2020 AFL Season Round 17: Greater Western Sydney v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 12 September 2020 between Greater Western Sydney and Melbourne during round seventeen of the 2020 season of the Australian Football League. Greater Western Sydney hosted Melbourne at the Gabba. Max Gawn captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Leon Cameron and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Greater Western Sydney (11.8.74) were defeated by Melbourne (12.7.79).

Match Details

Season: 2020 AFL Season
Round: Round 17
Teams: Greater Western Sydney v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 12 September 2020
Time: 7:40 PM
Venue: Gabba
Attendance: 1,204

Match Results

Outcome: Greater Western Sydney def. by Melbourne
Score: 11.8.74 - 12.7.79

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Greater Western Sydney	2	.	3	7	.	5	10	.	7	11	.	8	11	.	8	(74)
Melbourne	5	.	2	7	.	5	9	.	6	12	.	7	12	.	7	(79)
Margin	MELB by 17			level			GWSY by 7			MELB by 5			MELB by 5
Duration	29:43			29:07			25:41			25:27			1:49:58

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Leon Cameron

Melbourne

Captain: Max Gawn
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. O'Gorman (#10)
M. Stevic (#9)
N. Williamson (#22)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Clayton Oliver	MELB	13	3
Brent Daniels	GWSY	16	2
Jack Viney	MELB	7	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Brent Daniels	GWSY	16	6	?	?	?	?	?
Steven May	MELB	1	6	?	?	?	?	?
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	6	?	?	?	?	?
Josh Kelly	GWSY	22	5	?	?	?	?	?
Ed Langdon	MELB	15	4	0	?	?	?	?
Tom Green	GWSY	12	2	0	0	0	1	0
Max Gawn	MELB	11	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
44	Buckley, Jack	INT	79%	0	0	12	5	7	3	0	3	1	0	2	0	2	2
18	Cameron, Jeremy	HFFL	82%	1	0	12	5	7	2	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	2
16	Daniels, Brent	FPR	89%	3	0	16	12	4	3	0	3	1	6	0	3	0	4
24	de Boer, Matt	HFFR	86%	1	0	9	6	3	0	0	3	0	2	1	1	1	1
31	Finlayson, Jeremy	FF	77%	1	2	13	9	4	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1
12	Green, Tom	INT	67%	0	0	30	8	22	2	0	3	4	3	0	0	0	2
4	Greene, Toby	FPL	91%	0	3	15	11	4	3	0	5	1	4	1	2	1	4
19	Haynes, Nick	CHB	88%	0	0	10	7	3	5	0	1	0	4	1	0	2	2
27	Himmelberg, Harry	CHF	88%	0	0	5	2	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
2	Hopper, Jacob	C	80%	0	1	21	13	8	4	0	5	5	1	1	0	3	4
39	Idun, Connor	BPL	78%	0	0	4	2	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
25	Keeffe, Lachie	FB	91%	0	0	7	7	0	3	0	5	0	3	0	1	2	2
22	Kelly, Josh	RR	89%	0	1	24	20	4	2	0	5	4	2	1	0	2	10
40	Kennedy, Adam	HBFL	83%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	2	1	3	0	0	2	0
38	Lloyd, Daniel	INT	64%	2	0	8	5	3	2	0	3	0	3	2	1	1	1
41	Mumford, Shane	RU	87%	0	0	7	4	3	3	19	7	3	5	2	4	1	3
36	Perryman, Harry	WR	81%	1	0	18	10	8	1	0	3	3	1	1	0	2	3
50	Reid, Sam	INT	80%	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	1
23	Shaw, Heath	BPR	91%	0	0	5	3	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	1	0
14	Taranto, Tim	RO	75%	0	0	15	7	8	0	0	3	3	3	1	2	0	3
6	Whitfield, Lachie	WL	91%	0	0	22	10	12	3	0	1	3	3	1	0	5	2
29	Williams, Zac	HBFR	61%	2	0	17	12	5	4	0	4	1	2	1	0	1	2
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				11	8	287	168	119	49	21	67	32	51	15	16	27	52

