2012 AFL Season Round 4: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 22 April 2012 between Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs during round four of the 2012 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted the Western Bulldogs at the MCG. Jack Trengove captained the hosts. Matthew Boyd captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Mark Neeld and the visitors were coached by Brendan McCartney.

Melbourne (9.13.67) were defeated by the Western Bulldogs (13.10.88).

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 4
Teams: Melbourne v Western Bulldogs
Date: Sunday 22 April 2012
Time: 4:40 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 33,565

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Western Bulldogs
Score: 9.13.67 - 13.10.88

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 1 . 5 3 . 8 7 . 10 9 . 13 9 . 13 (67)
Western Bulldogs 3 . 2 6 . 5 10 . 7 13 . 10 13 . 10 (88)
Margin WBUL by 9 WBUL by 15 WBUL by 15 WBUL by 21 WBUL by 21
Duration 29:14 29:16 34:51 30:29 2:03:50

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 (Western Bulldogs) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: Jack Trengove
Coach: Mark Neeld

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Matthew Boyd
Coach: Brendan McCartney

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Armstrong (#26)
J. Bannister (#33)
S. Wenn (#22)
E: C. Fleer (#2)

Goal Umpires

D. Mills
J. Venkataya
E: P. Gonis

Boundary Umpires

G. Bergroth
C. Esler
C. Gordon
C. Morrison

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Adam Cooney WBUL 17 3
Luke Dahlhaus WBUL 40 2
Matthew Bate MELB 6 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Luke Dahlhaus WBUL 40 10 2 0 0 0 0
Adam Cooney WBUL 17 6 0 1 0 1 0
Jared Rivers MELB 27 4 0 1 0 0 0
Daniel Cross WBUL 4 3 0 0 1 0 0
Bob Murphy WBUL 2 3 0 0 1 0 0
Dylan Addison WBUL 22 2 0 0 0 1 0
Matthew Bate MELB 6 1 0 0 0 0 1
Ryan Hargrave WBUL 25 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 HBFL 80% 1 0 20 9 11 4 0 3 1 3 1 2 1 3
3 Bartram, Clint BPR 96% 0 0 11 6 5 3 0 6 1 0 1 0 2 1
6 Bate, Matthew INT 71% 2 1 22 16 6 6 0 4 3 2 0 2 0 1
11 Clark, Mitch FF↓ 64% 1 2 7 7 0 5 1 1 0 3 0 2 1 3
36 Davey, Aaron FPR 78% 2 0 10 7 3 1 0 5 1 2 1 2 0 3
14 Dunn, Lynden INT 85% 0 1 4 3 1 1 0 2 0 3 1 2 0 2
8 Frawley, James BPL 98% 0 0 16 11 5 5 0 5 0 3 1 0 3 3
20 Garland, Colin CHB 91% 0 1 10 8 2 0 0 3 2 2 1 0 1 1
38 Howe, Jeremy HFFR 85% 0 2 12 8 4 3 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 3
40 Jamar, Mark RU 83% 0 0 8 3 5 2 46 1 1 0 1 0 0 2
2 Jones, Nathan WR 84% 0 0 22 10 12 1 0 5 5 4 3 1 0 4
28 MacDonald, Joel HBFR 98% 0 0 17 8 9 3 0 3 1 1 2 0 2 0
49 Magner, James RR 89% 0 0 12 9 3 3 1 6 4 2 0 1 2 1
25 McDonald, Tom FPL 97% 0 0 11 5 6 3 1 1 1 5 0 2 1 0
13 McKenzie, Jordie WL 84% 0 0 15 10 5 1 0 7 7 2 2 2 2 1
22 Moloney, Brent C 75% 1 2 17 10 7 0 0 4 9 4 1 2 0 3
10 Morton, Cale INT 72% 1 0 21 14 7 4 1 6 6 5 0 1 3 5
27 Rivers, Jared FB 96% 0 0 15 13 2 7 0 0 1 2 1 0 6 1
30 Sellar, James HFFL 80% 0 1 4 3 1 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
35 Tapscott, Luke SUB↑ 17% 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
9 Trengove, Jack (c) RO 89% 0 1 13 7 6 1 2 3 2 1 2 0 0 3
4 Watts, Jack CHF 87% 1 1 12 8 4 6 0 3 0 1 0 0 2 2
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 9 13 282 176 106 60 58 73 47 49 20 20 28 42

