2009 AFL Semi Final 2: Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions

This is the match report for the match played on 11 September 2009 between Western Bulldogs and Brisbane Lions in the second semi final of the 2009 AFL season. Western Bulldogs hosted Brisbane Lions at MCG. Brad Johnson captained the hosts. Jonathan Brown captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Rodney Eade and the visitors were coached by Michael Voss.

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

Brisbane Lions
Back: A. McGrath, D. Merrett, J. Hawksley
Half-back: J. Patfull, J. Drummond, M. Austin
Centre: J. Brennan, S. Black, T. Johnstone
Half-forward: M. Rischitelli, J. Brown (capt.), J. Polkinghorne
Forward: S. Sheldon, D. Bradshaw, T. Notting
Follower: M. Clark, L. Power, J. Sherman
Int.: J. Adcock, R. Hooper, J. Redden, D. Rich

Western Bulldogs (16.11.107) defeated Brisbane Lions (8.8.56).

Goalkickers
Western Bulldogs: M. Hahn (4), N. Eagleton (3), S. Higgins (2), C. Ward (2), J. Akermanis, A. Cooney, L. Gilbee, R. Griffen, W. Minson
Brisbane Lions: D. Bradshaw (3), J. Brown (3), A. McGrath, J. Redden

As a result of this match, Western Bulldogs faced St Kilda in the first preliminary final and Brisbane Lions were eliminated (finishing 6th overall).

Match Details

Season: 2009 AFL Season
Round: Semi Final 2
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions
Date: Friday 11 September 2009
Time: 7:45 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 47,030

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. Brisbane Lions
Score: 16.11.107 - 8.8.56

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Western Bulldogs	4	.	2	6	.	6	11	.	8	16	.	11	16	.	11	(107)
Brisbane Lions	0	.	6	3	.	7	5	.	7	8	.	8	8	.	8	(56)
Margin	WBUL by 20			WBUL by 17			WBUL by 37			WBUL by 51			WBUL by 51
Duration	27:44			29:31			31:30			31:49			2:00:34

Honour Roll

Coaches: Rodney Eade (Western Bulldogs), Michael Voss (Brisbane Lions)
Captains: Brad Johnson (Western Bulldogs), Jonathan Brown (Brisbane Lions)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. Meredith (#21), S. Ryan (#25), M. Stevic (#9)

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Akermanis, Jason	FPL	85%	1	2	14	8	6	4	0	4	0	3	2	2	0	1
5	Boyd, Matthew	C	87%	0	0	36	18	18	7	1	4	7	6	0	1	2	2
33	Callan, Tim	INT	74%	0	0	15	6	9	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1
17	Cooney, Adam	RR	83%	1	2	32	14	18	1	0	2	6	4	2	1	1	2
4	Cross, Daniel	WR	87%	0	0	20	10	10	2	0	3	5	2	2	1	4	1
10	Eagleton, Nathan	INT	77%	3	0	30	16	14	9	0	2	2	2	2	0	0	7
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	INT	80%	0	0	33	23	10	9	0	0	1	4	1	0	3	4
9	Gilbee, Lindsay	HBFR	82%	1	0	29	20	9	6	0	1	1	1	1	0	4	6
16	Griffen, Ryan	RO	60%	1	1	22	13	9	4	1	2	1	4	0	2	2	6
8	Hahn, Mitch	CHF	88%	4	0	13	6	7	4	0	3	1	2	0	1	0	1
40	Harbrow, Jarrod	BPL	81%	0	1	21	15	6	3	0	5	4	4	0	0	5	3
25	Hargrave, Ryan	BPR	89%	0	1	29	17	12	9	0	3	1	0	0	0	6	2
7	Higgins, Shaun	WL	78%	2	0	29	9	20	8	0	1	3	2	0	0	0	5
15	Hudson, Ben	RU	64%	0	0	22	6	16	5	20	2	6	1	0	1	1	4
6	Johnson, Brad (c)	HFFL	90%	0	0	26	16	10	4	0	2	2	2	1	1	1	3
36	Lake, Brian	FB	97%	0	0	16	6	10	5	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	0
27	Minson, Will	FF	73%	1	1	11	7	4	4	16	2	4	1	2	0	0	3
38	Morris, Dale	CHB	100%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0
2	Murphy, Bob	HFFR	73%	0	3	17	12	5	11	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
42	Picken, Liam	HBFL	90%	0	0	12	3	9	0	0	5	2	3	1	1	0	0
14	Ward, Callan	INT	80%	2	0	22	11	11	5	0	5	1	0	2	0	0	3
28	Welsh, Scott	FPR	81%	0	0	15	10	5	5	1	2	0	3	0	0	2	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				16	11	469	248	221	109	39	57	47	46	18	11	37	60

