2018 AFL Season Elimination Final 2: Sydney v Greater Western Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 8 September 2018 between Sydney and Greater Western Sydney in the second elimination final of the 2018 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Greater Western Sydney at the SCG. Josh Kennedy captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Leon Cameron.

Sydney (4.6.30) were defeated by Greater Western Sydney (10.19.79).

Match Details

Season: 2018 AFL Season
Round: Second Elimination Final
Teams: Sydney v Greater Western Sydney
Date: Saturday 8 September 2018
Time: 4:20 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 40,350

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. by Greater Western Sydney
Score: 4.6.30 - 10.19.79

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	1	.	4	2	.	4	2	.	6	4	.	6	4	.	6	(30)
Greater Western Sydney	2	.	3	4	.	7	7	.	11	10	.	19	10	.	19	(79)
Margin	GWSY by 5			GWSY by 15			GWSY by 35			GWSY by 49			GWSY by 49
Duration	27:59			27:56			28:29			28:23			1:52:47

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: Josh Kennedy
Coach: John Longmire

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Leon Cameron

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

D. Margetts (#6)
M. Stevic (#9)
N. Williamson (#22)

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Toby Greene	GWSY	4	9	1	1	0	0	0
Phil Davis	GWSY	1	8	1	0	1	0	0
Callan Ward	GWSY	8	7	0	1	1	0	0
Harry Himmelberg	GWSY	27	4	0	0	0	2	0
Stephen Coniglio	GWSY	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
Lachie Whitfield	GWSY	6	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Aliir, Aliir	CHB	90%	0	0	15	7	8	8	0	0	1	1	1	0	6	0
7	Cunningham, Harry	WL	90%	0	0	25	15	10	7	0	5	0	0	1	0	3	1
13	Florent, Oliver	INT	75%	0	0	11	8	3	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	1
23	Franklin, Lance	FF	87%	0	1	8	5	3	2	0	0	0	5	0	2	0	0
39	Grundy, Heath	FB	79%	0	0	15	11	4	7	0	0	0	1	2	0	4	0
4	Hannebery, Dan	RO	73%	0	1	24	17	7	8	0	3	5	3	2	2	2	5
9	Hayward, Will	INT	72%	0	0	8	5	3	4	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	WR	85%	0	1	20	13	7	4	2	3	4	5	1	2	1	5
29	Hewett, George	HFFR	86%	0	0	17	7	10	3	0	5	2	3	1	2	3	0
15	Jack, Kieren	INT	65%	0	0	15	11	4	2	0	6	1	1	0	0	1	2
10	Jones, Zak	RR	86%	0	0	17	8	9	3	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	2
12	Kennedy, Josh (c)	C	79%	0	0	27	9	18	3	0	3	2	6	0	1	4	2
44	Lloyd, Jake	BPR	88%	0	0	17	15	2	9	0	0	1	1	0	0	7	1
30	McCartin, Tom	CHF	73%	0	0	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	2
3	McVeigh, Jarrad	HBFR	87%	0	0	14	11	3	5	0	2	3	1	1	0	0	4
28	Newman, Nic	INT	76%	0	0	15	12	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	5	1
11	Papley, Tom	FPR	87%	2	2	17	12	5	5	0	1	4	1	0	0	1	4
26	Parker, Luke	FPL	97%	1	0	21	15	6	6	0	9	3	8	0	3	2	2
24	Rampe, Dane	BPL	94%	0	0	17	10	7	6	0	2	1	4	1	4	6	1
27	Robinson, Dan	HBFL	70%	0	0	14	10	4	8	0	2	1	2	0	0	4	1
25	Ronke, Ben	HFFL	69%	1	0	10	5	5	2	0	1	0	6	0	3	0	1
18	Sinclair, Callum	RU	92%	0	0	8	6	2	0	33	3	3	3	1	2	1	2
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				4	6	338	215	123	101	35	53	31	58	14	24	52	38

