2021 AFL Season Round 8: Gold Coast v St Kilda

This is the match report for the match played on 8 May 2021 between Gold Coast and St Kilda during round eight of the 2021 season of the Australian Football League. Gold Coast hosted St Kilda at Metricon Stadium. David Swallow captained the hosts. Jack Steele captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Stuart Dew and the visitors were coached by Brett Ratten.

Gold Coast (7.12.54) were defeated by St Kilda (8.15.63).

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Gold Coast v St Kilda
Date: Saturday 8 May 2021
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: Metricon Stadium
Attendance: 9,271

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. by St Kilda
Score: 7.12.54 - 8.15.63

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Gold Coast 1 . 4 3 . 7 7 . 9 7 . 12 7 . 12 (54)
St Kilda 0 . 3 3 . 7 4 . 12 8 . 15 8 . 15 (63)
Margin GCST by 7 level GCST by 15 STKL by 9 STKL by 9
Duration 25:30 32:06 30:53 29:16 1:57:45

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Gold Coast) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (St Kilda) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Gold Coast

Captain: David Swallow
Coach: Stuart Dew

St Kilda

Captain: Jack Steele
Coach: Brett Ratten

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Findlay (#23)
C. Fleer (#26)
J. Howorth (#17)
E: J. Strybos (#41)

Goal Umpires

J. Baird
A. Meldrum
E: M. Bridges

Boundary Umpires

K. Ferguson
P. Jackson
D. Main
M. Tomkins

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Jack Steele STKL 9 3
Jack Billings STKL 15 2
Touk Miller GCST 11 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Jack Billings STKL 15 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Jack Steele STKL 9 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Touk Miller GCST 11 6 ? ? ? ? ?
Brad Crouch STKL 5 5 ? ? ? ? ?
David Swallow GCST 24 2 0 0 0 1 0
Wil Powell GCST 27 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Gold Coast

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
9 Ainsworth, Ben INT 73% 0 1 16 11 5 7 0 2 0 7 0 2 0 3
15 Anderson, Noah INT 75% 0 0 21 10 11 3 0 1 2 4 0 0 3 3
10 Ballard, Charlie CHB 87% 0 0 13 11 2 6 0 1 1 4 0 1 4 0
3 Bowes, Jack INT 85% 0 1 23 17 6 5 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 1
29 Burgess, Chris RU 76% 0 1 11 7 4 7 5 0 1 4 1 1 2 1
25 Collins, Sam FB 96% 0 0 10 8 2 6 0 4 0 1 1 0 3 1
19 Corbett, Josh HFFR 77% 1 0 8 4 4 5 2 1 0 2 1 1 0 3
4 Ellis, Brandon WL 87% 0 1 19 14 5 6 0 1 0 1 1 1 5 2
50 Farrar, Jy HBFR 85% 0 0 15 10 5 8 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
26 Flanders, Sam FPR 69% 0 0 14 6 8 2 0 4 1 2 4 0 0 5
46 Graham, Caleb BPL 79% 0 0 6 2 4 3 8 1 3 1 1 1 1 0
1 Greenwood, Hugh C 79% 0 1 20 10 10 3 0 6 8 2 1 0 2 5
39 Holman, Nick CHF 83% 1 0 14 8 6 6 0 6 0 3 2 1 0 3
34 King, Ben FF 92% 3 1 9 5 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
23 Lemmens, Sean BPR 86% 0 0 19 13 6 4 0 1 0 6 0 3 3 2
13 Lukosius, Jack FPL 83% 0 1 18 16 2 12 0 0 0 3 0 1 7 1
17 Markov, Oleg HBFL 79% 0 2 23 16 7 6 0 5 1 2 0 0 3 3
11 Miller, Touk RO 78% 0 0 33 20 13 7 0 3 2 4 0 0 1 5
27 Powell, Wil WR 82% 0 0 24 15 9 9 0 2 0 2 2 1 7 2
22 Rankine, Izak RR 88% 1 0 16 6 10 2 0 3 2 7 2 2 0 1
6 Sexton, Alex SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Swallow, David (c) HFFL 81% 0 1 28 15 13 5 0 13 4 7 0 3 1 5
14 Weller, Lachie INT 79% 1 1 15 7 8 5 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 5
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 7 12 375 231 144 120 15 60 27 65 17 19 47 53

St Kilda

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
26 Battle, Josh HBFL 67% 0 0 19 12 7 7 0 4 2 3 2 2 0 5
15 Billings, Jack CHF 88% 2 2 25 20 5 13 0 3 0 2 2 0 7 2
16 Butler, Dan HFFL 88% 0 3 15 8 7 3 0 4 1 4 0 1 0 2
31 Byrnes, Ryan INT 70% 0 0 16 7 9 5 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 3
23 Bytel, Jack INT 74% 0 1 15 7 8 3 0 2 3 4 1 1 1 4
11 Clark, Hunter WR 68% 0 0 22 15 7 9 0 2 1 1 1 0 2 2
1 Coffield, Nick HBFR 79% 0 0 11 8 3 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
5 Crouch, Brad RO 82% 1 0 30 11 19 4 0 5 6 2 0 0 1 4
22 Higgins, Jack HFFR 83% 1 3 18 13 5 5 0 3 1 1 3 0 0 3
8 Hill, Bradley WL 88% 0 0 21 14 7 4 0 2 1 2 1 0 4 4
20 Howard, Dougal FB 94% 0 0 17 15 2 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 0
3 Jones, Zak C 78% 0 0 31 24 7 4 0 7 6 7 3 2 2 8
39 Joyce, Darragh BPR 89% 0 0 9 9 0 2 0 2 0 4 0 1 4 1
12 King, Max FPR 90% 1 2 13 7 6 5 0 1 0 4 0 2 0 1
13 Lonie, Jack SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Marshall, Rowan FPL 80% 0 0 14 7 7 3 22 2 4 1 1 0 2 3
28 Membrey, Tim FF 94% 0 1 12 11 1 8 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 2
18 Ryder, Paddy RU 83% 1 0 11 9 2 4 27 0 2 4 1 2 0 4
35 Sinclair, Jack CHB 78% 0 0 19 11 8 4 0 1 1 5 0 1 2 1
9 Steele, Jack (c) RR 87% 2 1 28 18 10 7 0 8 6 6 1 1 3 3
29 Webster, Jimmy INT 84% 0 0 21 15 6 5 0 2 2 4 2 0 4 2
44 Wilkie, Callum BPL 96% 0 0 25 16 9 14 0 3 0 4 1 3 2 1
32 Wood, Mason INT 60% 0 0 5 3 2 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 8 15 397 260 137 125 49 56 37 63 19 17 46 57

