2008 AFL Qualifying Final 2: Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 5 September 2008 between Hawthorn and Western Bulldogs in the second qualifying final of the 2008 AFL season. Hawthorn hosted Western Bulldogs at MCG. Sam Mitchell captained the hosts. Brad Johnson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

Hawthorn
Back: R. Ladson, T. Croad, B. Guerra
Half-back: G. Birchall, T. Murphy, L. Hodge
Centre: C. Young, S. Mitchell (capt.), C. Bateman
Half-forward: C. Rioli, M. Williams, M. Osborne
Forward: L. Franklin, J. Roughead, C. Brown
Follower: R. Campbell, J. Lewis, B. Sewell
Int.: S. Crawford, S. Dew, B. Renouf, C. Stokes

Western Bulldogs
Back: L. Gilbee, D. Morris, T. Callan
Half-back: R. Griffen, B. Lake, R. Hargrave
Centre: J. Harbrow, M. Boyd, F. Ray
Half-forward: B. Murphy, M. Hahn, B. Johnson (capt.)
Forward: J. Akermanis, W. Minson, S. Welsh
Follower: B. Hudson, A. Cooney, D. Cross
Int.: N. Eagleton, D. Giansiracusa, S. Higgins, J. Hill

Hawthorn (18.19.127) defeated Western Bulldogs (11.10.76).

Goalkickers
Hawthorn: L. Franklin (8), M. Osborne (4), J. Roughead (3), C. Brown, S. Crawford, J. Lewis
Western Bulldogs: J. Akermanis (3), A. Cooney (2), D. Giansiracusa (2), J. Hill (2), R. Griffen, B. Johnson

As a result of this match, Hawthorn faced St Kilda in the second preliminary final and Western Bulldogs faced Sydney in the second semi final.

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Qualifying Final 2
Teams: Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs
Date: Friday 5 September 2008
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 76,703

Match Results

Outcome: Hawthorn def. Western Bulldogs
Score: 18.19.127 - 11.10.76

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Hawthorn	4	.	5	10	.	12	15	.	17	18	.	19	18	.	19	(127)
Western Bulldogs	2	.	1	4	.	4	7	.	7	11	.	10	11	.	10	(76)
Margin	HWTH by 16			HWTH by 44			HWTH by 58			HWTH by 51			HWTH by 51
Duration	29:15			31:53			32:44			28:39			2:02:31

Honour Roll

Coaches: Alastair Clarkson (Hawthorn), Rodney Eade (Western Bulldogs)
Captains: Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn), Brad Johnson (Western Bulldogs)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Donlon (#1), B. Rosebury (#8), S. Ryan (#25)

Player Statistics

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Bateman, Chance	WR	79%	0	0	16	10	6	3	0	5	1	3	1	1	0	4
14	Birchall, Grant	HBFL	81%	0	0	19	10	9	6	0	1	0	2	1	1	1	2
30	Brown, Campbell	FPR	87%	1	0	12	7	5	6	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	4
39	Campbell, Robert	RU	71%	0	0	9	3	6	3	14	3	0	3	0	3	0	1
9	Crawford, Shane	INT	77%	1	0	22	10	12	6	0	3	3	1	2	1	2	4
24	Croad, Trent	FB	50%	0	0	5	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
31	Dew, Stuart	INT	72%	0	0	14	10	4	3	0	4	0	2	2	2	0	3
23	Franklin, Lance	FPL	98%	8	2	15	14	1	7	1	2	0	10	1	3	0	4
18	Guerra, Brent	BPR	90%	0	0	12	9	3	6	0	1	0	4	1	1	2	3
15	Hodge, Luke	HBFR	94%	0	0	16	15	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	1
4	Ladson, Rick	BPL	70%	0	0	13	5	8	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	2
3	Lewis, Jordan	RR	88%	1	1	22	16	6	8	0	0	6	2	0	1	0	6
5	Mitchell, Sam (c)	C	91%	0	0	30	19	11	2	0	4	5	7	2	3	1	3
29	Murphy, Tom	CHB	88%	0	0	12	4	8	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	0
7	Osborne, Michael	HFFR	92%	4	2	20	16	4	6	0	1	3	3	2	2	2	6
34	Renouf, Brent	INT	58%	0	0	10	5	5	4	9	4	1	3	1	2	0	1
33	Rioli, Cyril	HFFL	93%	0	1	17	9	8	6	0	4	1	1	1	0	1	4
2	Roughead, Jarryd	FF	97%	3	3	18	12	6	10	0	4	1	3	0	2	0	1
12	Sewell, Brad	RO	94%	0	1	31	16	15	8	0	8	8	1	1	0	1	5
44	Stokes, Cameron	INT	57%	0	0	8	4	4	2	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	2
6	Williams, Mark	CHF	90%	0	2	6	3	3	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3
11	Young, Clinton	WL	82%	0	1	20	13	7	12	0	4	0	1	2	0	3	5
Rushed					6
Total (22 players)				18	19	347	213	134	114	24	54	31	49	19	25	28	65

