2021 AFL Round 1: Adelaide v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 20 March 2021 between Adelaide and Geelong during round 1 of the 2021 AFL season. Adelaide hosted Geelong at Adelaide Oval. Rory Sloane captained the hosts. Joel Selwood captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Matthew Nicks and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Adelaide
Back: A. McPherson, J. Butts, L. Brown
Half-back: T. Doedee, B. Smith, J. Kelly
Centre: L. Sholl, R. Sloane (capt.), P. Seedsman
Half-forward: J. Rowe, B. Frampton, N. McHenry
Forward: S. McAdam, T. Walker, L. Murphy
Follower: R. O'Brien, R. Laird, B. Keays
Int.: S. Berry, W. Hamill, T. Lynch, H. Schoenberg
Sub.: M. Hinge

Geelong
Back: L. Henderson, M. Blicavs, M. O'Connor
Half-back: T. Atkins, T. Stewart, J. Kolodjashnij
Centre: I. Smith, J. Selwood (capt.), S. Menegola
Half-forward: J. Clark, G. Rohan, C. Guthrie
Forward: G. Miers, T. Hawkins, J. Jenkins
Follower: R. Stanley, B. Parfitt, P. Dangerfield
Int.: J. Bews, L. Dahlhaus, Z. Guthrie, S. Higgins
Sub.: C. Constable

Adelaide (15.13.103) defeated Geelong (13.13.91).

Goalkickers
Adelaide: T. Walker (5), B. Frampton (2), N. McHenry (2), J. Rowe (2), T. Lynch, S. McAdam, L. Murphy, H. Schoenberg
Geelong: T. Hawkins (2), B. Parfitt (2), I. Smith (2), M. Blicavs, L. Dahlhaus, C. Guthrie, S. Menegola, G. Miers, G. Rohan, R. Stanley

As a result of this match, Adelaide were then 7th on the ladder and Geelong were then 12th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Adelaide v Geelong
Date: Saturday 20 March 2021
Time: 4:05 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 26,985

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. Geelong
Score: 15.13.103 - 13.13.91

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Adelaide	4	.	4	11	.	7	13	.	9	15	.	13	15	.	13	(103)
Geelong	2	.	3	5	.	5	10	.	8	13	.	13	13	.	13	(91)
Margin	ADEL by 13			ADEL by 38			ADEL by 19			ADEL by 12			ADEL by 12
Duration	32:51			39:09			29:38			30:40			2:12:18

Honour Roll

Coaches: Matthew Nicks (Adelaide), Chris Scott (Geelong)
Captains: Rory Sloane (Adelaide), Joel Selwood (Geelong)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: R. Chamberlain (#18), S. Meredith (#21), B. Wallace (#33), E: G. Lewis (#44)
Goal Umpire: S. Axon, D. Hoskin, E: P. Challen
Boundary Umpire: C. Bull, M. Konetschka, J. Moore, M. Thomson

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Taylor Walker	ADEL	13	3
Rory Laird	ADEL	29	2
Ben Keays	ADEL	2	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Taylor Walker	ADEL	13	10	2	0	0	0	0
Rory Laird	ADEL	29	4	0	1	0	0	0
Brodie Smith	ADEL	33	4	0	1	0	0	0
Ben Keays	ADEL	2	3	0	0	1	0	0
Rory Sloane	ADEL	9	3	0	0	1	0	0
Jordon Butts	ADEL	41	2	0	0	0	1	0
Lachlan Sholl	ADEL	38	2	0	0	0	1	0
Mark Blicavs	GEEL	46	1	0	0	0	0	1
Tom Stewart	GEEL	44	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	Berry, Sam	INT	80%	0	1	8	6	2	1	0	7	3	2	2	2	0	2
16	Brown, Luke	BPR↓	23%	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
41	Butts, Jordon	FB	93%	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	0	0	3	1	0	5	0
39	Doedee, Tom	HBFL	84%	0	0	13	9	4	4	0	4	1	0	2	0	5	1
22	Frampton, Billy	CHF	90%	2	2	14	10	4	8	7	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
17	Hamill, Will	INT	80%	0	0	6	5	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Hinge, Mitch	SUB↑	44%	0	0	7	6	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1
2	Keays, Ben	RO	87%	0	1	23	15	8	4	0	4	7	3	1	1	2	8
8	Kelly, Jake	HBFR	37%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	0
29	Laird, Rory	RR	78%	0	2	27	18	9	7	0	6	4	4	3	1	1	4
27	Lynch, Tom	INT	83%	1	0	17	12	5	8	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	6
23	McAdam, Shane	FPL	70%	1	0	7	3	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2
25	McHenry, Ned	HFFR	87%	2	1	12	7	5	1	0	3	2	3	1	2	0	1
36	McPherson, Andrew	BPL	85%	0	0	10	7	3	2	0	4	0	5	1	2	1	1
4	Murphy, Lachlan	FPR	87%	1	1	11	6	5	0	0	4	3	4	3	0	1	2
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	90%	0	0	8	3	5	2	22	1	1	3	3	1	1	1
31	Rowe, James	HFFL	82%	2	0	16	11	5	5	0	3	2	0	2	0	0	4
26	Schoenberg, Harry	INT	78%	1	1	16	6	10	3	0	3	2	1	2	1	1	1
11	Seedsman, Paul	WR	81%	0	1	21	14	7	8	0	1	1	5	1	2	4	4
38	Sholl, Lachlan	WL	95%	0	0	23	16	7	9	0	3	1	4	1	0	0	4
9	Sloane, Rory (c)	C	80%	0	0	20	11	9	5	0	4	7	1	3	0	3	5
33	Smith, Brodie	CHB	89%	0	1	21	14	7	6	0	0	0	7	0	2	6	3
13	Walker, Taylor	FF	95%	5	2	18	11	7	7	2	1	2	3	2	1	0	1
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				15	13	317	199	118	90	31	60	36	52	31	16	37	51

