2008 AFL Round 1: Hawthorn v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 23 March 2008 between Hawthorn and Melbourne during round 1 of the 2008 AFL season. Hawthorn hosted Melbourne at MCG. Sam Mitchell captained the hosts. David Neitz captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Alastair Clarkson and the visitors were coached by Dean Bailey.

Hawthorn
Back: B. Guerra, S. Gilham, G. Birchall
Half-back: R. Ladson, T. Croad, T. Murphy
Centre: S. Dew, S. Mitchell (capt.), X. Ellis
Half-forward: C. Rioli, T. Boyle, C. Bateman
Forward: T. Clarke, J. Roughead, L. Franklin
Follower: S. Taylor, B. Sewell, M. Osborne
Int.: R. Campbell, C. Stokes, T. Tuck, C. Young

Melbourne
Back: P. Johnson, N. Carroll, C. Garland
Half-back: R. Petterd, D. Bell, J. McDonald
Centre: B. Green, B. McLean, S. Buckley
Half-forward: C. Bruce, B. Miller, I. Weetra
Forward: M. Newton, D. Neitz (capt.), R. Robertson
Follower: J. White, A. Davey, N. Jones
Int.: B. Moloney, C. Morton, P. Wheatley, A. Yze

Hawthorn (23.16.154) defeated Melbourne (6.14.50).

Goalkickers
Hawthorn: L. Franklin (6), M. Osborne (3), J. Roughead (3), T. Boyle (2), R. Campbell (2), S. Dew (2), C. Stokes (2), C. Rioli, S. Taylor, C. Young
Melbourne: R. Robertson (3), B. Green (2), M. Newton

As a result of this match, Hawthorn were then 1st on the ladder and Melbourne were then 16th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Hawthorn v Melbourne
Date: Sunday 23 March 2008
Time: 4:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 40,141

Match Results

Outcome: Hawthorn def. Melbourne
Score: 23.16.154 - 6.14.50

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Hawthorn	5	.	5	7	.	10	15	.	12	23	.	16	23	.	16	(154)
Melbourne	1	.	1	1	.	5	2	.	10	6	.	14	6	.	14	(50)
Margin	HWTH by 28			HWTH by 41			HWTH by 80			HWTH by 104			HWTH by 104
Duration	30:06			26:06			30:50			33:14			2:00:16

Honour Roll

Coaches: Alastair Clarkson (Hawthorn), Dean Bailey (Melbourne)
Captains: Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn), David Neitz (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: L. Farmer (#4), H. Kennedy (#7), M. Nicholls (#15)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Sam Mitchell	HWTH	5	3
Lance Franklin	HWTH	23	2
Chance Bateman	HWTH	10	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Lance Franklin	HWTH	23	8	?	?	?	0	0
Sam Mitchell	HWTH	5	8	?	?	?	0	0
Chance Bateman	HWTH	10	7	1	0	0	1	0
Stuart Dew	HWTH	31	3	0	0	1	0	0
Rick Ladson	HWTH	4	2	0	0	0	1	0
Brock McLean	MELB	5	1	0	0	0	0	1
Michael Osborne	HWTH	7	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
10	Bateman, Chance	HFFR	83%	0	1	29	21	8	7	0	2	4	4	0	2	4	7
14	Birchall, Grant	BPR	90%	0	0	23	10	13	4	0	3	4	1	2	1	2	1
20	Boyle, Tim	CHF	92%	2	2	12	9	3	7	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2
39	Campbell, Robert	INT	96%	2	0	12	4	8	4	7	1	2	0	1	0	0	1
25	Clarke, Tim	FPL	65%	0	1	14	7	7	6	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	1
24	Croad, Trent	CHB	4%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Dew, Stuart	WL	84%	2	0	25	15	10	8	0	3	3	2	0	0	0	11
8	Ellis, Xavier	WR	68%	0	0	16	7	9	6	0	4	1	2	1	2	1	2
23	Franklin, Lance	FPR	89%	6	3	16	13	3	9	0	0	1	4	2	2	0	0
27	Gilham, Stephen	FB	96%	0	0	12	7	5	5	0	1	0	1	2	1	3	0
18	Guerra, Brent	BPL	77%	0	0	21	11	10	6	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	3
4	Ladson, Rick	HBFL	88%	0	1	20	10	10	7	0	4	0	1	1	1	4	1
5	Mitchell, Sam (c)	C	95%	0	0	34	15	19	4	1	5	2	4	2	1	4	4
29	Murphy, Tom	HBFR	91%	0	0	10	3	7	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	1
7	Osborne, Michael	RO	92%	3	1	25	15	10	7	0	2	2	3	2	2	1	2
33	Rioli, Cyril	HFFL	93%	1	1	14	12	2	4	0	3	2	3	1	2	0	5
2	Roughead, Jarryd	FF	88%	3	3	13	8	5	7	2	3	1	3	0	2	0	1
12	Sewell, Brad	RR	90%	0	0	22	8	14	4	0	5	4	1	1	0	1	3
44	Stokes, Cameron	INT	80%	2	1	10	6	4	2	0	3	3	0	1	0	0	1
13	Taylor, Simon	RU	88%	1	0	9	3	6	1	23	3	1	3	0	3	1	2
22	Tuck, Travis	INT	73%	0	0	13	9	4	5	0	2	2	1	2	1	4	2
11	Young, Clinton	INT	79%	1	2	22	19	3	15	0	5	1	1	1	0	5	4
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				23	16	373	213	160	120	33	55	34	39	20	22	35	54

