2008 AFL Season Grand Final: Geelong v Hawthorn

This is the match report for the match played on 27 September 2008 between Geelong and Hawthorn in the grand final of the 2008 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong "hosted" Hawthorn at the MCG. Tom Harley captained the hosts. Sam Mitchell captained the visitors with Luke Hodge as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Mark Thompson and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Geelong (11.23.89) were defeated by Hawthorn (18.7.115).

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Grand Final
Teams: Geelong v Hawthorn
Date: Saturday 27 September 2008
Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 100,012

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. by Hawthorn
Score: 11.23.89 - 18.7.115

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	5	.	3	6	.	12	9	.	18	11	.	23	11	.	23	(89)
Hawthorn	5	.	2	8	.	3	14	.	5	18	.	7	18	.	7	(115)
Margin	GEEL by 1			HWTH by 3			HWTH by 17			HWTH by 26			HWTH by 26
Duration	34:59			30:31			31:22			31:38			2:08:30

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: Tom Harley
Coach: Mark Thompson

Hawthorn

Captain: Sam Mitchell
Vice-Captain: Luke Hodge
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Match Umpires

Norm Smith Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	3	2	1
Luke Hodge	HWTH	15	15	4	1	1
Gary Ablett	GEEL	29	11	1	4	0
Brad Sewell	HWTH	12	5	1	0	2
Stuart Dew	HWTH	31	2	0	0	2
Joel Selwood	GEEL	14	2	0	1	0
Shane Crawford	HWTH	9	1	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Ablett, Gary	RR	93%	2	1	34	12	22	3	0	5	8	3	2	3	0	8
3	Bartel, Jimmy	HFFR	89%	0	0	24	12	12	4	1	3	3	5	2	3	2	4
24	Blake, Mark	INT	47%	0	0	4	1	3	1	20	0	2	1	1	1	0	1
35	Chapman, Paul	FPL	81%	1	2	22	14	8	5	0	4	1	2	2	0	0	4
11	Corey, Joel	RO	83%	0	0	30	13	17	5	1	6	3	2	0	0	0	6
44	Enright, Corey	HBFL	95%	0	0	25	11	14	6	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	1
2	Harley, Tom (c)	BPL	60%	0	0	11	6	5	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
8	Hunt, Josh	BPR	90%	0	0	14	11	3	5	0	0	0	2	1	1	4	1
20	Johnson, Steve	HFFL	94%	1	1	34	21	13	6	0	1	5	2	2	0	1	6
9	Kelly, James	WR	75%	0	0	10	2	8	3	0	2	1	2	1	2	1	1
45	Ling, Cameron	C	97%	0	0	20	7	13	3	0	2	3	2	1	0	1	4
13	Lonergan, Tom	FF	76%	2	1	12	6	6	5	0	1	1	6	2	3	0	0
4	Mackie, Andrew	HBFR	88%	0	1	13	9	4	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	4
39	Milburn, Darren	INT	83%	1	0	14	9	5	6	1	2	0	1	1	0	4	1
21	Mooney, Cam	CHF	86%	2	3	14	9	5	8	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	3
6	Ottens, Brad	RU	71%	0	1	12	7	5	2	22	4	6	1	1	1	0	2
33	Rooke, Max	INT	75%	2	0	13	5	8	3	0	7	1	6	3	4	1	4
30	Scarlett, Matthew	FB	98%	0	0	11	5	6	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	2	0
14	Selwood, Joel	WL	78%	0	0	29	11	18	6	0	3	3	2	3	0	1	6
27	Stokes, Mathew	FPR	70%	0	1	7	3	4	1	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	1
7	Taylor, Harry	CHB	91%	0	0	13	4	9	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	2	1
5	Varcoe, Travis	INT	82%	0	1	12	5	7	3	0	2	1	2	0	1	0	3
Rushed					11
Total (22 players)				11	23	378	183	195	81	45	49	41	48	29	21	24	62

