2008 AFL Season Round 7: Melbourne v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 4 May 2008 between Melbourne and Fremantle during round seven of the 2008 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Fremantle at the MCG. James McDonald captained the hosts. Matthew Pavlich captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Dean Bailey and the visitors were coached by Mark Harvey.

Melbourne (17.17.119) defeated Fremantle (15.23.113).

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 7
Teams: Melbourne v Fremantle
Date: Sunday 4 May 2008
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 19,423

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. Fremantle
Score: 17.17.119 - 15.23.113

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	1	.	3	3	.	8	8	.	15	17	.	17	17	.	17	(119)
Fremantle	5	.	6	11	.	10	13	.	17	15	.	23	15	.	23	(113)
Margin	FREM by 27			FREM by 50			FREM by 32			MELB by 6			MELB by 6
Duration	29:11			29:42			32:01			34:21			2:05:15

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: James McDonald
Coach: Dean Bailey

Fremantle

Captain: Matthew Pavlich
Coach: Mark Harvey

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

M. Avon (#27)
M. James (#5)
S. Stewart (#10)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Brock McLean	MELB	5	3
Matthew Pavlich	FREM	29	2
Jeff White	MELB	34	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Matthew Pavlich	FREM	29	10	2	0	0	0	0
Brock McLean	MELB	5	8	0	2	0	0	0
Russell Robertson	MELB	24	4	0	0	1	0	1
Dean Solomon	FREM	6	3	0	0	1	0	0
Cameron Bruce	MELB	32	2	0	0	0	1	0
Brad Miller	MELB	7	2	0	0	0	1	0
Austin Wonaeamirri	MELB	39	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	INT	69%	0	0	9	3	6	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0
6	Bate, Matthew	HFFL	87%	0	2	17	11	6	6	0	2	1	6	1	1	0	6
21	Bell, Daniel	INT	80%	0	0	11	5	6	1	0	4	0	1	2	0	1	0
32	Bruce, Cameron	RO	94%	0	2	31	15	16	9	0	6	3	1	1	0	2	4
41	Carroll, Nathan	FB	92%	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
36	Davey, Aaron	WL	81%	3	0	19	14	5	5	0	5	2	4	2	1	0	6
8	Frawley, James	BPL	86%	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	1	0	2	1	1	1	0
20	Garland, Colin	HBFL	93%	0	0	9	4	5	3	0	0	1	4	1	2	3	0
18	Green, Brad	FPL	93%	2	1	19	7	12	5	0	5	3	1	0	1	0	1
40	Jamar, Mark	RU	69%	0	0	9	1	8	0	20	3	3	2	2	2	0	1
2	Jones, Nathan	HFFR	79%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	1	1	4	2	4	0	0
23	McDonald, James (c)	RR	85%	0	1	22	11	11	5	0	6	5	6	1	3	0	3
5	McLean, Brock	C	84%	0	0	28	17	11	3	0	7	4	3	1	2	4	6
7	Miller, Brad	FF	91%	3	0	18	14	4	10	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	6
22	Moloney, Brent	INT	66%	1	0	18	14	4	10	0	1	5	2	0	0	2	5
10	Morton, Cale	WR	65%	0	0	11	8	3	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
27	Rivers, Jared	CHB	82%	0	0	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
24	Robertson, Russell	CHF	93%	4	3	18	14	4	6	1	1	0	4	2	1	0	5
37	Warnock, Matthew	BPR	82%	0	0	8	4	4	1	0	3	1	1	1	1	0	0
31	Wheatley, Paul	HBFR	67%	0	1	22	15	7	6	0	2	1	0	2	0	7	1
34	White, Jeff	INT	69%	0	0	21	11	10	10	10	5	2	0	0	0	3	1
39	Wonaeamirri, Austin	FPR	91%	4	1	15	10	5	8	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3
Rushed					6
Total (22 players)				17	17	325	189	136	100	31	61	34	44	21	21	26	49

