2012 AFL Round 9: Western Bulldogs v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 25 May 2012 between Western Bulldogs and Geelong during round 9 of the 2012 AFL season. Western Bulldogs hosted Geelong at Etihad Stadium. Matthew Boyd captained the hosts. Joel Selwood captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Brendan McCartney and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Western Bulldogs
Back: B. Murphy, B. Lake, R. Hargrave
Half-back: D. Cross, M. Austin, P. Veszpremi
Centre: T. Liberatore, M. Boyd (capt.), J. Sherman
Half-forward: S. Higgins, J. Roughead, D. Giansiracusa
Forward: A. Cooney, L. Jones, T. Dickson
Follower: W. Minson, R. Griffen, L. Picken
Int.: L. Dahlhaus, D. Pearce, M. Wallis
Sub.: Z. Skinner

Geelong
Back: M. Scarlett, T. Lonergan, J. Hunt
Half-back: C. Enright, H. Taylor, A. Mackie
Centre: S. Johnson, J. Selwood (capt.), J. Bartel
Half-forward: C. Guthrie, J. Podsiadly, S. Motlop
Forward: O. Stephenson, T. Hawkins, M. Stokes
Follower: T. West, J. Corey, T. Hunt
Int.: P. Chapman, M. Duncan, J. Stringer
Sub.: J. Simpkin

Western Bulldogs (11.9.75) were defeated by Geelong (14.11.95).

Goalkickers
Western Bulldogs: D. Giansiracusa (3), S. Higgins (3), T. Dickson, L. Jones, T. Liberatore, Z. Skinner, M. Wallis
Geelong: T. Hawkins (3), S. Motlop (3), P. Chapman (2), J. Bartel, T. Hunt, A. Mackie, J. Podsiadly, J. Selwood, T. West

As a result of this match, Western Bulldogs were then 13th on the ladder (down from 11th) and Geelong were then 9th on the ladder (up from 10th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 9
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Geelong
Date: Friday 25 May 2012
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: Etihad Stadium
Attendance: 29,118

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. by Geelong
Score: 11.9.75 - 14.11.95

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Western Bulldogs	1	.	1	6	.	2	8	.	5	11	.	9	11	.	9	(75)
Geelong	3	.	5	6	.	9	9	.	9	14	.	11	14	.	11	(95)
Margin	GEEL by 16			GEEL by 7			GEEL by 10			GEEL by 20			GEEL by 20
Duration	28:29			29:46			26:10			32:40			1:57:05

Honour Roll

Coaches: Brendan McCartney (Western Bulldogs), Chris Scott (Geelong)
Captains: Matthew Boyd (Western Bulldogs), Joel Selwood (Geelong)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. McInerney (#30), A. Mitchell (#31), T. Pannell (#28), E: S. Wenn (#22)
Goal Umpire: M. Hammond, C. Roffey, E: M. Canning
Boundary Umpire: M. Foster, S. Jones, D. Kowalski, P. Tongue

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Steve Johnson	GEEL	20	3
Bob Murphy	WBUL	2	2
Paul Chapman	GEEL	35	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Steve Johnson	GEEL	20	8	?	?	?	0	0
Matthew Boyd	WBUL	5	5	?	?	?	?	?
Corey Enright	GEEL	44	5	?	?	?	?	?
Tom Liberatore	WBUL	21	5	?	?	?	?	?
Paul Chapman	GEEL	35	3	0	0	?	?	?
Tom Hawkins	GEEL	26	2	0	0	0	?	?
Andrew Mackie	GEEL	4	2	0	0	0	?	?

