Playing alongside the likes of Jeremy Cameron and Shannon Neale can sometimes see the limelight drawn to a similar spot most weeks, but Ollie Henry's strong form has become too hard to ignore for the wider football community. 

After an indifferent 2025 campaign, Henry put together a strong pre-season and certainly committed plenty of time to his craft and athletic traits, earning an opportunity right away as Geelong commenced 2026. 

The results had been promising with 10 goals from his first seven games, but it went to another level on Saturday night with a dominant performance against his former side, helping to lead the Cats to a 54-point win over Collingwood. 

Henry led the way with a game-high four goals, his highest haul in a game since the 2024 Preliminary Final, noting that he has been working hard on his game and was pleased with the outcome on Saturday night. 

"I think this year, I worked really hard on a few things in the pre-season," Henry told Cats Media. 

"My body and my fitness are a couple of those, just being able to try and consistently play my role to run out games for the team.

"That is something I worked on personally this year, and I think that is something that I am pretty proud of.

"Hopefully I can just keep building on that across the rest of the year."

Henry's performance highlighted a developing trend within Geelong's game in recent weeks, with the Cats finding numerous avenues to goal and a very even spread of contributors on the scoreboard. 

The Cats kicked away to a final total of 122 points which included 18 goals, but remarkably only three of those goals came from Jeremy Cameron and Shannon Neale as Geelong recorded nine different goal kickers against the Magpies. 

It came a week after the Cats had 12 individual goal kickers against North Melbourne, now scoring 122 points or more in four of their last five matches. 

Henry said that it is important for Geelong to continue finding different ways to challenge opposition teams this year, while also soaking up the atmosphere in the rooms following the big win. 

"I think that is going to happen when everyone is working together as a team, we can't rely on one person every game," Henry said. 

"Jeremy did so many important things as he always does, that leads to other people kicking goals.

"The atmosphere in the rooms right now is electric.

"I think 'Stewy' has got about 40 or 50 people here, but it was a good win.

"It was a good team game, the Cats supporters showed up tonight and we are very thankful for that."