2009 AFL Season Round 17: Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 26 July 2009 between Melbourne and Sydney during round seventeen of the 2009 season of the Australian Football League. 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 (6.14.50) were defeated by Sydney (10.8.68).

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

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 (Sydney) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: James McDonald
Coach: Dean Bailey

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Paul Roos

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

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

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