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
21	Buntine, Matt	BPL	81%	0	0	14	8	6	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	1
18	Cameron, Jeremy	FF	94%	2	3	14	11	3	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	4
3	Coniglio, Stephen	C	83%	1	0	27	19	8	3	0	5	4	4	1	1	2	2
1	Davis, Phil	FB	96%	0	0	18	8	10	10	0	2	0	1	2	0	1	0
24	de Boer, Matt	HFFR	85%	1	0	17	5	12	1	0	3	1	3	0	1	0	2
7	Deledio, Brett	INT	74%	0	0	22	12	10	7	0	4	0	4	1	2	1	5
4	Greene, Toby	FPL	76%	3	3	27	23	4	9	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	8
19	Haynes, Nick	CHB	91%	0	0	20	17	3	8	0	1	1	1	2	0	7	2
27	Himmelberg, Harry	CHF	90%	2	2	23	11	12	9	0	4	1	4	1	1	1	4
2	Hopper, Jacob	INT	73%	0	3	26	18	8	5	0	5	2	7	2	1	0	2
22	Kelly, Josh	WR	20%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1
40	Kennedy, Adam	HBFR	89%	0	0	16	12	4	5	0	1	0	3	2	0	1	1
17	Langdon, Zac	FPR	70%	0	0	8	3	5	2	0	4	1	1	0	0	1	0
37	Lobb, Rory	RU	91%	0	0	8	5	3	2	37	3	0	4	1	1	1	3
36	Perryman, Harry	BPR	81%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
50	Reid, Sam	INT	82%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	2	1	1	2	0	3	1
5	Shiel, Dylan	RO	81%	0	1	23	18	5	3	0	4	6	4	2	1	0	9
14	Taranto, Tim	HFFL	96%	0	0	18	7	11	3	0	5	4	2	0	0	1	3
20	Tomlinson, Adam	INT	94%	0	0	21	15	6	7	5	1	3	4	0	1	2	5
8	Ward, Callan	RR	89%	1	2	29	12	17	3	0	1	7	5	2	4	2	4
6	Whitfield, Lachie	WL	88%	0	2	29	18	11	8	0	5	3	1	2	0	5	3
29	Williams, Zac	HBFL	74%	0	0	23	20	3	9	0	4	0	1	1	1	3	3
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				10	19	415	262	153	111	42	59	38	58	24	14	34	63

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

Sydney							Coach: John Longmire
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	21	M. Buntine	1	P. Davis	36	H. Perryman	18	C. Sinclair	13	O. Florent
	11	T. Papley	23	L. Franklin	26	L. Parker	10	Z. Jones	9	W. Hayward
FORWARD							4	D. Hannebery	15	K. Jack
HALF-BACK									28	N. Newman
	29	Z. Williams	19	N. Haynes	40	A. Kennedy
	29	G. Hewett	30	T. McCartin	25	B. Ronke
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	6	L. Whitfield	3	S. Coniglio	22	J. Kelly
	5	I. Heeney	12	J. Kennedy (c)	7	H. Cunningham	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							37	R. Lobb	7	B. Deledio
HALF-FORWARD							8	C. Ward	2	J. Hopper
	14	T. Taranto	27	H. Himmelberg	24	M. de Boer	5	D. Shiel	50	S. Reid
	3	J. McVeigh	36	A. Aliir	27	D. Robinson			20	A. Tomlinson
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	4	T. Greene	18	J. Cameron	17	Z. Langdon
	44	J. Lloyd	39	H. Grundy	24	D. Rampe
BACK
Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Leon Cameron

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Dan Hannebery behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	04:26
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	0.1.1	-	0.1.1	04:59
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	0.2.2	-	0.1.1	09:18
	SYDN	Ben Ronke goal	1.2.8	-	0.1.1	10:13
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	13:09
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	15:21
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	2.1.13	18:58
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron behind	1.3.9	-	2.2.14	22:07
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	1.4.10	-	2.2.14	23:49
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron behind	1.4.10	-	2.3.15	26:00
Q2	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	2.4.16	-	2.3.15	07:11
	GWSY	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	2.4.16	08:45
	GWSY	Lachie Whitfield behind	2.4.16	-	2.5.17	10:59
	GWSY	Matt de Boer goal	2.4.16	-	3.5.23	13:06
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	2.4.16	-	3.6.24	23:50
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg goal	2.4.16	-	4.6.30	25:26
	GWSY	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	4.7.31	27:18
Q3	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg goal	2.4.16	-	5.7.37	06:54
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	2.5.17	-	5.7.37	11:41
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	2.5.17	-	6.7.43	13:04
	GWSY	Jacob Hopper behind	2.5.17	-	6.8.44	15:36
	GWSY	Callan Ward behind	2.5.17	-	6.9.45	17:51
	GWSY	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	6.10.46	19:08
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	2.6.18	-	6.10.46	20:36
	GWSY	Jacob Hopper behind	2.6.18	-	6.11.47	22:19
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron goal	2.6.18	-	7.11.53	23:28
Q4	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	2.6.18	-	8.11.59	02:38
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg behind	2.6.18	-	8.12.60	05:06
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg behind	2.6.18	-	8.13.61	06:06
	GWSY	Callan Ward goal	2.6.18	-	9.13.67	07:07
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron behind	2.6.18	-	9.14.68	10:46
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron goal	2.6.18	-	10.14.74	12:19
	GWSY	Jacob Hopper behind	2.6.18	-	10.15.75	14:52
	GWSY	Lachie Whitfield behind	2.6.18	-	10.16.76	20:54
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	2.6.18	-	10.17.77	22:34
	SYDN	Luke Parker goal	3.6.24	-	10.17.77	23:00
	GWSY	Callan Ward behind	3.6.24	-	10.18.78	24:34
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	4.6.30	-	10.18.78	26:07
	GWSY	Dylan Shiel behind	4.6.30	-	10.19.79	27:54

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