2020 AFL Round 1: Adelaide v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 21 March 2020 between Adelaide and Sydney during round 1 of the 2020 AFL season. Adelaide hosted Sydney at Adelaide Oval. Rory Sloane captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Matthew Nicks and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

Adelaide
Back: L. Brown, D. Talia, R. Laird
Half-back: W. Milera, F. McAsey, B. Smith
Centre: P. Seedsman, J. Kelly, T. Walker
Half-forward: R. Atkins, B. Frampton, T. Lynch
Forward: B. Davis, D. Fogarty, T. Stengle
Follower: R. O'Brien, B. Crouch, R. Sloane (capt.)
Int.: M. Crouch, B. Gibbs, C. Jones, L. Murphy

Sydney
Back: J. Lloyd, D. Rampe, K. Brand
Half-back: C. Mills, T. McCartin, A. Aliir
Centre: H. Cunningham, L. Parker, S. Gray
Half-forward: W. Hayward, N. Blakey, L. Taylor
Forward: O. Florent, I. Heeney, J. Dawson
Follower: S. Naismith, J. Kennedy, T. Papley
Int.: J. McInerney, C. O'Riordan, B. Ronke, J. Rowbottom

Adelaide (11.5.71) were defeated by Sydney (11.8.74).

Goalkickers
Adelaide: T. Lynch (2), T. Walker (2), R. Atkins, B. Davis, D. Fogarty, C. Jones, L. Murphy, R. Sloane, T. Stengle
Sydney: I. Heeney (4), W. Hayward (2), N. Blakey, S. Gray, J. Kennedy, T. McCartin, T. Papley

As a result of this match, Adelaide were then 11th on the ladder and Sydney were then 8th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2020 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Adelaide v Sydney
Date: Saturday 21 March 2020
Time: 4:35 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. by Sydney
Score: 11.5.71 - 11.8.74

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Adelaide 6 . 0 7 . 1 9 . 2 11 . 5 11 . 5 (71)
Sydney 3 . 0 8 . 3 11 . 4 11 . 8 11 . 8 (74)
Margin ADEL by 18 SYDN by 8 SYDN by 14 SYDN by 3 SYDN by 3
Duration 26:52 25:08 26:00 23:28 1:41:28

Honour Roll

Coaches: Matthew Nicks (Adelaide), John Longmire (Sydney)
Captains: Rory Sloane (Adelaide), unknown (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Fleer (#26), D. Harris (#24), L. Haussen (#5)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Isaac Heeney SYDN 5 3
Luke Parker SYDN 26 2
Josh Kennedy SYDN 12 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Isaac Heeney SYDN 5 10 2 0 0 0 0
Luke Parker SYDN 26 7 0 1 1 0 0
Josh Kennedy SYDN 12 5 0 1 0 0 1
Oliver Florent SYDN 13 3 0 0 1 0 0
Rory Laird ADEL 29 2 0 0 0 1 0
Dane Rampe SYDN 24 2 0 0 0 1 0
Wayne Milera ADEL 30 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
21 Atkins, Rory HFFL 79% 1 0 14 6 8 1 0 5 0 2 0 0 2 1
16 Brown, Luke BPL 87% 0 0 11 9 2 2 0 1 1 3 0 0 5 1
2 Crouch, Brad RR 77% 0 0 20 10 10 0 0 4 5 4 1 3 1 6
5 Crouch, Matt INT 73% 0 0 18 7 11 1 0 3 3 2 0 0 1 3
40 Davis, Ben FPL 85% 1 0 5 4 1 2 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 2
32 Fogarty, Darcy FF 84% 1 0 8 4 4 4 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 1
22 Frampton, Billy CHF 90% 0 0 9 6 3 2 11 2 1 4 1 3 1 0
6 Gibbs, Bryce INT 75% 0 0 7 2 5 1 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 0
1 Jones, Chayce INT 81% 1 1 6 6 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 1
8 Kelly, Jake C 95% 0 0 8 5 3 2 0 3 0 3 2 2 2 1
29 Laird, Rory BPR 81% 0 0 19 11 8 4 0 2 2 2 1 0 2 5
27 Lynch, Tom HFFR 83% 2 0 14 11 3 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 2 3
35 McAsey, Fischer CHB 85% 0 0 5 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
30 Milera, Wayne HBFL 80% 0 0 15 10 5 5 0 2 0 1 0 0 4 1
4 Murphy, Lachlan INT 77% 1 1 10 6 4 2 0 6 0 3 1 0 0 2
43 O'Brien, Reilly RU 81% 0 0 11 3 8 2 22 3 0 3 1 2 1 3
11 Seedsman, Paul WL 84% 0 0 14 10 4 2 0 4 2 5 0 1 3 2
9 Sloane, Rory (c) RO 80% 1 1 17 6 11 1 0 7 9 2 4 2 1 5
33 Smith, Brodie HBFR 60% 0 1 7 6 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
18 Stengle, Tyson FPR 86% 1 0 11 3 8 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Talia, Daniel FB 95% 0 0 13 9 4 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3
13 Walker, Taylor WR 82% 2 1 7 5 2 2 1 2 0 3 1 2 0 3
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 11 5 249 142 107 41 34 56 25 44 18 21 30 45

