2007 AFL Season Semi Final 1: Kangaroos v Hawthorn

This is the match report for the match played on 15 September 2007 between the Kangaroos and Hawthorn in the first semi final of the 2007 season of the Australian Football League. The Kangaroos "hosted" Hawthorn at the MCG. Adam Simpson captained the hosts. Richie Vandenberg captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Dani Laidley and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

The Kangaroos (14.9.93) defeated Hawthorn (8.12.60).

Match Details

Season: 2007 AFL Season
Round: First Semi Final
Teams: Kangaroos v Hawthorn
Date: Saturday 15 September 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 74,981

Match Results

Outcome: Kangaroos def. Hawthorn
Score: 14.9.93 - 8.12.60

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Kangaroos	3	.	3	5	.	5	9	.	7	14	.	9	14	.	9	(93)
Hawthorn	2	.	1	4	.	3	6	.	8	8	.	12	8	.	12	(60)
Margin	KANG by 8			KANG by 8			KANG by 17			KANG by 33			KANG by 33
Duration	28:24			28:41			31:17			30:45			1:59:07

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Kangaroos

Captain: Adam Simpson
Coach: Dani Laidley

Hawthorn

Captain: Richie Vandenberg
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

S. McLaren (#11)
B. Rosebury (#8)
M. Vozzo (#2)

Player Statistics

Kangaroos

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
11	Archer, Glenn	HBFL	96%	0	0	18	14	4	4	0	0	1	1	2	0	9	0
27	Edwards, Aaron	HFFR	95%	4	0	13	10	3	8	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2
24	Firrito, Michael	FB	100%	0	0	17	10	7	7	0	1	2	3	0	2	4	1
38	Gibson, Josh	BPR	96%	0	0	9	4	5	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	3	0
6	Grant, Shannon	FF	90%	1	1	24	16	8	9	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	6
31	Hale, David	HFFL	56%	0	0	9	4	5	4	12	6	1	3	2	2	1	2
26	Hansen, Lachlan	INT	48%	0	0	7	4	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
4	Harris, Daniel	RR	65%	0	0	24	13	11	3	0	2	10	2	2	1	1	4
29	Harvey, Brent	WL	83%	4	1	15	11	4	4	0	1	3	3	1	2	0	2
25	Lower, Ed	INT	82%	0	0	7	5	2	2	0	2	1	2	1	1	0	0
1	McIntosh, Hamish	RU	70%	1	0	23	13	10	5	24	0	2	1	3	0	3	4
42	McMahon, Scott	FPR	72%	1	0	10	8	2	5	0	4	0	1	2	0	2	2
20	Petrie, Drew	CHF	91%	1	0	14	12	2	9	0	3	1	1	3	1	2	2
30	Pratt, Daniel	BPL	93%	0	0	14	11	3	7	0	3	0	2	2	1	4	2
3	Rawlings, Brady	WR	86%	0	0	27	10	17	2	0	4	6	0	3	0	0	1
32	Sansbury, Eddie	FPL	77%	0	0	14	4	10	2	0	5	2	3	0	2	1	3
7	Simpson, Adam (c)	C	81%	0	1	27	14	13	3	0	2	4	1	2	1	0	5
9	Sinclair, Jess	HBFR	79%	0	1	23	10	13	7	0	4	1	2	0	0	0	3
10	Smith, Jesse	INT	86%	0	1	27	16	11	6	0	5	1	1	2	0	4	3
19	Swallow, Andrew	INT	73%	1	0	17	8	9	3	0	6	5	3	2	1	1	2
36	Watt, Shannon	CHB	100%	0	0	14	10	4	8	0	2	0	1	0	0	4	1
8	Wells, Daniel	RO	82%	1	0	28	13	15	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	2	2
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				14	9	381	220	161	105	38	53	42	39	30	15	44	49

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Bateman, Chance	HFFL	83%	1	0	13	9	4	3	0	3	1	2	2	1	0	8
14	Birchall, Grant	HBFL	75%	0	0	16	10	6	6	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	2
20	Boyle, Tim	CHF	70%	1	0	6	1	5	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
30	Brown, Campbell	BPR	100%	0	0	18	12	6	9	0	2	0	1	0	0	5	1
39	Campbell, Robert	RU	64%	0	0	14	5	9	4	23	4	3	4	1	2	3	1
9	Crawford, Shane	RO	86%	0	0	21	13	8	3	0	1	1	3	0	2	1	7
24	Croad, Trent	CHB	100%	0	0	18	12	6	11	0	0	0	5	2	4	5	3
19	Dixon, Ben	INT	61%	0	0	4	3	1	3	0	1	0	4	0	1	1	0
23	Franklin, Lance	FPL	98%	3	3	12	6	6	4	0	1	0	8	0	6	0	1
27	Gilham, Stephen	FB	88%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0
18	Guerra, Brent	BPL	89%	1	1	24	19	5	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	7	3
15	Hodge, Luke	FPR	100%	0	0	8	3	5	2	2	7	1	5	0	5	1	1
4	Ladson, Rick	HBFR	77%	0	1	27	18	9	10	0	2	2	4	2	1	2	3
3	Lewis, Jordan	WL	89%	1	0	31	17	14	7	0	3	4	4	2	1	0	4
5	Mitchell, Sam	C	93%	0	0	21	10	11	0	0	2	4	4	0	1	2	3
7	Osborne, Michael	HFFR	71%	0	0	5	4	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0
2	Roughead, Jarryd	FF	92%	1	1	7	5	2	1	1	2	0	2	2	0	0	0
12	Sewell, Brad	RR	91%	0	0	29	12	17	8	0	7	6	2	3	1	0	7
11	Smith, Joel	INT	68%	0	0	14	5	9	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	1
13	Taylor, Simon	INT	56%	0	0	10	3	7	4	13	2	1	2	0	1	0	1
21	Vandenberg, Richie (c)	WR	82%	0	0	9	4	5	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	2
45	Young, Clinton	INT	67%	0	1	14	10	4	7	0	3	1	0	0	0	2	4
Rushed					5
Total (22 players)				8	12	331	187	144	102	39	51	27	58	15	30	32	52

