2011 AFL Season Round 1: Melbourne v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 27 March 2011 between Melbourne and Sydney during round one of the 2011 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Sydney at the MCG. Brad Green captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Dean Bailey and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

Melbourne (11.18.84) drew with Sydney (11.18.84).

Match Details

Season: 2011 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Melbourne v Sydney
Date: Sunday 27 March 2011
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 33,951

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne drew with Sydney
Score: 11.18.84 - 11.18.84

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	3	.	2	5	.	8	8	.	12	11	.	18	11	.	18	(84)
Sydney	5	.	3	7	.	5	10	.	14	11	.	18	11	.	18	(84)
Margin	SYDN by 13			SYDN by 9			SYDN by 14			level			drawn
Duration	30:49			29:29			30:01			30:47			2:01:06

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: Brad Green
Coach: Dean Bailey

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: John Longmire

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Armstrong (#26)
S. Jeffery (#29)
S. McBurney (#3)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Ryan O'Keefe	SYDN	5	3
Brent Moloney	MELB	22	2
Ben McGlynn	SYDN	21	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Brent Moloney	MELB	22	10	2	0	0	0	0
Heath Grundy	SYDN	39	4	0	?	?	0	?
Martin Mattner	SYDN	29	4	0	?	?	0	?
Ryan O'Keefe	SYDN	5	4	0	?	?	0	?
Ted Richards	SYDN	25	3	0	0	1	0	0
Jack Grimes	MELB	16	2	0	0	0	1	0
Mark Jamar	MELB	40	2	0	0	0	1	0
Colin Garland	MELB	20	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
44	Bail, Rohan	HFFL	84%	0	0	14	8	6	2	0	4	0	2	1	1	1	2
3	Bartram, Clint	BPL	94%	0	0	11	10	1	1	0	2	2	3	2	0	4	0
7	Bennell, Jamie	HBFR	81%	1	1	15	6	9	4	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	4
36	Davey, Aaron	RO	81%	0	0	21	17	4	1	0	4	4	1	1	1	3	4
14	Dunn, Lynden	RR	85%	2	4	14	9	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
20	Garland, Colin	CHB	98%	0	0	14	10	4	6	0	2	1	2	0	1	6	0
18	Green, Brad (c)	FF	91%	2	1	19	13	6	3	0	0	1	4	2	1	1	3
16	Grimes, Jack	HBFL	95%	0	0	23	18	5	10	0	3	2	4	1	1	5	2
40	Jamar, Mark	RU	83%	0	1	13	6	7	3	29	2	2	1	2	1	2	2
39	Jetta, Neville	INT	80%	1	1	10	5	5	3	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	0
2	Jones, Nathan	WL	84%	1	0	16	9	7	4	0	5	2	3	1	0	3	2
24	Jurrah, Liam	HFFR	91%	2	2	9	5	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MacDonald, Joel	BPR	86%	0	0	19	9	10	5	0	2	0	5	0	3	2	3
19	Maric, Addam	FPR↓	63%	0	2	13	6	7	1	0	2	0	4	0	1	0	3
34	Martin, Stefan	INT	66%	0	1	17	9	8	8	6	1	2	2	2	1	2	1
22	Moloney, Brent	C	85%	1	0	27	13	14	2	0	7	10	3	1	1	3	3
15	Petterd, Ricky	SUB↑	24%	0	1	6	4	2	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	2
27	Rivers, Jared	FB	96%	0	0	8	5	3	3	0	5	0	2	0	1	2	2
12	Sylvia, Colin	CHF	85%	1	0	17	11	6	5	1	6	1	2	3	1	1	7
35	Tapscott, Luke	WR	79%	0	0	19	16	3	7	0	1	0	1	1	0	3	3
9	Trengove, Jack	INT	84%	0	2	23	11	12	5	0	3	4	4	1	2	2	2
4	Watts, Jack	FPL	84%	0	2	13	9	4	6	2	3	0	2	0	1	1	2
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				11	18	341	209	132	92	38	59	32	47	22	18	42	51

