Top-of-the-table Cats dominate Mark Robinson‘s mid-year All-Australian team

At least one big name was unlucky to be overlooked but there’s a stack of Cats. As we head to the bye rounds, Mark Robinson reveals his 22-man squad. Who was stiff to miss the cut?

Tom Hawkins and Gary Ablett have been in sublime form. Pic: Getty Images

The best team in the competition Geelong has seven players in this mid-season All Australian team.

Two defenders Mark Blicavs and Tom Stewart, wingman Mitch Duncan, onballer Tim Kelly, Patrick Dangerfield and Gary Ablett and Tom Hawkins, who is arguably playing the best football of his career.

The official All Australian selectors might not have all seven in their team, but they will have them in their 40-man squad.

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More than ever, it is hellish selecting the midfield group.

The top 20 vote getters in the Coaches Association player of the year contains 16 midfielders, two ruckmen and two forwards — Ablett and Hawkins.

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And one of the wingmen in this team, Fremantle’s Brad Hill, is not among that top 20.

Hill and Duncan fill those two spots as pure wingmen.

Tim Kelly is one of seven Cats in the 22. Pic: AAP

could easily be plonked in those positions, but Hill and Duncan deserves their spots ahead of Brisbane’s Hugh McCluggage and Hawthorn’s Ricky Henderson.

Newbies include Blicavs, Luke Ryan and Michael Walters from Fremantle, Brisbane’s Harris Andrews and Bulldog Caleb Daniel on a back flank.

The bench is for the midfielders and the two unlucky to miss out were Collingwood’s Scott Pendlebury and North Melbourne’s Ben Cunnington.

Mark Robinson's mid-season All-Australian team.