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
32	Bell, Peter	RO	94%	1	0	19	11	8	2	0	4	3	1	2	0	3	0
15	Crowley, Ryan	RR	81%	0	0	11	6	5	2	1	3	1	3	2	2	2	2
25	Dodd, Steven	BPL	100%	0	0	14	6	8	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	0
30	Drum, Marcus	HBFL	100%	0	0	14	5	9	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0
33	Farmer, Jeff	FPR	92%	2	4	18	13	5	5	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	5
40	Foster, Andrew	INT	68%	0	0	8	3	5	2	0	3	1	3	2	1	0	0
27	Gilmore, Daniel	INT	51%	0	0	11	10	1	4	1	2	2	1	0	1	2	4
35	Ibbotson, Garrick	HFFL	87%	1	0	17	13	4	6	1	3	3	1	4	0	0	3
17	Johnson, Mark	HBFR	82%	0	0	11	5	6	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
37	Johnson, Michael	CHB	92%	0	0	19	7	12	4	1	2	1	4	0	4	2	2
8	McManus, Shaun	INT	56%	0	0	11	7	4	4	0	5	2	4	2	2	1	4
18	McPharlin, Luke	FB	77%	0	0	7	6	1	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	0
16	Mundy, David	WL	89%	1	2	14	11	3	3	0	3	2	0	0	0	2	2
28	Murphy, Ryan	FPL	73%	0	3	7	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
12	O'Brien, Brock	WR	77%	0	1	7	5	2	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	1
10	Palmer, Rhys	C	80%	1	0	20	12	8	4	0	2	2	1	1	0	2	4
29	Pavlich, Matthew (c)	FF	97%	5	5	18	16	2	8	0	2	3	2	2	1	0	6
31	Sandilands, Aaron	RU	80%	0	0	15	5	10	1	32	3	3	2	2	0	0	2
3	Schammer, Byron	INT	63%	0	0	13	6	7	3	0	7	1	1	2	1	2	1
6	Solomon, Dean	HFFR	85%	1	1	21	16	5	9	0	5	4	3	1	2	0	10
20	Tarrant, Chris	CHF	98%	3	0	12	12	0	7	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	3
22	Thornton, Scott	BPR	81%	0	0	4	1	3	1	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	1
Rushed					7
Total (22 players)				15	23	291	180	111	87	36	56	30	35	21	20	29	53

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
	25	S. Dodd	18	L. McPharlin	22	S. Thornton	40	M. Jamar	3	C. Bartram
	39	A. Wonaeamirri	7	B. Miller	18	B. Green	23	J. McDonald (c)	21	D. Bell
FORWARD							32	C. Bruce	22	B. Moloney
HALF-BACK									34	J. White
	30	M. Drum	37	M. Johnson	17	M. Johnson
	2	N. Jones	24	R. Robertson	6	M. Bate
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	16	D. Mundy	10	R. Palmer	12	B. O'Brien
	10	C. Morton	5	B. McLean	36	A. Davey	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							31	A. Sandilands	40	A. Foster
HALF-FORWARD							15	R. Crowley	27	D. Gilmore
	35	G. Ibbotson	20	C. Tarrant	6	D. Solomon	32	P. Bell	8	S. McManus
	31	P. Wheatley	27	J. Rivers	20	C. Garland			3	B. Schammer
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	28	R. Murphy	29	M. Pavlich (c)	33	J. Farmer
	37	M. Warnock	41	N. Carroll	8	J. Frawley
BACK
Fremantle							Coach: Mark Harvey

