2007 AFL Season Round 2: Hawthorn v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 9 April 2007 between Hawthorn and Melbourne during round two of the 2007 season of the Australian Football League. Hawthorn hosted Melbourne at the MCG. In the absence of Richie Vandenberg, Sam Mitchell captained the hosts. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Neale Daniher.

Hawthorn (17.14.116) defeated Melbourne (14.10.94).

Match Details

Season: 2007 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Hawthorn v Melbourne
Date: Monday 9 April 2007
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 43,197

Match Results

Outcome: Hawthorn def. Melbourne
Score: 17.14.116 - 14.10.94

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Hawthorn	2	.	4	7	.	8	15	.	9	17	.	14	17	.	14	(116)
Melbourne	4	.	5	5	.	7	10	.	10	14	.	10	14	.	10	(94)
Margin	MELB by 13			HWTH by 13			HWTH by 29			HWTH by 22			HWTH by 22
Duration	28:45			29:43			35:56			29:11			2:03:35

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Hawthorn

Captain: Sam Mitchell (acting)
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Melbourne

Captain: David Neitz
Coach: Neale Daniher

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

B. Rosebury (#8)
S. Ryan (#25)
D. Sully (#12)

Goal Umpires

L. Fisk
P. Nastasi

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jordan Lewis	HWTH	3	3
Brad Sewell	HWTH	12	2
Cameron Bruce	MELB	32	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Brad Sewell	HWTH	12	10	2	0	0	0	0
Mark Williams	HWTH	6	7	0	1	1	0	0
Jordan Lewis	HWTH	3	5	0	?	?	?	?
Rick Ladson	HWTH	4	4	0	?	?	?	?
James McDonald	MELB	23	3	0	0	?	?	?
Jared Rivers	MELB	27	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Birchall, Grant	HBFR	87%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	1
20	Boyle, Tim	FF	86%	3	1	12	7	5	6	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0
30	Brown, Campbell	WR	100%	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	0
39	Campbell, Robert	RU	55%	0	0	10	2	8	0	29	7	0	2	0	0	0	1
25	Clarke, Tim	HFFR	90%	0	0	16	5	11	4	0	1	2	1	1	0	2	3
9	Crawford, Shane	HFFL	93%	1	1	25	16	9	7	0	5	5	2	2	0	3	3
24	Croad, Trent	FB	95%	2	1	13	9	4	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
19	Dixon, Ben	BPR	91%	2	1	6	4	2	3	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	2
32	Ellis, Xavier	INT	54%	0	0	6	4	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
23	Franklin, Lance	CHF	89%	1	3	14	8	6	4	0	1	1	3	0	3	1	4
27	Gilham, Stephen	CHB	65%	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
18	Guerra, Brent	INT	75%	0	0	18	10	8	2	0	4	1	2	0	0	5	0
15	Hodge, Luke	RR	95%	0	1	20	12	8	5	1	2	1	5	0	4	2	3
8	Jacobs, Danny	BPL	84%	0	0	12	5	7	3	0	2	1	1	1	0	1	1
4	Ladson, Rick	WL	78%	0	0	26	18	8	7	0	1	3	3	1	0	3	6
3	Lewis, Jordan	RO	83%	0	0	26	13	13	6	1	2	6	1	2	0	0	5
22	McGlynn, Ben	INT	70%	1	1	16	12	4	7	0	1	2	2	2	1	0	4
5	Mitchell, Sam (ac)	C	97%	0	0	23	7	16	4	0	5	6	6	2	3	1	2
12	Sewell, Brad	HBFL	87%	0	1	20	13	7	10	0	4	2	1	1	0	0	6
13	Taylor, Simon	INT	45%	0	0	8	1	7	3	12	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
6	Williams, Mark	FPL	97%	6	2	15	10	5	6	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	2
45	Young, Clinton	FPR	86%	1	0	16	12	4	2	0	7	1	1	3	0	2	5
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				17	14	335	188	147	98	43	51	35	38	21	14	31	52

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
6	Bate, Matthew	INT	85%	1	0	18	8	10	3	0	4	2	5	0	1	0	5
21	Bell, Daniel	HBFR	94%	0	0	8	6	2	1	0	2	0	1	1	1	2	1
25	Brown, Nathan	WL	100%	0	0	26	16	10	9	0	2	2	2	3	1	3	1
32	Bruce, Cameron	HFFL	100%	0	1	29	16	13	10	0	3	0	3	2	1	3	5
41	Carroll, Nathan	FB	100%	0	0	15	9	6	8	1	1	0	1	0	0	5	1
36	Davey, Aaron	FPR	81%	0	1	6	4	2	1	0	6	1	1	0	1	0	1
30	Godfrey, Simon	INT	81%	2	1	19	13	6	6	0	4	2	1	1	1	0	3
18	Green, Brad	WR	92%	0	0	20	13	7	8	0	3	3	4	2	0	1	4
40	Jamar, Mark	FPL	71%	2	0	5	4	1	3	9	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
17	Johnson, Chris	BPL	74%	0	0	8	6	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	2
16	Johnstone, Travis	RO	89%	0	0	8	6	2	3	0	7	1	2	0	1	2	1
2	Jones, Nathan	RR	71%	0	0	17	11	6	4	0	9	0	2	0	0	2	3
23	McDonald, James	C	70%	0	0	30	19	11	7	0	6	7	5	0	2	0	5
7	Miller, Brad	CHF	100%	3	0	17	7	10	8	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	2
22	Moloney, Brent	INT	70%	2	0	16	10	6	2	0	4	5	4	2	4	1	4
9	Neitz, David (c)	FF	12%	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	Rivers, Jared	CHB	87%	0	0	14	5	9	4	1	3	0	4	2	2	1	1
24	Robertson, Russell	HFFR	82%	1	4	12	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
10	Ward, Daniel	HBFL	97%	1	0	16	10	6	6	0	6	2	3	1	1	1	2
31	Wheatley, Paul	INT	62%	0	0	11	7	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	4	0
45	Whelan, Matthew	BPR	96%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	2	0	2	0	2	5	1
34	White, Jeff	RU	87%	1	0	6	2	4	3	29	3	2	1	0	1	1	2
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				14	10	314	188	126	99	41	73	28	47	14	21	31	47

