2007 AFL Round 2: Western Bulldogs v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 8 April 2007 between Western Bulldogs and Adelaide during round 2 of the 2007 AFL season. Western Bulldogs hosted Adelaide at MCG. Brad Johnson captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Rodney Eade and the visitors were coached by Neil Craig.

Western Bulldogs
Back: J. McMahon, R. Hargrave, D. Morris
Half-back: L. Gilbee, C. Wight, R. Griffen
Centre: N. Eagleton, S. West, S. Power
Half-forward: D. Giansiracusa, A. McDougall, J. Akermanis
Forward: B. Murphy, M. Robbins, B. Johnson (capt.)
Follower: W. Minson, D. Cross, A. Cooney
Int.: M. Boyd, L. Darcy, S. Higgins, F. Ray

Adelaide
Back: G. Johncock, N. Bassett, B. Rutten
Half-back: J. Torney, S. Stevens, A. McLeod
Centre: M. Mattner, R. Shirley, N. van Berlo
Half-forward: T. Edwards, N. Bock, B. Reilly
Forward: M. Bode, S. Welsh, I. Perrie
Follower: B. Hudson, S. Goodwin, S. Thompson
Int.: M. Doughty, R. Douglas, J. Griffin, C. Knights

Western Bulldogs (11.6.72) were defeated by Adelaide (16.14.110).

Goalkickers
Western Bulldogs: S. Higgins (3), A. Cooney (2), B. Johnson (2), M. Boyd, R. Griffen, A. McDougall, B. Murphy
Adelaide: N. Bock (4), S. Welsh (4), S. Stevens (3), I. Perrie (2), M. Bode, B. Reilly, N. van Berlo

As a result of this match, Western Bulldogs were then 10th on the ladder (down from 4th) and Adelaide were then 7th on the ladder (up from 14th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2007 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Adelaide
Date: Sunday 8 April 2007
Time: 5:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 27,199

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. by Adelaide
Score: 11.6.72 - 16.14.110

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Western Bulldogs 4 . 1 5 . 2 6 . 5 11 . 6 11 . 6 (72)
Adelaide 4 . 5 8 . 10 14 . 12 16 . 14 16 . 14 (110)
Margin ADEL by 4 ADEL by 26 ADEL by 55 ADEL by 38 ADEL by 38
Duration 29:14 30:35 28:19 27:55 1:56:03

Honour Roll

Coaches: Rodney Eade (Western Bulldogs), Neil Craig (Adelaide)
Captains: Brad Johnson (Western Bulldogs), unknown (Adelaide)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: R. Chamberlain (#18), M. Head (#16), S. Jeffery (#29)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Simon Goodwin ADEL 36 3
Nathan Bock ADEL 44 2
Scott Stevens ADEL 27 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Andrew McLeod ADEL 23 10 2 0 0 0 0
Simon Goodwin ADEL 36 8 0 2 0 0 0
Nathan Bock ADEL 44 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Tyson Edwards ADEL 9 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Brent Reilly ADEL 33 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Nathan Bassett ADEL 8 2 0 0 0 1 0
Scott Stevens ADEL 27 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
21 Akermanis, Jason HFFR 68% 0 1 7 6 1 3 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 2
5 Boyd, Matthew INT 70% 1 1 22 8 14 9 0 4 1 2 0 0 2 1
17 Cooney, Adam RO 81% 2 0 19 10 9 7 0 2 2 8 0 0 0 3
4 Cross, Daniel RR 98% 0 0 29 7 22 7 1 5 4 2 2 1 1 0
14 Darcy, Luke INT 74% 0 0 11 5 6 4 12 4 2 2 1 1 0 2
10 Eagleton, Nathan WL 73% 0 0 23 13 10 10 0 1 1 1 1 0 3 8
13 Giansiracusa, Daniel HFFL 91% 0 2 16 10 6 2 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 1
9 Gilbee, Lindsay HBFL 86% 0 0 26 16 10 6 0 2 2 2 0 0 4 2
16 Griffen, Ryan HBFR 76% 1 0 15 8 7 5 0 3 1 2 0 1 1 5
25 Hargrave, Ryan FB 100% 0 0 13 8 5 4 0 2 0 1 1 1 4 0
19 Higgins, Shaun INT 80% 3 0 14 7 7 6 0 3 2 0 1 0 2 1
6 Johnson, Brad (c) FPR 100% 2 1 17 14 3 9 0 3 1 6 0 0 3 5
32 McDougall, Andrew CHF 74% 1 0 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1
23 McMahon, Jordan BPL 85% 0 0 26 19 7 3 0 0 5 4 0 2 4 4
27 Minson, Will RU 55% 0 0 7 4 3 1 13 2 1 6 0 4 1 0
38 Morris, Dale BPR 100% 0 0 15 6 9 5 0 5 0 0 2 0 2 2
2 Murphy, Bob FPL 73% 1 0 8 6 2 5 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 1
15 Power, Sam WR 94% 0 0 21 9 12 6 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2
1 Ray, Farren INT 66% 0 0 16 9 7 5 0 5 1 1 0 0 2 1
30 Robbins, Matthew FF 66% 0 1 5 2 3 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2
7 West, Scott C 90% 0 0 30 14 16 8 0 1 2 1 1 0 2 4
37 Wight, Cameron CHB 100% 0 0 9 5 4 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 11 6 353 188 165 113 26 62 27 45 12 12 38 47

Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
8 Bassett, Nathan FB 100% 0 0 20 17 3 11 0 4 1 1 1 0 4 0
44 Bock, Nathan CHF 85% 4 1 19 16 3 9 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 5
10 Bode, Matthew FPL 94% 1 2 12 8 4 3 0 3 0 2 1 1 0 4
11 Doughty, Michael INT 84% 0 1 11 6 5 4 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 2
26 Douglas, Richard INT 79% 0 0 14 8 6 5 0 0 1 2 2 1 2 2
9 Edwards, Tyson HFFL 82% 0 0 29 17 12 5 0 2 5 2 0 0 0 2
36 Goodwin, Simon RR 85% 0 1 33 19 14 8 0 1 5 4 1 0 5 5
6 Griffin, Jon INT 53% 0 0 11 9 2 5 14 0 0 2 2 1 0 2
13 Hudson, Ben RU 80% 0 2 19 9 10 6 13 2 5 1 0 0 0 0
18 Johncock, Graham BPL 39% 0 0 7 3 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
21 Knights, Chris INT 75% 0 1 28 22 6 11 1 2 2 3 1 1 2 5
39 Mattner, Martin WL 100% 0 0 10 4 6 3 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0
23 McLeod, Andrew HBFR 100% 0 0 35 20 15 9 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 3
22 Perrie, Ian FPR 85% 2 1 14 5 9 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
33 Reilly, Brent HFFR 81% 1 1 25 17 8 8 0 0 3 3 0 1 3 5
25 Rutten, Ben BPR 100% 0 0 15 8 7 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
12 Shirley, Robert C 41% 0 0 14 5 9 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3
27 Stevens, Scott CHB 95% 3 0 21 17 4 13 0 0 0 5 0 3 0 2
5 Thompson, Scott RO 83% 0 1 23 12 11 7 0 4 4 2 0 0 2 6
15 Torney, Jason HBFL 100% 0 0 14 7 7 5 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 1
7 van Berlo, Nathan WR 79% 1 0 19 11 8 4 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 4
17 Welsh, Scott FF 80% 4 1 11 8 3 7 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 3
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 16 14 404 248 156 140 29 37 29 37 12 12 32 58

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

Western Bulldogs Coach: Rodney Eade
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
18 G. Johncock 8 N. Bassett 25 B. Rutten 27 W. Minson 5 M. Boyd
6 B. Johnson (c) 30 M. Robbins 2 B. Murphy 4 D. Cross 14 L. Darcy
FORWARD 17 A. Cooney 19 S. Higgins
HALF-BACK

1 F. Ray
15 J. Torney 27 S. Stevens 23 A. McLeod



21 J. Akermanis 32 A. McDougall 13 D. Giansiracusa



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



39 M. Mattner 12 R. Shirley 7 N. van Berlo



15 S. Power 7 S. West 10 N. Eagleton FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 13 B. Hudson 11 M. Doughty
HALF-FORWARD 36 S. Goodwin 26 R. Douglas
9 T. Edwards 44 N. Bock 33 B. Reilly 5 S. Thompson 6 J. Griffin
16 R. Griffen 37 C. Wight 9 L. Gilbee

