2005 AFL Season Preliminary Final 1: St Kilda v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 16 September 2005 between St Kilda and Sydney in the first preliminary final of the 2005 season of the Australian Football League. St Kilda hosted Sydney at the MCG. Nick Riewoldt captained the hosts. Barry Hall captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Grant Thomas and the visitors were coached by Paul Roos.

St Kilda (9.11.65) were defeated by Sydney (15.6.96).

Match Details

Season: 2005 AFL Season
Round: First Preliminary Final
Teams: St Kilda v Sydney
Date: Friday 16 September 2005
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 73,344

Match Results

Outcome: St Kilda def. by Sydney
Score: 9.11.65 - 15.6.96

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
St Kilda	3	.	1	5	.	5	9	.	7	9	.	11	9	.	11	(65)
Sydney	5	.	1	6	.	3	8	.	6	15	.	6	15	.	6	(96)
Margin	SYDN by 12			SYDN by 4			STKL by 7			SYDN by 31			SYDN by 31
Duration	31:53			27:16			31:46			30:14			2:01:09

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (St Kilda) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Sydney) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

St Kilda

Captain: Nick Riewoldt
Coach: Grant Thomas

Sydney

Captain: Barry Hall
Coach: Paul Roos

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

D. Goldspink (#32)
S. McLaren (#11)
M. Vozzo (#2)

Player Statistics

St Kilda

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
28	Ackland, Cain	RU	63%	0	0	6	3	3	2	22	0	3	0	2	0	0	2
10	Baker, Steven	BPR	100%	0	0	11	6	5	6	0	7	2	3	0	1	4	1
14	Ball, Luke	C	92%	0	0	19	12	7	1	0	11	7	2	3	0	1	2
27	Blake, Jason	INT	92%	0	0	10	3	7	4	14	0	1	2	1	2	2	1
16	Clarke, Raphael	HBFL	77%	0	0	11	4	7	4	0	4	1	1	0	0	2	1
26	Dal Santo, Nick	HFFR	95%	1	0	23	17	6	6	0	3	2	5	2	2	7	1
22	Fiora, Aaron	INT	76%	0	1	10	9	1	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	2
9	Gehrig, Fraser	FF	100%	4	2	9	7	2	3	0	0	0	4	2	2	0	2
18	Goddard, Brendon	HBFR	73%	0	0	13	7	6	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	4
34	Guerra, Brent	INT	35%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0
33	Gwilt, James	INT	46%	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
35	Harvey, Robert	FPR	100%	0	0	24	17	7	1	0	1	4	0	1	0	0	7
7	Hayes, Lenny	RO	91%	1	1	14	9	5	4	3	7	2	1	1	0	1	3
8	Hudghton, Max	FB	100%	0	0	12	3	9	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	0
5	Jones, Aussie	WR	100%	0	0	17	12	5	4	0	2	2	2	0	0	3	1
31	Maguire, Matt	CHB	94%	0	1	15	11	4	6	0	1	3	4	1	1	6	1
44	Milne, Stephen	HFFL	49%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	4	1	1	1	0	0	0
11	Montagna, Leigh	WL	80%	1	0	11	8	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4
17	Powell, Stephen	RR	61%	0	0	9	6	3	1	0	7	3	0	2	0	0	4
12	Riewoldt, Nick (c)	CHF	100%	2	2	11	6	5	5	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	2
4	Thompson, Andrew	FPL	79%	0	2	12	7	5	2	0	2	4	2	0	0	0	2
13	Voss, Brett	BPL	96%	0	0	11	5	6	3	2	3	0	1	0	0	3	1
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				9	11	255	157	98	65	42	64	35	35	19	11	33	41

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
20	Ablett, Luke	RO	74%	0	0	10	7	3	5	1	6	1	2	1	2	3	2
27	Ball, Jason	CHB	48%	0	0	7	5	2	6	14	1	0	2	0	2	1	1
21	Barry, Leo	FB	100%	0	0	15	13	2	9	0	1	1	4	1	2	7	2
42	Bevan, Paul	INT	52%	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	6	0	1	0	1	1	0
6	Bolton, Craig	BPR	100%	0	0	6	5	1	2	0	6	0	1	1	1	2	0
24	Bolton, Jude	HFFR	77%	0	0	19	14	5	5	1	8	7	3	0	1	0	7
32	Buchanan, Amon	FPR	82%	1	1	16	11	5	4	0	6	2	2	1	1	3	6
28	Crouch, Jared	BPL	97%	0	0	15	9	6	3	0	5	1	1	0	1	3	1
2	Davis, Nick	WL	94%	1	1	16	14	2	5	0	2	3	1	0	0	0	2
26	Dempster, Sean	INT	88%	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	0
12	Fosdike, Nic	WR	70%	0	0	14	9	5	3	0	4	1	2	0	1	3	2
37	Goodes, Adam	C	96%	0	0	20	13	7	5	2	2	4	1	0	1	2	2
1	Hall, Barry (c)	CHF	100%	4	0	16	12	4	6	2	3	2	3	2	2	0	5
16	Jolly, Darren	RU	66%	0	0	9	6	3	4	17	2	4	2	2	2	0	3
17	Kennelly, Tadhg	HBFR	100%	0	0	16	12	4	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	2
31	Kirk, Brett	RR	88%	0	0	12	6	6	3	0	3	4	2	0	1	0	2
4	Mathews, Ben	HBFL	82%	0	0	13	10	3	4	0	3	0	2	0	1	1	0
5	O'Keefe, Ryan	HFFL	91%	2	0	24	18	6	10	0	4	2	4	0	0	0	8
19	O'Loughlin, Michael	FF	96%	2	0	10	7	3	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
30	Roberts-Thomson, Lewis	INT	40%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Schneider, Adam	INT	71%	3	0	9	9	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
10	Williams, Paul	FPL	89%	2	0	12	9	3	3	0	2	0	2	1	0	2	0
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				15	6	272	196	76	91	37	73	33	37	11	19	31	50

