2006 AFL Round 4: Sydney v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 23 April 2006 between Sydney and Melbourne during round 4 of the 2006 AFL season. Sydney hosted Melbourne at SCG. Brett Kirk captained the hosts. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Paul Roos and the visitors were coached by Neale Daniher.

Sydney
Back: L. Barry, T. Richards, A. Schneider
Half-back: B. Mathews, L. Roberts-Thomson, C. Bolton
Centre: J. Bolton, B. Kirk (capt.), J. Crouch
Half-forward: R. O'Keefe, B. Hall, A. Goodes
Forward: A. Buchanan, M. O'Loughlin, N. Davis
Follower: D. Jolly, L. Ablett, N. Malceski
Int.: P. Chambers, N. Fosdike, T. Kennelly, J. McVeigh

Melbourne
Back: M. Warnock, N. Carroll, M. Whelan
Half-back: P. Johnson, J. Rivers, N. Brown
Centre: B. Green, J. McDonald, C. Sylvia
Half-forward: R. Robertson, B. Miller, A. Davey
Forward: C. Bruce, D. Neitz (capt.), B. McLean
Follower: J. White, S. Godfrey, T. Johnstone
Int.: C. Bartram, B. Pickett, P. Wheatley, A. Yze

Sydney (13.14.92) were defeated by Melbourne (15.7.97).

Goalkickers
Sydney: B. Hall (3), A. Schneider (2), L. Ablett, A. Buchanan, N. Davis, N. Malceski, J. McVeigh, R. O'Keefe, M. O'Loughlin, T. Richards
Melbourne: A. Yze (3), C. Bruce (2), A. Davey (2), P. Johnson (2), J. White (2), B. McLean, D. Neitz, B. Pickett, R. Robertson

As a result of this match, Sydney remained 12th on the ladder and Melbourne were then 13th on the ladder (up from 15th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2006 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: Sydney v Melbourne
Date: Sunday 23 April 2006
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 29,167

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Melbourne
Score: 13.14.92 - 15.7.97

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Sydney 4 . 2 6 . 6 9 . 10 13 . 14 13 . 14 (92)
Melbourne 3 . 3 7 . 5 10 . 6 15 . 7 15 . 7 (97)
Margin SYDN by 5 MELB by 5 MELB by 2 MELB by 5 MELB by 5
Duration 29:28 29:46 31:27 33:50 2:04:31

Honour Roll

Coaches: Paul Roos (Sydney), Neale Daniher (Melbourne)
Captains: Brett Kirk (Sydney), David Neitz (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Ellis (#23), M. James (#5), T. Pannell (#31)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Brad Miller MELB 7 3
Byron Pickett MELB 33 2
Ryan O'Keefe SYDN 5 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Brad Miller MELB 7 9 1 1 0 0 0
Byron Pickett MELB 33 9 1 1 0 0 0
Cameron Bruce MELB 32 5 0 0 1 1 0
Amon Buchanan SYDN 32 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Adam Schneider SYDN 13 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Ben Mathews SYDN 4 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
20 Ablett, Luke RR 90% 1 0 14 12 2 4 0 3 1 1 0 0 2 4
21 Barry, Leo BPL 100% 0 0 17 6 11 5 0 1 0 3 2 3 4 1
6 Bolton, Craig HBFR 100% 0 0 14 11 3 9 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 2
24 Bolton, Jude WL 75% 0 0 15 13 2 5 0 5 6 3 0 1 0 7
32 Buchanan, Amon FPL 85% 1 0 22 12 10 7 0 4 5 1 1 1 2 2
23 Chambers, Paul INT 41% 0 0 6 2 4 1 12 2 1 0 1 0 0 0
28 Crouch, Jared WR 100% 0 2 12 7 5 3 0 3 1 1 1 1 3 5
2 Davis, Nick FPR 65% 1 1 9 7 2 3 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 3
12 Fosdike, Nic INT 67% 0 0 14 9 5 5 0 1 4 1 0 1 2 1
37 Goodes, Adam HFFR 96% 0 2 16 13 3 7 6 3 1 3 0 0 3 6
1 Hall, Barry CHF 100% 3 1 8 6 2 4 4 2 1 2 1 1 0 2
16 Jolly, Darren RU 59% 0 0 13 9 4 2 22 1 4 6 0 3 3 1
17 Kennelly, Tadhg INT 88% 0 0 17 11 6 6 0 2 1 6 0 4 1 2
31 Kirk, Brett (c) C 88% 0 2 16 11 5 2 0 4 7 0 1 0 0 3
9 Malceski, Nick RO 87% 1 1 18 11 7 6 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2
4 Mathews, Ben HBFL 89% 0 0 14 11 3 5 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 4
3 McVeigh, Jarrad INT 55% 1 0 7 4 3 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1
5 O'Keefe, Ryan HFFL 97% 1 1 19 17 2 6 0 2 3 5 5 0 1 6
19 O'Loughlin, Michael FF 68% 1 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
25 Richards, Ted FB 71% 1 0 5 3 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
30 Roberts-Thomson, Lewis CHB 84% 0 0 10 6 4 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
13 Schneider, Adam BPR 96% 2 0 21 16 5 8 0 1 1 2 2 0 3 5
Rushed 4
Total (22 players) 13 14 290 199 91 95 44 49 42 43 18 16 28 58

