Gryan Miers noticed his alternative and didn’t miss.
The Geelong ahead was thrust into the highlight this week after a faux tweet gained traction on social media.
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Miers was positioned alongside soccer megastar Lionel Messi in a faux quote that was accredited to Gerard Whateley.
The faux publish has an AFL360 publicity shot of Whateley holding a soccer with the quote: “Gryan Miers is to AFL what Leo Messi is to soccer. Messi may kick more goals, but Miers scans the field just as well. Maybe even better than Messi does.”
Whateley wasn’t comfortable and known as for the publish to be eliminated in a collection of tweets earlier than taking to the airwaves on SEN and pleading together with his viewers to trace down the wrongdoer and have it taken down.
On Saturday evening nonetheless Miers couldn’t assist himself as he celebrated his one hundredth recreation within the league.
Miers bought the evening began in type by slotting the opening aim of the sport, nevertheless it was his celebration that actually caught the attention.
The Cats livewire pulled off Messi’s patented celebration as he appeared as much as the sky and pointed two fingers to the heavens.
“There is nothing messy (‘Messi’) about that,” Jobe Watson stated on Channel 7 in reference to the web drama throughout the week.
Miers wasn’t completed there as he fuelled the Cats ahead surges, racking up three rating assists because the Bombers discovered themselves down by 46 factors at quarter time.
It took till the second quarter for the Bombers to kick their first aim of the competition as they went into the halftime break down by 44 factors.
The Cats had been in full management of the competition as they nullified each side of the Bombers recreation and made them pay going ahead.
A win pushes the Cats into fifth spot on the ladder.
They’ll have an opportunity to strengthen their premiership credentials subsequent weekend after they go up in opposition to the third positioned Brisbane Lions.
A considerable loss for the Bombers will see them drop from fifth on the ladder to outdoors the highest eight.
With six rounds to go the Bombers are determined to pressure their approach into September motion and snap their ugly finals successful drought.
Source: www.news.com.au
