2008 AFL Round 2: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 29 March 2008 between Melbourne and Western Bulldogs during round 2 of the 2008 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Western Bulldogs at MCG. David Neitz captained the hosts. Brad Johnson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Dean Bailey and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

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

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

Melbourne (9.12.66) were defeated by Western Bulldogs (24.17.161).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: D. Neitz (2), R. Robertson (2), J. White (2), A. Davey, B. Green, N. Jones
Western Bulldogs: B. Murphy (4), J. Akermanis (3), D. Cross (3), J. Hill (3), B. Johnson (3), S. Welsh (3), D. Giansiracusa, L. Gilbee, R. Griffen, M. Hahn, C. Wight

As a result of this match, Melbourne remained 16th on the ladder and Western Bulldogs were then 3rd on the ladder (up from 8th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
Date: Saturday 29 March 2008
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 27,821

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Western Bulldogs
Score: 9.12.66 - 24.17.161

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 2 . 4 5 . 8 7 . 9 9 . 12 9 . 12 (66)
Western Bulldogs 2 . 5 9 . 9 18 . 13 24 . 17 24 . 17 (161)
Margin WBUL by 1 WBUL by 25 WBUL by 70 WBUL by 95 WBUL by 95
Duration 27:24 29:53 30:49 28:42 1:56:48

Honour Roll

Coaches: Dean Bailey (Melbourne), Rodney Eade (Western Bulldogs)
Captains: David Neitz (Melbourne), Brad Johnson (Western Bulldogs)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: L. Farmer (#4), C. Kamolins (#19), S. Ryan (#25)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Scott West WBUL 7 3
Daniel Cross WBUL 4 2
Matthew Boyd WBUL 5 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Daniel Cross WBUL 4 9 1 1 0 0 0
Matthew Boyd WBUL 5 7 ? ? ? ? 0
Bob Murphy WBUL 2 7 ? ? ? ? 0
Lindsay Gilbee WBUL 9 5 ? 0 ? ? 0
Nathan Carroll MELB 41 1 0 0 0 0 1
Scott West WBUL 7 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
3 Bartram, Clint HBFL 71% 0 0 8 3 5 5 0 2 0 2 1 0 4 0
21 Bell, Daniel CHB 91% 0 0 15 8 7 4 0 3 1 3 2 1 4 1
43 Bode, Jace INT 68% 0 1 10 6 4 5 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0
32 Bruce, Cameron HFFL 95% 0 0 12 7 5 3 0 1 1 1 2 1 4 1
1 Buckley, Simon BPR 66% 0 0 14 4 10 2 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 2
41 Carroll, Nathan FB 98% 0 0 19 12 7 13 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0
36 Davey, Aaron WR 58% 1 0 6 6 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2
14 Dunn, Lynden HFFR 88% 0 0 8 3 5 2 0 2 1 3 1 2 0 2
20 Garland, Colin INT 68% 0 0 5 1 4 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 1 0
18 Green, Brad WL 89% 1 1 20 12 8 4 0 4 1 1 2 1 0 3
11 Johnson, Paul FPL 83% 0 2 14 8 6 5 10 2 1 2 2 0 0 2
2 Jones, Nathan RO 87% 1 0 20 8 12 5 0 1 4 4 1 2 2 4
23 McDonald, James RR 77% 0 0 20 14 6 5 0 10 4 2 2 1 3 6
5 McLean, Brock C 87% 0 0 20 10 10 2 0 7 4 5 0 3 1 1
7 Miller, Brad CHF 96% 0 0 14 8 6 5 1 2 0 3 1 2 2 3
10 Morton, Cale INT 68% 0 1 17 7 10 2 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 1
9 Neitz, David (c) FF 92% 2 1 12 10 2 8 1 1 1 3 2 0 0 2
24 Robertson, Russell FPR 92% 2 1 11 8 3 7 0 2 1 2 1 2 0 2
12 Sylvia, Colin HBFR 76% 0 0 13 6 7 3 2 4 2 5 1 2 0 4
28 Weetra, Isaac INT 82% 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 Wheatley, Paul BPL 85% 0 1 25 17 8 8 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 1
34 White, Jeff RU 83% 2 0 20 11 9 7 15 1 4 3 3 1 3 2
Rushed 4
Total (22 players) 9 12 305 170 135 99 29 49 29 51 24 23 37 39

