2012 AFL Round 18: Gold Coast v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 28 July 2012 between Gold Coast and Sydney during round 18 of the 2012 AFL season. Gold Coast hosted Sydney at Metricon Stadium. Gary Ablett captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Guy McKenna and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

Gold Coast
Back: M. Weller, S. May, C. Dixon
Half-back: D. Stanley, M. Warnock, J. Harbrow
Centre: T. Hine, G. Ablett (capt.), J. Caddy
Half-forward: T. McKenzie, T. Lynch, B. Matera
Forward: L. Russell, J. Brennan, C. Brown
Follower: Z. Smith, K. Hunt, D. Swallow
Int.: H. Bennell, D. Prestia, M. Shaw
Sub.: L. Patrick

Sydney
Back: R. Shaw, H. Grundy, A. Johnson
Half-back: N. Smith, T. Richards, M. Mattner
Centre: A. Goodes, J. Bolton, L. Jetta
Half-forward: D. Hannebery, S. Reid, B. McGlynn
Forward: J. McVeigh, R. O'Keefe, L. Roberts-Thomson
Follower: M. Pyke, J. Kennedy, K. Jack
Int.: T. Dennis-Lane, N. Malceski, L. Parker
Sub.: C. Bird

Gold Coast (8.6.54) were defeated by Sydney (19.12.126).

Goalkickers
Gold Coast: B. Matera (3), Z. Smith (2), G. Ablett, C. Brown, T. Lynch
Sydney: L. Roberts-Thomson (4), J. Bolton (3), A. Goodes (3), T. Dennis-Lane (2), K. Jack (2), C. Bird, D. Hannebery, L. Jetta, J. Kennedy, J. McVeigh

As a result of this match, Gold Coast remained 17th on the ladder and Sydney remained 1st on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2012 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Gold Coast v Sydney
Date: Saturday 28 July 2012
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: Metricon Stadium
Attendance: 11,169

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. by Sydney
Score: 8.6.54 - 19.12.126

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Gold Coast	2	.	1	5	.	2	7	.	4	8	.	6	8	.	6	(54)
Sydney	6	.	3	8	.	7	16	.	9	19	.	12	19	.	12	(126)
Margin	SYDN by 26			SYDN by 23			SYDN by 59			SYDN by 72			SYDN by 72
Duration	30:40			28:47			32:10			27:07			1:58:44

Honour Roll

Coaches: Guy McKenna (Gold Coast), John Longmire (Sydney)
Captains: Gary Ablett (Gold Coast), unknown (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Fleer (#2), M. Leppard (#11), S. Wenn (#22), E: A. Stephens (#39)
Goal Umpire: T. Mavroudis, C. Roffey, E: S. Apted
Boundary Umpire: A. Deckys, N. Liparota, N. Wade, D. Wilson