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

Gold Coast Coach: Stuart Dew
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
44 C. Wilkie 20 D. Howard 39 D. Joyce 29 C. Burgess 9 B. Ainsworth
26 S. Flanders 34 B. King 13 J. Lukosius 22 I. Rankine 15 N. Anderson
FORWARD 11 T. Miller 3 J. Bowes
HALF-BACK

14 L. Weller
26 J. Battle 35 J. Sinclair 1 N. Coffield

6 A. Sexton
19 J. Corbett 39 N. Holman 24 D. Swallow (c)



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



8 B. Hill 3 Z. Jones 11 H. Clark



27 W. Powell 1 H. Greenwood 4 B. Ellis FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 18 P. Ryder 31 R. Byrnes
HALF-FORWARD 9 J. Steele (c) 23 J. Bytel
16 D. Butler 15 J. Billings 22 J. Higgins 5 B. Crouch 29 J. Webster
50 J. Farrar 10 C. Ballard 17 O. Markov

32 M. Wood
HALF-BACK

13 J. Lonie
FORWARD



19 R. Marshall 28 T. Membrey 12 M. King



23 S. Lemmens 25 S. Collins 46 C. Graham



BACK



St Kilda Coach: Brett Ratten

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 GCST Jack Lukosius behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 01:31
GCST Ben King goal 1.1.7 - 0.0.0 03:05
GCST Chris Burgess behind 1.2.8 - 0.0.0 06:52
STKL Jack Higgins behind 1.2.8 - 0.1.1 09:52
GCST David Swallow behind 1.3.9 - 0.1.1 11:19
STKL Jack Steele behind 1.3.9 - 0.2.2 14:44
STKL Dan Butler behind 1.3.9 - 0.3.3 15:15
GCST Oleg Markov behind 1.4.10 - 0.3.3 21:42
Q2 GCST Rushed behind 1.5.11 - 0.3.3 02:36
STKL Rushed behind 1.5.11 - 0.4.4 04:57
GCST Ben Ainsworth behind 1.6.12 - 0.4.4 08:19
GCST Ben King goal 2.6.18 - 0.4.4 09:53
STKL Jack Steele goal 2.6.18 - 1.4.10 11:24
STKL Rushed behind 2.6.18 - 1.5.11 13:30
GCST Izak Rankine goal 3.6.24 - 1.5.11 14:22
STKL Jack Billings goal 3.6.24 - 2.5.17 16:30
GCST Jack Bowes behind 3.7.25 - 2.5.17 20:02
STKL Max King goal 3.7.25 - 3.5.23 24:41
STKL Dan Butler behind 3.7.25 - 3.6.24 27:28
STKL Max King behind 3.7.25 - 3.7.25 30:16
Q3 STKL Jack Billings behind 3.7.25 - 3.8.26 00:47
GCST Ben King goal 4.7.31 - 3.8.26 03:15
STKL Jack Higgins behind 4.7.31 - 3.9.27 05:16
GCST Brandon Ellis behind 4.8.32 - 3.9.27 06:30
STKL Jack Steele goal 4.8.32 - 4.9.33 08:23
STKL Max King behind 4.8.32 - 4.10.34 10:18
STKL Jack Bytel behind 4.8.32 - 4.11.35 14:48
GCST Josh Corbett goal 5.8.38 - 4.11.35 17:47
GCST Nick Holman goal 6.8.44 - 4.11.35 20:15
GCST Lachie Weller goal 7.8.50 - 4.11.35 22:01
GCST Hugh Greenwood behind 7.9.51 - 4.11.35 24:58
STKL Jack Billings behind 7.9.51 - 4.12.36 29:55
Q4 STKL Dan Butler behind 7.9.51 - 4.13.37 02:35
STKL Jack Billings goal 7.9.51 - 5.13.43 03:10
STKL Jack Higgins goal 7.9.51 - 6.13.49 06:08
GCST Ben King behind 7.10.52 - 6.13.49 08:32
GCST Lachie Weller behind 7.11.53 - 6.13.49 12:31
STKL Jack Higgins behind 7.11.53 - 6.14.50 13:48
STKL Tim Membrey behind 7.11.53 - 6.15.51 15:30
STKL Paddy Ryder goal 7.11.53 - 7.15.57 16:33
STKL Brad Crouch goal 7.11.53 - 8.15.63 18:04
GCST Oleg Markov behind 7.12.54 - 8.15.63 26:09