2018 AFL 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 AFL season. 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
Back: S. Hurn (capt.), T. Barrass, W. Schofield
Half-back: L. Duggan, J. McGovern, L. Jetta
Centre: M. Hutchings, L. Shuey, C. Masten
Half-forward: M. LeCras, J. Darling, L. Ryan
Forward: W. Rioli, J. Kennedy, J. Cripps
Follower: S. Lycett, E. Yeo, J. Redden
Int.: T. Cole, D. Sheed, N. Vardy, D. Venables

Melbourne
Back: N. Jetta, O. McDonald, J. Lewis
Half-back: J. Smith, S. Frost, M. Hibberd
Centre: M. Hannan, N. Jones, J. Harmes
Half-forward: J. Melksham, T. McDonald, C. Spargo
Forward: A. vandenBerg, C. Petracca, A. Neal-Bullen
Follower: M. Gawn, C. Oliver, J. Viney
Int.: A. Brayshaw, C. Salem, D. Tyson, S. Weideman

West Coast (18.13.121) defeated Melbourne (7.13.55).

Goalkickers
West Coast: J. Kennedy (4), J. Cripps (3), J. Darling (3), M. LeCras (3), M. Hutchings, J. Redden, W. Rioli, L. Ryan, D. Venables
Melbourne: J. Melksham (2), M. Hannan, J. Harmes, C. Oliver, J. Smith, S. Weideman

As a result of this match, West Coast faced Collingwood in the grand final and Melbourne were eliminated (finishing 4th overall).

Match Details

Season: 2018 AFL Season
Round: Preliminary Final 2
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

Honour Roll

Coaches: Adam Simpson (West Coast), Simon Goodwin (Melbourne)
Captains: Shannon Hurn (West Coast), unknown (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: 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