2022 Round 1: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs

Match Details

Season: 2022 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
Date: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 58,002
Capacity: 100,024

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. Western Bulldogs
Score: 14.13.97 - 11.5.71
Best on Ground: C. Petracca, J. Macrae, A. Naughton, C. Oliver

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 4 . 5 6 . 6 10 . 8 14 . 13 14 . 13 (97)
Western Bulldogs 2 . 2 8 . 3 8 . 5 11 . 5 11 . 5 (71)
Margin MEL by 15 BUL by 9 MEL by 15 MEL by 26 MEL by 26
Duration 29:41 32:04 27:58 31:43 2:01:26

Honour Roll

Coach(es): Simon Goodwin (Melbourne), Luke Beveridge (Western Bulldogs)
Captain(s): Max Gawn (Melbourne), Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire(s): Rob Findlay, John Howorth, Jacob Mollison
Goal Umpire(s):
Boundary Umpire(s):
Umpire Replacement(s): No known replacements

Brownlow Votes

3 - Christian Petracca (MEL #5) 2 - Jack Macrae (BUL #11) 1 - Clayton Oliver (MEL #13)

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team Vote(s) 5 4 3 2 1
Christian Petracca MEL 10 2 0 0 0 0
Ben Brown MEL 6 0 ? ? ? 0
Aaron Naughton BUL 6 0 ? ? ? 0
Bailey Smith BUL 4 0 ? ? ? ?
Clayton Oliver MEL 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Ed Langdon MEL 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics (Basic)

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CP UP CL CR FF FA RF IF MF RB OP GA
12 Bedford, Toby SUB↑ 55% 0 1 9 5 4 3 0 2 4 5 0 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 2 0
17 Bowey, Jake INT 73% 1 0 9 8 1 2 0 0 3 6 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0
10 Brayshaw, Angus HBFR 83% 0 0 23 12 11 6 0 3 4 19 0 4 1 1 2 2 0 0 1 0
50 Brown, Ben FF 86% 3 3 13 9 4 8 0 0 6 7 0 1 0 1 0 1 6 0 2 0
31 Fritsch, Bayley FPL 81% 2 2 9 8 1 4 0 1 3 5 0 2 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 1
11 Gawn, Max RU 97% 1 0 14 11 3 4 34 1 12 3 4 9 2 6 2 5 0 0 3 0
4 Harmes, James INT 77% 1 0 17 6 11 1 0 5 7 10 2 4 2 1 1 3 1 0 3 0
29 Hunt, Jayden BPR 86% 0 0 11 7 4 4 0 1 4 7 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
6 Jackson, Luke INT 86% 1 1 12 3 9 5 10 4 8 5 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
23 Jordon, James WL 70% 0 0 20 10 10 4 0 2 8 12 0 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
15 Langdon, Ed WR 100% 1 0 22 12 10 3 0 0 11 12 1 3 0 1 3 5 0 1 2 1
1 May, Steven FB 97% 0 0 14 13 1 7 0 0 3 6 0 3 0 1 5 1 0 3 12 0
25 McDonald, Tom CHF 83% 0 1 12 10 2 5 0 0 3 8 0 2 1 1 5 1 0 0 4 1
30 Neal-Bullen, Alex HFFR 88% 0 1 18 10 8 3 0 7 8 10 0 1 1 0 0 6 0 2 2 3
13 Oliver, Clayton C 81% 0 0 32 19 13 6 0 5 15 20 6 12 0 7 3 4 0 1 2 0
5 Petracca, Christian RR 87% 2 1 38 24 14 8 0 2 16 22 9 3 0 1 2 11 2 0 0 1
36 Pickett, Kysaiah FPR 68% 1 0 5 5 0 2 0 2 1 4 0 3 1 2 2 2 1 0 1 1
3 Salem, Christian HBFL↓ 13% 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
44 Smith, Joel BPL 81% 0 0 11 10 1 5 0 2 4 5 0 5 0 2 4 0 0 0 6 0
9 Spargo, Charlie HFFL 63% 0 1 14 8 6 2 0 2 5 10 0 2 2 1 0 4 0 0 3 0
32 Sparrow, Tom INT 65% 0 0 13 6 7 5 0 2 5 8 2 3 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0
20 Tomlinson, Adam CHB 100% 0 0 8 6 2 4 0 1 3 6 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 0
7 Viney, Jack RO 79% 1 0 23 11 12 5 0 4 12 11 4 4 2 0 2 3 1 0 1 0
Rushed 2
Total 14 13 350 213 137 96 44 46 146 204 30 72 17 30 40 56 17 8 54 8

Christian Salem was substituted out of the game and was replaced by Toby Bedford.