L. Tapscott replaced M. Clark.

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
22 Addison, Dylan BPR 89% 0 0 18 12 6 7 0 1 0 1 4 1 3 0
47 Austin, Mark FB 92% 0 0 11 4 7 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1
5 Boyd, Matthew (c) C 92% 0 0 19 9 10 2 3 7 1 1 0 0 1 3
17 Cooney, Adam HFFR 87% 2 0 26 15 11 2 0 4 4 4 1 0 1 5
49 Cordy, Ayce FF↓ 60% 0 0 7 2 5 2 3 2 0 4 0 0 0 0
4 Cross, Daniel WL 84% 0 0 28 12 16 6 7 3 6 7 2 3 0 2
40 Dahlhaus, Luke WR 78% 1 2 23 13 10 2 0 3 3 2 2 1 1 5
33 Djerrkura, Nathan HBFL 85% 1 0 15 6 9 4 0 4 0 1 3 1 0 2
13 Giansiracusa, Daniel HFFL 85% 2 0 10 7 3 1 0 0 1 6 0 4 0 2
1 Grant, Jarrad INT 81% 2 1 10 6 4 4 0 5 0 2 0 0 0 0
16 Griffen, Ryan RR 87% 1 1 19 14 5 1 0 3 5 2 1 0 1 4
25 Hargrave, Ryan CHB 94% 0 0 26 17 9 9 0 4 0 1 1 0 3 1
7 Higgins, Shaun SUB↑ 22% 0 1 7 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
19 Jones, Liam CHF 91% 1 1 14 11 3 7 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 6
27 Minson, Will RU 79% 0 0 11 6 5 2 40 6 3 3 1 2 0 3
2 Murphy, Bob BPL 91% 0 0 24 20 4 5 0 0 0 3 0 1 7 2
42 Picken, Liam RO 91% 0 1 21 9 12 3 0 13 7 4 0 3 0 1
23 Roughead, Jordan FPL 84% 1 0 9 6 3 7 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 1
11 Sherman, Justin FPR 83% 1 0 23 12 11 0 0 3 4 5 0 1 1 2
8 Veszpremi, Patrick INT 79% 0 0 20 8 12 4 0 1 1 3 0 1 4 2
3 Wallis, Mitch INT 77% 1 1 22 8 14 0 0 7 3 1 2 0 2 1
10 Wood, Easton HBFR 89% 0 0 12 9 3 4 0 2 1 2 1 0 3 2
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 13 10 375 210 165 75 53 75 40 56 20 20 29 46

S. Higgins replaced A. Cordy.

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: Mark Neeld
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
2 B. Murphy 47 M. Austin 22 D. Addison 40 M. Jamar 6 M. Bate
36 A. Davey 11 M. Clark 25 T. McDonald 49 J. Magner 14 L. Dunn
FORWARD 9 J. Trengove (c) 10 C. Morton
HALF-BACK

35 L. Tapscott
33 N. Djerrkura 25 R. Hargrave 10 E. Wood



38 J. Howe 4 J. Watts 30 J. Sellar



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



4 D. Cross 5 M. Boyd (c) 40 L. Dahlhaus



2 N. Jones 22 B. Moloney 13 J. McKenzie FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 27 W. Minson 1 J. Grant
HALF-FORWARD 16 R. Griffen 8 P. Veszpremi
13 D. Giansiracusa 19 L. Jones 17 A. Cooney 42 L. Picken 3 M. Wallis
28 J. MacDonald 20 C. Garland 44 R. Bail

