2009 AFL Preliminary Final 1: St Kilda v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 18 September 2009 between St Kilda and Western Bulldogs in the first preliminary final of the 2009 AFL season. St Kilda hosted Western Bulldogs at MCG. Nick Riewoldt captained the hosts. Brad Johnson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ross Lyon and the visitors were coached by Rodney Eade.

St Kilda
Back: J. Blake, Z. Dawson, S. Baker
Half-back: B. Goddard, S. Fisher, S. Gilbert
Centre: F. Ray, L. Hayes, N. Dal Santo
Half-forward: A. McQualter, J. Koschitzke, C. Jones
Forward: S. Milne, N. Riewoldt (capt.), J. Gram
Follower: M. Gardiner, L. Montagna, A. Schneider
Int.: L. Ball, R. Clarke, R. Eddy, S. King

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

St Kilda (9.6.60) defeated Western Bulldogs (7.11.53).

Goalkickers
St Kilda: N. Riewoldt (4), N. Dal Santo, S. Fisher, L. Hayes, A. McQualter, S. Milne
Western Bulldogs: M. Hahn (2), B. Johnson (2), D. Giansiracusa, S. Higgins, L. Picken

As a result of this match, St Kilda faced Geelong in the grand final and Western Bulldogs were eliminated (finishing 3rd overall).

Match Details

Season: 2009 AFL Season
Round: Preliminary Final 1
Teams: St Kilda v Western Bulldogs
Date: Friday 18 September 2009
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 78,245

Match Results

Outcome: St Kilda def. Western Bulldogs
Score: 9.6.60 - 7.11.53

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
St Kilda	0	.	2	3	.	6	7	.	6	9	.	6	9	.	6	(60)
Western Bulldogs	2	.	5	4	.	7	6	.	7	7	.	11	7	.	11	(53)
Margin	WBUL by 15			WBUL by 7			STKL by 5			STKL by 7			STKL by 7
Duration	26:45			30:01			32:44			29:56			1:59:26

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ross Lyon (St Kilda), Rodney Eade (Western Bulldogs)
Captains: Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda), Brad Johnson (Western Bulldogs)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: R. Chamberlain (#18), S. McBurney (#3), S. McInerney (#30)

Player Statistics

St Kilda

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Baker, Steven	BPR	93%	0	0	12	5	7	4	0	6	0	1	0	1	1	1
14	Ball, Luke	INT	58%	0	0	17	7	10	2	0	6	1	3	3	1	3	3
27	Blake, Jason	BPL	100%	0	0	17	9	8	8	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	0
16	Clarke, Raphael	INT	72%	0	0	21	13	8	9	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	2
26	Dal Santo, Nick	WR	90%	1	0	31	23	8	5	2	2	9	6	0	0	10	4
43	Dawson, Zac	FB	91%	0	0	16	6	10	7	0	5	0	3	1	2	1	0
40	Eddy, Robert	INT	54%	0	0	4	0	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
25	Fisher, Sam	CHB	100%	1	0	30	22	8	7	0	2	0	4	0	0	7	0
15	Gardiner, Michael	RU	58%	0	0	10	5	5	2	25	0	3	1	4	1	1	1
19	Gilbert, Sam	HBFR	100%	0	0	20	8	12	4	0	2	0	2	1	0	3	1
18	Goddard, Brendon	HBFL	93%	0	0	21	12	9	7	3	2	1	3	0	1	5	3
1	Gram, Jason	FPR	100%	0	0	18	7	11	5	0	3	0	6	0	0	3	2
7	Hayes, Lenny	C	79%	1	1	34	23	11	6	4	3	9	4	0	3	5	7
38	Jones, Clint	HFFR	76%	0	0	23	8	15	2	0	3	10	2	0	0	1	2
2	King, Steven	INT	42%	0	0	5	2	3	1	9	5	1	1	1	0	0	0
23	Koschitzke, Justin	CHF	90%	0	2	12	10	2	6	0	2	0	3	2	0	1	6
32	McQualter, Andrew	HFFL	81%	1	0	11	4	7	3	0	6	1	1	1	1	1	1
44	Milne, Stephen	FPL	82%	1	0	12	5	7	3	0	3	1	4	0	2	0	2
11	Montagna, Leigh	RR	85%	0	1	21	13	8	3	0	2	2	3	0	1	2	1
22	Ray, Farren	WL	84%	0	0	16	6	10	4	0	4	2	2	0	0	2	2
12	Riewoldt, Nick (c)	FF	99%	4	1	18	13	5	11	1	3	1	3	2	2	0	2
13	Schneider, Adam	RO	74%	0	1	9	4	5	2	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	0
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				9	6	378	205	173	102	44	64	41	58	17	18	48	40

