Live: Cats clash with Dogs as Sydney heats up with Battle of the Bridge

There aren’t any late modifications to the introduced line-ups for each side.

The Giants could have received towards Richmond at Collect Spherical, however they paid a excessive worth.

Each Stephen Coniglio and Aaron Cadman acquired unintended kicks or knees to the pinnacle of their recreation within the Barossa, and are in concussion protocols.

Cadman was making his return after harm and had kicked 4 objectives in a formidable efficiency.

Except for this pair, Brent Daniels has been managed after his first recreation again from harm.

In come Leek Aleer, Toby McMullin and Harry Rowston.

For Sydney there may be one change from the crew that beat Gold Coast at Norwood Oval.

Dane Rampe has been managed and into the crew comes Angus Sheldrick after serving his one-game suspension.

A giant roar goes up as Mark Blicavs leads Geelong out forward of his three hundredth recreation.

He is one in every of three huge ins for the Cats tonight alongside skipper Patrick Dangerfield.

There’s one other milestone man on the market for the Cats too, with Jake Kolodjashnij taking part in his two hundredth recreation tonight.

He is been an underrated backline warrior for the Cats since being drafted in 2013.

This is how the final 5 conferences between these two sides have gone:

R11, 2025: Geelong 20.7 (127) def. Western Bulldogs 16.17 (113) @ Kardinia Park

R19, 2024: Western Bulldogs 13.17 (95) def. Geelong 7.6 (48) @Kardinia Park

R4, 2024: Geelong 14.11 (95) def. Western Bulldogs 14.7 (91) @ Adelaide Oval

R24, 2023: Western Bulldogs 16.8 (104) def. Geelong 11.13 (79) @ Kardinia Park

R12, 2023: Geelong 15.7 (97) def. Western Bulldogs 10.15 (75) @ Docklands Stadium

Howdy, good night and welcome to ABC’s stay on-line protection of spherical six of the AFL.

Contemporary from an exquisite Collect Spherical final weekend, we’re getting into an fascinating interval within the AFL fixture.

Beginning tonight, we’ve Friday evening double-headers for 5 of the subsequent six rounds — sadly, all the matches overlap.

However that is why we’ve a double act on the weblog tonight with Chris De Silva becoming a member of me, Andrew McGarry, so we will deliver you all of the motion.

First up, we’ve Geelong taking up a banged-up Western Bulldogs line-up at Kardinia Park.

Then just a little later, it is over to the SCG, the place Sydney will tackle GWS within the thirty second version of the Battle of the Bridge.

Let’s bounce in!