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CP UP CL CR FF FA RF IF MF RB OP GA
4 Bontempelli, Marcus RO 72% 1 0 17 13 4 7 0 7 6 12 1 3 1 1 3 4 0 0 3 2
12 Cordy, Zaine CHB 84% 0 0 3 1 2 0 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 1
9 Crozier, Hayden WR 75% 1 0 19 14 5 12 0 3 3 18 0 3 0 2 3 2 0 1 2 0
31 Dale, Bailey HBFR 83% 1 0 25 17 8 6 0 0 4 17 1 2 1 0 6 3 0 0 2 0
35 Daniel, Caleb HBFL 80% 0 0 26 14 12 6 0 2 5 17 0 2 0 1 7 2 0 2 1 0
5 Dunkley, Josh C 84% 0 1 29 14 15 4 0 5 12 17 3 3 1 1 2 4 0 1 3 1
44 English, Tim RU 86% 0 1 20 16 4 6 18 2 13 7 8 2 8 1 4 1 1 0 2 0
43 Gardner, Ryan BPL 100% 0 0 7 6 1 3 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
29 Hannan, Mitch CHF 72% 1 0 8 5 3 0 0 0 6 2 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
7 Hunter, Lachie INT 88% 0 0 13 7 6 4 0 3 3 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
42 Keath, Alex FB 94% 0 0 9 6 3 1 0 0 7 4 0 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 7 0
21 Liberatore, Tom FPR 75% 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 4 3 10 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1
11 Macrae, Jack RR 84% 0 0 39 19 20 5 0 3 15 24 11 4 2 2 2 6 0 0 1 0
33 Naughton, Aaron FF 89% 4 1 14 12 2 6 1 0 7 7 1 1 4 0 0 3 3 0 1 0
20 Richards, Ed INT 81% 0 0 14 6 8 2 0 4 4 9 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 5 0
13 Schache, Josh INT 82% 0 0 6 3 3 2 0 0 3 4 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0
6 Smith, Bailey INT 79% 0 1 33 20 13 7 0 11 11 20 8 5 5 1 2 5 0 0 0 1
37 Smith, Roarke WL 74% 0 0 16 7 9 5 0 1 4 12 0 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0
1 Treloar, Adam HFFR 81% 2 0 26 16 10 5 0 0 4 22 3 4 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 1
2 Ugle-Hagan, Jamarra SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 Vandermeer, Laitham FPL 74% 0 0 17 6 11 2 0 2 7 9 1 6 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1
19 Weightman, Cody HFFL 76% 1 0 5 3 2 1 0 1 4 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
34 Williams, Bailey BPR 87% 0 0 16 11 5 4 0 1 3 13 0 10 0 4 5 3 0 0 1 0
Rushed 1
Total 11 5 376 224 152 92 20 53 126 243 40 59 30 17 43 51 6 4 43 8

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CP: Contested Posessions, UP: Uncontested Posessions, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s, MF: Marks Inside 50, RB: Running Bounces, OP: One-Percenters, GA: Goal Assists

Player Line-Up

Melbourne Coach: Simon Goodwin
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
43 R. Gardner 42 A. Keath 34 B. Williams 11 M. Gawn (c) 17 J. Bowey
36 K. Pickett 50 B. Brown 31 B. Fritsch 5 C. Petracca 4 J. Harmes
FORWARD 7 J. Viney 6 L. Jackson
HALF-BACK