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
36 Aliir, Aliir HBFR 88% 0 0 11 6 5 3 4 2 2 2 0 2 2 1
22 Blakey, Nick CHF 74% 1 1 8 5 3 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
2 Brand, Kaiden BPR 86% 0 0 11 8 3 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 1
7 Cunningham, Harry WL 83% 0 0 12 10 2 3 0 2 1 3 0 1 3 4
34 Dawson, Jordan FPR 83% 0 0 18 12 6 4 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 1
13 Florent, Oliver FPL 79% 0 1 21 15 6 2 0 2 6 1 0 0 1 5
15 Gray, Sam WR 84% 1 0 16 9 7 3 0 3 0 4 2 0 0 2
9 Hayward, Will HFFL 89% 2 0 4 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Heeney, Isaac FF 86% 4 1 16 12 4 5 0 4 0 2 1 0 2 1
12 Kennedy, Josh RR 79% 1 0 25 13 12 2 0 7 10 5 2 1 2 3
44 Lloyd, Jake BPL 91% 0 0 17 10 7 4 0 1 1 3 1 2 4 2
30 McCartin, Tom CHB 81% 1 1 11 7 4 3 2 1 1 1 2 0 0 2
27 McInerney, Justin INT 69% 0 0 15 7 8 1 0 2 1 3 3 1 1 0
14 Mills, Callum HBFL 96% 0 0 18 11 7 4 0 3 0 3 1 0 2 1
10 Naismith, Sam RU 84% 0 0 11 9 2 1 28 4 5 2 3 1 3 3
38 O'Riordan, Colin INT 76% 0 0 15 7 8 3 0 2 1 3 1 2 1 1
11 Papley, Tom RO 91% 1 2 15 11 4 6 0 3 2 3 0 0 0 2
26 Parker, Luke C 86% 0 0 30 16 14 5 0 6 12 5 1 1 2 4
24 Rampe, Dane FB 92% 0 0 10 8 2 4 0 3 0 2 1 1 2 0
25 Ronke, Ben INT 61% 0 0 9 6 3 1 0 6 1 5 1 3 0 2
8 Rowbottom, James INT 61% 0 1 11 9 2 1 0 3 2 2 1 1 1 5
28 Taylor, Lewis HFFR 82% 0 1 9 7 2 5 0 4 0 1 0 0 1 1
Rushed 0
Total (22 players) 11 8 313 200 113 68 34 63 46 54 21 18 33 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