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
47	Austin, Mark	CHB	94%	0	0	7	3	4	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
5	Boyd, Matthew (c)	C	90%	0	0	35	16	19	5	0	3	6	1	1	0	3	4
17	Cooney, Adam	FPL	83%	0	0	21	11	10	2	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	3
4	Cross, Daniel	HBFL	90%	0	0	17	7	10	2	2	4	0	1	2	0	1	2
40	Dahlhaus, Luke	INT	84%	0	0	19	10	9	4	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	7
29	Dickson, Tory	FPR	88%	1	0	14	6	8	3	0	5	0	1	1	0	0	1
13	Giansiracusa, Daniel	HFFR	90%	3	0	11	10	1	3	0	6	1	5	1	4	0	5
16	Griffen, Ryan	RR	84%	0	0	25	15	10	4	0	2	3	4	2	1	1	3
25	Hargrave, Ryan	BPR	90%	0	0	19	10	9	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	1
7	Higgins, Shaun	HFFL	85%	3	0	13	6	7	2	0	4	3	2	0	0	1	1
19	Jones, Liam	FF	88%	1	2	13	11	2	5	0	1	0	4	3	2	0	4
36	Lake, Brian	FB	93%	0	0	15	11	4	4	0	1	0	2	1	2	4	2
21	Liberatore, Tom	WL	75%	1	0	24	11	13	4	0	4	9	2	1	0	4	0
27	Minson, Will	RU	89%	0	0	21	12	9	0	32	2	3	1	0	0	1	2
2	Murphy, Bob	BPL	92%	0	0	29	14	15	2	0	0	3	2	0	0	7	1
20	Pearce, Daniel	INT	75%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1
42	Picken, Liam	RO	84%	0	1	14	9	5	1	0	5	1	2	0	1	2	3
23	Roughead, Jordan	CHF	88%	0	3	14	8	6	3	4	5	2	2	2	1	0	4
11	Sherman, Justin	WR	77%	0	0	14	7	7	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1
26	Skinner, Zephaniah	SUB↑	31%	1	1	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
8	Veszpremi, Patrick	HBFR↓	58%	0	1	9	4	5	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	0
3	Wallis, Mitch	INT	72%	1	0	24	10	14	4	0	5	5	1	1	1	3	1
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				11	9	370	197	173	62	38	60	45	36	16	13	32	48

Z. Skinner replaced P. Veszpremi during the third quarter.

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Bartel, Jimmy	WR	89%	1	0	21	11	10	4	0	8	2	3	0	0	0	1
35	Chapman, Paul	INT	77%	2	2	27	18	9	8	0	5	4	1	1	0	0	3
11	Corey, Joel	RR	92%	0	0	26	13	13	3	3	3	4	5	0	1	1	7
22	Duncan, Mitch	INT	82%	0	0	14	13	1	7	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	5
44	Enright, Corey	HBFL	90%	0	0	21	17	4	9	0	3	0	1	2	1	6	1
29	Guthrie, Cameron	HFFL	79%	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0
26	Hawkins, Tom	FF	90%	3	2	19	11	8	6	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	4
8	Hunt, Josh	BPR	77%	0	0	19	12	7	5	0	3	0	2	2	0	4	1
19	Hunt, Taylor	RO	86%	1	0	16	5	11	4	0	8	4	3	2	1	0	3
20	Johnson, Steve	WL	93%	0	1	37	26	11	14	0	2	2	4	0	0	4	5
13	Lonergan, Tom	FB	91%	0	0	5	3	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	3	0
4	Mackie, Andrew	HBFR	84%	1	0	22	13	9	5	0	3	0	4	0	1	3	0
32	Motlop, Steven	HFFR	81%	3	1	17	9	8	2	0	2	2	3	1	1	0	3
31	Podsiadly, James	CHF	91%	1	1	6	6	0	4	1	1	1	2	0	1	0	2
30	Scarlett, Matthew	BPL	95%	0	0	17	12	5	8	0	4	0	3	1	3	4	0
14	Selwood, Joel (c)	C	88%	1	0	22	16	6	4	1	5	3	0	1	0	2	1
46	Simpkin, Jonathan	SUB↑	24%	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
23	Stephenson, Orren	FPL	86%	0	0	10	6	4	4	30	2	1	2	0	1	1	2
27	Stokes, Mathew	FPR	86%	0	1	14	10	4	9	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	3
41	Stringer, Jesse	INT	81%	0	0	17	6	11	2	0	7	3	2	0	1	1	2
7	Taylor, Harry	CHB	85%	0	0	12	8	4	6	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	0
12	West, Trent	RU↓	52%	1	1	10	7	3	3	8	0	0	2	1	0	0	4
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				14	11	362	226	136	110	44	66	29	46	13	16	34	48