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
19 Bartram, Clint INT 63% 0 0 4 4 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 1 1 1
25 Brown, Nathan HBFR 95% 0 0 18 14 4 7 0 3 2 2 1 1 5 4
32 Bruce, Cameron FPL 100% 2 0 23 13 10 4 0 6 3 3 2 2 4 4
41 Carroll, Nathan FB 100% 0 0 11 9 2 5 0 3 1 1 0 0 2 1
36 Davey, Aaron HFFR 98% 2 1 11 10 1 4 0 5 4 1 1 1 0 4
30 Godfrey, Simon RR 84% 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 3 1 6 0 4 5 0
18 Green, Brad WL 94% 0 1 12 10 2 4 0 6 1 1 0 0 2 2
11 Johnson, Paul HBFL 30% 2 1 7 6 1 2 4 2 1 1 1 1 2 1
16 Johnstone, Travis RO 89% 0 0 10 7 3 2 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 2
23 McDonald, James C 100% 0 0 19 13 6 3 0 3 1 2 4 1 1 2
5 McLean, Brock FPR 16% 1 0 8 6 2 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
7 Miller, Brad CHF 100% 0 0 13 7 6 5 3 2 2 1 1 1 7 0
9 Neitz, David (c) FF 35% 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0
33 Pickett, Byron INT 89% 1 0 21 18 3 8 1 1 5 3 0 2 1 5
27 Rivers, Jared CHB 100% 0 0 13 8 5 6 0 2 0 3 0 1 3 1
24 Robertson, Russell HFFL 100% 1 0 9 9 0 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 4
12 Sylvia, Colin WR 65% 0 1 9 8 1 4 1 3 4 0 1 0 0 2
37 Warnock, Matthew BPL 76% 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 Wheatley, Paul INT 89% 0 1 15 11 4 5 0 2 1 1 0 0 4 2
45 Whelan, Matthew BPR 100% 0 0 21 10 11 7 0 6 3 0 0 0 3 1
34 White, Jeff RU 90% 2 0 16 11 5 6 24 3 4 2 1 0 2 6
13 Yze, Adem INT 87% 3 0 13 8 5 5 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 15 7 272 191 81 91 33 61 37 34 16 18 42 43

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

Sydney Coach: Paul Roos
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
37 M. Warnock 41 N. Carroll 45 M. Whelan 16 D. Jolly 23 P. Chambers
2 N. Davis 19 M. O'Loughlin 32 A. Buchanan 20 L. Ablett 12 N. Fosdike
FORWARD 9 N. Malceski 17 T. Kennelly
HALF-BACK

3 J. McVeigh
11 P. Johnson 27 J. Rivers 25 N. Brown



37 A. Goodes 1 B. Hall 5 R. O'Keefe



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



18 B. Green 23 J. McDonald 12 C. Sylvia



28 J. Crouch 31 B. Kirk (c) 24 J. Bolton FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 34 J. White 19 C. Bartram
HALF-FORWARD 30 S. Godfrey 33 B. Pickett
24 R. Robertson 7 B. Miller 36 A. Davey 16 T. Johnstone 31 P. Wheatley
6 C. Bolton 30 L. Roberts-Thomson 4 B. Mathews