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Ryan O'Keefe	SYDN	5	3
Jude Bolton	SYDN	24	2
Gary Ablett	GCST	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Ryan O'Keefe	SYDN	5	10	2	0	0	0	0
Gary Ablett	GCST	9	5	0	?	?	?	?
Kieren Jack	SYDN	15	5	0	?	?	?	?
Jude Bolton	SYDN	24	4	0	?	?	?	?
Josh Kennedy	SYDN	12	3	0	0	?	?	?
Lewis Roberts-Thomson	SYDN	30	2	0	0	0	1	0
Mike Pyke	SYDN	38	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ablett, Gary (c)	C	95%	1	1	43	24	19	2	0	9	7	7	5	3	2	6
11	Bennell, Harley	INT	84%	0	1	28	13	15	4	0	2	2	4	0	0	2	4
3	Brennan, Jared	FF	88%	0	0	21	9	12	3	3	7	3	1	3	0	1	3
30	Brown, Campbell	FPR	84%	1	1	10	9	1	3	0	1	2	2	2	1	0	4
28	Caddy, Josh	WR	67%	0	0	16	9	7	7	2	6	2	2	0	1	2	2
23	Dixon, Charlie	BPR	87%	0	1	12	7	5	5	11	2	1	2	1	2	1	2
5	Harbrow, Jarrod	HBFR	96%	0	0	25	12	13	3	0	6	2	3	2	2	2	2
29	Hine, Taylor	WL	85%	0	0	26	10	16	1	0	1	2	5	1	0	1	2
7	Hunt, Karmichael	RR	68%	0	0	14	3	11	2	3	6	0	5	1	3	2	0
19	Lynch, Tom	CHF	94%	1	0	17	9	8	6	1	1	0	3	1	1	1	0
32	Matera, Brandon	HFFR	83%	3	1	18	14	4	3	0	1	3	4	1	2	1	1
45	May, Steven	FB	97%	0	0	12	9	3	5	0	1	0	2	0	1	2	0
18	McKenzie, Trent	HFFL	94%	0	0	25	13	12	6	0	1	4	2	0	0	3	2
43	Patrick, Liam	SUB↑	42%	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
41	Prestia, Dion	INT	67%	0	0	24	8	16	0	0	2	6	6	1	1	1	1
8	Russell, Luke	FPL	79%	0	0	19	9	10	4	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	2
26	Shaw, Matt	INT	79%	0	0	12	7	5	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	2
2	Smith, Zac	RU	89%	2	0	12	2	10	2	15	1	3	1	3	1	1	0
25	Stanley, Danny	HBFL	91%	0	0	21	6	15	3	0	3	2	1	0	1	0	1
24	Swallow, David	RO↓	41%	0	0	6	2	4	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
14	Warnock, Matthew	CHB	97%	0	0	17	12	5	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
4	Weller, Maverick	BPL	92%	0	0	16	4	12	2	0	4	1	0	0	0	1	0
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				8	6	401	195	206	74	35	61	40	53	25	20	33	37

L. Patrick replaced D. Swallow.

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Bird, Craig	SUB↑	61%	1	0	18	6	12	5	0	5	0	1	0	1	0	4
24	Bolton, Jude	C	88%	3	2	23	12	11	7	0	7	2	1	1	0	0	5
8	Dennis-Lane, Trent	INT	81%	2	1	11	7	4	3	0	5	0	4	0	2	0	2
37	Goodes, Adam	WL	87%	3	2	16	12	4	2	0	2	0	1	3	1	0	2
39	Grundy, Heath	FB	100%	0	0	23	15	8	5	0	0	0	4	1	2	9	1
4	Hannebery, Dan	HFFL	80%	1	0	21	12	9	8	0	3	1	4	0	2	2	4
15	Jack, Kieren	RO	84%	2	0	29	20	9	5	0	5	6	2	3	1	2	5
32	Jetta, Lewis	WR	82%	1	0	16	7	9	3	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	5
34	Johnson, Alex	BPR	92%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	2	0	2	1	2	3	1
12	Kennedy, Josh	RR	90%	1	0	33	9	24	4	0	3	9	2	0	2	0	2
9	Malceski, Nick	INT	76%	0	0	15	12	3	3	0	3	1	2	0	1	5	3
29	Mattner, Martin	HBFR	77%	0	0	7	4	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0
21	McGlynn, Ben	HFFR	88%	0	1	16	11	5	3	0	2	5	3	2	2	0	2
3	McVeigh, Jarrad	FPL	87%	1	1	24	18	6	5	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	5
5	O'Keefe, Ryan	FF	87%	0	2	36	15	21	3	0	8	10	2	4	1	0	2
26	Parker, Luke	INT	74%	0	1	12	5	7	1	0	5	2	3	0	2	0	3
38	Pyke, Mike	RU	82%	0	0	9	4	5	2	47	2	2	0	2	0	0	2
20	Reid, Sam	CHF↓	11%	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Richards, Ted	CHB	100%	0	0	14	9	5	7	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	2
30	Roberts-Thomson, Lewis	FPR	90%	4	0	12	8	4	3	2	6	1	2	0	1	0	2
2	Shaw, Rhyce	BPL	86%	0	0	22	16	6	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	5	1
40	Smith, Nick	HBFL	97%	0	0	17	10	7	4	0	3	0	1	1	1	2	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				19	12	386	218	168	82	49	73	44	40	20	24	29	55