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

Player Line-Up

St Kilda							Coach: Grant Thomas
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	28	J. Crouch	21	L. Barry	6	C. Bolton	28	C. Ackland	27	J. Blake
	35	R. Harvey	9	F. Gehrig	4	A. Thompson	17	S. Powell	22	A. Fiora
FORWARD							7	L. Hayes	34	B. Guerra
HALF-BACK									33	J. Gwilt
	4	B. Mathews	27	J. Ball	17	T. Kennelly
	26	N. Dal Santo	12	N. Riewoldt (c)	44	S. Milne
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	2	N. Davis	37	A. Goodes	12	N. Fosdike
	5	A. Jones	14	L. Ball	11	L. Montagna	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							16	D. Jolly	42	P. Bevan
HALF-FORWARD							31	B. Kirk	26	S. Dempster
	5	R. O'Keefe	1	B. Hall (c)	24	J. Bolton	20	L. Ablett	30	L. Roberts-Thomson
	18	B. Goddard	31	M. Maguire	16	R. Clarke			13	A. Schneider
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	10	P. Williams	19	M. O'Loughlin	32	A. Buchanan
	10	S. Baker	8	M. Hudghton	13	B. Voss
BACK
Sydney							Coach: Paul Roos

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	STKL	Fraser Gehrig goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:38
	SYDN	Paul Williams goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:51
	STKL	Nick Dal Santo goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	05:42
	SYDN	Paul Williams goal	2.0.12	-	2.0.12	10:17
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	2.0.12	-	3.0.18	15:25
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	2.0.12	-	4.0.24	17:50
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe goal	2.0.12	-	5.0.30	21:37
	SYDN	Rushed behind	2.0.12	-	5.1.31	26:41
	STKL	Andrew Thompson behind	2.1.13	-	5.1.31	28:45
	STKL	Fraser Gehrig goal	3.1.19	-	5.1.31	30:50
Q2	STKL	Lenny Hayes goal	4.1.25	-	5.1.31	01:57
	STKL	Fraser Gehrig behind	4.2.26	-	5.1.31	05:03
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	5.2.32	-	5.1.31	08:55
	SYDN	Nick Davis goal	5.2.32	-	6.1.37	11:13
	STKL	Aaron Fiora behind	5.3.33	-	6.1.37	16:55
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt behind	5.4.34	-	6.1.37	18:57
	SYDN	Nick Davis behind	5.4.34	-	6.2.38	22:35
	STKL	Andrew Thompson behind	5.5.35	-	6.2.38	24:03
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	6.3.39	26:22
Q3	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	6.5.41	-	6.3.39	01:33
	STKL	Fraser Gehrig goal	7.5.47	-	6.3.39	03:12
	STKL	Lenny Hayes behind	7.6.48	-	6.3.39	04:48
	SYDN	Rushed behind	7.6.48	-	6.4.40	07:14
	SYDN	Amon Buchanan goal	7.6.48	-	7.4.46	08:20
	STKL	Fraser Gehrig behind	7.7.49	-	7.4.46	12:26
	STKL	Fraser Gehrig goal	8.7.55	-	7.4.46	15:09
	STKL	Leigh Montagna goal	9.7.61	-	7.4.46	18:58
	SYDN	Rushed behind	9.7.61	-	7.5.47	22:19
	SYDN	Amon Buchanan behind	9.7.61	-	7.6.48	25:39
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	9.7.61	-	8.6.54	28:55
Q4	STKL	Matt Maguire behind	9.8.62	-	8.6.54	03:45
	SYDN	Adam Schneider goal	9.8.62	-	9.6.60	05:12
	SYDN	Adam Schneider goal	9.8.62	-	10.6.66	06:35
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	9.8.62	-	11.6.72	08:19
	SYDN	Barry Hall goal	9.8.62	-	12.6.78	09:34
	SYDN	Michael O'Loughlin goal	9.8.62	-	13.6.84	12:31
	STKL	Rushed behind	9.9.63	-	13.6.84	14:46
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe goal	9.9.63	-	14.6.90	16:56
	SYDN	Adam Schneider goal	9.9.63	-	15.6.96	18:03
	STKL	Rushed behind	9.10.64	-	15.6.96	24:13
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt behind	9.11.65	-	15.6.96	25:14

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