Geelong took just 21 seconds to get things moving, with ruckman Rhys Stanley winning the clearance as Geelong went straight forward for Luke Dahlhaus to kick the opening objective.
Like Collingwood the night previously, it was the Felines who got the jump, booting the very first 3 goals of the video game.
Hawthorn found an answer in the very first quarter, and ended up kicking four of their own in the opening term for a combine