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Akermanis, Jason	FPL	73%	0	0	14	7	7	2	0	4	0	5	1	1	0	1
5	Boyd, Matthew	C	90%	0	0	26	10	16	4	1	4	8	4	1	1	2	3
33	Callan, Tim	INT	74%	0	0	15	10	5	5	0	3	2	3	2	0	1	1
17	Cooney, Adam	RR	81%	0	0	26	9	17	1	0	2	3	1	0	0	0	4
4	Cross, Daniel	WR	86%	0	0	23	4	19	4	7	8	5	2	2	0	1	1
10	Eagleton, Nathan	INT	66%	0	1	10	6	4	3	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	2
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	INT	69%	1	2	16	11	5	1	0	5	2	3	1	0	0	2
9	Gilbee, Lindsay	HBFR	88%	0	1	18	16	2	5	0	3	0	3	2	0	4	7
16	Griffen, Ryan	RO	78%	0	1	28	17	11	4	1	3	4	3	0	0	2	7
8	Hahn, Mitch	CHF	78%	2	1	16	7	9	7	1	7	2	1	1	0	0	3
40	Harbrow, Jarrod	BPL	85%	0	0	23	16	7	9	0	2	1	3	0	1	3	1
25	Hargrave, Ryan	HBFL	95%	0	0	25	17	8	7	0	1	0	4	0	2	2	1
7	Higgins, Shaun	FPR	85%	1	1	23	8	15	1	0	4	2	0	0	0	2	4
15	Hudson, Ben	RU	64%	0	0	14	3	11	1	16	3	3	4	1	3	1	0
6	Johnson, Brad (c)	HFFL	89%	2	0	19	15	4	6	0	5	0	4	1	2	1	2
36	Lake, Brian	FB	98%	0	0	18	13	5	7	0	2	0	2	0	2	4	2
27	Minson, Will	FF	79%	0	0	12	7	5	4	10	4	3	3	1	2	2	4
38	Morris, Dale	CHB	100%	0	0	21	9	12	6	0	2	0	2	2	1	3	1
2	Murphy, Bob	HFFR	86%	0	1	16	12	4	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4
42	Picken, Liam	WL	83%	1	0	12	7	5	3	0	6	2	1	1	0	1	3
14	Ward, Callan	INT	74%	0	1	14	7	7	2	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	2
28	Welsh, Scott	BPR	78%	0	0	11	8	3	5	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				7	11	400	219	181	95	36	72	39	53	18	17	31	57

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

St Kilda							Coach: Ross Lyon
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	40	J. Harbrow	36	B. Lake	28	S. Welsh	15	M. Gardiner	14	L. Ball
	1	J. Gram	12	N. Riewoldt (c)	44	S. Milne	11	L. Montagna	16	R. Clarke
FORWARD							13	A. Schneider	40	R. Eddy
HALF-BACK									2	S. King
	25	R. Hargrave	38	D. Morris	9	L. Gilbee
	38	C. Jones	23	J. Koschitzke	32	A. McQualter
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	42	L. Picken	5	M. Boyd	4	D. Cross
	26	N. Dal Santo	7	L. Hayes	22	F. Ray	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							15	B. Hudson	33	T. Callan
HALF-FORWARD							17	A. Cooney	10	N. Eagleton
	6	B. Johnson (c)	8	M. Hahn	2	B. Murphy	16	R. Griffen	13	D. Giansiracusa
	19	S. Gilbert	25	S. Fisher	18	B. Goddard			14	C. Ward
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	21	J. Akermanis	27	W. Minson	7	S. Higgins
	10	S. Baker	43	Z. Dawson	27	J. Blake
BACK
Western Bulldogs							Coach: Rodney Eade

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WBUL	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	03:16
	WBUL	Liam Picken goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	05:37
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	09:54
	STKL	Justin Koschitzke behind	0.1.1	-	1.2.8	14:35
	WBUL	Ryan Griffen behind	0.1.1	-	1.3.9	16:50
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	0.1.1	-	2.3.15	18:39
	STKL	Leigh Montagna behind	0.2.2	-	2.3.15	20:38
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins behind	0.2.2	-	2.4.16	21:04
	WBUL	Callan Ward behind	0.2.2	-	2.5.17	26:04
Q2	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	0.2.2	-	2.6.18	00:42
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt behind	0.3.3	-	2.6.18	04:38
	STKL	Nick Dal Santo goal	1.3.9	-	2.6.18	05:26
	STKL	Andrew McQualter goal	2.3.15	-	2.6.18	09:54
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	2.3.15	-	3.6.24	11:52
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	2.3.15	-	4.6.30	13:44
	STKL	Lenny Hayes goal	3.3.21	-	4.6.30	15:18
	WBUL	Nathan Eagleton behind	3.3.21	-	4.7.31	20:45
	STKL	Lenny Hayes behind	3.4.22	-	4.7.31	22:45
	STKL	Justin Koschitzke behind	3.5.23	-	4.7.31	28:07
	STKL	Adam Schneider behind	3.6.24	-	4.7.31	29:29
Q3	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	4.6.30	-	4.7.31	00:36
	STKL	Sam Fisher goal	5.6.36	-	4.7.31	09:14
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	6.6.42	-	4.7.31	10:54
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	6.6.42	-	5.7.37	17:46
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	6.6.42	-	6.7.43	26:43
	STKL	Stephen Milne goal	7.6.48	-	6.7.43	31:44
Q4	WBUL	Bob Murphy behind	7.6.48	-	6.8.44	00:16
	WBUL	Brad Johnson goal	7.6.48	-	7.8.50	05:03
	WBUL	Rushed behind	7.6.48	-	7.9.51	09:10
	WBUL	Lindsay Gilbee behind	7.6.48	-	7.10.52	14:14
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	8.6.54	-	7.10.52	18:31
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa behind	8.6.54	-	7.11.53	24:05
	STKL	Nick Riewoldt goal	9.6.60	-	7.11.53	27:32

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