M. Hinge replaced L. Brown.

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	HBFL	87%	0	0	19	9	10	1	0	4	1	6	0	5	0	1
24	Bews, Jed	INT	85%	0	0	8	6	2	2	0	2	0	4	1	2	2	3
46	Blicavs, Mark	FB	88%	1	0	17	8	9	5	6	2	2	4	2	2	2	0
6	Clark, Jordan	HFFL	85%	0	0	18	10	8	1	0	2	1	1	0	1	4	3
18	Constable, Charlie	SUB↑	13%	0	0	6	4	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
40	Dahlhaus, Luke	INT	66%	1	1	13	7	6	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	3
35	Dangerfield, Patrick	RO	84%	0	0	26	17	9	6	0	2	6	3	1	0	4	8
29	Guthrie, Cameron	HFFR	71%	1	1	23	11	12	3	0	5	6	5	1	4	2	2
39	Guthrie, Zach	INT	74%	0	1	11	6	5	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	1
26	Hawkins, Tom	FF	97%	2	2	8	5	3	3	1	4	1	2	0	2	0	1
25	Henderson, Lachie	BPL	92%	0	0	11	7	4	6	0	2	0	2	0	2	3	2
4	Higgins, Shaun	INT	80%	0	2	22	9	13	3	0	2	4	2	1	2	1	3
11	Jenkins, Josh	FPR	72%	0	2	8	5	3	2	3	2	1	4	1	2	0	3
8	Kolodjashnij, Jake	HBFR	91%	0	0	13	4	9	7	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	1
27	Menegola, Sam	WR↓	73%	1	0	14	7	7	5	0	3	2	3	1	1	0	1
32	Miers, Gryan	FPL	87%	1	0	16	8	8	3	0	2	1	6	0	0	0	3
42	O'Connor, Mark	BPR	86%	0	0	18	8	10	2	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	0
3	Parfitt, Brandan	RR	72%	2	0	18	11	7	1	0	9	3	3	4	1	1	3
23	Rohan, Gary	CHF	80%	1	1	6	5	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1
14	Selwood, Joel (c)	C	71%	0	0	18	13	5	4	0	5	3	3	1	3	1	7
7	Smith, Isaac	WL	89%	2	1	21	15	6	6	0	2	0	7	0	0	2	4
1	Stanley, Rhys	RU	72%	1	0	14	3	11	2	21	1	3	1	0	1	0	2
44	Stewart, Tom	CHB	84%	0	0	21	17	4	5	0	1	0	1	1	0	9	0
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				13	13	349	195	154	78	31	59	38	61	16	31	35	52

