2008 AFL Round 8: Adelaide v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 18 May 2008 between Adelaide and Melbourne during round 8 of the 2008 AFL season. Adelaide hosted Melbourne at AAMI Stadium. Simon Goodwin captained the hosts. Cameron Bruce captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Neil Craig and the visitors were coached by Dean Bailey.

Adelaide
Back: G. Johncock, B. Rutten, N. Bassett
Half-back: M. Doughty, N. Bock, S. Stevens
Centre: D. MacKay, S. Thompson, N. van Berlo
Half-forward: T. Edwards, B. Burton, B. Vince
Forward: J. Porplyzia, K. Tippett, S. Goodwin (capt.)
Follower: J. Griffin, A. McLeod, R. Shirley
Int.: J. Jacky, L. Jericho, C. Knights, I. Maric

Melbourne
Back: J. Frawley, C. Garland, D. Bell
Half-back: C. Bartram, P. Johnson, C. Bruce (capt.)
Centre: B. Green, B. McLean, M. Bate
Half-forward: C. Morton, R. Robertson, B. Moloney
Forward: A. Davey, B. Miller, A. Wonaeamirri
Follower: J. White, J. McDonald, N. Jones
Int.: S. Buckley, M. Jamar, S. Valenti, M. Warnock

Adelaide (22.18.150) defeated Melbourne (11.8.74).

Goalkickers
Adelaide: B. Burton (5), K. Tippett (4), S. Goodwin (3), L. Jericho (3), J. Porplyzia (3), C. Knights, S. Stevens, N. van Berlo, B. Vince
Melbourne: C. Morton (3), R. Robertson (2), C. Bartram, M. Bate, C. Garland, B. Miller, B. Moloney, A. Wonaeamirri

As a result of this match, Adelaide remained 4th on the ladder and Melbourne remained 16th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2008 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Adelaide v Melbourne
Date: Sunday 18 May 2008
Time: 12:40 PM
Venue: AAMI Stadium
Attendance: 35,649

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. Melbourne
Score: 22.18.150 - 11.8.74

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Adelaide 8 . 1 12 . 6 15 . 15 22 . 18 22 . 18 (150)
Melbourne 4 . 4 6 . 5 7 . 7 11 . 8 11 . 8 (74)
Margin ADEL by 21 ADEL by 37 ADEL by 56 ADEL by 76 ADEL by 76
Duration 33:37 29:33 29:38 33:12 2:06:00

Honour Roll

Coaches: Neil Craig (Adelaide), Dean Bailey (Melbourne)
Captains: Simon Goodwin (Adelaide), Cameron Bruce (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: M. Ellis (#23), G. Fila (#20), S. Meredith (#21)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Jason Porplyzia ADEL 40 3
Bernie Vince ADEL 17 2
Brett Burton ADEL 24 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Brett Burton ADEL 24 9 1 1 0 0 0
Bernie Vince ADEL 17 9 1 1 0 0 0
Nathan van Berlo ADEL 7 6 0 0 2 0 0
Nathan Bock ADEL 44 2 0 0 0 1 0
Robert Shirley ADEL 12 2 0 0 0 1 0
Simon Goodwin ADEL 36 1 0 0 0 0 1
Scott Stevens ADEL 27 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
8 Bassett, Nathan BPR 100% 0 0 15 8 7 8 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 1
44 Bock, Nathan CHB 91% 0 0 24 17 7 5 0 1 2 1 1 1 3 4
24 Burton, Brett CHF 82% 5 3 22 17 5 11 1 3 0 1 2 1 1 3
11 Doughty, Michael HBFL 86% 0 0 21 12 9 7 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 1
9 Edwards, Tyson HFFL 93% 0 2 15 8 7 5 0 4 3 2 0 2 1 3
36 Goodwin, Simon (c) FPR 88% 3 2 18 13 5 6 0 2 4 1 1 1 2 4
6 Griffin, Jon RU 63% 0 0 8 3 5 0 18 3 4 0 2 0 0 2
10 Jacky, Jarrhan INT 45% 0 0 11 8 3 6 0 3 0 3 2 1 0 1
30 Jericho, Luke INT 78% 3 1 11 10 1 7 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
18 Johncock, Graham BPL 90% 0 1 21 16 5 7 0 4 0 0 2 0 1 5
21 Knights, Chris INT 75% 1 0 25 17 8 8 1 3 5 0 1 0 3 6
14 MacKay, David WL 61% 0 0 12 4 8 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 3
20 Maric, Ivan INT 55% 0 0 10 3 7 3 7 1 2 2 4 1 0 0
23 McLeod, Andrew RR 91% 0 0 12 6 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 2
40 Porplyzia, Jason FPL 93% 3 1 22 13 9 4 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 4
25 Rutten, Ben FB 96% 0 0 15 10 5 8 0 2 0 2 2 1 2 0
12 Shirley, Robert RO 81% 0 1 21 8 13 3 1 3 5 0 1 0 0 4
27 Stevens, Scott HBFR 100% 1 0 22 16 6 10 0 1 1 4 0 0 3 4
5 Thompson, Scott C 89% 0 0 20 9 11 3 2 5 3 2 0 1 3 1
4 Tippett, Kurt FF 89% 4 1 7 5 2 3 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0
7 van Berlo, Nathan WR 76% 1 0 27 12 15 10 0 3 1 0 2 0 1 5
17 Vince, Bernie HFFR 77% 1 0 29 14 15 5 1 3 5 2 2 0 2 4
Rushed 6
Total (22 players) 22 18 388 229 159 121 31 51 40 25 25 11 27 58