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	FREM	Garrick Ibbotson goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:08
	MELB	Brad Green goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	03:06
	FREM	Jeff Farmer behind	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	04:52
	FREM	Chris Tarrant goal	1.0.6	-	2.1.13	06:54
	FREM	Rushed behind	1.0.6	-	2.2.14	10:16
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	2.2.14	11:28
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	2.2.14	13:07
	FREM	David Mundy behind	1.2.8	-	2.3.15	14:31
	FREM	Rhys Palmer goal	1.2.8	-	3.3.21	15:10
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	1.2.8	-	3.4.22	17:41
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	1.2.8	-	3.5.23	19:32
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	3.5.23	20:24
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	1.3.9	-	3.6.24	21:43
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	1.3.9	-	4.6.30	24:48
	FREM	Chris Tarrant goal	1.3.9	-	5.6.36	26:22
Q2	FREM	Peter Bell goal	1.3.9	-	6.6.42	01:51
	MELB	Austin Wonaeamirri goal	2.3.15	-	6.6.42	03:11
	FREM	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	6.7.43	06:00
	FREM	Dean Solomon goal	2.3.15	-	7.7.49	06:50
	FREM	Jeff Farmer goal	2.3.15	-	8.7.55	09:04
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	2.3.15	-	9.7.61	11:20
	MELB	Brad Miller goal	3.3.21	-	9.7.61	12:27
	FREM	Chris Tarrant goal	3.3.21	-	10.7.67	14:34
	MELB	Matthew Bate behind	3.4.22	-	10.7.67	15:45
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.5.23	-	10.7.67	16:12
	FREM	Rushed behind	3.5.23	-	10.8.68	19:08
	MELB	Austin Wonaeamirri behind	3.6.24	-	10.8.68	20:23
	FREM	David Mundy goal	3.6.24	-	11.8.74	23:28
	FREM	Ryan Murphy behind	3.6.24	-	11.9.75	25:10
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	3.7.25	-	11.9.75	26:37
	MELB	James McDonald behind	3.8.26	-	11.9.75	28:16
	FREM	Rushed behind	3.8.26	-	11.10.76	29:40
Q3	FREM	Dean Solomon behind	3.8.26	-	11.11.77	01:02
	MELB	Paul Wheatley behind	3.9.27	-	11.11.77	02:10
	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	3.10.28	-	11.11.77	03:26
	MELB	Brad Green goal	4.10.34	-	11.11.77	05:23
	FREM	Brock O'Brien behind	4.10.34	-	11.12.78	06:57
	MELB	Brad Miller goal	5.10.40	-	11.12.78	07:53
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	6.10.46	-	11.12.78	10:49
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	6.11.47	-	11.12.78	12:58
	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	7.11.53	-	11.12.78	14:48
	FREM	Rushed behind	7.11.53	-	11.13.79	16:40
	FREM	Rushed behind	7.11.53	-	11.14.80	17:48
	FREM	Ryan Murphy behind	7.11.53	-	11.15.81	18:15
	FREM	Ryan Murphy behind	7.11.53	-	11.16.82	19:10
	MELB	Matthew Bate behind	7.12.54	-	11.16.82	20:08
	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	8.12.60	-	11.16.82	22:55
	MELB	Rushed behind	8.13.61	-	11.16.82	24:12
	MELB	Rushed behind	8.14.62	-	11.16.82	25:15
	MELB	Russell Robertson behind	8.15.63	-	11.16.82	26:03
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	8.15.63	-	12.16.88	27:28
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	8.15.63	-	13.16.94	28:28
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	8.15.63	-	13.17.95	31:47
Q4	MELB	Brent Moloney goal	9.15.69	-	13.17.95	02:16
	MELB	Austin Wonaeamirri goal	10.15.75	-	13.17.95	03:35
	MELB	Brad Miller goal	11.15.81	-	13.17.95	05:16
	FREM	Rushed behind	11.15.81	-	13.18.96	07:52
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	12.15.87	-	13.18.96	09:14
	FREM	Jeff Farmer goal	12.15.87	-	14.18.102	10:17
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	13.15.93	-	14.18.102	11:52
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich goal	13.15.93	-	15.18.108	14:58
	FREM	Jeff Farmer behind	13.15.93	-	15.19.109	17:53
	MELB	Russell Robertson goal	14.15.99	-	15.19.109	19:26
	MELB	Austin Wonaeamirri goal	15.15.105	-	15.19.109	21:24
	MELB	Austin Wonaeamirri goal	16.15.111	-	15.19.109	22:52
	MELB	Aaron Davey goal	17.15.117	-	15.19.109	24:29
	MELB	Brad Green behind	17.16.118	-	15.19.109	27:02
	FREM	Jeff Farmer behind	17.16.118	-	15.20.110	27:55
	FREM	David Mundy behind	17.16.118	-	15.21.111	28:34
	MELB	Cameron Bruce behind	17.17.119	-	15.21.111	30:34
	FREM	Matthew Pavlich behind	17.17.119	-	15.22.112	32:09
	FREM	Jeff Farmer behind	17.17.119	-	15.23.113	34:03

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