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

Hawthorn							Coach: Alastair Clarkson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	17	C. Johnson	41	N. Carroll	45	M. Whelan	39	R. Campbell	32	X. Ellis
	45	C. Young	20	T. Boyle	6	M. Williams	15	L. Hodge	18	B. Guerra
FORWARD							3	J. Lewis	22	B. McGlynn
HALF-BACK									13	S. Taylor
	10	D. Ward	27	J. Rivers	21	D. Bell
	25	T. Clarke	23	L. Franklin	9	S. Crawford
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	25	N. Brown	23	J. McDonald	18	B. Green
	30	C. Brown	5	S. Mitchell (ac)	4	R. Ladson	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							34	J. White	6	M. Bate
HALF-FORWARD							2	N. Jones	30	S. Godfrey
	32	C. Bruce	7	B. Miller	24	R. Robertson	16	T. Johnstone	22	B. Moloney
	14	G. Birchall	27	S. Gilham	12	B. Sewell			31	P. Wheatley
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	40	M. Jamar	9	D. Neitz (c)	36	A. Davey
	19	B. Dixon	24	T. Croad	8	D. Jacobs
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Neale Daniher

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	HWTH	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:43
	HWTH	Tim Boyle goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	07:56
	MELB	Brad Miller goal	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	09:39
	HWTH	Mark Williams behind	1.2.8	-	1.0.6	12:24
	MELB	David Neitz goal	1.2.8	-	2.0.12	13:42
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	15:38
	MELB	Daniel Ward goal	1.2.8	-	3.1.19	17:51
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	19:27
	MELB	Simon Godfrey behind	1.2.8	-	3.3.21	20:17
	HWTH	Ben McGlynn behind	1.3.9	-	3.3.21	21:55
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	1.3.9	-	3.4.22	23:18
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	3.5.23	23:35
	MELB	Brent Moloney goal	1.3.9	-	4.5.29	24:01
	HWTH	Ben Dixon goal	2.3.15	-	4.5.29	26:58
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	2.4.16	-	4.5.29	28:37
Q2	HWTH	Shane Crawford goal	3.4.22	-	4.5.29	00:46
	HWTH	Ben Dixon goal	4.4.28	-	4.5.29	04:10
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	5.4.34	-	4.5.29	06:27
	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	5.4.34	-	4.6.30	09:02
	MELB	Rushed behind	5.4.34	-	4.7.31	12:09
	HWTH	Tim Boyle behind	5.5.35	-	4.7.31	13:04
	HWTH	Luke Hodge behind	5.6.36	-	4.7.31	14:24
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	5.7.37	-	4.7.31	17:19
	HWTH	Trent Croad goal	6.7.43	-	4.7.31	19:21
	HWTH	Brad Sewell behind	6.8.44	-	4.7.31	21:51
	MELB	Brad Miller goal	6.8.44	-	5.7.37	26:06
	HWTH	Clinton Young goal	7.8.50	-	5.7.37	27:43
Q3	MELB	Matthew Bate goal	7.8.50	-	6.7.43	01:05
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	8.8.56	-	6.7.43	02:38
	MELB	Aaron Davey behind	8.8.56	-	6.8.44	06:10
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	9.8.62	-	6.8.44	09:24
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	9.8.62	-	6.9.45	11:26
	HWTH	Trent Croad behind	9.9.63	-	6.9.45	12:09
	HWTH	Trent Croad goal	10.9.69	-	6.9.45	12:59
	HWTH	Ben McGlynn goal	11.9.75	-	6.9.45	14:28
	MELB	Brent Moloney goal	11.9.75	-	7.9.51	16:45
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	12.9.81	-	7.9.51	18:16
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	13.9.87	-	7.9.51	21:03
	MELB	Simon Godfrey goal	13.9.87	-	8.9.57	22:03
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	14.9.93	-	8.9.57	23:51
	HWTH	Tim Boyle goal	15.9.99	-	8.9.57	26:10
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	15.9.99	-	9.9.63	29:38
	MELB	Mark Jamar goal	15.9.99	-	10.9.69	33:04
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	15.9.99	-	10.10.70	34:25
Q4	MELB	Mark Jamar goal	15.9.99	-	11.10.76	03:44
	HWTH	Rushed behind	15.10.100	-	11.10.76	06:01
	HWTH	Ben Dixon behind	15.11.101	-	11.10.76	08:19
	MELB	Simon Godfrey goal	15.11.101	-	12.10.82	13:01
	MELB	Brad Miller goal	15.11.101	-	13.10.88	15:26
	MELB	Jeff White goal	15.11.101	-	14.10.94	17:02
	HWTH	Tim Boyle goal	16.11.107	-	14.10.94	19:53
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	16.12.108	-	14.10.94	21:10
	HWTH	Mark Williams behind	16.13.109	-	14.10.94	23:08
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	17.13.115	-	14.10.94	26:41
	HWTH	Shane Crawford behind	17.14.116	-	14.10.94	27:42

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