7 S. Higgins
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



23 J. Roughead 49 A. Cordy 11 J. Sherman



3 C. Bartram 27 J. Rivers 8 J. Frawley



BACK



Western Bulldogs Coach: Brendan McCartney

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 WBUL Ryan Griffen goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 03:01
MELB Mitch Clark behind 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 05:36
MELB Jack Watts behind 0.2.2 - 1.0.6 07:41
MELB Mitch Clark goal 1.2.8 - 1.0.6 12:30
WBUL Jarrad Grant goal 1.2.8 - 2.0.12 16:15
WBUL Jarrad Grant behind 1.2.8 - 2.1.13 17:27
MELB Mitch Clark behind 1.3.9 - 2.1.13 19:33
MELB Jeremy Howe behind 1.4.10 - 2.1.13 20:33
WBUL Luke Dahlhaus goal 1.4.10 - 3.1.19 22:32
MELB Rushed behind 1.5.11 - 3.1.19 24:12
WBUL Ryan Griffen behind 1.5.11 - 3.2.20 28:30
Q2 WBUL Luke Dahlhaus behind 1.5.11 - 3.3.21 00:25
MELB Aaron Davey goal 2.5.17 - 3.3.21 02:07
MELB Jack Trengove behind 2.6.18 - 3.3.21 04:56
WBUL Adam Cooney goal 2.6.18 - 4.3.27 08:35
WBUL Justin Sherman goal 2.6.18 - 5.3.33 10:17
WBUL Rushed behind 2.6.18 - 5.4.34 15:16
MELB Matthew Bate behind 2.7.19 - 5.4.34 19:35
MELB Jeremy Howe behind 2.8.20 - 5.4.34 23:46
WBUL Adam Cooney goal 2.8.20 - 6.4.40 24:46
WBUL Liam Picken behind 2.8.20 - 6.5.41 27:47
MELB Matthew Bate goal 3.8.26 - 6.5.41 29:11
Q3 WBUL Liam Jones goal 3.8.26 - 7.5.47 00:28
MELB Brent Moloney behind 3.9.27 - 7.5.47 03:54
MELB Matthew Bate goal 4.9.33 - 7.5.47 05:14
MELB Rohan Bail goal 5.9.39 - 7.5.47 07:49
MELB Jack Watts goal 6.9.45 - 7.5.47 16:06
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa goal 6.9.45 - 8.5.53 17:37
MELB James Sellar behind 6.10.46 - 8.5.53 19:12
MELB Brent Moloney goal 7.10.52 - 8.5.53 21:59
WBUL Jarrad Grant goal 7.10.52 - 9.5.59 23:50
WBUL Rushed behind 7.10.52 - 9.6.60 25:05
WBUL Mitch Wallis behind 7.10.52 - 9.7.61 26:15
WBUL Nathan Djerrkura goal 7.10.52 - 10.7.67 28:33
Q4 WBUL Shaun Higgins behind 7.10.52 - 10.8.68 00:22
WBUL Jordan Roughead goal 7.10.52 - 11.8.74 03:35
WBUL Liam Jones behind 7.10.52 - 11.9.75 04:42
WBUL Daniel Giansiracusa goal 7.10.52 - 12.9.81 06:20
MELB Aaron Davey goal 8.10.58 - 12.9.81 07:27
MELB Brent Moloney behind 8.11.59 - 12.9.81 09:31
MELB Cale Morton goal 9.11.65 - 12.9.81 14:46
MELB Colin Garland behind 9.12.66 - 12.9.81 19:57
MELB Lynden Dunn behind 9.13.67 - 12.9.81 21:04
WBUL Mitch Wallis goal 9.13.67 - 13.9.87 25:26
WBUL Luke Dahlhaus behind 9.13.67 - 13.10.88 29:57