R. Petterd replaced A. Maric.

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
42	Bevan, Paul	BPL	86%	0	1	10	4	6	2	0	5	1	2	1	1	0	1
24	Bolton, Jude	INT	82%	3	2	16	11	5	4	0	3	2	2	2	1	0	4
13	Everitt, Andrejs	HBFR	92%	1	0	12	10	2	2	0	1	0	3	0	1	3	1
37	Goodes, Adam	CHF	98%	2	3	14	11	3	8	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	5
39	Grundy, Heath	CHB	93%	0	0	21	11	10	6	0	1	0	0	2	0	3	1
4	Hannebery, Dan	INT	74%	0	1	15	7	8	4	0	7	2	1	0	1	1	5
15	Jack, Kieren	C	78%	0	1	21	15	6	2	0	7	5	5	2	2	1	8
32	Jetta, Lewis	HFFL	92%	0	1	14	10	4	5	0	5	1	1	0	0	3	2
12	Kennedy, Josh	RR	78%	0	0	17	9	8	1	0	4	8	0	1	0	2	2
29	Mattner, Martin	BPR	95%	0	0	13	8	5	1	0	4	0	2	1	0	6	1
21	McGlynn, Ben	HFFR	97%	3	1	17	11	6	3	0	3	4	3	3	2	0	4
3	McVeigh, Jarrad	RO	88%	0	1	22	17	5	4	0	5	4	3	0	0	5	6
41	Mumford, Shane	RU	75%	0	0	8	3	5	4	25	6	2	4	0	4	0	2
5	O'Keefe, Ryan	FPL	91%	0	3	31	21	10	6	0	6	5	8	0	3	2	5
20	Reid, Sam	FF↓	73%	1	1	12	6	6	5	0	3	0	1	1	1	1	2
25	Richards, Ted	FB	96%	0	0	13	7	6	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	0
16	Rohan, Gary	INT	69%	0	0	10	8	2	1	0	2	1	3	0	1	2	1
1	Seaby, Mark	SUB↑	16%	0	0	4	1	3	1	1	3	0	1	2	1	1	0
2	Shaw, Rhyce	HBFL	79%	0	0	7	3	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
40	Smith, Nick	WR	94%	0	0	13	8	5	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	2
22	Sumner, Byron	WL	78%	0	1	8	2	6	2	0	6	0	2	0	2	0	0
18	White, Jesse	FPR	76%	1	0	7	4	3	2	1	4	0	2	1	1	0	3
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				11	18	305	187	118	75	27	80	38	44	18	22	36	55