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

Kangaroos							Coach: Dani Laidley
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	18	B. Guerra	27	S. Gilham	30	C. Brown	1	H. McIntosh	26	L. Hansen
	42	S. McMahon	6	S. Grant	32	E. Sansbury	4	D. Harris	25	E. Lower
FORWARD							8	D. Wells	10	J. Smith
HALF-BACK									19	A. Swallow
	14	G. Birchall	24	T. Croad	4	R. Ladson
	27	A. Edwards	20	D. Petrie	31	D. Hale
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	3	J. Lewis	5	S. Mitchell	21	R. Vandenberg (c)
	3	B. Rawlings	7	A. Simpson (c)	29	B. Harvey	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							39	R. Campbell	19	B. Dixon
HALF-FORWARD							12	B. Sewell	11	J. Smith
	10	C. Bateman	20	T. Boyle	7	M. Osborne	9	S. Crawford	13	S. Taylor
	9	J. Sinclair	36	S. Watt	11	G. Archer			45	C. Young
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	23	L. Franklin	2	J. Roughead	15	L. Hodge
	38	J. Gibson	24	M. Firrito	30	D. Pratt
BACK
Hawthorn							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	KANG	Aaron Edwards goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:10
	KANG	Shannon Grant behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	03:34
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	04:24
	KANG	Aaron Edwards goal	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	10:42
	KANG	Rushed behind	2.2.14	-	1.0.6	13:47
	KANG	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	1.0.6	18:45
	KANG	Andrew Swallow goal	3.3.21	-	1.0.6	19:32
	HWTH	Tim Boyle goal	3.3.21	-	2.0.12	25:03
	HWTH	Clinton Young behind	3.3.21	-	2.1.13	26:51
Q2	KANG	Jesse Smith behind	3.4.22	-	2.1.13	03:17
	KANG	Brent Harvey behind	3.5.23	-	2.1.13	04:50
	KANG	Aaron Edwards goal	4.5.29	-	2.1.13	06:41
	KANG	Drew Petrie goal	5.5.35	-	2.1.13	14:15
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	5.5.35	-	3.1.19	18:39
	HWTH	Chance Bateman goal	5.5.35	-	4.1.25	20:40
	HWTH	Brent Guerra behind	5.5.35	-	4.2.26	22:57
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	5.5.35	-	4.3.27	25:33
Q3	KANG	Adam Simpson behind	5.6.36	-	4.3.27	01:00
	HWTH	Brent Guerra goal	5.6.36	-	5.3.33	03:40
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	5.6.36	-	5.4.34	05:16
	KANG	Hamish McIntosh goal	6.6.42	-	5.4.34	06:41
	KANG	Scott McMahon goal	7.6.48	-	5.4.34	09:09
	KANG	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	5.4.34	10:19
	HWTH	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	5.5.35	10:56
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	7.7.49	-	6.5.41	17:00
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead behind	7.7.49	-	6.6.42	18:40
	KANG	Aaron Edwards goal	8.7.55	-	6.6.42	21:24
	HWTH	Rushed behind	8.7.55	-	6.7.43	22:52
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	8.7.55	-	6.8.44	25:32
	KANG	Brent Harvey goal	9.7.61	-	6.8.44	27:16
Q4	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	9.7.61	-	7.8.50	00:27
	KANG	Brent Harvey goal	10.7.67	-	7.8.50	03:36
	HWTH	Rick Ladson behind	10.7.67	-	7.9.51	04:47
	HWTH	Rushed behind	10.7.67	-	7.10.52	05:40
	KANG	Rushed behind	10.8.68	-	7.10.52	08:45
	KANG	Brent Harvey goal	11.8.74	-	7.10.52	11:19
	HWTH	Rushed behind	11.8.74	-	7.11.53	13:04
	KANG	Shannon Grant goal	12.8.80	-	7.11.53	16:44
	KANG	Jess Sinclair behind	12.9.81	-	7.11.53	20:25
	HWTH	Rushed behind	12.9.81	-	7.12.54	21:34
	HWTH	Jordan Lewis goal	12.9.81	-	8.12.60	22:43
	KANG	Brent Harvey goal	13.9.87	-	8.12.60	26:11
	KANG	Daniel Wells goal	14.9.93	-	8.12.60	28:39

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