1979 VFL Season Round 5: St Kilda v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 5 May 1979 between St Kilda and Geelong during round five of the 1979 season of the Victorian Football League. St Kilda hosted Geelong at Moorabbin Oval. Barry Breen captained the hosts. Ian Nankervis captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mike Patterson and the visitors were coached by Rod Olsson.

St Kilda (17.10.112) were defeated by Geelong (22.10.142).

Match Details

Season: 1979 VFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: St Kilda v Geelong
Date: Saturday 5 May 1979
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Moorabbin Oval
Attendance: 15,481

Match Results

Outcome: St Kilda def. by Geelong
Score: 17.10.112 - 22.10.142

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
St Kilda 2 . 4 7 . 5 14 . 7 17 . 10 17 . 10 (112)
Geelong 4 . 7 8 . 8 13 . 8 22 . 10 22 . 10 (142)
Margin GEEL by 15 GEEL by 9 STKL by 5 GEEL by 30 GEEL by 30
Duration

Honour Roll

St Kilda

Captain: Barry Breen
Coach: Mike Patterson

Geelong

Captain: Ian Nankervis
Coach: Rod Olsson

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

G. James
R. Sawers

Player Statistics

St Kilda

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
1 Barker, Trevor ? ? 0 1 7 4 3 2 0 2 0
34 Bond, Graeme ? ? 0 1 14 10 4 4 0 2 2
4 Breen, Barry (c) ? ? 0 0 15 9 6 3 1 2 2
17 Bromberg, Mordy ? ? 1 0 12 7 5 1 0 2 2
35 Callery, Paul ? ? 3 0 18 15 3 0 0 4 3
12 Colling, Gary ? ? 1 1 18 8 10 0 1 2 4
25 Cunningham, Geoff ? ? 0 0 11 5 6 2 0 0 3
48 Dunne, Jeff ? ? 0 0 22 15 7 8 0 2 1
3 Duperouzel, Bruce ? ? 1 0 31 21 10 3 0 4 3
22 Evans, Dale ? ? 0 0 6 5 1 1 0 1 3
29 Greene, Russell ? ? 0 0 23 20 3 3 0 4 1
16 Lofts, Gary ? ? 1 0 8 7 1 3 0 2 3
14 O'Dea, Jim ? ? 0 0 17 11 6 3 0 2 2
15 O'Keefe, Maurice ? ? 0 0 24 17 7 4 0 3 3
9 Perovic, Val ? ? 0 0 11 9 2 3 0 1 1
31 Sarau, Jeff ? ? 0 0 17 12 5 3 17 5 3
36 Sartori, Ian ? ? 3 1 12 10 2 5 0 2 2
2 Sidebottom, Garry ? ? 6 2 18 14 4 6 1 4 5
13 Sinclair, Allan ? ? 0 3 7 7 0 7 0 0 0
23 Tweeddale, Russell ? ? 1 1 7 5 2 3 0 0 4
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 17 10 298 211 87 64 20 44 47

Geelong

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO FF FA
16 Blake, Rod ? ? 6 1 22 14 8 10 14 4 1
4 Bright, Terry ? ? 0 0 18 15 3 5 0 4 5
19 Bruns, Neville ? ? 4 2 24 24 0 7 0 2 5
12 Burns, John ? ? 0 0 8 4 4 0 0 0 1
20 Card, Ray ? ? 0 0 9 7 2 4 0 1 0
15 Cassidy, Jeff ? ? 1 0 14 9 5 3 0 2 5
14 Clarke, David ? ? 0 0 7 6 1 0 0 0 0
24 Cousins, Bryan ? ? 3 3 29 19 10 3 0 2 0
26 Hawkins, Jack ? ? 0 0 19 8 11 7 2 1 2
5 Malarkey, Gary ? ? 0 0 6 1 5 1 0 2 0
7 Matthews, Kelvin ? ? 3 0 18 12 6 4 0 3 1
10 Mossop, John ? ? 1 0 8 2 6 3 16 0 5
33 Nankervis, Bruce ? ? 1 1 25 23 2 0 0 6 1
40 Nankervis, Ian (c) ? ? 0 0 21 17 4 0 0 9 2
17 Newman, Sam ? ? 1 1 24 13 11 10 0 3 1
28 Preston, Andy ? ? 0 0 6 1 5 0 0 0 6
1 Reed, Malcolm ? ? 0 1 16 8 8 4 0 2 4
9 Turner, Mick ? ? 2 1 29 21 8 2 0 1 1
18 Witcombe, Murray ? ? 0 0 23 15 8 4 0 3 1
11 Woodman, Alan ? ? 0 0 9 4 5 3 0 2 3
Rushed 0
Total (20 players) 22 10 335 223 112 70 32 47 44

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s