C. Constable replaced S. Menegola.

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
	25	L. Henderson	46	M. Blicavs	42	M. O'Connor	43	R. O'Brien	21	S. Berry
	4	L. Murphy	13	T. Walker	23	S. McAdam	29	R. Laird	17	W. Hamill
FORWARD							2	B. Keays	27	T. Lynch
HALF-BACK									26	H. Schoenberg
	30	T. Atkins	44	T. Stewart	8	J. Kolodjashnij			20	M. Hinge
	25	N. McHenry	22	B. Frampton	31	J. Rowe
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	7	I. Smith	14	J. Selwood (c)	27	S. Menegola
	11	P. Seedsman	9	R. Sloane (c)	38	L. Sholl	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							1	R. Stanley	24	J. Bews
HALF-FORWARD							3	B. Parfitt	40	L. Dahlhaus
	6	J. Clark	23	G. Rohan	29	C. Guthrie	35	P. Dangerfield	39	Z. Guthrie
	8	J. Kelly	33	B. Smith	39	T. Doedee			4	S. Higgins
HALF-BACK									18	C. Constable
FORWARD
	32	G. Miers	26	T. Hawkins	11	J. Jenkins
	16	L. Brown	41	J. Butts	36	A. McPherson
BACK
Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ADEL	Rory Laird behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:36
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	03:31
	GEEL	Josh Jenkins behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	05:36
	ADEL	Sam Berry behind	1.2.8	-	0.1.1	07:12
	GEEL	Rhys Stanley goal	1.2.8	-	1.1.7	07:47
	ADEL	Tom Lynch goal	2.2.14	-	1.1.7	11:32
	GEEL	Luke Dahlhaus behind	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	12:53
	ADEL	Billy Frampton goal	3.2.20	-	1.2.8	13:54
	GEEL	Rushed behind	3.2.20	-	1.3.9	17:02
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	3.3.21	-	1.3.9	19:36
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	3.4.22	-	1.3.9	23:49
	GEEL	Brandan Parfitt goal	3.4.22	-	2.3.15	27:45
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy goal	4.4.28	-	2.3.15	31:31
Q2	ADEL	Shane McAdam goal	5.4.34	-	2.3.15	02:43
	ADEL	James Rowe goal	6.4.40	-	2.3.15	07:46
	ADEL	Ned McHenry goal	7.4.46	-	2.3.15	11:02
	GEEL	Gary Rohan goal	7.4.46	-	3.3.21	12:50
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	8.4.52	-	3.3.21	19:52
	GEEL	Sam Menegola goal	8.4.52	-	4.3.27	21:33
	ADEL	Brodie Smith behind	8.5.53	-	4.3.27	25:34
	GEEL	Brandan Parfitt goal	8.5.53	-	5.3.33	27:36
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	9.5.59	-	5.3.33	29:36
	ADEL	Ned McHenry goal	10.5.65	-	5.3.33	31:55
	ADEL	Ben Keays behind	10.6.66	-	5.3.33	33:09
	GEEL	Josh Jenkins behind	10.6.66	-	5.4.34	34:36
	GEEL	Rushed behind	10.6.66	-	5.5.35	36:31
	ADEL	Harry Schoenberg behind	10.7.67	-	5.5.35	38:07
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	11.7.73	-	5.5.35	39:06
Q3	GEEL	Mark Blicavs goal	11.7.73	-	6.5.41	00:43
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy behind	11.8.74	-	6.5.41	02:21
	GEEL	Isaac Smith behind	11.8.74	-	6.6.42	05:34
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	11.8.74	-	6.7.43	07:02
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	12.8.80	-	6.7.43	09:37
	ADEL	James Rowe goal	13.8.86	-	6.7.43	12:10
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	13.8.86	-	7.7.49	15:04
	GEEL	Cameron Guthrie goal	13.8.86	-	8.7.55	18:28
	GEEL	Luke Dahlhaus goal	13.8.86	-	9.7.61	20:20
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	13.8.86	-	10.7.67	23:33
	ADEL	Billy Frampton behind	13.9.87	-	10.7.67	27:17
	GEEL	Gary Rohan behind	13.9.87	-	10.8.68	29:21
Q4	ADEL	Ned McHenry behind	13.10.88	-	10.8.68	04:07
	GEEL	Shaun Higgins behind	13.10.88	-	10.9.69	08:20
	GEEL	Zach Guthrie behind	13.10.88	-	10.10.70	09:24
	ADEL	Harry Schoenberg goal	14.10.94	-	10.10.70	10:16
	GEEL	Isaac Smith goal	14.10.94	-	11.10.76	12:33
	ADEL	Billy Frampton goal	15.10.100	-	11.10.76	14:26
	ADEL	Rory Laird behind	15.11.101	-	11.10.76	17:33
	GEEL	Isaac Smith goal	15.11.101	-	12.10.82	18:06
	GEEL	Shaun Higgins behind	15.11.101	-	12.11.83	21:16
	GEEL	Cameron Guthrie behind	15.11.101	-	12.12.84	23:14
	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	15.11.101	-	13.12.90	24:17
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	15.11.101	-	13.13.91	25:50
	ADEL	Paul Seedsman behind	15.12.102	-	13.13.91	28:15
	ADEL	Billy Frampton behind	15.13.103	-	13.13.91	29:45

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