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
22 Addison, Dylan INT 79% 0 0 21 9 12 7 0 4 1 2 1 1 2 3
21 Akermanis, Jason FPL 73% 3 3 17 14 3 9 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 1
5 Boyd, Matthew RR 84% 0 1 30 16 14 5 1 4 4 5 1 2 3 3
33 Callan, Tim WL 92% 0 0 17 10 7 5 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 3
17 Cooney, Adam RO 84% 0 1 24 10 14 3 0 3 3 7 2 5 2 2
4 Cross, Daniel WR 87% 3 0 31 15 16 11 0 3 1 2 2 1 3 2
13 Giansiracusa, Daniel INT 64% 1 3 20 13 7 5 0 0 5 2 4 0 0 5
9 Gilbee, Lindsay BPR 91% 1 1 24 17 7 9 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 7
16 Griffen, Ryan HBFL 66% 1 0 21 12 9 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 6
8 Hahn, Mitch INT 82% 1 2 21 11 10 6 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 7
25 Hargrave, Ryan HBFR 97% 0 0 18 11 7 6 0 0 1 3 0 1 3 5
19 Higgins, Shaun INT 48% 0 0 8 3 5 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
20 Hill, Josh HFFL 83% 3 1 17 10 7 4 0 4 0 0 1 0 1 2
15 Hudson, Ben RU 65% 0 0 13 4 9 5 17 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
6 Johnson, Brad (c) HFFR 91% 3 2 15 12 3 7 0 0 0 5 1 3 0 1
36 Lake, Brian FB 95% 0 0 12 9 3 9 0 1 0 4 0 1 2 2
27 Minson, Will FF 72% 0 0 8 4 4 2 5 6 1 3 1 1 0 3
38 Morris, Dale BPL 91% 0 0 11 5 6 3 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 1
2 Murphy, Bob CHF 91% 4 1 19 16 3 11 0 2 0 1 1 0 3 4
28 Welsh, Scott FPR 90% 3 0 9 6 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2
7 West, Scott C 83% 0 0 26 12 14 4 0 4 3 4 2 1 1 5
37 Wight, Cameron CHB 94% 1 0 7 1 6 0 1 4 0 3 1 2 1 0
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 24 17 389 220 169 118 24 47 27 55 23 24 27 66

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

Melbourne Coach: Dean Bailey
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
38 D. Morris 36 B. Lake 9 L. Gilbee 34 J. White 43 J. Bode
24 R. Robertson 9 D. Neitz (c) 11 P. Johnson 23 J. McDonald 20 C. Garland
FORWARD 2 N. Jones 10 C. Morton
HALF-BACK

28 I. Weetra
16 R. Griffen 37 C. Wight 25 R. Hargrave



14 L. Dunn 7 B. Miller 32 C. Bruce



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



33 T. Callan 7 S. West 4 D. Cross



36 A. Davey 5 B. McLean 18 B. Green FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 15 B. Hudson 22 D. Addison
HALF-FORWARD 5 M. Boyd 13 D. Giansiracusa
20 J. Hill 2 B. Murphy 6 B. Johnson (c) 17 A. Cooney 8 M. Hahn
12 C. Sylvia 21 D. Bell 3 C. Bartram

