2020 AFL Grand Final: Richmond v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 24 October 2020 between Richmond and Geelong in the grand final of the 2020 AFL season. Richmond hosted Geelong at Gabba. Trent Cotchin captained the hosts with Jack Riewoldt as vice-captain. Joel Selwood captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Richmond
Back: N. Broad, D. Grimes, N. Balta
Half-back: L. Baker, N. Vlastuin, B. Houli
Centre: K. McIntosh, D. Prestia, M. Pickett
Half-forward: K. Lambert, J. Castagna, D. Martin
Forward: T. Lynch, J. Riewoldt (vice-capt.), S. Bolton
Follower: T. Nankervis, S. Edwards, T. Cotchin (capt.)
Int.: D. Astbury, J. Graham, D. Rioli, J. Short

Geelong
Back: J. Henry, H. Taylor, J. Kolodjashnij
Half-back: L. Henderson, M. Blicavs, T. Stewart
Centre: M. Duncan, J. Selwood (capt.), S. Menegola
Half-forward: L. Dahlhaus, G. Rohan, G. Miers
Forward: M. O'Connor, T. Hawkins, S. Simpson
Follower: R. Stanley, P. Dangerfield, C. Guthrie
Int.: G. Ablett, J. Bews, B. Parfitt, Z. Tuohy

Richmond (12.9.81) defeated Geelong (7.8.50).

Goalkickers
Richmond: D. Martin (4), D. Prestia (2), J. Riewoldt (2), J. Castagna, K. Lambert, T. Lynch, K. McIntosh
Geelong: S. Menegola (2), P. Dangerfield, M. Duncan, C. Guthrie, T. Hawkins, G. Miers

As a result of this match, Richmond were the premiers and Geelong were the runners-up.

Match Details

Season: 2020 AFL Season
Round: Grand Final
Teams: Richmond v Geelong
Date: Saturday 24 October 2020
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Gabba
Attendance: 29,707

Match Results

Outcome: Richmond def. Geelong
Score: 12.9.81 - 7.8.50

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Richmond 2 . 1 3 . 2 7 . 4 12 . 9 12 . 9 (81)
Geelong 2 . 2 5 . 5 6 . 8 7 . 8 7 . 8 (50)
Margin GEEL by 1 GEEL by 15 RICH by 2 RICH by 31 RICH by 31
Duration 34:16 26:56 27:14 35:23 2:03:49

Honour Roll

Coaches: Damien Hardwick (Richmond), Chris Scott (Geelong)
Captains: Trent Cotchin (Richmond), Joel Selwood (Geelong)
Vice-Captains: Jack Riewoldt (Richmond), unknown (Geelong)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Fleer (#26), S. Meredith (#21), M. Stevic (#9), E: R. Findlay (#23)
Goal Umpire: M. Dervan, S. Piperno, E: S. Axon
Boundary Umpire: I. Burrows, M. Konetschka, M. Marantelli, M. Tomkins, E: C. Gordon

Norm Smith Votes

Player Team # Votes 3 2 1
Dustin Martin RICH 4 15 5 0 0
Jayden Short RICH 15 6 0 3 0
Shane Edwards RICH 10 4 0 0 4
Mitch Duncan GEEL 22 3 0 1 1
Nathan Broad RICH 35 2 0 1 0

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Dustin Martin RICH 4 10 2 0 0 0 0
Jayden Short RICH 15 8 0 2 0 0 0
Shane Edwards RICH 10 5 0 0 1 1 0
Mitch Duncan GEEL 22 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Tom Stewart GEEL 44 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Shai Bolton RICH 29 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Richmond