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Bell, Daniel	CHB	88%	0	0	13	9	4	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	4	1
32	Bruce, Cameron	HFFL	78%	0	0	18	6	12	6	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	3
1	Buckley, Simon	WR	71%	0	0	19	6	13	8	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2
41	Carroll, Nathan	FB	100%	0	0	17	10	7	12	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	0
36	Davey, Aaron	RR	84%	0	2	9	7	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
20	Garland, Colin	BPR	88%	0	0	14	7	7	5	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	0
18	Green, Brad	WL	93%	2	0	23	9	14	4	1	3	2	2	0	2	0	5
11	Johnson, Paul	BPL	70%	0	0	15	6	9	5	10	0	1	1	1	0	0	5
2	Jones, Nathan	RO	80%	0	2	25	14	11	3	1	1	7	3	3	1	6	3
23	McDonald, James	HBFR	76%	0	0	15	10	5	2	0	4	5	3	0	1	0	4
5	McLean, Brock	C	86%	0	2	28	15	13	5	0	3	5	3	3	3	1	2
7	Miller, Brad	CHF	100%	0	0	14	6	8	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	2
22	Moloney, Brent	INT	70%	0	0	22	12	10	3	0	6	5	6	3	5	2	5
10	Morton, Cale	INT	58%	0	0	13	7	6	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	3
9	Neitz, David (c)	FF	98%	0	1	7	7	0	4	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	2
29	Newton, Michael	FPL	84%	1	2	6	4	2	1	1	1	0	3	1	2	0	0
15	Petterd, Ricky	HBFL	87%	0	0	11	5	6	3	0	2	0	2	1	1	2	0
24	Robertson, Russell	FPR	93%	3	2	7	7	0	3	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	1
28	Weetra, Isaac	HFFR	79%	0	0	9	4	5	3	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	1
31	Wheatley, Paul	INT	70%	0	0	12	5	7	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
34	White, Jeff	RU	72%	0	1	9	3	6	4	28	0	2	1	2	1	2	1
13	Yze, Adem	INT	74%	0	1	14	11	3	4	0	1	1	3	0	1	2	3
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				6	14	320	170	150	87	41	37	34	38	22	20	28	46

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
	11	P. Johnson	41	N. Carroll	20	C. Garland	13	S. Taylor	39	R. Campbell
	23	L. Franklin	2	J. Roughead	25	T. Clarke	12	B. Sewell	44	C. Stokes
FORWARD							7	M. Osborne	22	T. Tuck
HALF-BACK									11	C. Young
	15	R. Petterd	21	D. Bell	23	J. McDonald
	10	C. Bateman	20	T. Boyle	33	C. Rioli
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	18	B. Green	5	B. McLean	1	S. Buckley
	8	X. Ellis	5	S. Mitchell (c)	31	S. Dew	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							34	J. White	22	B. Moloney
HALF-FORWARD							36	A. Davey	10	C. Morton
	32	C. Bruce	7	B. Miller	28	I. Weetra	2	N. Jones	31	P. Wheatley
	29	T. Murphy	24	T. Croad	4	R. Ladson			13	A. Yze
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	29	M. Newton	9	D. Neitz (c)	24	R. Robertson
	14	G. Birchall	27	S. Gilham	18	B. Guerra
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Dean Bailey