J. Simpkin replaced T. West.

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: Brendan McCartney
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	30	M. Scarlett	13	T. Lonergan	8	J. Hunt	27	W. Minson	40	L. Dahlhaus
	29	T. Dickson	19	L. Jones	17	A. Cooney	16	R. Griffen	20	D. Pearce
FORWARD							42	L. Picken	3	M. Wallis
HALF-BACK									26	Z. Skinner
	44	C. Enright	7	H. Taylor	4	A. Mackie
	13	D. Giansiracusa	23	J. Roughead	7	S. Higgins
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	20	S. Johnson	14	J. Selwood (c)	3	J. Bartel
	11	J. Sherman	5	M. Boyd (c)	21	T. Liberatore	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							12	T. West	35	P. Chapman
HALF-FORWARD							11	J. Corey	22	M. Duncan
	29	C. Guthrie	31	J. Podsiadly	32	S. Motlop	19	T. Hunt	41	J. Stringer
	8	P. Veszpremi	47	M. Austin	4	D. Cross			46	J. Simpkin
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	23	O. Stephenson	26	T. Hawkins	27	M. Stokes
	25	R. Hargrave	36	B. Lake	2	B. Murphy
BACK
Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Andrew Mackie goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:28
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	04:47
	GEEL	Rushed behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	06:50
	GEEL	Joel Selwood goal	0.0.0	-	2.2.14	07:22
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	0.0.0	-	2.3.15	12:25
	GEEL	Trent West goal	0.0.0	-	3.3.21	15:07
	WBUL	Patrick Veszpremi behind	0.1.1	-	3.3.21	16:58
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	1.1.7	-	3.3.21	19:56
	GEEL	Paul Chapman behind	1.1.7	-	3.4.22	22:03
	GEEL	James Podsiadly behind	1.1.7	-	3.5.23	22:52
Q2	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	2.1.13	-	3.5.23	02:42
	GEEL	Steven Motlop goal	2.1.13	-	4.5.29	04:00
	GEEL	Steven Motlop behind	2.1.13	-	4.6.30	08:39
	GEEL	Taylor Hunt goal	2.1.13	-	5.6.36	10:20
	WBUL	Tory Dickson goal	3.1.19	-	5.6.36	11:53
	GEEL	Steve Johnson behind	3.1.19	-	5.7.37	15:32
	WBUL	Liam Jones goal	4.1.25	-	5.7.37	17:15
	WBUL	Liam Picken behind	4.2.26	-	5.7.37	19:32
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	4.2.26	-	6.7.43	22:01
	GEEL	Trent West behind	4.2.26	-	6.8.44	23:02
	WBUL	Mitch Wallis goal	5.2.32	-	6.8.44	26:23
	GEEL	Rushed behind	5.2.32	-	6.9.45	28:09
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	6.2.38	-	6.9.45	29:41
Q3	WBUL	Tom Liberatore goal	7.2.44	-	6.9.45	03:54
	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	7.2.44	-	7.9.51	07:46
	GEEL	Paul Chapman goal	7.2.44	-	8.9.57	09:19
	WBUL	Jordan Roughead behind	7.3.45	-	8.9.57	11:56
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	8.3.51	-	8.9.57	15:23
	WBUL	Rushed behind	8.4.52	-	8.9.57	18:44
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	8.4.52	-	9.9.63	19:52
	WBUL	Liam Jones behind	8.5.53	-	9.9.63	24:31
Q4	WBUL	Jordan Roughead behind	8.6.54	-	9.9.63	01:08
	WBUL	Jordan Roughead behind	8.7.55	-	9.9.63	03:06
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	8.7.55	-	10.9.69	06:54
	GEEL	Paul Chapman behind	8.7.55	-	10.10.70	08:54
	GEEL	Steven Motlop goal	8.7.55	-	11.10.76	10:41
	WBUL	Daniel Giansiracusa goal	9.7.61	-	11.10.76	12:58
	WBUL	Shaun Higgins goal	10.7.67	-	11.10.76	14:14
	WBUL	Zephaniah Skinner goal	11.7.73	-	11.10.76	15:24
	GEEL	Steven Motlop goal	11.7.73	-	12.10.82	18:18
	GEEL	Jimmy Bartel goal	11.7.73	-	13.10.88	20:16
	WBUL	Zephaniah Skinner behind	11.8.74	-	13.10.88	21:21
	WBUL	Liam Jones behind	11.9.75	-	13.10.88	22:21
	GEEL	Mathew Stokes behind	11.9.75	-	13.11.89	24:48
	GEEL	James Podsiadly goal	11.9.75	-	14.11.95	28:41

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