M. Seaby replaced S. Reid.

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
	42	P. Bevan	25	T. Richards	29	M. Mattner	40	M. Jamar	39	N. Jetta
	19	A. Maric	18	B. Green (c)	4	J. Watts	14	L. Dunn	34	S. Martin
FORWARD							36	A. Davey	9	J. Trengove
HALF-BACK									15	R. Petterd
	2	R. Shaw	39	H. Grundy	13	A. Everitt
	24	L. Jurrah	12	C. Sylvia	44	R. Bail
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	22	B. Sumner	15	K. Jack	40	N. Smith
	35	L. Tapscott	22	B. Moloney	2	N. Jones	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							41	S. Mumford	24	J. Bolton
HALF-FORWARD							12	J. Kennedy	4	D. Hannebery
	32	L. Jetta	37	A. Goodes	21	B. McGlynn	3	J. McVeigh	16	G. Rohan
	7	J. Bennell	20	C. Garland	16	J. Grimes			1	M. Seaby
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	5	R. O'Keefe	20	S. Reid	18	J. White
	28	J. MacDonald	27	J. Rivers	3	C. Bartram
BACK
Sydney							Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	02:51
	SYDN	Ben McGlynn goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:49
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	0.0.0	-	2.1.13	06:52
	MELB	Lynden Dunn goal	1.0.6	-	2.1.13	09:55
	SYDN	Sam Reid goal	1.0.6	-	3.1.19	11:32
	MELB	Stefan Martin behind	1.1.7	-	3.1.19	13:46
	SYDN	Andrejs Everitt goal	1.1.7	-	4.1.25	15:24
	MELB	Colin Sylvia goal	2.1.13	-	4.1.25	16:37
	MELB	Addam Maric behind	2.2.14	-	4.1.25	18:51
	MELB	Brad Green goal	3.2.20	-	4.1.25	19:33
	SYDN	Ben McGlynn goal	3.2.20	-	5.1.31	25:14
	SYDN	Sam Reid behind	3.2.20	-	5.2.32	26:36
	SYDN	Jude Bolton behind	3.2.20	-	5.3.33	27:23
Q2	SYDN	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	5.4.34	01:07
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	3.2.20	-	6.4.40	02:06
	MELB	Liam Jurrah goal	4.2.26	-	6.4.40	04:34
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	4.2.26	-	6.5.41	07:16
	MELB	Lynden Dunn behind	4.3.27	-	6.5.41	08:38
	MELB	Neville Jetta goal	5.3.33	-	6.5.41	10:08
	SYDN	Jesse White goal	5.3.33	-	7.5.47	14:35
	MELB	Jack Trengove behind	5.4.34	-	7.5.47	16:26
	MELB	Jack Watts behind	5.5.35	-	7.5.47	16:53
	MELB	Addam Maric behind	5.6.36	-	7.5.47	22:40
	MELB	Jack Trengove behind	5.7.37	-	7.5.47	24:28
	MELB	Lynden Dunn behind	5.8.38	-	7.5.47	25:35
Q3	SYDN	Lewis Jetta behind	5.8.38	-	7.6.48	00:19
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	5.8.38	-	8.6.54	01:30
	MELB	Lynden Dunn behind	5.9.39	-	8.6.54	02:44
	SYDN	Kieren Jack behind	5.9.39	-	8.7.55	04:23
	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh behind	5.9.39	-	8.8.56	05:03
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	5.9.39	-	9.8.62	06:27
	MELB	Brent Moloney goal	6.9.45	-	9.8.62	07:42
	SYDN	Jude Bolton behind	6.9.45	-	9.9.63	11:55
	MELB	Neville Jetta behind	6.10.46	-	9.9.63	13:00
	MELB	Liam Jurrah behind	6.11.47	-	9.9.63	13:44
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe behind	6.11.47	-	9.10.64	14:25
	SYDN	Dan Hannebery behind	6.11.47	-	9.11.65	14:53
	SYDN	Ben McGlynn goal	6.11.47	-	10.11.71	16:59
	SYDN	Ben McGlynn behind	6.11.47	-	10.12.72	20:45
	MELB	Nathan Jones goal	7.11.53	-	10.12.72	23:18
	SYDN	Paul Bevan behind	7.11.53	-	10.13.73	24:53
	MELB	Jamie Bennell goal	8.11.59	-	10.13.73	25:30
	MELB	Lynden Dunn behind	8.12.60	-	10.13.73	28:03
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	8.12.60	-	10.14.74	29:33
Q4	MELB	Lynden Dunn goal	9.12.66	-	10.14.74	01:03
	MELB	Ricky Petterd behind	9.13.67	-	10.14.74	02:31
	MELB	Jamie Bennell behind	9.14.68	-	10.14.74	03:57
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	9.14.68	-	11.14.80	06:56
	MELB	Jack Watts behind	9.15.69	-	11.14.80	08:51
	MELB	Liam Jurrah behind	9.16.70	-	11.14.80	10:37
	SYDN	Byron Sumner behind	9.16.70	-	11.15.81	13:17
	MELB	Liam Jurrah goal	10.16.76	-	11.15.81	14:52
	MELB	Mark Jamar behind	10.17.77	-	11.15.81	17:04
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe behind	10.17.77	-	11.16.82	18:36
	MELB	Brad Green behind	10.18.78	-	11.16.82	22:04
	MELB	Brad Green goal	11.18.84	-	11.16.82	23:46
	SYDN	Rushed behind	11.18.84	-	11.17.83	26:24
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe behind	11.18.84	-	11.18.84	29:44

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