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Akermanis, Jason	FPL	94%	3	0	17	8	9	7	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	1
5	Boyd, Matthew	C	84%	0	0	22	14	8	4	0	5	6	5	1	2	0	4
33	Callan, Tim	BPR	88%	0	0	11	8	3	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
17	Cooney, Adam	RR	81%	2	0	26	13	13	6	0	2	4	2	1	0	6	2
4	Cross, Daniel	RO	87%	0	0	39	10	29	13	2	4	4	0	6	0	2	3
10	Eagleton, Nathan	INT	76%	0	0	24	8	16	8	0	1	1	2	3	0	3	2
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	INT	83%	2	2	25	18	7	11	0	2	0	3	1	2	0	3
9	Gilbee, Lindsay	BPL	80%	0	0	17	11	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
16	Griffen, Ryan	HBFL	70%	1	0	25	15	10	5	0	2	4	3	2	3	2	6
8	Hahn, Mitch	CHF	80%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
40	Harbrow, Jarrod	WL	90%	0	0	14	9	5	6	0	3	1	1	1	0	4	1
25	Hargrave, Ryan	HBFR	97%	0	0	21	11	10	6	0	1	1	4	0	3	6	0
19	Higgins, Shaun	INT	74%	0	1	21	6	15	2	0	2	0	3	1	0	0	2
20	Hill, Josh	INT	86%	2	1	15	13	2	6	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
15	Hudson, Ben	RU	56%	0	0	11	2	9	2	11	3	3	1	1	1	1	0
6	Johnson, Brad (c)	HFFR	82%	1	1	16	11	5	6	1	2	0	1	1	1	1	2
36	Lake, Brian	CHB	97%	0	0	22	15	7	11	0	3	0	3	1	0	8	0
27	Minson, Will	FF	72%	0	1	17	10	7	4	17	2	2	4	2	3	1	3
38	Morris, Dale	FB	100%	0	0	22	8	14	6	0	5	0	2	1	1	1	1
2	Murphy, Bob	HFFL	83%	0	0	18	11	7	6	0	3	1	3	0	0	0	3
1	Ray, Farren	WR	74%	0	0	23	8	15	8	0	2	2	3	1	0	0	1
28	Welsh, Scott	FPR	68%	0	0	10	8	2	8	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	4
Rushed					4
Total (22 players)				11	10	423	221	202	137	31	47	29	45	25	19	46	41

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
	9	L. Gilbee	38	D. Morris	33	T. Callan	39	R. Campbell	9	S. Crawford
	30	C. Brown	2	J. Roughead	23	L. Franklin	3	J. Lewis	31	S. Dew
FORWARD							12	B. Sewell	34	B. Renouf
HALF-BACK									44	C. Stokes
	16	R. Griffen	36	B. Lake	25	R. Hargrave
	7	M. Osborne	6	M. Williams	33	C. Rioli
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	40	J. Harbrow	5	M. Boyd	1	F. Ray
	10	C. Bateman	5	S. Mitchell (c)	11	C. Young	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							15	B. Hudson	10	N. Eagleton
HALF-FORWARD							17	A. Cooney	13	D. Giansiracusa
	2	B. Murphy	8	M. Hahn	6	B. Johnson (c)	4	D. Cross	19	S. Higgins
	15	L. Hodge	29	T. Murphy	14	G. Birchall			20	J. Hill
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	21	J. Akermanis	27	W. Minson	28	S. Welsh
	18	B. Guerra	24	T. Croad	4	R. Ladson
BACK
Western Bulldogs							Coach: Rodney Eade