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
12 Astbury, David INT 86% 0 0 7 5 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0
7 Baker, Liam HBFL 88% 0 0 14 10 4 3 0 2 1 4 0 2 3 4
21 Balta, Noah BPR 67% 0 0 12 9 3 2 2 2 1 4 1 1 1 2
29 Bolton, Shai FPR 88% 0 1 16 11 5 3 0 7 4 1 0 0 1 3
35 Broad, Nathan BPL 96% 0 0 8 7 1 2 0 2 0 3 0 1 2 0
11 Castagna, Jason CHF 81% 1 1 11 8 3 2 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 3
9 Cotchin, Trent (c) RO 82% 0 0 19 13 6 2 0 4 6 5 2 1 3 3
10 Edwards, Shane RR 89% 0 1 27 15 12 0 0 2 9 5 0 1 2 4
34 Graham, Jack INT 87% 0 0 17 7 10 0 0 5 2 3 1 1 2 3
2 Grimes, Dylan FB 100% 0 0 4 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
14 Houli, Bachar HBFR 80% 0 0 11 4 7 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 0
23 Lambert, Kane HFFL 82% 1 0 13 6 7 4 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 2
19 Lynch, Tom FPL 96% 1 1 8 7 1 3 0 3 2 6 0 2 0 3
4 Martin, Dustin HFFR 90% 4 0 21 16 5 1 0 3 5 2 1 0 0 5
33 McIntosh, Kamdyn WL 62% 1 0 13 8 5 3 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 3
25 Nankervis, Toby RU 87% 0 0 8 5 3 0 25 6 4 2 0 2 0 0
50 Pickett, Marlion WR 83% 0 0 14 6 8 0 0 5 0 4 1 0 4 2
3 Prestia, Dion C 79% 2 0 14 7 7 0 0 5 4 5 1 3 1 3
8 Riewoldt, Jack (vc) FF 94% 2 2 9 8 1 3 0 3 0 3 2 0 0 2
17 Rioli, Daniel INT 89% 0 0 6 1 5 1 0 4 0 2 0 1 0 0
15 Short, Jayden INT 86% 0 0 25 18 7 3 0 6 2 2 1 0 7 7
1 Vlastuin, Nick CHB 6% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rushed 3
Total (22 players) 12 9 278 174 104 36 27 73 41 59 11 16 33 49

Geelong

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
4 Ablett, Gary INT 71% 0 0 12 4 8 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4
24 Bews, Jed INT 72% 0 0 9 5 4 0 0 2 1 4 1 1 0 1
46 Blicavs, Mark CHB 77% 0 0 13 4 9 0 10 4 2 6 0 3 1 1
40 Dahlhaus, Luke HFFL 86% 0 0 14 7 7 1 0 3 0 4 2 1 1 3
35 Dangerfield, Patrick RR 93% 1 1 12 7 5 1 0 3 3 2 3 1 1 2
22 Duncan, Mitch WL 88% 1 0 25 19 6 7 0 4 4 2 0 0 3 4
29 Guthrie, Cameron RO 72% 1 1 14 12 2 4 0 3 5 1 0 0 1 3
26 Hawkins, Tom FF 96% 1 2 10 3 7 3 4 3 1 2 0 1 0 1
25 Henderson, Lachie HBFL 93% 0 0 7 5 2 1 0 1 0 3 0 3 4 0
38 Henry, Jack BPL 84% 0 0 14 8 6 3 0 1 1 5 0 0 3 0
8 Kolodjashnij, Jake BPR 96% 0 0 8 6 2 4 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 1
27 Menegola, Sam WR 83% 2 0 13 10 3 5 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2
32 Miers, Gryan HFFR 88% 1 1 14 10 4 5 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 4
42 O'Connor, Mark FPL 78% 0 0 9 3 6 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 3 2
3 Parfitt, Brandan INT 51% 0 0 7 5 2 1 0 7 1 2 0 0 0 2
23 Rohan, Gary CHF 91% 0 0 5 3 2 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1
14 Selwood, Joel (c) C 87% 0 0 21 14 7 3 0 5 6 3 3 0 0 4
37 Simpson, Sam FPR 75% 0 0 12 3 9 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 2
1 Stanley, Rhys RU 83% 0 1 14 10 4 3 29 1 2 2 1 0 2 2
44 Stewart, Tom HBFR 83% 0 0 20 16 4 6 0 3 0 2 1 0 10 1
7 Taylor, Harry FB 92% 0 0 7 1 6 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 0
2 Tuohy, Zach INT 64% 0 1 14 6 8 2 0 1 3 1 0 0 1 0
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 7 8 274 161 113 51 43 51 35 50 16 11 35 40