13 A. Yze
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



32 C. Bruce 9 D. Neitz (c) 5 B. McLean



13 A. Schneider 25 T. Richards 21 L. Barry



BACK



Melbourne Coach: Neale Daniher

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB Jeff White goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 01:05
SYDN Ted Richards goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 03:14
MELB Brock McLean goal 1.0.6 - 2.0.12 05:16
SYDN Ryan O'Keefe goal 2.0.12 - 2.0.12 08:28
MELB Paul Wheatley behind 2.0.12 - 2.1.13 09:45
SYDN Rushed behind 2.1.13 - 2.1.13 12:28
SYDN Barry Hall goal 3.1.19 - 2.1.13 13:45
MELB Rushed behind 3.1.19 - 2.2.14 14:51
MELB Adem Yze goal 3.1.19 - 3.2.20 16:35
SYDN Adam Goodes behind 3.2.20 - 3.2.20 21:51
SYDN Barry Hall goal 4.2.26 - 3.2.20 26:29
MELB Paul Johnson behind 4.2.26 - 3.3.21 27:58
Q2 MELB Colin Sylvia behind 4.2.26 - 3.4.22 02:36
MELB Cameron Bruce goal 4.2.26 - 4.4.28 04:34
MELB Adem Yze goal 4.2.26 - 5.4.34 06:05
SYDN Rushed behind 4.3.27 - 5.4.34 08:05
SYDN Brett Kirk behind 4.4.28 - 5.4.34 10:30
MELB David Neitz goal 4.4.28 - 6.4.40 17:24
SYDN Michael O'Loughlin goal 5.4.34 - 6.4.40 19:16
SYDN Nick Davis behind 5.5.35 - 6.4.40 20:40
SYDN Amon Buchanan goal 6.5.41 - 6.4.40 22:04
MELB Aaron Davey behind 6.5.41 - 6.5.41 24:20
SYDN Barry Hall behind 6.6.42 - 6.5.41 26:03
MELB Paul Johnson goal 6.6.42 - 7.5.47 29:40
Q3 MELB Brad Green behind 6.6.42 - 7.6.48 00:22
SYDN Ryan O'Keefe behind 6.7.43 - 7.6.48 04:33
MELB Paul Johnson goal 6.7.43 - 8.6.54 06:40
MELB Aaron Davey goal 6.7.43 - 9.6.60 07:52
MELB Byron Pickett goal 6.7.43 - 10.6.66 12:19
SYDN Nick Davis goal 7.7.49 - 10.6.66 18:41
SYDN Jared Crouch behind 7.8.50 - 10.6.66 19:37
SYDN Jarrad McVeigh goal 8.8.56 - 10.6.66 20:44
SYDN Nick Malceski goal 9.8.62 - 10.6.66 27:06
SYDN Rushed behind 9.9.63 - 10.6.66 28:30
SYDN Adam Goodes behind 9.10.64 - 10.6.66 30:50
Q4 SYDN Rushed behind 9.11.65 - 10.6.66 00:22
MELB Adem Yze goal 9.11.65 - 11.6.72 01:14
SYDN Adam Schneider goal 10.11.71 - 11.6.72 05:04
MELB Jeff White goal 10.11.71 - 12.6.78 07:21
MELB Aaron Davey goal 10.11.71 - 13.6.84 09:14
SYDN Luke Ablett goal 11.11.77 - 13.6.84 10:55
MELB Russell Robertson goal 11.11.77 - 14.6.90 13:32
SYDN Barry Hall goal 12.11.83 - 14.6.90 16:32
SYDN Brett Kirk behind 12.12.84 - 14.6.90 18:19
SYDN Jared Crouch behind 12.13.85 - 14.6.90 23:19
MELB Rushed behind 12.13.85 - 14.7.91 25:05
SYDN Adam Schneider goal 13.13.91 - 14.7.91 26:18
MELB Cameron Bruce goal 13.13.91 - 15.7.97 32:10
SYDN Nick Malceski behind 13.14.92 - 15.7.97 33:14