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WBUL	Brad Johnson behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	03:07
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	04:23
	HWTH	Michael Osborne behind	0.2.2	-	0.1.1	06:50
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	1.2.8	-	0.1.1	08:19
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	10:59
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	12:49
	HWTH	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	2.1.13	14:08
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	2.3.15	-	2.1.13	15:07
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead behind	2.4.16	-	2.1.13	17:07
	HWTH	Michael Osborne behind	2.5.17	-	2.1.13	22:57
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	3.5.23	-	2.1.13	24:55
	HWTH	Campbell Brown goal	4.5.29	-	2.1.13	26:40
Q2	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead behind	4.6.30	-	2.1.13	00:39
	HWTH	Cyril Rioli behind	4.7.31	-	2.1.13	01:53
	HWTH	Mark Williams behind	4.8.32	-	2.1.13	02:23
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	4.8.32	-	2.2.14	03:39
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	5.8.38	-	2.2.14	04:43
	WBUL	Rushed behind	5.8.38	-	2.3.15	06:05
	HWTH	Rushed behind	5.9.39	-	2.3.15	10:14
	HWTH	Shane Crawford goal	6.9.45	-	2.3.15	12:13
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	7.9.51	-	2.3.15	13:53
	WBUL	Adam Cooney goal	7.9.51	-	3.3.21	15:32
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	7.9.51	-	4.3.27	17:23
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	8.9.57	-	4.3.27	19:21
	HWTH	Rushed behind	8.10.58	-	4.3.27	20:58
	HWTH	Rushed behind	8.11.59	-	4.3.27	22:14
	WBUL	Josh Hill behind	8.11.59	-	4.4.28	24:06
	HWTH	Rushed behind	8.12.60	-	4.4.28	25:46
	HWTH	Michael Osborne goal	9.12.66	-	4.4.28	26:17
	HWTH	Michael Osborne goal	10.12.72	-	4.4.28	28:22
Q3	WBUL	Shaun Higgins behind	10.12.72	-	4.5.29	00:48
	WBUL	Rushed behind	10.12.72	-	4.6.30	01:52
	HWTH	Rushed behind	10.13.73	-	4.6.30	02:44
	HWTH	Mark Williams behind	10.14.74	-	4.6.30	04:07
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	10.14.74	-	5.6.36	05:21
	WBUL	Josh Hill goal	10.14.74	-	6.6.42	07:49
	HWTH	Michael Osborne goal	11.14.80	-	6.6.42	09:51
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	11.15.81	-	6.6.42	11:25
	HWTH	Michael Osborne goal	12.15.87	-	6.6.42	13:09
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	13.15.93	-	6.6.42	18:44
	HWTH	Jordan Lewis behind	13.16.94	-	6.6.42	20:50
	HWTH	Clinton Young behind	13.17.95	-	6.6.42	23:21
	WBUL	Rushed behind	13.17.95	-	6.7.43	25:04
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	14.17.101	-	6.7.43	25:41
	WBUL	Josh Hill goal	14.17.101	-	7.7.49	28:11
	HWTH	Jordan Lewis goal	15.17.107	-	7.7.49	30:47
Q4	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	15.17.107	-	8.7.55	02:54
	WBUL	Adam Cooney goal	15.17.107	-	9.7.61	05:04
	WBUL	Ryan Griffen goal	15.17.107	-	10.7.67	06:34
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	16.17.113	-	10.7.67	08:06
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	17.17.119	-	10.7.67	10:07
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	18.17.125	-	10.7.67	11:39
	HWTH	Brad Sewell behind	18.18.126	-	10.7.67	18:34
	WBUL	Will Minson behind	18.18.126	-	10.8.68	20:01
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	18.18.126	-	10.9.69	21:09
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	18.19.127	-	10.9.69	23:15
	WBUL	Rushed behind	18.19.127	-	10.10.70	24:54
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	18.19.127	-	11.10.76	26:57

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