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

Richmond Coach: Damien Hardwick
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
38 J. Henry 7 H. Taylor 8 J. Kolodjashnij 25 T. Nankervis 12 D. Astbury
29 S. Bolton 8 J. Riewoldt (vc) 19 T. Lynch 10 S. Edwards 34 J. Graham
FORWARD 9 T. Cotchin (c) 17 D. Rioli
HALF-BACK

15 J. Short
25 L. Henderson 46 M. Blicavs 44 T. Stewart



4 D. Martin 11 J. Castagna 23 K. Lambert



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



22 M. Duncan 14 J. Selwood (c) 27 S. Menegola



50 M. Pickett 3 D. Prestia 33 K. McIntosh FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 1 R. Stanley 4 G. Ablett
HALF-FORWARD 35 P. Dangerfield 24 J. Bews
40 L. Dahlhaus 23 G. Rohan 32 G. Miers 29 C. Guthrie 3 B. Parfitt
14 B. Houli 1 N. Vlastuin 7 L. Baker

2 Z. Tuohy
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



42 M. O'Connor 26 T. Hawkins 37 S. Simpson



21 N. Balta 2 D. Grimes 35 N. Broad



BACK



Geelong Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 GEEL Tom Hawkins behind 0.0.0 - 0.1.1 16:03
GEEL Patrick Dangerfield behind 0.0.0 - 0.2.2 18:01
RICH Dion Prestia goal 1.0.6 - 0.2.2 19:43
RICH Kamdyn McIntosh goal 2.0.12 - 0.2.2 21:38
RICH Rushed behind 2.1.13 - 0.2.2 23:30
GEEL Cameron Guthrie goal 2.1.13 - 1.2.8 24:47
GEEL Mitch Duncan goal 2.1.13 - 2.2.14 32:48
Q2 GEEL Patrick Dangerfield goal 2.1.13 - 3.2.20 03:12
GEEL Gryan Miers behind 2.1.13 - 3.3.21 10:37
GEEL Zach Tuohy behind 2.1.13 - 3.4.22 12:04
GEEL Rushed behind 2.1.13 - 3.5.23 13:32
GEEL Sam Menegola goal 2.1.13 - 4.5.29 15:50
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 2.1.13 - 5.5.35 18:25
RICH Shai Bolton behind 2.2.14 - 5.5.35 21:19
RICH Dustin Martin goal 3.2.20 - 5.5.35 23:54
Q3 RICH Jack Riewoldt goal 4.2.26 - 5.5.35 01:13
RICH Jason Castagna goal 5.2.32 - 5.5.35 04:39
GEEL Gryan Miers goal 5.2.32 - 6.5.41 07:49
RICH Jason Castagna behind 5.3.33 - 6.5.41 09:16
GEEL Rhys Stanley behind 5.3.33 - 6.6.42 10:35
RICH Kane Lambert goal 6.3.39 - 6.6.42 12:21
RICH Dustin Martin goal 7.3.45 - 6.6.42 16:17
GEEL Cameron Guthrie behind 7.3.45 - 6.7.43 19:43
GEEL Tom Hawkins behind 7.3.45 - 6.8.44 22:03
RICH Shane Edwards behind 7.4.46 - 6.8.44 25:49
Q4 RICH Dion Prestia goal 8.4.52 - 6.8.44 00:55
RICH Rushed behind 8.5.53 - 6.8.44 07:08
RICH Tom Lynch goal 9.5.59 - 6.8.44 08:45
RICH Rushed behind 9.6.60 - 6.8.44 10:57
RICH Dustin Martin goal 10.6.66 - 6.8.44 13:13
GEEL Sam Menegola goal 10.6.66 - 7.8.50 22:58
RICH Jack Riewoldt behind 10.7.67 - 7.8.50 26:24
RICH Tom Lynch behind 10.8.68 - 7.8.50 30:05
RICH Jack Riewoldt goal 11.8.74 - 7.8.50 31:17
RICH Dustin Martin goal 12.8.80 - 7.8.50 33:06
RICH Jack Riewoldt behind 12.9.81 - 7.8.50 35:05