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
3 Bartram, Clint HBFL 75% 1 0 15 11 4 5 0 6 1 1 0 0 2 1
6 Bate, Matthew WR 90% 1 0 15 6 9 3 0 1 2 1 2 1 0 4
21 Bell, Daniel BPR 92% 0 0 24 16 8 2 0 5 0 4 1 2 9 1
32 Bruce, Cameron (c) HBFR 95% 0 2 19 11 8 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1
1 Buckley, Simon INT 73% 0 1 24 12 12 4 0 1 3 2 0 1 1 5
36 Davey, Aaron FPL 79% 0 1 17 13 4 2 0 3 4 3 0 2 3 3
8 Frawley, James BPL 76% 0 0 10 6 4 4 0 4 0 2 0 2 2 0
20 Garland, Colin FB 91% 1 1 12 7 5 5 0 2 0 3 0 3 2 1
18 Green, Brad WL 87% 0 1 23 10 13 7 0 3 1 1 0 0 3 2
40 Jamar, Mark INT 64% 0 0 1 0 1 0 16 3 0 5 1 5 0 0
11 Johnson, Paul CHB 96% 0 0 11 7 4 3 1 3 0 1 1 0 3 1
2 Jones, Nathan RO 77% 0 0 25 11 14 4 0 3 7 2 0 1 1 2
23 McDonald, James RR 89% 0 0 16 6 10 3 1 5 2 0 2 0 2 3
5 McLean, Brock C 77% 0 0 10 4 6 3 0 4 3 2 1 2 0 1
7 Miller, Brad FF 87% 1 0 14 7 7 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
22 Moloney, Brent HFFR 79% 1 0 16 8 8 3 0 5 2 3 1 1 0 4
10 Morton, Cale HFFL 76% 3 0 18 9 9 8 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 2
24 Robertson, Russell CHF 89% 2 0 13 11 2 6 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
44 Valenti, Shane INT 70% 0 1 10 6 4 4 0 6 1 1 0 1 0 1
37 Warnock, Matthew INT 78% 0 0 10 4 6 4 0 2 0 3 1 0 1 0
34 White, Jeff RU 76% 0 1 21 10 11 8 20 3 2 2 0 1 0 1
39 Wonaeamirri, Austin FPR 85% 1 0 17 8 9 9 0 2 0 4 0 2 0 3
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 11 8 341 183 158 99 38 65 28 46 11 25 34 39

