2009 AFL Round 17: Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 26 July 2009 between Melbourne and Sydney during round 17 of the 2009 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Sydney at Manuka Oval. James McDonald captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Dean Bailey and the visitors were coached by Paul Roos.

Melbourne
Back: K. Cheney, M. Warnock, J. Bennell
Half-back: B. Moloney, J. Rivers, C. Bruce
Centre: C. Bartram, J. McDonald (capt.), A. Davey
Half-forward: S. Valenti, M. Newton, C. Morton
Forward: B. Miller, M. Bate, L. Jurrah
Follower: S. Martin, R. Petterd, N. Jones
Int.: L. Dunn, P. Johnson, J. McKenzie, M. Whelan

Sydney
Back: J. Moore, L. Roberts-Thomson, C. Bolton
Half-back: R. Shaw, H. Grundy, M. Mattner
Centre: N. Smith, B. Kirk, J. McVeigh
Half-forward: R. O'Keefe, A. Goodes, L. Ablett
Forward: J. White, M. O'Loughlin, C. Bird
Follower: D. Jolly, K. Jack, J. Bolton
Int.: E. Barlow, D. Hannebery, M. Pyke, K. Thornton

Melbourne (6.14.50) were defeated by Sydney (10.8.68).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: A. Davey, L. Jurrah, B. Miller, B. Moloney, M. Newton, M. Whelan
Sydney: D. Jolly (3), J. McVeigh (2), J. Bolton, M. Mattner, J. Moore, R. O'Keefe, J. White

As a result of this match, Melbourne were then 16th on the ladder (down from 15th) and Sydney remained 11th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2009 AFL Season
Round: Round 17
Teams: Melbourne v Sydney
Date: Sunday 26 July 2009
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: Manuka Oval
Attendance: 7,311

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Sydney
Score: 6.14.50 - 10.8.68

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 1 . 2 2 . 6 4 . 11 6 . 14 6 . 14 (50)
Sydney 3 . 4 6 . 6 7 . 6 10 . 8 10 . 8 (68)
Margin SYDN by 14 SYDN by 24 SYDN by 13 SYDN by 18 SYDN by 18
Duration 27:55 26:38 28:52 28:49 1:52:14

Honour Roll

Coaches: Dean Bailey (Melbourne), Paul Roos (Sydney)
Captains: James McDonald (Melbourne), unknown (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: J. Mollison (#32), M. Nicholls (#15), M. Stevic (#9)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Ryan O'Keefe SYDN 5 3
Rhyce Shaw SYDN 2 2
Darren Jolly SYDN 16 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Darren Jolly SYDN 16 9 1 1 0 0 0
Jarrad McVeigh SYDN 3 9 1 1 0 0 0
Heath Grundy SYDN 39 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Brent Moloney MELB 22 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Ryan O'Keefe SYDN 5 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Jude Bolton SYDN 24 2 0 0 0 1 0
Aaron Davey MELB 36 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 WL 81% 0 0 18 12 6 5 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 1
6 Bate, Matthew FF 80% 0 1 15 8 7 6 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 3
43 Bennell, Jamie BPR 75% 0 0 13 9 4 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1
32 Bruce, Cameron HBFR 72% 0 1 21 9 12 6 0 3 1 3 0 2 0 2
25 Cheney, Kyle BPL 71% 0 0 15 9 6 5 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0
36 Davey, Aaron WR 76% 1 1 22 17 5 2 0 5 1 1 0 0 2 3
14 Dunn, Lynden INT 76% 0 0 13 5 8 2 1 2 3 1 1 0 1 1
11 Johnson, Paul INT 68% 0 1 9 6 3 2 10 3 1 0 2 0 1 1
2 Jones, Nathan RO 89% 0 1 14 9 5 0 0 7 2 0 1 0 0 3
48 Jurrah, Liam FPR 57% 1 2 12 5 7 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
34 Martin, Stefan RU 86% 0 0 8 4 4 2 21 4 1 2 0 2 0 0
23 McDonald, James (c) C 76% 0 0 19 11 8 7 0 3 1 5 0 3 3 5
49 McKenzie, Jordie INT 78% 0 0 14 8 6 4 0 5 2 1 2 0 2 2
7 Miller, Brad FPL 89% 1 3 19 13 6 10 0 1 1 3 3 1 0 3
22 Moloney, Brent HBFL 83% 1 0 21 14 7 3 0 6 4 3 2 1 1 4
10 Morton, Cale HFFR 90% 0 0 10 10 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 2
29 Newton, Michael CHF 100% 1 2 12 10 2 6 0 6 0 3 3 2 0 1
15 Petterd, Ricky RR 90% 0 0 20 14 6 6 0 2 5 2 3 0 2 5
27 Rivers, Jared CHB 96% 0 0 8 4 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 0
44 Valenti, Shane HFFL 95% 0 0 16 9 7 4 0 4 3 2 0 2 1 3
37 Warnock, Matthew FB 100% 0 0 10 4 6 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1
45 Whelan, Matthew INT 74% 1 0 11 5 6 4 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 2
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 6 14 320 195 125 88 32 64 29 33 22 14 29 44