19 S. Higgins
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



21 J. Akermanis 27 W. Minson 28 S. Welsh



1 S. Buckley 41 N. Carroll 31 P. Wheatley



BACK



Western Bulldogs Coach: Rodney Eade

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB Aaron Davey goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 02:51
MELB Paul Johnson behind 1.1.7 - 0.0.0 04:32
MELB Paul Johnson behind 1.2.8 - 0.0.0 05:17
WBUL Rushed behind 1.2.8 - 0.1.1 06:57
WBUL Matthew Boyd behind 1.2.8 - 0.2.2 07:24
WBUL Lindsay Gilbee goal 1.2.8 - 1.2.8 10:43
MELB Rushed behind 1.3.9 - 1.2.8 13:03
MELB Brad Green goal 2.3.15 - 1.2.8 14:00
WBUL Bob Murphy goal 2.3.15 - 2.2.14 17:39
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa behind 2.3.15 - 2.3.15 19:16
WBUL Rushed behind 2.3.15 - 2.4.16 20:16
MELB Russell Robertson behind 2.4.16 - 2.4.16 23:00
WBUL Bob Murphy behind 2.4.16 - 2.5.17 25:01
Q2 WBUL Josh Hill behind 2.4.16 - 2.6.18 00:26
MELB Rushed behind 2.5.17 - 2.6.18 01:13
WBUL Josh Hill goal 2.5.17 - 3.6.24 02:25
WBUL Jason Akermanis behind 2.5.17 - 3.7.25 04:09
MELB David Neitz behind 2.6.18 - 3.7.25 06:07
WBUL Scott Welsh goal 2.6.18 - 4.7.31 07:24
WBUL Bob Murphy goal 2.6.18 - 5.7.37 09:52
MELB Jace Bode behind 2.7.19 - 5.7.37 11:43
MELB Rushed behind 2.8.20 - 5.7.37 12:09
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa behind 2.8.20 - 5.8.38 13:33
WBUL Brad Johnson goal 2.8.20 - 6.8.44 14:54
MELB Jeff White goal 3.8.26 - 6.8.44 17:25
WBUL Josh Hill goal 3.8.26 - 7.8.50 20:07
MELB Nathan Jones goal 4.8.32 - 7.8.50 21:44
WBUL Adam Cooney behind 4.8.32 - 7.9.51 23:56
WBUL Scott Welsh goal 4.8.32 - 8.9.57 25:27
WBUL Cameron Wight goal 4.8.32 - 9.9.63 27:14
MELB Russell Robertson goal 5.8.38 - 9.9.63 29:00
Q3 WBUL Mitch Hahn goal 5.8.38 - 10.9.69 05:00
WBUL Brad Johnson goal 5.8.38 - 11.9.75 06:34
MELB David Neitz goal 6.8.44 - 11.9.75 08:27
WBUL Lindsay Gilbee behind 6.8.44 - 11.10.76 09:58
WBUL Jason Akermanis goal 6.8.44 - 12.10.82 10:55
WBUL Josh Hill goal 6.8.44 - 13.10.88 13:38
WBUL Jason Akermanis goal 6.8.44 - 14.10.94 15:10
WBUL Jason Akermanis behind 6.8.44 - 14.11.95 16:31
WBUL Scott Welsh goal 6.8.44 - 15.11.101 18:48
WBUL Jason Akermanis behind 6.8.44 - 15.12.102 19:50
WBUL Brad Johnson behind 6.8.44 - 15.13.103 20:26
MELB Russell Robertson goal 7.8.50 - 15.13.103 22:52
WBUL Jason Akermanis goal 7.8.50 - 16.13.109 24:33
MELB Paul Wheatley behind 7.9.51 - 16.13.109 25:53
WBUL Ryan Griffen goal 7.9.51 - 17.13.115 26:36
WBUL Bob Murphy goal 7.9.51 - 18.13.121 30:45
Q4 WBUL Mitch Hahn behind 7.9.51 - 18.14.122 01:24
WBUL Brad Johnson goal 7.9.51 - 19.14.128 04:05
WBUL Mitch Hahn behind 7.9.51 - 19.15.129 06:13
WBUL Brad Johnson behind 7.9.51 - 19.16.130 06:50
MELB Rushed behind 7.10.52 - 19.16.130 07:43
WBUL Bob Murphy goal 7.10.52 - 20.16.136 09:01
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa goal 7.10.52 - 21.16.142 13:03
MELB Jeff White goal 8.10.58 - 21.16.142 14:19
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa behind 8.10.58 - 21.17.143 15:56
MELB Brad Green behind 8.11.59 - 21.17.143 16:43
MELB David Neitz goal 9.11.65 - 21.17.143 19:41
WBUL Daniel Cross goal 9.11.65 - 22.17.149 21:52
WBUL Daniel Cross goal 9.11.65 - 23.17.155 24:01
MELB Cale Morton behind 9.12.66 - 23.17.155 25:42
WBUL Daniel Cross goal 9.12.66 - 24.17.161 27:28