AFTER his side’s at times cruisy win over Port Adelaide yesterday, Geelong coach Dan Lowther was certainly pleased with what he had seen from his troops.

“We had maybe six or seven goal scorers which was a nice spread,” Lowther said. “We shouldn’t be relying on just one player and it’s nice that Chloe throughout the four quarters threatened in front of goal, but to have Rach Kearns go down and kick a goal as well, some of our mids get through… it was good off last week’s disappointing second half. We obviously have a few areas to fix up in our after half time performance.”

He did have some ideas about how Geelong could put together that four quarter consistency.

“I had a chat to the group after the game around continuing to mature as a group that’s learning the game and the scenarios that the game gives you,” Lowther said. “In game awareness and decision making are really important, so again you look at most teams, they’re quite eclectic with their personnel.

“We’ll learn a lot from that around decision making in real time, and that’s all fine to go back to the club and look at vision and dissect it and go ‘I told you that that would have been a better decision’ but it’s too late now, we can’t do that. So can we do that in real time is the next step.”

Geelong had a good spread of goal kickers yesterday, which pleased Lowther.

“I was a good first half. We’ve been really strong with our first quarters, so I suppose the aim was to come over here and set the tone from the start,” Lowther. said. “I was pleased with our first quarter, I suppose the next step for us would be consistency over the four quarters.

“Good first half, after half time it wasn’t how we would have liked to play. To have a good mix of contested, have a really good mix of uncontested as well. It helped us control the game a bit so that was pleasing”

The Cats are on a tough run at the moment with its draw, and Lowther noted how that does not ease up next week, as the Cats have a short break to contend with too.

“Got the Dees on Thursday, so another great test, they had a really strong win the other night against the Hawks,” Lowther. said. “We’ve had Kangaroos one week, we’re pushed today against a really emerging team in Port.

“An important game next week, we’ve never played Melbourne before so this will be a first for us, but they’re in ripping form and we’re going along ok so it’ll be a really good test for our girls to again play our way for as long as we can.”