32 T. Sparrow
35 C. Daniel 12 Z. Cordy 31 B. Dale

12 T. Bedford
30 A. Neal-Bullen 25 T. McDonald 9 C. Spargo



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



37 R. Smith 5 J. Dunkley 9 H. Crozier



15 E. Langdon 13 C. Oliver 23 J. Jordon FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 44 T. English 7 L. Hunter
HALF-FORWARD 11 J. Macrae 20 E. Richards
19 C. Weightman 29 M. Hannan 1 A. Treloar 4 M. Bontempelli (c) 13 J. Schache
10 A. Brayshaw 20 A. Tomlinson 3 C. Salem

6 B. Smith
HALF-BACK

2 J. Ugle-Hagan
FORWARD



23 L. Vandermeer 33 A. Naughton 21 T. Liberatore



29 J. Hunt 1 S. May 44 J. Smith



BACK



Western Bulldogs Coach: Luke Beveridge

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MEL Ed Langdon goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 02:35
MEL Ben Brown goal 2.0.12 - 0.0.0 04:51
MEL Jack Viney goal 3.0.18 - 0.0.0 08:41
MEL Bayley Fritsch behind 3.1.19 - 0.0.0 09:43
MEL Ben Brown behind 3.2.20 - 0.0.0 11:05
BUL Rushed behind 3.2.20 - 0.1.1 15:11
MEL Charlie Spargo behind 3.3.21 - 0.1.1 16:13
BUL Bailey Smith behind 3.3.21 - 0.2.2 17:24
MEL Ben Brown behind 3.4.22 - 0.2.2 18:27
MEL Tom McDonald behind 3.5.23 - 0.2.2 20:16
MEL Jake Bowey goal 4.5.29 - 0.2.2 21:39
BUL Hayden Crozier goal 4.5.29 - 1.2.8 26:53
BUL Cody Weightman goal 4.5.29 - 2.2.14 29:37
Q2 BUL Aaron Naughton goal 4.5.29 - 3.2.20 00:28
BUL Aaron Naughton behind 4.5.29 - 3.3.21 01:38
BUL Bailey Dale goal 4.5.29 - 4.3.27 05:04
BUL Aaron Naughton goal 4.5.29 - 5.3.33 06:59
BUL Adam Treloar goal 4.5.29 - 6.3.39 08:22
BUL Aaron Naughton goal 4.5.29 - 7.3.45 10:01
BUL Mitch Hannan goal 4.5.29 - 8.3.51 12:24
MEL Ben Brown goal 5.5.35 - 8.3.51 15:46
MEL Rushed behind 5.6.36 - 8.3.51 20:25
MEL Christian Petracca goal 6.6.42 - 8.3.51 25:51
Q3 MEL Ben Brown goal 7.6.48 - 8.3.51 02:13
MEL Bayley Fritsch goal 8.6.54 - 8.3.51 06:24
BUL Tim English behind 8.6.54 - 8.4.52 09:14
BUL Josh Dunkley behind 8.6.54 - 8.5.53 12:20
MEL Bayley Fritsch goal 9.6.60 - 8.5.53 14:58
MEL Luke Jackson goal 10.6.66 - 8.5.53 16:52
MEL Ben Brown behind 10.7.67 - 8.5.53 25:34
MEL Bayley Fritsch behind 10.8.68 - 8.5.53 26:38
Q4 MEL Luke Jackson behind 10.9.69 - 8.5.53 01:18
BUL Marcus Bontempelli goal 10.9.69 - 9.5.59 02:47
BUL Aaron Naughton goal 10.9.69 - 10.5.65 06:25
MEL Max Gawn goal 11.9.75 - 10.5.65 11:09
MEL Christian Petracca behind 11.10.76 - 10.5.65 13:02
MEL Rushed behind 11.11.77 - 10.5.65 16:07
MEL James Harmes goal 12.11.83 - 10.5.65 17:42
MEL Alex Neal-Bullen behind 12.12.84 - 10.5.65 23:06
MEL Toby Bedford behind 12.13.85 - 10.5.65 24:53
MEL Christian Petracca goal 13.13.91 - 10.5.65 26:25
BUL Adam Treloar goal 13.13.91 - 11.5.71 27:56
MEL Kysaiah Pickett goal 14.13.97 - 11.5.71 29:54