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AFL · Match ReportPublished · 2026-07-16
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Geelong Cats manufactured 27 scoring shots to 20 against St Kilda — the chances, not the finish, settled it

How Geelong Cats earned it: 27 scoring shots to 20. The 102–75 was the fair end of it.
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Geelong Cats 102, St Kilda 75 — the first scoreboard, the one you already have. Below is the second: the 50 funnel, how each side turned the ball going forward into a scoreboard — inside 50s, then marks inside 50, then scoring shots, then the goals that count. It is where this game was actually decided.

The second scoreboard — the 50 funnel, Geelong Cats v St Kilda: inside 50s, marks inside 50, scoring shots and goals
The second scoreboard: Geelong Cats made 27 scoring shots to 20.

This one was won up the ground, not at the goalface. turned it into 27 scoring shots to 20 — chances at a rate St Kilda could not match. The second scoreboard and the first agree here; what the second one adds is *where* the game was won, which is a long way before the last kick.

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