Brisbane Lions

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Adcock, Jed	INT	64%	0	0	11	4	7	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	0
37	Austin, Matt	HBFR	73%	0	1	8	4	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
20	Black, Simon	C	85%	0	0	14	10	4	0	0	9	2	2	3	1	1	3
36	Bradshaw, Daniel	FF	100%	3	2	12	11	1	8	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3
17	Brennan, Jared	WL	88%	0	0	22	10	12	2	4	4	6	6	2	2	2	4
16	Brown, Jonathan (c)	CHF	100%	3	1	19	12	7	15	1	2	0	6	0	1	0	7
1	Clark, Mitch	RU	80%	0	0	10	6	4	6	19	4	0	1	0	0	1	2
39	Drummond, Josh	CHB	68%	0	1	14	6	8	9	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	1
12	Hawksley, James	BPR	76%	0	0	15	9	6	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	4	0
33	Hooper, Rhan	INT	62%	0	1	6	3	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	2
4	Johnstone, Travis	WR	71%	0	0	16	7	9	4	0	2	4	2	1	0	1	1
9	McGrath, Ashley	BPL	75%	1	0	15	8	7	1	0	6	1	1	0	1	3	4
21	Merrett, Daniel	FB	99%	0	0	16	6	10	3	0	1	1	3	2	0	6	0
8	Notting, Tim	FPR	79%	0	0	21	14	7	7	0	4	1	4	1	1	6	2
24	Patfull, Joel	HBFL	98%	0	0	16	8	8	4	0	4	0	1	1	0	4	2
31	Polkinghorne, James	HFFR	85%	0	0	10	3	7	5	1	1	0	3	0	3	0	2
6	Power, Luke	RR	91%	0	0	31	17	14	5	0	3	5	4	1	0	2	4
30	Redden, Jack	INT	71%	1	0	7	5	2	0	0	3	0	4	0	2	0	1
10	Rich, Daniel	INT	78%	0	0	13	7	6	2	0	4	4	3	0	2	2	2
35	Rischitelli, Michael	HFFL	83%	0	0	17	6	11	2	0	7	1	0	0	0	1	3
3	Sheldon, Sam	FPL	80%	0	1	9	6	3	4	0	4	0	2	0	1	1	3
11	Sherman, Justin	RO	93%	0	1	16	8	8	0	0	9	1	3	0	1	3	3
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				8	8	318	170	148	87	25	79	26	50	11	18	42	50

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

Western Bulldogs							Coach: Rodney Eade
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	9	A. McGrath	21	D. Merrett	12	J. Hawksley	15	B. Hudson	33	T. Callan
	28	S. Welsh	27	W. Minson	21	J. Akermanis	17	A. Cooney	10	N. Eagleton
FORWARD							16	R. Griffen	13	D. Giansiracusa
HALF-BACK									14	C. Ward
	24	J. Patfull	39	J. Drummond	37	M. Austin
	2	B. Murphy	8	M. Hahn	6	B. Johnson (c)
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	17	J. Brennan	20	S. Black	4	T. Johnstone
	4	D. Cross	5	M. Boyd	7	S. Higgins	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							1	M. Clark	7	J. Adcock
HALF-FORWARD							6	L. Power	33	R. Hooper
	35	M. Rischitelli	16	J. Brown (c)	31	J. Polkinghorne	11	J. Sherman	30	J. Redden
	9	L. Gilbee	38	D. Morris	42	L. Picken			10	D. Rich
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	3	S. Sheldon	36	D. Bradshaw	8	T. Notting
	25	R. Hargrave	36	B. Lake	40	J. Harbrow
BACK
Brisbane Lions							Coach: Michael Voss