21 C. Knights
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



10 M. Bode 17 S. Welsh 22 I. Perrie



38 D. Morris 25 R. Hargrave 23 J. McMahon



BACK



Adelaide Coach: Neil Craig

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 WBUL Bob Murphy goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 02:17
ADEL Nathan Bock behind 1.0.6 - 0.1.1 05:35
ADEL Scott Welsh goal 1.0.6 - 1.1.7 06:39
ADEL Nathan Bock goal 1.0.6 - 2.1.13 08:34
ADEL Ian Perrie behind 1.0.6 - 2.2.14 10:02
WBUL Adam Cooney goal 2.0.12 - 2.2.14 11:48
WBUL Andrew McDougall goal 3.0.18 - 2.2.14 13:21
WBUL Brad Johnson behind 3.1.19 - 2.2.14 16:58
ADEL Scott Welsh goal 3.1.19 - 3.2.20 20:06
ADEL Michael Doughty behind 3.1.19 - 3.3.21 21:49
WBUL Matthew Boyd goal 4.1.25 - 3.3.21 23:17
ADEL Rushed behind 4.1.25 - 3.4.22 25:02
ADEL Scott Thompson behind 4.1.25 - 3.5.23 26:08
ADEL Scott Stevens goal 4.1.25 - 4.5.29 27:28
Q2 ADEL Nathan Bock goal 4.1.25 - 5.5.35 01:24
WBUL Shaun Higgins goal 5.1.31 - 5.5.35 02:54
ADEL Nathan Bock goal 5.1.31 - 6.5.41 05:07
ADEL Ian Perrie goal 5.1.31 - 7.5.47 06:17
ADEL Matthew Bode behind 5.1.31 - 7.6.48 09:17
WBUL Jason Akermanis behind 5.2.32 - 7.6.48 10:31
ADEL Scott Stevens goal 5.2.32 - 8.6.54 12:46
ADEL Ben Hudson behind 5.2.32 - 8.7.55 14:52
ADEL Matthew Bode behind 5.2.32 - 8.8.56 18:56
ADEL Chris Knights behind 5.2.32 - 8.9.57 20:45
ADEL Simon Goodwin behind 5.2.32 - 8.10.58 28:41
Q3 ADEL Scott Stevens goal 5.2.32 - 9.10.64 00:41
WBUL Ryan Griffen goal 6.2.38 - 9.10.64 03:11
ADEL Scott Welsh behind 6.2.38 - 9.11.65 04:56
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa behind 6.3.39 - 9.11.65 05:47
ADEL Nathan van Berlo goal 6.3.39 - 10.11.71 06:15
ADEL Brent Reilly behind 6.3.39 - 10.12.72 07:48
ADEL Scott Welsh goal 6.3.39 - 11.12.78 09:45
ADEL Ian Perrie goal 6.3.39 - 12.12.84 10:56
ADEL Brent Reilly goal 6.3.39 - 13.12.90 15:48
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa behind 6.4.40 - 13.12.90 22:38
WBUL Matthew Robbins behind 6.5.41 - 13.12.90 25:36
ADEL Matthew Bode goal 6.5.41 - 14.12.96 27:27
Q4 WBUL Brad Johnson goal 7.5.47 - 14.12.96 00:41
ADEL Ben Hudson behind 7.5.47 - 14.13.97 04:23
ADEL Nathan Bock goal 7.5.47 - 15.13.103 06:00
ADEL Scott Welsh goal 7.5.47 - 16.13.109 09:16
WBUL Adam Cooney goal 8.5.53 - 16.13.109 12:48
ADEL Rushed behind 8.5.53 - 16.14.110 14:25
WBUL Brad Johnson goal 9.5.59 - 16.14.110 16:10
WBUL Shaun Higgins goal 10.5.65 - 16.14.110 18:14
WBUL Shaun Higgins goal 11.5.71 - 16.14.110 26:11
WBUL Matthew Boyd behind 11.6.72 - 16.14.110 27:50