2018 AFL Season Preliminary Final 2: West Coast v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 22 September 2018 between West Coast and Melbourne in the second preliminary final of the 2018 season of the Australian Football League. West Coast hosted Melbourne at Optus Stadium. Shannon Hurn captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Adam Simpson and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

West Coast (18.13.121) defeated Melbourne (7.13.55).

Match Details

Season: 2018 AFL Season
Round: Second Preliminary Final
Teams: West Coast v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 22 September 2018
Time: 1:20 PM
Venue: Optus Stadium
Attendance: 59,608

Match Results

Outcome: West Coast def. Melbourne
Score: 18.13.121 - 7.13.55

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
West Coast	4	.	8	10	.	9	15	.	10	18	.	13	18	.	13	(121)
Melbourne	0	.	3	0	.	6	5	.	9	7	.	13	7	.	13	(55)
Margin	WCST by 29			WCST by 63			WCST by 61			WCST by 66			WCST by 66
Duration	30:40			31:10			33:01			29:48			2:04:39

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

West Coast

Captain: Shannon Hurn
Coach: Adam Simpson

Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Chamberlain (#18)
S. Meredith (#21)
M. Nicholls (#15)

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Jack Redden	WCST	8	10	2	0	0	0	0
Jamie Cripps	WCST	15	6	0	?	?	?	0
Shannon Hurn	WCST	25	6	0	?	?	?	0
Josh Kennedy	WCST	17	6	0	?	?	?	0
Jack Darling	WCST	27	1	0	0	0	0	1
Scott Lycett	WCST	29	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

West Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
37	Barrass, Tom	FB	86%	0	0	13	12	1	7	2	2	0	0	1	0	6	2
28	Cole, Tom	INT	90%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	4	0	1	1	0	2	0
15	Cripps, Jamie	FPR	87%	3	1	24	14	10	3	0	6	5	2	1	0	2	4
27	Darling, Jack	CHF	89%	3	3	17	14	3	7	0	1	0	3	4	1	0	1
14	Duggan, Liam	HBFL	85%	0	0	19	15	4	8	0	3	1	3	1	1	3	1
25	Hurn, Shannon (c)	BPL	91%	0	0	24	21	3	8	0	3	1	1	0	0	7	1
34	Hutchings, Mark	WL	89%	1	0	12	6	6	2	0	6	2	2	0	2	0	3
23	Jetta, Lewis	HBFR	75%	0	0	14	10	4	4	0	0	1	3	1	1	0	4
17	Kennedy, Josh	FF	79%	4	0	13	10	3	7	0	4	0	3	2	1	0	1
2	LeCras, Mark	HFFL	88%	3	2	12	8	4	3	0	3	1	1	1	0	0	4
29	Lycett, Scott	RU	69%	0	0	7	3	4	1	20	3	2	4	0	2	0	1
7	Masten, Chris	WR	83%	0	0	17	8	9	6	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	1
20	McGovern, Jeremy	CHB	66%	0	0	17	13	4	4	0	0	1	2	3	0	8	3
8	Redden, Jack	RO	88%	1	0	31	19	12	13	0	9	5	1	0	0	4	6
44	Rioli, Willie	FPL	76%	1	2	14	10	4	6	0	0	2	4	0	4	1	1
1	Ryan, Liam	HFFR	80%	1	1	18	14	4	4	0	2	3	2	4	1	2	3
31	Schofield, Will	BPR	91%	0	0	8	4	4	4	1	0	1	2	0	1	2	0
4	Sheed, Dom	INT	89%	0	0	27	13	14	7	0	1	5	1	0	0	0	2
13	Shuey, Luke	C	75%	0	0	21	18	3	3	0	1	4	4	0	0	2	6
19	Vardy, Nathan	INT	61%	0	0	5	2	3	1	8	2	2	2	1	1	0	1
18	Venables, Daniel	INT	77%	1	1	17	8	9	2	0	2	0	2	3	1	0	3
6	Yeo, Elliot	RR	85%	0	0	23	15	8	6	0	6	4	10	0	4	2	4
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				18	13	363	243	120	110	31	59	40	55	23	21	42	52

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Brayshaw, Angus	INT	75%	0	1	29	18	11	6	0	2	2	8	1	3	2	7
17	Frost, Sam	CHB	85%	0	0	7	6	1	3	0	1	0	2	1	1	3	1
11	Gawn, Max	RU	85%	0	1	11	9	2	3	36	0	3	1	1	0	0	2
19	Hannan, Mitch	WL	81%	1	1	11	6	5	3	0	0	0	4	0	3	0	2
4	Harmes, James	WR	86%	1	0	24	13	11	4	0	3	4	8	1	2	4	4
14	Hibberd, Michael	HBFR	89%	0	0	14	8	6	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	2
39	Jetta, Neville	BPL	86%	0	0	10	4	6	0	0	3	0	2	2	0	2	1
2	Jones, Nathan	C	79%	0	0	18	10	8	2	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	3
6	Lewis, Jordan	BPR	82%	0	0	18	10	8	3	0	1	0	5	0	1	4	2
28	McDonald, Oscar	FB	94%	0	0	11	6	5	4	0	0	0	3	0	3	1	1
25	McDonald, Tom	CHF	91%	0	0	13	9	4	5	3	2	0	0	1	0	1	3
18	Melksham, Jake	HFFL	89%	2	1	10	8	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	FPR	81%	0	0	12	7	5	4	0	6	0	3	1	0	0	1
13	Oliver, Clayton	RR	80%	1	1	27	5	22	4	0	3	3	4	2	0	0	1
5	Petracca, Christian	FF	86%	0	2	21	11	10	1	1	2	2	4	2	2	0	5
3	Salem, Christian	INT	80%	0	0	19	13	6	3	0	1	0	3	1	2	6	3
44	Smith, Joel	HBFL	87%	1	2	12	6	6	1	0	3	1	4	3	2	2	2
9	Spargo, Charlie	HFFR	73%	0	1	10	5	5	4	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1
12	Tyson, Dom	INT	64%	0	0	14	3	11	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	0
22	vandenBerg, Aaron	FPL	82%	0	1	19	11	8	3	0	3	3	2	1	1	0	6
7	Viney, Jack	RO	81%	0	0	21	4	17	2	0	2	11	6	2	0	0	3
26	Weideman, Sam	INT	64%	1	1	7	5	2	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				7	13	338	177	161	65	42	34	32	67	21	23	33	53