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Bateman, Chance	RO	74%	1	1	16	12	4	4	0	2	0	4	1	2	1	4
14	Birchall, Grant	HBFR	86%	0	0	23	13	10	12	0	4	0	2	1	1	5	1
30	Brown, Campbell	FPR	92%	1	1	16	11	5	10	0	1	0	2	1	1	4	2
39	Campbell, Robert	RU	67%	0	0	10	5	5	3	14	1	2	1	0	0	0	0
9	Crawford, Shane	INT	86%	0	0	25	12	13	4	1	3	1	4	0	1	4	2
24	Croad, Trent	FB	34%	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
31	Dew, Stuart	INT	74%	2	1	19	10	9	3	0	5	1	1	0	0	4	4
8	Ellis, Xavier	INT	76%	1	0	28	21	7	14	1	2	4	3	2	0	3	5
23	Franklin, Lance	CHF	100%	2	1	12	7	5	4	0	1	0	4	0	4	0	1
27	Gilham, Stephen	BPL	100%	0	0	13	10	3	10	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
18	Guerra, Brent	BPR	89%	0	0	25	15	10	12	0	2	0	8	1	2	4	1
15	Hodge, Luke (vc)	CHB	92%	1	0	26	20	6	9	0	5	1	2	3	1	7	1
4	Ladson, Rick	HBFL	94%	1	0	14	5	9	4	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	2
3	Lewis, Jordan	WR	87%	0	1	21	11	10	7	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	4
5	Mitchell, Sam (c)	C	97%	1	0	13	7	6	4	0	7	1	5	1	5	0	1
7	Osborne, Michael	HFFL	89%	0	0	26	15	11	8	0	3	5	1	3	1	3	3
34	Renouf, Brent	INT	35%	0	0	5	3	2	2	7	3	1	2	1	2	0	1
33	Rioli, Cyril	HFFR	96%	2	0	10	6	4	2	0	3	2	1	2	1	1	2
2	Roughead, Jarryd	FF	98%	2	0	8	4	4	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
12	Sewell, Brad	RR	91%	0	0	27	10	17	7	0	5	4	2	2	1	4	1
6	Williams, Mark	FPL	97%	3	2	15	10	5	5	0	1	1	4	2	3	2	1
11	Young, Clinton	WL	47%	1	0	19	14	5	8	0	2	2	6	1	1	1	6
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				18	7	372	222	150	135	25	56	27	56	21	29	47	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

