2017 AFL Season Semi Final 2: Geelong v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 15 September 2017 between Geelong and Sydney in the second semi final of the 2017 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong hosted Sydney at the MCG. Joel Selwood captained the hosts. Josh Kennedy captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

Geelong (15.8.98) defeated Sydney (5.9.39).

Match Details

Season: 2017 AFL Season
Round: Second Semi Final
Teams: Geelong v Sydney
Date: Friday 15 September 2017
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 55,529

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Sydney
Score: 15.8.98 - 5.9.39

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	3	.	1	9	.	4	13	.	4	15	.	8	15	.	8	(98)
Sydney	2	.	2	3	.	4	4	.	9	5	.	9	5	.	9	(39)
Margin	GEEL by 5			GEEL by 36			GEEL by 49			GEEL by 59			GEEL by 59
Duration	31:10			30:00			29:59			26:33			1:57:42

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Geelong) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Sydney) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: Joel Selwood
Coach: Chris Scott

Sydney

Captain: Josh Kennedy
Coach: John Longmire

Match Umpires

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Bews, Jed	HBFR	85%	0	0	19	13	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
46	Blicavs, Mark	WR	89%	1	0	19	6	13	1	0	14	3	3	3	1	0	2
35	Dangerfield, Patrick	RR	95%	4	3	26	18	8	8	0	4	2	3	3	0	0	3
22	Duncan, Mitch	WL	82%	2	0	36	24	12	14	0	3	4	3	1	1	2	6
39	Guthrie, Zach	INT	75%	0	0	13	8	5	6	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	1
26	Hawkins, Tom	FF	95%	1	0	13	7	6	3	0	2	1	6	1	0	0	2
25	Henderson, Lachie	CHB	94%	0	0	22	17	5	13	0	1	0	3	0	2	6	1
8	Kolodjashnij, Jake	FB	78%	0	0	18	10	8	7	0	3	2	2	0	0	2	5
11	Lang, Darcy	INT	70%	0	1	24	16	8	10	0	6	1	1	1	0	2	2
4	Mackie, Andrew	HBFL	91%	0	0	21	14	7	8	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	4
27	Menegola, Sam	INT	66%	2	1	26	16	10	7	0	8	2	2	1	1	0	1
10	Menzel, Daniel	FPL	80%	2	1	12	10	2	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	4
32	Motlop, Steven	HFFL	83%	1	0	23	15	8	3	0	6	1	3	1	0	2	4
3	Parfitt, Brandan	HFFR	78%	0	0	17	10	7	0	0	1	3	5	1	0	0	6
34	Parsons, James	INT	67%	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	5	0	4	0	4	0	1
14	Selwood, Joel (c)	C	80%	0	0	18	11	7	3	0	2	3	7	1	1	0	2
16	Selwood, Scott	RO	86%	0	0	26	7	19	7	0	10	7	5	1	4	1	0
9	Smith, Zac	RU	82%	1	0	19	7	12	2	30	1	4	2	0	0	1	2
1	Stanley, Rhys	FPR	74%	1	1	13	7	6	7	6	4	0	2	1	0	0	4
44	Stewart, Tom	BPL	58%	0	0	11	6	5	3	0	2	0	4	0	1	1	0
7	Taylor, Harry	CHF	97%	0	0	24	14	10	9	0	3	0	1	3	1	4	0
2	Tuohy, Zach	BPR	97%	0	0	25	18	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	7	1
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				15	8	430	256	174	129	36	83	33	62	19	17	33	53

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Cunningham, Harry	INT	63%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	3	0	1	1	0	1	1
23	Franklin, Lance	CHF	92%	0	3	14	10	4	4	0	3	1	5	1	2	0	5
39	Grundy, Heath	FB	91%	0	0	11	6	5	1	0	3	0	5	0	1	2	2
4	Hannebery, Dan	RR	84%	0	0	27	7	20	1	0	5	3	5	2	3	3	0
5	Heeney, Isaac	WL	86%	0	0	20	12	8	4	0	5	5	2	0	0	1	3
29	Hewett, George	INT	79%	0	1	16	8	8	3	0	6	0	3	0	0	0	3
15	Jack, Kieren	FPL	65%	1	0	23	14	9	3	0	6	6	5	2	0	1	5
10	Jones, Zak	HBFR	91%	0	0	17	8	9	4	0	3	2	5	2	1	3	1
12	Kennedy, Josh (c)	C	86%	0	0	20	7	13	2	0	4	3	1	1	1	0	3
44	Lloyd, Jake	WR	86%	0	0	20	12	8	2	0	4	0	2	0	0	7	1
3	McVeigh, Jarrad	HBFL	87%	1	1	19	13	6	4	0	1	1	4	1	1	3	2
14	Mills, Callum	BPR	81%	1	0	17	10	7	2	0	2	0	4	0	1	3	0
35	Naismith, Sam	RU	69%	0	0	8	3	5	1	31	5	3	1	0	0	0	0
28	Newman, Nic	INT	73%	0	1	17	11	6	2	0	2	2	1	2	1	3	2
41	Papley, Tom	HFFR	74%	1	0	10	8	2	2	0	2	2	5	1	2	0	4
26	Parker, Luke	RO	84%	0	1	13	5	8	1	0	5	4	3	2	0	0	3
24	Rampe, Dane	CHB	99%	0	0	11	4	7	6	0	1	0	4	0	3	3	0
20	Reid, Sam	FPR	93%	1	0	9	6	3	4	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	2
16	Rohan, Gary	HFFL	86%	0	0	7	6	1	0	0	4	1	4	0	1	2	2
18	Sinclair, Callum	FF	68%	0	0	2	1	1	0	9	1	0	3	0	1	0	0
40	Smith, Nick	BPL	89%	0	0	8	2	6	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	Towers, Dean	INT	75%	0	0	12	5	7	3	1	9	3	2	0	0	4	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				5	9	311	164	147	53	41	76	36	67	17	19	37	41