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	02:38
	HWTH	Tim Boyle goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	04:28
	HWTH	Michael Osborne behind	1.2.8	-	0.0.0	06:02
	HWTH	Simon Taylor goal	2.2.14	-	0.0.0	08:40
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	3.2.20	-	0.0.0	12:18
	MELB	Michael Newton behind	3.2.20	-	0.1.1	15:49
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	4.2.26	-	0.1.1	17:49
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead behind	4.3.27	-	0.1.1	19:36
	MELB	Michael Newton goal	4.3.27	-	1.1.7	23:07
	HWTH	Tim Clarke behind	4.4.28	-	1.1.7	24:52
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	4.5.29	-	1.1.7	25:46
	HWTH	Michael Osborne goal	5.5.35	-	1.1.7	28:00
Q2	HWTH	Chance Bateman behind	5.6.36	-	1.1.7	01:12
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	6.6.42	-	1.1.7	05:43
	MELB	Brock McLean behind	6.6.42	-	1.2.8	07:56
	HWTH	Tim Boyle behind	6.7.43	-	1.2.8	09:13
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	6.8.44	-	1.2.8	11:17
	HWTH	Clinton Young behind	6.9.45	-	1.2.8	14:07
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	6.9.45	-	1.3.9	16:25
	MELB	Rushed behind	6.9.45	-	1.4.10	17:09
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	7.9.51	-	1.4.10	19:36
	HWTH	Lance Franklin behind	7.10.52	-	1.4.10	22:52
	MELB	David Neitz behind	7.10.52	-	1.5.11	25:01
Q3	MELB	Nathan Jones behind	7.10.52	-	1.6.12	01:01
	HWTH	Stuart Dew goal	8.10.58	-	1.6.12	03:48
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	9.10.64	-	1.6.12	07:21
	MELB	Aaron Davey behind	9.10.64	-	1.7.13	09:46
	HWTH	Clinton Young goal	10.10.70	-	1.7.13	10:40
	HWTH	Clinton Young behind	10.11.71	-	1.7.13	13:15
	HWTH	Tim Boyle goal	11.11.77	-	1.7.13	14:40
	HWTH	Cameron Stokes goal	12.11.83	-	1.7.13	15:55
	MELB	Adem Yze behind	12.11.83	-	1.8.14	17:47
	HWTH	Michael Osborne goal	13.11.89	-	1.8.14	19:05
	HWTH	Stuart Dew goal	14.11.95	-	1.8.14	21:53
	HWTH	Cyril Rioli behind	14.12.96	-	1.8.14	24:45
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	15.12.102	-	1.8.14	26:44
	MELB	Brad Green goal	15.12.102	-	2.8.20	27:59
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	15.12.102	-	2.9.21	29:08
	MELB	Jeff White behind	15.12.102	-	2.10.22	30:25
Q4	MELB	Michael Newton behind	15.12.102	-	2.11.23	01:05
	HWTH	Lance Franklin goal	16.12.108	-	2.11.23	02:10
	HWTH	Cameron Stokes behind	16.13.109	-	2.11.23	03:33
	MELB	Aaron Davey behind	16.13.109	-	2.12.24	04:23
	HWTH	Cameron Stokes goal	17.13.115	-	2.12.24	05:33
	HWTH	Michael Osborne goal	18.13.121	-	2.12.24	07:51
	HWTH	Cyril Rioli goal	19.13.127	-	2.12.24	09:11
	HWTH	Robert Campbell goal	20.13.133	-	2.12.24	10:47
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	21.13.139	-	2.12.24	12:23
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	21.13.139	-	3.12.30	14:09
	HWTH	Rick Ladson behind	21.14.140	-	3.12.30	20:31
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead goal	22.14.146	-	3.12.30	20:47
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	22.14.146	-	4.12.36	22:34
	HWTH	Tim Boyle behind	22.15.147	-	4.12.36	24:42
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	22.15.147	-	5.12.42	25:52
	MELB	Nathan Jones behind	22.15.147	-	5.13.43	26:58
	HWTH	Robert Campbell goal	23.15.153	-	5.13.43	28:38
	MELB	Brock McLean behind	23.15.153	-	5.14.44	29:46
	HWTH	Jarryd Roughead behind	23.16.154	-	5.14.44	31:08
	MELB	Brad Green goal	23.16.154	-	6.14.50	32:29

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