Adelaide Coach: Matthew Nicks
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
44 J. Lloyd 24 D. Rampe 2 K. Brand 43 R. O'Brien 5 M. Crouch
18 T. Stengle 32 D. Fogarty 40 B. Davis 2 B. Crouch 6 B. Gibbs
FORWARD 9 R. Sloane (c) 1 C. Jones
HALF-BACK

4 L. Murphy
14 C. Mills 30 T. McCartin 36 A. Aliir



27 T. Lynch 22 B. Frampton 21 R. Atkins



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



7 H. Cunningham 26 L. Parker 15 S. Gray



13 T. Walker 8 J. Kelly 11 P. Seedsman FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 10 S. Naismith 27 J. McInerney
HALF-FORWARD 12 J. Kennedy 38 C. O'Riordan
9 W. Hayward 22 N. Blakey 28 L. Taylor 11 T. Papley 25 B. Ronke
33 B. Smith 35 F. McAsey 30 W. Milera

8 J. Rowbottom
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



13 O. Florent 5 I. Heeney 34 J. Dawson



29 R. Laird 12 D. Talia 16 L. Brown



BACK



Sydney Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 SYDN Isaac Heeney goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 01:27
ADEL Taylor Walker goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 08:54
ADEL Darcy Fogarty goal 2.0.12 - 1.0.6 11:15
SYDN Josh Kennedy goal 2.0.12 - 2.0.12 13:24
ADEL Taylor Walker goal 3.0.18 - 2.0.12 14:45
SYDN Will Hayward goal 3.0.18 - 3.0.18 17:16
ADEL Tom Lynch goal 4.0.24 - 3.0.18 18:42
ADEL Tyson Stengle goal 5.0.30 - 3.0.18 20:07
ADEL Rory Atkins goal 6.0.36 - 3.0.18 23:41
Q2 SYDN Will Hayward goal 6.0.36 - 4.0.24 01:58
SYDN Nick Blakey behind 6.0.36 - 4.1.25 03:51
SYDN Tom Papley behind 6.0.36 - 4.2.26 05:01
SYDN Nick Blakey goal 6.0.36 - 5.2.32 05:52
SYDN Sam Gray goal 6.0.36 - 6.2.38 08:39
SYDN Tom Papley goal 6.0.36 - 7.2.44 09:44
ADEL Rory Sloane goal 7.0.42 - 7.2.44 12:00
SYDN Tom McCartin behind 7.0.42 - 7.3.45 13:44
SYDN Isaac Heeney goal 7.0.42 - 8.3.51 14:20
ADEL Brodie Smith behind 7.1.43 - 8.3.51 18:58
Q3 SYDN Oliver Florent behind 7.1.43 - 8.4.52 01:14
SYDN Tom McCartin goal 7.1.43 - 9.4.58 02:21
ADEL Lachlan Murphy goal 8.1.49 - 9.4.58 04:04
SYDN Isaac Heeney goal 8.1.49 - 10.4.64 05:53
ADEL Lachlan Murphy behind 8.2.50 - 10.4.64 12:49
SYDN Isaac Heeney goal 8.2.50 - 11.4.70 15:02
ADEL Ben Davis goal 9.2.56 - 11.4.70 19:58
Q4 SYDN Tom Papley behind 9.2.56 - 11.5.71 04:15
ADEL Chayce Jones behind 9.3.57 - 11.5.71 08:04
SYDN Isaac Heeney behind 9.3.57 - 11.6.72 10:03
SYDN James Rowbottom behind 9.3.57 - 11.7.73 10:52
ADEL Rory Sloane behind 9.4.58 - 11.7.73 16:27
ADEL Tom Lynch goal 10.4.64 - 11.7.73 16:51
SYDN Lewis Taylor behind 10.4.64 - 11.8.74 19:55
ADEL Chayce Jones goal 11.4.70 - 11.8.74 20:51
ADEL Taylor Walker behind 11.5.71 - 11.8.74 22:37