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Geelong will reveal a special themed pot for Saturday night AFL clash against Essendon.
The Cats and Bombers will battle it out in the annual Country Game, which pays tribute to the links the two clubs share with regional and rural communities.
To highlight the contribution regional football clubs make to Australian rules football, Geelong players will wear the club logo from which they were recruited.
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The jumper also features the colors of each Cats player’s junior or local clubs – whether Australian rules or Gaelic football – in a stripe around the middle hoop.
A total of 37 clubs from across Australia are represented in Guernsey. There are even three international logos with Irish-based Celtic football teams Dingle (Mark O’Connor), Mayo (Oisin Mullin) and Portlaoise (Zach Tuohy) also featured.
Midfielder Jack Bowes will wear a logo that looks very similar to St Kilda’s. But Cairns Saints is actually where Bowes played his junior game before joining Gold Coast through their academy.
“This is a really great initiative from the Cats. Would love to see something like this league wide – grassroots is still the lifeblood of the game,” said one X fan.
Captain Patrick Dangerfield will have the Anglesea logo on his jumper, although he will have to serve his one-match ban at the tribunal to take his place in the squad.
Dangerfield was penalized for a dangerous tackle on Carlton superstar Sam Walsh in the opening minute of last Friday’s clash.
Walsh’s hands were caught in the tackle, but the momentum of both bodies, not a driving action on Dangerfield’s part, caused Walsh’s head to hit the turf.
The incident was assessed as careless conduct, medium impact and heavy contact, resulting in a one-match suspension.
Dangerfield will face the AFL tribunal in a bid to overturn the suspension.
Before the appeal was upheld, Dangerfield was tight-lipped when questioned about the incident on Monday morning.
“It’s probably another one about the interpretation of how lawyers see these things,” he said.
“I’m not going to get into jargon arguments about how things are handled right now.”
Asked if it was difficult to expect players to keep their hands off one game, Dangerfield said: “It’s a tough game to play, a tough game to judge.
“It’s quite clear that over the last few years there has been a shift in understanding of where concussion is, what it means and how we treat it.”
Dangerfield had 17 disposals and four clearances against Carlton in his first game back from a hamstring injury.
Geelong (8-6) has lost six of its last seven games to drop to seventh on the ladder.
– With AAP
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