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:24
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	07:55
	WBUL	Callan Ward goal	2.0.12	-	0.1.1	09:06
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw behind	2.0.12	-	0.2.2	10:29
	WBUL	Jason Akermanis behind	2.1.13	-	0.2.2	14:01
	WBUL	Adam Cooney goal	3.1.19	-	0.2.2	15:11
	BRIL	Rhan Hooper behind	3.1.19	-	0.3.3	17:40
	BRIL	Matt Austin behind	3.1.19	-	0.4.4	19:07
	BRIL	Josh Drummond behind	3.1.19	-	0.5.5	19:48
	BRIL	Sam Sheldon behind	3.1.19	-	0.6.6	23:26
	WBUL	Nathan Eagleton goal	4.1.25	-	0.6.6	24:05
	WBUL	Bob Murphy behind	4.2.26	-	0.6.6	26:07
Q2	WBUL	Jason Akermanis behind	4.3.27	-	0.6.6	00:23
	BRIL	Jonathan Brown goal	4.3.27	-	1.6.12	03:50
	WBUL	Ryan Hargrave behind	4.4.28	-	1.6.12	08:08
	BRIL	Justin Sherman behind	4.4.28	-	1.7.13	11:26
	BRIL	Ashley McGrath goal	4.4.28	-	2.7.19	12:41
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	5.4.34	-	2.7.19	15:41
	BRIL	Jonathan Brown goal	5.4.34	-	3.7.25	17:18
	WBUL	Ryan Griffen behind	5.5.35	-	3.7.25	19:23
	WBUL	Ryan Griffen goal	6.5.41	-	3.7.25	21:40
	WBUL	Adam Cooney behind	6.6.42	-	3.7.25	26:25
Q3	WBUL	Lindsay Gilbee goal	7.6.48	-	3.7.25	03:04
	WBUL	Bob Murphy behind	7.7.49	-	3.7.25	06:41
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	8.7.55	-	3.7.25	10:29
	BRIL	Jonathan Brown goal	8.7.55	-	4.7.31	15:04
	WBUL	Nathan Eagleton goal	9.7.61	-	4.7.31	19:08
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	9.7.61	-	5.7.37	20:33
	WBUL	Nathan Eagleton goal	10.7.67	-	5.7.37	24:26
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	11.7.73	-	5.7.37	25:59
	WBUL	Will Minson behind	11.8.74	-	5.7.37	30:15
Q4	WBUL	Bob Murphy behind	11.9.75	-	5.7.37	04:35
	WBUL	Will Minson goal	12.9.81	-	5.7.37	06:16
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	13.9.87	-	5.7.37	07:34
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	13.9.87	-	6.7.43	11:34
	BRIL	Daniel Bradshaw goal	13.9.87	-	7.7.49	15:13
	WBUL	Jarrod Harbrow behind	13.10.88	-	7.7.49	16:45
	WBUL	Mitch Hahn goal	14.10.94	-	7.7.49	19:20
	WBUL	Adam Cooney behind	14.11.95	-	7.7.49	21:41
	BRIL	Jack Redden goal	14.11.95	-	8.7.55	26:00
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	15.11.101	-	8.7.55	27:45
	WBUL	Callan Ward goal	16.11.107	-	8.7.55	28:50
	BRIL	Jonathan Brown behind	16.11.107	-	8.8.56	30:53

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