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
20 Ablett, Luke HFFR 84% 0 0 10 2 8 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
11 Barlow, Ed INT 64% 0 0 17 10 7 5 0 4 0 2 2 0 5 3
14 Bird, Craig FPR 91% 0 0 24 9 15 5 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 3
6 Bolton, Craig BPR 93% 0 0 19 9 10 8 0 2 0 0 1 0 7 1
24 Bolton, Jude RO 88% 1 1 25 13 12 7 0 4 4 0 1 0 0 6
37 Goodes, Adam CHF 97% 0 0 17 10 7 9 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 5
39 Grundy, Heath CHB 96% 0 0 26 12 14 7 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 1
4 Hannebery, Dan INT 65% 0 0 18 7 11 3 0 0 4 3 1 1 1 2
15 Jack, Kieren RR 84% 0 0 16 7 9 5 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 5
16 Jolly, Darren RU 79% 3 0 14 7 7 2 26 5 2 0 1 0 1 1
31 Kirk, Brett C 83% 0 0 17 4 13 3 0 9 1 1 0 1 3 0
29 Mattner, Martin HBFR 85% 1 0 21 15 6 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 4 2
3 McVeigh, Jarrad WR 88% 2 1 31 12 19 5 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0
33 Moore, Jarred BPL 80% 1 1 19 8 11 2 0 1 5 1 1 0 1 6
5 O'Keefe, Ryan HFFL 90% 1 0 25 14 11 3 0 3 3 4 1 1 3 1
19 O'Loughlin, Michael FF 93% 0 1 6 3 3 1 0 3 1 3 1 3 0 1
38 Pyke, Mike INT 45% 0 0 7 1 6 0 6 1 2 4 1 3 0 0
30 Roberts-Thomson, Lewis FB 100% 0 0 18 9 9 9 0 2 0 5 0 4 2 0
2 Shaw, Rhyce HBFL 77% 0 0 29 19 10 5 0 0 1 5 1 4 5 0
40 Smith, Nick WL 83% 0 0 17 7 10 5 0 3 0 1 2 0 2 1
27 Thornton, Kristin INT 53% 0 0 9 6 3 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 3
18 White, Jesse FPL 80% 1 1 4 3 1 2 0 1 0 4 0 2 0 0
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 10 8 389 187 202 93 32 52 34 42 14 22 37 41

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
33 J. Moore 30 L. Roberts-Thomson 6 C. Bolton 34 S. Martin 14 L. Dunn
48 L. Jurrah 6 M. Bate 7 B. Miller 15 R. Petterd 11 P. Johnson
FORWARD 2 N. Jones 49 J. McKenzie
HALF-BACK

45 M. Whelan
2 R. Shaw 39 H. Grundy 29 M. Mattner



10 C. Morton 29 M. Newton 44 S. Valenti



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



40 N. Smith 31 B. Kirk 3 J. McVeigh



36 A. Davey 23 J. McDonald (c) 3 C. Bartram FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 16 D. Jolly 11 E. Barlow
HALF-FORWARD 15 K. Jack 4 D. Hannebery
5 R. O'Keefe 37 A. Goodes 20 L. Ablett 24 J. Bolton 38 M. Pyke
32 C. Bruce 27 J. Rivers 22 B. Moloney

27 K. Thornton
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



18 J. White 19 M. O'Loughlin 14 C. Bird



43 J. Bennell 37 M. Warnock 25 K. Cheney



BACK



Sydney Coach: Paul Roos

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 SYDN Darren Jolly goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 01:58
SYDN Jesse White behind 0.0.0 - 1.1.7 08:35
SYDN Jarred Moore goal 0.0.0 - 2.1.13 09:47
SYDN Jarrad McVeigh goal 0.0.0 - 3.1.19 15:16
MELB Liam Jurrah behind 0.1.1 - 3.1.19 18:01
SYDN Jarrad McVeigh behind 0.1.1 - 3.2.20 19:07
SYDN Rushed behind 0.1.1 - 3.3.21 20:41
MELB Aaron Davey behind 0.2.2 - 3.3.21 21:50
MELB Brent Moloney goal 1.2.8 - 3.3.21 24:45
SYDN Rushed behind 1.2.8 - 3.4.22 26:28
Q2 SYDN Ryan O'Keefe goal 1.2.8 - 4.4.28 00:35
MELB Brad Miller behind 1.3.9 - 4.4.28 03:23
MELB Michael Newton behind 1.4.10 - 4.4.28 04:53
MELB Liam Jurrah goal 2.4.16 - 4.4.28 08:23
SYDN Rushed behind 2.4.16 - 4.5.29 11:16
SYDN Jude Bolton behind 2.4.16 - 4.6.30 12:02
MELB Nathan Jones behind 2.5.17 - 4.6.30 14:28
SYDN Martin Mattner goal 2.5.17 - 5.6.36 16:00
MELB Liam Jurrah behind 2.6.18 - 5.6.36 20:45
SYDN Darren Jolly goal 2.6.18 - 6.6.42 25:17
Q3 MELB Rushed behind 2.7.19 - 6.6.42 00:45
MELB Brad Miller behind 2.8.20 - 6.6.42 01:52
SYDN Jesse White goal 2.8.20 - 7.6.48 04:53
MELB Brad Miller goal 3.8.26 - 7.6.48 11:11
MELB Aaron Davey goal 4.8.32 - 7.6.48 20:28
MELB Rushed behind 4.9.33 - 7.6.48 23:56
MELB Brad Miller behind 4.10.34 - 7.6.48 26:59
MELB Matthew Bate behind 4.11.35 - 7.6.48 28:44
Q4 SYDN Darren Jolly goal 4.11.35 - 8.6.54 01:17
SYDN Michael O'Loughlin behind 4.11.35 - 8.7.55 07:26
SYDN Jarrad McVeigh goal 4.11.35 - 9.7.61 09:03
MELB Paul Johnson behind 4.12.36 - 9.7.61 11:25
MELB Cameron Bruce behind 4.13.37 - 9.7.61 11:52
MELB Michael Newton goal 5.13.43 - 9.7.61 14:05
MELB Michael Newton behind 5.14.44 - 9.7.61 17:37
MELB Matthew Whelan goal 6.14.50 - 9.7.61 20:14
SYDN Jarred Moore behind 6.14.50 - 9.8.62 22:24
SYDN Jude Bolton goal 6.14.50 - 10.8.68 24:07