Saturday 16 January - Kardinia Park
Geelong 5.4.34
Melbourne 8.7.55
Melbourne won by 21 points
Goalkickers: Parry 2, Cunningham, Hanks, Mithen, Paxman, Zanker 1, Unknown 1
Paxman suffered a corked quad and Downie a sprained ankle.
Selected team
1 T Cunningham 2 M Downie 4 K Paxman 5 T Hanks 6 D Pearce 9 E Birch 10 K Hore 11 C Emonson 12 S Scott 13 M Kendall 14 L Mithen 15 L Pearce 16 A Bannan 18 C Sherriff 19 J Parry 20 B Tarrant 21 M Caris 22 E McNamara 24 M Fitzsimon 25 I Simmons 29 E Zanker 30 S Heath 31 K Petrevski 32 G Colvin