Taylor Adams

The star midfielder was walking back to the club post-game. He didn't expect a young girl to do this.

“We lost the game, but we’re not losers - there is a difference,” he said. They also had a dismal 2-8 record in the first week of September. “Following todays game, whilst walking back to the AIA centre. A young girl and her father could see I was flat. Rohan’s soaring mark and booming goal from 50m to put the Cats back in front by a point 23 minutes into the last quarter was the 10th lead change of the match. But Adams needed help to the leave the field in the last quarter, having returned from the same injury for this match. “Suffice to say his teammates are really happy for him because he was able to narrow his focus to what it was that we were asking of him, and he delivered in spades.” The Cats were behind at every change against the Magpies, who have made an art of pulling off tight wins this season, but kicked four of the last five goals in the game to book a spot in the preliminary final. Stream them all for free on It helped the Cats also exorcise their first-week September demons to secure the pulsating 11.12 (78) to 10.12 (72) qualifying final win in front of 91,525 fans at the MCG. Collingwood built their stunning run to the finals on becoming the masters of the close finish, and they looked like doing it again until Max Holmes kicked the match-winning goal for Geelong with just over a minute left in the game. [AFL](https://7news.com.au/sport/afl) finals in recent history, the Pies’ close game fortunes of 2022 were reversed when [Geelong](https://7news.com.au/sport/geelong-cats) inflicted a six-point qualifying final win.