Geelong							Coach: Mark Thompson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	S. Gilham	24	T. Croad	18	B. Guerra	6	B. Ottens	24	M. Blake
	27	M. Stokes	13	T. Lonergan	35	P. Chapman	29	G. Ablett	39	D. Milburn
FORWARD							11	J. Corey	33	M. Rooke
HALF-BACK									5	T. Varcoe
	4	R. Ladson	15	L. Hodge (vc)	14	G. Birchall
	3	J. Bartel	21	C. Mooney	20	S. Johnson
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	11	C. Young	5	S. Mitchell (c)	3	J. Lewis
	9	J. Kelly	45	C. Ling	14	J. Selwood	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							39	R. Campbell	9	S. Crawford
HALF-FORWARD							12	B. Sewell	31	S. Dew
	7	M. Osborne	23	L. Franklin	33	C. Rioli	10	C. Bateman	8	X. Ellis
	4	A. Mackie	7	H. Taylor	44	C. Enright			34	B. Renouf
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	6	M. Williams	2	J. Roughead	30	C. Brown
	8	J. Hunt	30	M. Scarlett	2	T. Harley (c)
BACK
Hawthorn							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Tom Lonergan goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	02:19
	HWTH	Chance Bateman goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	07:31
	HWTH	Xavier Ellis goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	10:58
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	1.0.6	-	2.1.13	12:22
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	1.0.6	-	3.1.19	14:45
	GEEL	Gary Ablett goal	2.0.12	-	3.1.19	17:08
	HWTH	Campbell Brown goal	2.0.12	-	4.1.25	18:51
	GEEL	Max Rooke goal	3.0.18	-	4.1.25	21:13
	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	4.0.24	-	4.1.25	22:52
	HWTH	Campbell Brown behind	4.0.24	-	4.2.26	25:44
	GEEL	Rushed behind	4.1.25	-	4.2.26	26:41
	GEEL	Rushed behind	4.2.26	-	4.2.26	28:17
	GEEL	Paul Chapman behind	4.3.27	-	4.2.26	29:08
	GEEL	Cam Mooney goal	5.3.33	-	4.2.26	30:09
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	5.3.33	-	5.2.32	32:39
Q2	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	6.3.39	-	5.2.32	01:19
	HWTH	Mark Williams behind	6.3.39	-	5.3.33	03:34
	HWTH	Cyril Rioli goal	6.3.39	-	6.3.39	04:39
	GEEL	Andrew Mackie behind	6.4.40	-	6.3.39	05:59
	GEEL	Paul Chapman behind	6.5.41	-	6.3.39	06:53
	GEEL	Steve Johnson behind	6.6.42	-	6.3.39	15:56
	GEEL	Brad Ottens behind	6.7.43	-	6.3.39	17:18
	GEEL	Rushed behind	6.8.44	-	6.3.39	18:12
	GEEL	Rushed behind	6.9.45	-	6.3.39	19:55
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	6.9.45	-	7.3.45	21:19
	GEEL	Travis Varcoe behind	6.10.46	-	7.3.45	23:19
	HWTH	Clinton Young goal	6.10.46	-	8.3.51	25:17
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes behind	6.11.47	-	8.3.51	28:23
	GEEL	Cam Mooney behind	6.12.48	-	8.3.51	30:23
Q3	GEEL	Cam Mooney behind	6.13.49	-	8.3.51	01:32
	HWTH	Mark Williams behind	6.13.49	-	8.4.52	03:15
	GEEL	Tom Lonergan behind	6.14.50	-	8.4.52	04:51
	GEEL	Gary Ablett goal	7.14.56	-	8.4.52	06:03
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	7.14.56	-	9.4.58	07:36
	GEEL	Rushed behind	7.15.57	-	9.4.58	09:21
	GEEL	Cam Mooney behind	7.16.58	-	9.4.58	11:26
	HWTH	Luke Hodge goal	7.16.58	-	10.4.64	15:49
	GEEL	Rushed behind	7.17.59	-	10.4.64	18:40
	HWTH	Cyril Rioli goal	7.17.59	-	11.4.70	20:12
	HWTH	Chance Bateman behind	7.17.59	-	11.5.71	21:22
	HWTH	Stuart Dew goal	7.17.59	-	12.5.77	21:46
	HWTH	Mark Williams goal	7.17.59	-	13.5.83	24:18
	HWTH	Stuart Dew goal	7.17.59	-	14.5.89	26:07
	GEEL	Rushed behind	7.18.60	-	14.5.89	27:28
	GEEL	Darren Milburn goal	8.18.66	-	14.5.89	28:43
	GEEL	Steve Johnson goal	9.18.72	-	14.5.89	30:24
Q4	GEEL	Rushed behind	9.19.73	-	14.5.89	01:11
	HWTH	Stuart Dew behind	9.19.73	-	14.6.90	01:27
	HWTH	Jordan Lewis behind	9.19.73	-	14.7.91	05:12
	GEEL	Rushed behind	9.20.74	-	14.7.91	05:54
	GEEL	Rushed behind	9.21.75	-	14.7.91	06:20
	GEEL	Gary Ablett behind	9.22.76	-	14.7.91	06:49
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	9.22.76	-	15.7.97	12:13
	HWTH	Sam Mitchell goal	9.22.76	-	16.7.103	13:58
	HWTH	Rick Ladson goal	9.22.76	-	17.7.109	17:55
	GEEL	Max Rooke goal	10.22.82	-	17.7.109	19:33
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	10.22.82	-	18.7.115	21:37
	GEEL	Rushed behind	10.23.83	-	18.7.115	23:10
	GEEL	Tom Lonergan goal	11.23.89	-	18.7.115	25:34

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2008 AFL Season Grand Final: Geelong v Hawthorn

Match Details

Match Results

Quarter Breakdown

Score Worm

Honour Roll

Geelong

Hawthorn

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

Goal Umpires

Boundary Umpires

Norm Smith Votes

Player Statistics

Geelong

Hawthorn

Legend

Player Line-Up

Score Timeline

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