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

Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	40	N. Smith	39	H. Grundy	14	C. Mills	9	Z. Smith	39	Z. Guthrie
	1	R. Stanley	26	T. Hawkins	10	D. Menzel	35	P. Dangerfield	11	D. Lang
FORWARD							16	S. Selwood	27	S. Menegola
HALF-BACK									34	J. Parsons
	3	J. McVeigh	24	D. Rampe	10	Z. Jones
	3	B. Parfitt	7	H. Taylor	32	S. Motlop
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	5	I. Heeney	12	J. Kennedy (c)	44	J. Lloyd
	46	M. Blicavs	14	J. Selwood (c)	22	M. Duncan	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							35	S. Naismith	7	H. Cunningham
HALF-FORWARD							4	D. Hannebery	29	G. Hewett
	16	G. Rohan	23	L. Franklin	41	T. Papley	26	L. Parker	28	N. Newman
	24	J. Bews	25	L. Henderson	4	A. Mackie			22	D. Towers
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	15	K. Jack	18	C. Sinclair	20	S. Reid
	2	Z. Tuohy	8	J. Kolodjashnij	44	T. Stewart
BACK
Sydney							Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Sam Reid goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	02:31
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	04:06
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	07:16
	SYDN	Kieren Jack goal	2.0.12	-	2.0.12	14:24
	GEEL	Sam Menegola goal	3.0.18	-	2.0.12	18:40
	SYDN	Nic Newman behind	3.0.18	-	2.1.13	21:25
	SYDN	Luke Parker behind	3.0.18	-	2.2.14	24:41
	GEEL	Daniel Menzel behind	3.1.19	-	2.2.14	29:26
Q2	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	02:00
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan goal	4.2.26	-	2.2.14	04:35
	GEEL	Rhys Stanley goal	5.2.32	-	2.2.14	10:33
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	6.2.38	-	2.2.14	12:41
	SYDN	George Hewett behind	6.2.38	-	2.3.15	15:55
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	6.3.39	-	2.3.15	17:15
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan goal	7.3.45	-	2.3.15	18:10
	GEEL	Zac Smith goal	8.3.51	-	2.3.15	20:57
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	8.4.52	-	2.3.15	23:47
	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh goal	8.4.52	-	3.3.21	24:49
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	8.4.52	-	3.4.22	26:57
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	9.4.58	-	3.4.22	28:37
Q3	GEEL	Daniel Menzel goal	10.4.64	-	3.4.22	01:12
	SYDN	Rushed behind	10.4.64	-	3.5.23	03:02
	SYDN	Jarrad McVeigh behind	10.4.64	-	3.6.24	04:27
	SYDN	Rushed behind	10.4.64	-	3.7.25	05:29
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	10.4.64	-	3.8.26	06:15
	GEEL	Steven Motlop goal	11.4.70	-	3.8.26	09:53
	GEEL	Daniel Menzel goal	12.4.76	-	3.8.26	20:22
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	12.4.76	-	3.9.27	22:20
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	12.4.76	-	4.9.33	27:32
	GEEL	Sam Menegola goal	13.4.82	-	4.9.33	29:07
Q4	GEEL	Mark Blicavs goal	14.4.88	-	4.9.33	02:36
	GEEL	Rushed behind	14.5.89	-	4.9.33	04:53
	SYDN	Callum Mills goal	14.5.89	-	5.9.39	05:48
	GEEL	Darcy Lang behind	14.6.90	-	5.9.39	15:38
	GEEL	Sam Menegola behind	14.7.91	-	5.9.39	19:14
	GEEL	Rhys Stanley behind	14.8.92	-	5.9.39	21:09
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	15.8.98	-	5.9.39	23:20

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2017 AFL Season Semi Final 2: Geelong v Sydney

Match Details

Match Results

Quarter Breakdown

Score Worm

Honour Roll

Geelong

Sydney

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

Goal Umpires

Boundary Umpires

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player Statistics

Geelong

Sydney

Legend

Player Line-Up

Score Timeline

Links