C. Bird 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

Gold Coast							Coach: Guy McKenna
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	2	R. Shaw	39	H. Grundy	34	A. Johnson	2	Z. Smith	11	H. Bennell
	30	C. Brown	3	J. Brennan	8	L. Russell	7	K. Hunt	41	D. Prestia
FORWARD							24	D. Swallow	26	M. Shaw
HALF-BACK									43	L. Patrick
	40	N. Smith	25	T. Richards	29	M. Mattner
	32	B. Matera	19	T. Lynch	18	T. McKenzie
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	37	A. Goodes	24	J. Bolton	32	L. Jetta
	28	J. Caddy	9	G. Ablett (c)	29	T. Hine	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							38	M. Pyke	8	T. Dennis-Lane
HALF-FORWARD							12	J. Kennedy	9	N. Malceski
	4	D. Hannebery	20	S. Reid	21	B. McGlynn	15	K. Jack	26	L. Parker
	5	J. Harbrow	14	M. Warnock	25	D. Stanley			14	C. Bird
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	3	J. McVeigh	5	R. O'Keefe	30	L. Roberts-Thomson
	23	C. Dixon	45	S. May	4	M. Weller
BACK
Sydney							Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Lewis Roberts-Thomson goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:09
	GCST	Gary Ablett goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	03:33
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	10:22
	GCST	Campbell Brown behind	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	13:48
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	16:13
	SYDN	Lewis Jetta goal	1.1.7	-	3.1.19	20:03
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	1.1.7	-	3.2.20	22:22
	SYDN	Lewis Roberts-Thomson goal	1.1.7	-	4.2.26	25:16
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	1.1.7	-	5.2.32	26:10
	SYDN	Jude Bolton behind	1.1.7	-	5.3.33	28:07
	SYDN	Kieren Jack goal	1.1.7	-	6.3.39	28:37
	GCST	Zac Smith goal	2.1.13	-	6.3.39	30:34
Q2	SYDN	Jude Bolton behind	2.1.13	-	6.4.40	02:16
	SYDN	Jude Bolton goal	2.1.13	-	7.4.46	03:23
	GCST	Tom Lynch goal	3.1.19	-	7.4.46	05:12
	GCST	Zac Smith goal	4.1.25	-	7.4.46	08:04
	SYDN	Trent Dennis-Lane goal	4.1.25	-	8.4.52	11:20
	GCST	Charlie Dixon behind	4.2.26	-	8.4.52	15:08
	GCST	Brandon Matera goal	5.2.32	-	8.4.52	18:15
	SYDN	Luke Parker behind	5.2.32	-	8.5.53	19:25
	SYDN	Adam Goodes behind	5.2.32	-	8.6.54	21:33
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe behind	5.2.32	-	8.7.55	27:37
Q3	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh behind	5.2.32	-	8.8.56	02:39
	SYDN	Kieren Jack goal	5.2.32	-	9.8.62	03:47
	GCST	Campbell Brown goal	6.2.38	-	9.8.62	04:47
	SYDN	Craig Bird goal	6.2.38	-	10.8.68	08:38
	SYDN	Trent Dennis-Lane goal	6.2.38	-	11.8.74	12:30
	SYDN	Josh Kennedy goal	6.2.38	-	12.8.80	13:44
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	6.2.38	-	13.8.86	14:58
	SYDN	Dan Hannebery goal	6.2.38	-	14.8.92	17:26
	GCST	Harley Bennell behind	6.3.39	-	14.8.92	19:36
	GCST	Brandon Matera goal	7.3.45	-	14.8.92	20:59
	SYDN	Ben McGlynn behind	7.3.45	-	14.9.93	24:39
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	7.3.45	-	15.9.99	25:36
	SYDN	Adam Goodes goal	7.3.45	-	16.9.105	27:25
	GCST	Brandon Matera behind	7.4.46	-	16.9.105	29:13
Q4	SYDN	Rushed behind	7.4.46	-	16.10.106	01:08
	SYDN	Lewis Roberts-Thomson goal	7.4.46	-	17.10.112	02:53
	GCST	Brandon Matera goal	8.4.52	-	17.10.112	04:29
	GCST	Rushed behind	8.5.53	-	17.10.112	06:55
	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh goal	8.5.53	-	18.10.118	11:53
	SYDN	Ryan O'Keefe behind	8.5.53	-	18.11.119	14:06
	SYDN	Trent Dennis-Lane behind	8.5.53	-	18.12.120	16:07
	GCST	Gary Ablett behind	8.6.54	-	18.12.120	20:54
	SYDN	Lewis Roberts-Thomson goal	8.6.54	-	19.12.126	27:01

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