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AFL 2022: Geelong defeat Gold Coast Suns, minor premiers, finals, ladder, scores, video, news

Geelong have extended their winning streak to 12-straight on Saturday as they topped the Gold Coast Suns on the road.

The win puts the Cats eight points clear on top of the ladder and secures the minor premiership for the dominant outfit.

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The Cats put the foot down from the opening bounce with forward Tyson Stengle in scorching form, slotting three goals to get the game going.

“It’s one of the great quarters we’ve seen from a small forward this year,” legendary Hawk Jason Dunstall told Fox Footy.

Anthony Hudson added: “He is putting on quite a show.”

It remained one-way traffic in the second quarter as the Cats went into the halftime break holding a 51-point advantage.

“The Suns are getting a masterclass,” Dunstall said.

In what could be their last match outside of Victoria for the year, Geelong cruised to a 17-4 record on the back of an inside 50 entry landslide of 72-43.

It’s the 15th time the Cats have secured the minor premiership, however the feat hasn’t meant much in recent history.

Melbourne last season was the only club to go from minor premiers to premiers, breaking a drought of seven straight minor premiers to fall short.

Collingwood can pull off the biggest heist in AFL history and pinch the minor premiership, to do so they’d need to win their final two games by around 50 combined goals while Geelong would have to lose next weekend by around 25 goals.

Jeremy Cameron finished alongside Stengle with three goals as the Cats flexed their muscles on the road.

They finish the home and away season on Saturday at home against the West Coast Eagles.

As if there wasn’t enough attention on him with speculation swirling around him about

leaving the Suns for Adelaide, Gold Coast livewire Izak Rankine decided to dye his hair a

shade of peroxide blonde.

Rankine is set to accept an offer of $900.00 a year to be the highest paid Crow and Adelaide supporters would have enjoyed his first quarter goal that included a spin in traffic and cheeky right-foot checkside for a goal. He also won a free kick with a crunching tackle and went within a fingernail of a second goal as his performance lived up to his haircut. He left the field in the fourth term favoring his left shoulder in what could be his last appearance of him as a Sun.

– with Greg Davis, NCA Newswire

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