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
33	Baker, Oskar	HBFL	69%	2	0	14	10	4	3	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	3
38	Brown, Mitch	FPL	82%	0	0	13	11	2	7	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
31	Fritsch, Bayley	HFFR	89%	1	1	8	7	1	4	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	1
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	96%	0	0	15	11	4	1	43	4	8	3	2	1	1	2
29	Hunt, Jayden	INT	71%	1	1	5	4	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0
39	Jetta, Neville	INT	60%	0	0	7	2	5	1	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	1
15	Langdon, Ed	WL	93%	0	1	23	19	4	9	0	0	4	5	0	2	4	3
8	Lever, Jake	BPR	85%	0	0	11	8	3	6	0	5	0	2	0	0	5	0
1	May, Steven	FB	96%	0	0	19	18	1	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	8	2
18	Melksham, Jake	FF	74%	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	5	2	5	0	1	0	1
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	INT	64%	1	0	9	6	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
13	Oliver, Clayton	RO	85%	0	0	23	11	12	2	0	7	7	4	1	1	0	4
5	Petracca, Christian	C	94%	1	1	22	13	9	1	0	4	6	3	2	1	0	2
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	HFFL	69%	1	3	15	8	7	4	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
24	Rivers, Trent	CHB	82%	2	0	16	10	6	2	0	4	2	3	4	0	2	2
3	Salem, Christian	HBFR	93%	1	0	19	13	6	4	0	5	1	2	1	0	5	3
44	Smith, Joel	BPL	89%	0	0	4	3	1	2	0	2	0	3	1	2	2	0
9	Spargo, Charlie	FPR	64%	2	0	13	7	6	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
20	Tomlinson, Adam	WR	95%	0	0	7	5	2	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	4	0
22	vandenBerg, Aaron	INT	73%	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	4	3	1	0	0	1	2
7	Viney, Jack	RR	83%	0	0	14	8	6	4	0	3	1	4	0	3	3	3
26	Weideman, Sam	CHF	92%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Rushed					0
Total (22 players)				12	7	289	192	97	78	44	55	36	48	16	15	39	39

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

Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Leon Cameron
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	44	J. Smith	1	S. May	8	J. Lever	41	S. Mumford	44	J. Buckley
	16	B. Daniels	31	J. Finlayson	4	T. Greene	22	J. Kelly	12	T. Green
FORWARD							14	T. Taranto	38	D. Lloyd
HALF-BACK									50	S. Reid
	33	O. Baker	24	T. Rivers	3	C. Salem
	24	M. de Boer	27	H. Himmelberg	18	J. Cameron
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	15	E. Langdon	5	C. Petracca	20	A. Tomlinson
	36	H. Perryman	2	J. Hopper	6	L. Whitfield	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	29	J. Hunt
HALF-FORWARD							7	J. Viney	39	N. Jetta
	36	K. Pickett	26	S. Weideman	31	B. Fritsch	13	C. Oliver	30	A. Neal-Bullen
	29	Z. Williams	19	N. Haynes	40	A. Kennedy			22	A. vandenBerg
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	38	M. Brown	18	J. Melksham	9	C. Spargo
	23	H. Shaw	25	L. Keeffe	39	C. Idun
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Ed Langdon behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:05
	MELB	Oskar Baker goal	0.0.0	-	1.1.7	02:40
	MELB	Jayden Hunt behind	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	05:41
	GWSY	Jacob Hopper behind	0.1.1	-	1.2.8	07:24
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen goal	0.1.1	-	2.2.14	10:16
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	0.2.2	-	2.2.14	12:48
	MELB	Charlie Spargo goal	0.2.2	-	3.2.20	13:47
	GWSY	Daniel Lloyd goal	1.2.8	-	3.2.20	19:38
	GWSY	Harry Perryman goal	2.2.14	-	3.2.20	21:50
	MELB	Jayden Hunt goal	2.2.14	-	4.2.26	24:46
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	2.2.14	-	5.2.32	27:22
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	2.3.15	-	5.2.32	29:37
Q2	GWSY	Josh Kelly behind	2.4.16	-	5.2.32	00:18
	GWSY	Brent Daniels goal	3.4.22	-	5.2.32	02:05
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	3.4.22	-	5.3.33	05:40
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	3.4.22	-	5.4.34	06:25
	MELB	Oskar Baker goal	3.4.22	-	6.4.40	09:59
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson behind	3.5.23	-	6.4.40	11:37
	GWSY	Zac Williams goal	4.5.29	-	6.4.40	15:58
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	4.5.29	-	7.4.46	18:32
	GWSY	Daniel Lloyd goal	5.5.35	-	7.4.46	20:10
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson goal	6.5.41	-	7.4.46	22:14
	GWSY	Matt de Boer goal	7.5.47	-	7.4.46	25:09
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	7.5.47	-	7.5.47	27:38
Q3	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	7.6.48	-	7.5.47	01:25
	MELB	Trent Rivers goal	7.6.48	-	8.5.53	03:22
	GWSY	Brent Daniels goal	8.6.54	-	8.5.53	07:46
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	8.6.54	-	8.6.54	14:38
	GWSY	Zac Williams goal	9.6.60	-	8.6.54	15:13
	GWSY	Jeremy Cameron goal	10.6.66	-	8.6.54	17:21
	MELB	Christian Salem goal	10.6.66	-	9.6.60	20:49
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson behind	10.7.67	-	9.6.60	22:32
Q4	MELB	Charlie Spargo goal	10.7.67	-	10.6.66	04:19
	GWSY	Rushed behind	10.8.68	-	10.6.66	07:19
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	10.8.68	-	11.6.72	10:49
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	10.8.68	-	11.7.73	16:37
	MELB	Trent Rivers goal	10.8.68	-	12.7.79	19:04
	GWSY	Brent Daniels goal	11.8.74	-	12.7.79	23:22

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