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

West Coast							Coach: Adam Simpson
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	39	N. Jetta	28	O. McDonald	6	J. Lewis	29	S. Lycett	28	T. Cole
	15	J. Cripps	17	J. Kennedy	44	W. Rioli	6	E. Yeo	4	D. Sheed
FORWARD							8	J. Redden	19	N. Vardy
HALF-BACK									18	D. Venables
	44	J. Smith	17	S. Frost	14	M. Hibberd
	1	L. Ryan	27	J. Darling	2	M. LeCras
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	19	M. Hannan	2	N. Jones	4	J. Harmes
	7	C. Masten	13	L. Shuey	34	M. Hutchings	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn	10	A. Brayshaw
HALF-FORWARD							13	C. Oliver	3	C. Salem
	18	J. Melksham	25	T. McDonald	9	C. Spargo	7	J. Viney	12	D. Tyson
	23	L. Jetta	20	J. McGovern	14	L. Duggan			26	S. Weideman
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	22	A. vandenBerg	5	C. Petracca	30	A. Neal-Bullen
	31	W. Schofield	37	T. Barrass	25	S. Hurn (c)
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WCST	Willie Rioli behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:08
	WCST	Josh Kennedy goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	04:45
	MELB	Jake Melksham behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	07:16
	MELB	Joel Smith behind	1.1.7	-	0.2.2	08:22
	WCST	Jamie Cripps goal	2.1.13	-	0.2.2	09:08
	MELB	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	0.3.3	11:21
	WCST	Jack Darling behind	2.2.14	-	0.3.3	14:23
	WCST	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	0.3.3	14:51
	WCST	Jack Darling goal	3.3.21	-	0.3.3	16:21
	WCST	Jack Darling behind	3.4.22	-	0.3.3	18:08
	WCST	Daniel Venables behind	3.5.23	-	0.3.3	19:23
	WCST	Mark LeCras behind	3.6.24	-	0.3.3	21:08
	WCST	Rushed behind	3.7.25	-	0.3.3	25:18
	WCST	Rushed behind	3.8.26	-	0.3.3	27:17
	WCST	Jamie Cripps goal	4.8.32	-	0.3.3	28:11
Q2	WCST	Josh Kennedy goal	5.8.38	-	0.3.3	00:47
	WCST	Josh Kennedy goal	6.8.44	-	0.3.3	02:29
	WCST	Willie Rioli behind	6.9.45	-	0.3.3	06:48
	WCST	Liam Ryan goal	7.9.51	-	0.3.3	08:27
	WCST	Mark LeCras goal	8.9.57	-	0.3.3	10:13
	MELB	Clayton Oliver behind	8.9.57	-	0.4.4	16:15
	WCST	Josh Kennedy goal	9.9.63	-	0.4.4	18:43
	MELB	Charlie Spargo behind	9.9.63	-	0.5.5	21:59
	WCST	Jack Darling goal	10.9.69	-	0.5.5	24:21
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	10.9.69	-	0.6.6	29:11
Q3	MELB	Clayton Oliver goal	10.9.69	-	1.6.12	00:43
	WCST	Mark LeCras goal	11.9.75	-	1.6.12	02:36
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	11.9.75	-	2.6.18	05:55
	WCST	Jamie Cripps goal	12.9.81	-	2.6.18	09:14
	MELB	Mitch Hannan goal	12.9.81	-	3.6.24	11:18
	MELB	Angus Brayshaw behind	12.9.81	-	3.7.25	13:51
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	12.9.81	-	4.7.31	15:12
	WCST	Daniel Venables goal	13.9.87	-	4.7.31	17:53
	MELB	Mitch Hannan behind	13.9.87	-	4.8.32	19:32
	WCST	Jamie Cripps behind	13.10.88	-	4.8.32	21:02
	WCST	Mark LeCras goal	14.10.94	-	4.8.32	22:10
	MELB	Joel Smith behind	14.10.94	-	4.9.33	27:44
	WCST	Jack Darling goal	15.10.100	-	4.9.33	29:04
	MELB	Joel Smith goal	15.10.100	-	5.9.39	30:31
Q4	MELB	Max Gawn behind	15.10.100	-	5.10.40	00:58
	MELB	James Harmes goal	15.10.100	-	6.10.46	03:11
	WCST	Jack Darling behind	15.11.101	-	6.10.46	04:44
	WCST	Liam Ryan behind	15.12.102	-	6.10.46	06:05
	MELB	Sam Weideman goal	15.12.102	-	7.10.52	10:37
	WCST	Mark Hutchings goal	16.12.108	-	7.10.52	12:57
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	16.12.108	-	7.11.53	14:57
	WCST	Mark LeCras behind	16.13.109	-	7.11.53	17:09
	MELB	Sam Weideman behind	16.13.109	-	7.12.54	19:21
	WCST	Willie Rioli goal	17.13.115	-	7.12.54	21:37
	WCST	Jack Redden goal	18.13.121	-	7.12.54	26:25
	MELB	Aaron vandenBerg behind	18.13.121	-	7.13.55	27:38

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