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

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB Cale Morton goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 02:12
ADEL Simon Goodwin goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 04:04
ADEL Jason Porplyzia goal 2.0.12 - 1.0.6 06:32
MELB Colin Garland goal 2.0.12 - 2.0.12 08:12
ADEL Rushed behind 2.1.13 - 2.0.12 10:56
MELB Simon Buckley behind 2.1.13 - 2.1.13 15:16
ADEL Brett Burton goal 3.1.19 - 2.1.13 16:14
MELB Aaron Davey behind 3.1.19 - 2.2.14 17:26
ADEL Jason Porplyzia goal 4.1.25 - 2.2.14 18:48
ADEL Nathan van Berlo goal 5.1.31 - 2.2.14 20:31
MELB Brad Green behind 5.1.31 - 2.3.15 22:19
MELB Shane Valenti behind 5.1.31 - 2.4.16 22:43
ADEL Kurt Tippett goal 6.1.37 - 2.4.16 26:02
MELB Brad Miller goal 6.1.37 - 3.4.22 27:08
MELB Austin Wonaeamirri goal 6.1.37 - 4.4.28 29:29
ADEL Brett Burton goal 7.1.43 - 4.4.28 31:36
ADEL Chris Knights goal 8.1.49 - 4.4.28 33:33
Q2 ADEL Luke Jericho behind 8.2.50 - 4.4.28 02:38
ADEL Rushed behind 8.3.51 - 4.4.28 03:52
MELB Brent Moloney goal 8.3.51 - 5.4.34 05:09
ADEL Kurt Tippett goal 9.3.57 - 5.4.34 07:37
ADEL Brett Burton goal 10.3.63 - 5.4.34 09:14
ADEL Kurt Tippett behind 10.4.64 - 5.4.34 13:58
ADEL Simon Goodwin behind 10.5.65 - 5.4.34 15:11
MELB Colin Garland behind 10.5.65 - 5.5.35 16:21
ADEL Brett Burton goal 11.5.71 - 5.5.35 17:42
ADEL Simon Goodwin behind 11.6.72 - 5.5.35 19:38
ADEL Bernie Vince goal 12.6.78 - 5.5.35 26:17
MELB Cale Morton goal 12.6.78 - 6.5.41 28:41
Q3 ADEL Rushed behind 12.7.79 - 6.5.41 03:33
ADEL Brett Burton behind 12.8.80 - 6.5.41 05:17
ADEL Rushed behind 12.9.81 - 6.5.41 08:54
MELB Jeff White behind 12.9.81 - 6.6.42 09:20
ADEL Rushed behind 12.10.82 - 6.6.42 09:59
ADEL Tyson Edwards behind 12.11.83 - 6.6.42 10:44
ADEL Brett Burton behind 12.12.84 - 6.6.42 12:03
ADEL Scott Stevens goal 13.12.90 - 6.6.42 13:04
ADEL Robert Shirley behind 13.13.91 - 6.6.42 15:53
ADEL Tyson Edwards behind 13.14.92 - 6.6.42 17:25
ADEL Brett Burton behind 13.15.93 - 6.6.42 18:00
ADEL Jason Porplyzia goal 14.15.99 - 6.6.42 21:55
ADEL Kurt Tippett goal 15.15.105 - 6.6.42 24:02
MELB Cameron Bruce behind 15.15.105 - 6.7.43 26:23
MELB Cale Morton goal 15.15.105 - 7.7.49 28:29
Q4 MELB Clint Bartram goal 15.15.105 - 8.7.55 00:31
MELB Russell Robertson goal 15.15.105 - 9.7.61 02:08
MELB Russell Robertson goal 15.15.105 - 10.7.67 04:11
ADEL Jason Porplyzia behind 15.16.106 - 10.7.67 06:56
ADEL Graham Johncock behind 15.17.107 - 10.7.67 08:50
ADEL Brett Burton goal 16.17.113 - 10.7.67 09:51
ADEL Luke Jericho goal 17.17.119 - 10.7.67 12:17
ADEL Luke Jericho goal 18.17.125 - 10.7.67 13:20
ADEL Simon Goodwin goal 19.17.131 - 10.7.67 15:00
ADEL Simon Goodwin goal 20.17.137 - 10.7.67 16:54
ADEL Rushed behind 20.18.138 - 10.7.67 18:34
MELB Matthew Bate goal 20.18.138 - 11.7.73 21:23
ADEL Luke Jericho goal 21.18.144 - 11.7.73 23:21
ADEL Kurt Tippett goal 22.18.150 - 11.7.73 27:56
MELB Cameron Bruce behind 22.18.150 - 11.8.74 30:59