2021 AFL Season Round 11: Western Bulldogs v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 28 May 2021 between the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne during round eleven of the 2021 season of the Australian Football League. The Western Bulldogs hosted Melbourne at Marvel Stadium. Marcus Bontempelli captained the hosts. Max Gawn captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Luke Beveridge and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

The Western Bulldogs (8.11.59) were defeated by Melbourne (13.9.87).

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 11
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Melbourne
Date: Friday 28 May 2021
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. by Melbourne
Score: 8.11.59 - 13.9.87

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Western Bulldogs 2 . 2 6 . 5 6 . 8 8 . 11 8 . 11 (59)
Melbourne 6 . 5 9 . 6 12 . 8 13 . 9 13 . 9 (87)
Margin MELB by 27 MELB by 19 MELB by 36 MELB by 28 MELB by 28
Duration 32:30 29:54 28:27 27:45 1:58:36

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Marcus Bontempelli
Coach: Luke Beveridge

Melbourne

Captain: Max Gawn
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Chamberlain (#18)
A. Stephens (#12)
N. Williamson (#22)
E: R. O'Gorman (#10)

Goal Umpires

M. Dervan
D. Wilson
E: M. Maclure

Boundary Umpires

J. Andrews
M. Jenkinson
D. Main
L. Rayner

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Clayton Oliver MELB 13 3
Max Gawn MELB 11 2
Jake Lever MELB 8 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Max Gawn MELB 11 9 1 1 0 0 0
Clayton Oliver MELB 13 9 1 1 0 0 0
James Harmes MELB 4 4 0 0 ? ? ?
Jake Lever MELB 8 4 0 0 ? ? ?
Christian Petracca MELB 5 3 0 0 ? ? ?
Tom McDonald MELB 25 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
4 Bontempelli, Marcus (c) FPR 84% 0 1 30 16 14 6 0 8 5 4 2 3 3 6
17 Bruce, Josh CHF 89% 3 1 4 4 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
18 Butler, Louis SUB↑ 54% 0 0 10 6 4 5 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 0
12 Cordy, Zaine CHB 100% 0 0 16 15 1 8 0 0 0 2 2 1 8 0
9 Crozier, Hayden BPR 79% 0 0 26 18 8 9 0 3 0 1 2 0 3 2
31 Dale, Bailey WL 80% 0 0 30 21 9 10 0 1 2 4 0 0 3 3
35 Daniel, Caleb HBFR 84% 1 0 26 15 11 3 0 1 2 5 1 1 2 2
15 Duryea, Taylor INT 81% 0 0 15 9 6 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
44 English, Tim FPL 82% 2 0 15 9 6 9 9 3 1 1 0 1 1 1
38 Garcia, Riley INT↓ 19% 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
7 Hunter, Lachie HFFL 81% 0 0 27 16 11 4 0 2 3 1 3 0 2 3
39 Johannisen, Jason BPL 78% 0 0 8 4 4 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 3
42 Keath, Alex FB 100% 0 0 8 5 3 3 0 4 0 2 1 1 0 1
21 Liberatore, Tom C 77% 0 0 16 11 5 4 0 6 4 4 2 1 0 6
27 Lipinski, Patrick INT 79% 0 0 23 11 12 7 0 4 4 3 1 0 2 1
11 Macrae, Jack RR 86% 0 0 36 20 16 7 0 9 6 2 1 1 1 6
30 McNeil, Lachlan WR 87% 0 1 9 4 5 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1
33 Naughton, Aaron FF 86% 1 1 14 8 6 8 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 3
6 Smith, Bailey RO 78% 0 0 27 16 11 2 0 3 5 4 0 1 2 4
37 Smith, Roarke INT 74% 0 0 20 9 11 4 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 3
41 Sweet, Jordon RU 67% 0 0 3 1 2 1 17 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
19 Weightman, Cody HFFR 79% 1 1 10 5 5 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3
34 Williams, Bailey HBFL 77% 0 0 18 11 7 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 1
Rushed 6
Total (23 players) 8 11 393 235 158 105 26 57 36 46 16 15 31 52

L. Butler replaced R. Garcia.

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
10 Brayshaw, Angus WL 85% 0 0 13 9 4 6 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 3
31 Fritsch, Bayley FPL 82% 3 2 12 11 1 10 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1
11 Gawn, Max (c) RU 84% 1 1 21 13 8 5 27 4 5 6 1 1 2 4
4 Harmes, James RO 87% 1 0 23 11 12 5 0 7 5 4 0 3 3 3
14 Hibberd, Michael BPL 78% 0 0 10 7 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
29 Hunt, Jayden HBFR 80% 0 0 7 6 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 2
6 Jackson, Luke INT 75% 0 0 8 2 6 0 11 2 1 4 1 1 1 1
23 Jordon, James INT 70% 1 0 14 9 5 2 0 6 2 2 1 1 1 3
15 Langdon, Ed WR↓ 83% 0 0 15 6 9 3 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0
8 Lever, Jake BPR 97% 0 0 16 10 6 5 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 2
1 May, Steven FB 97% 0 0 22 18 4 5 0 2 0 5 1 2 7 0
25 McDonald, Tom CHF 84% 3 0 10 9 1 7 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 4
18 Melksham, Jake INT 63% 0 0 15 9 6 1 0 0 1 3 1 2 1 2
30 Neal-Bullen, Alex FPR 71% 0 0 15 12 3 7 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 3
13 Oliver, Clayton RR 93% 0 0 33 13 20 5 0 5 5 2 1 0 2 4
5 Petracca, Christian C 92% 1 0 24 12 12 2 0 3 6 3 1 0 1 5
35 Petty, Harry CHB 81% 0 0 11 9 2 6 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 0
36 Pickett, Kysaiah HFFL 77% 1 1 11 6 5 4 0 3 1 4 0 1 0 2
24 Rivers, Trent INT 85% 0 0 19 13 6 3 0 0 1 4 0 1 5 1
3 Salem, Christian HBFL 83% 0 0 18 10 8 6 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 0
9 Spargo, Charlie HFFR 75% 0 2 16 11 5 5 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 3
32 Sparrow, Tom SUB↑ 1% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 Weideman, Sam FF 78% 2 1 6 5 1 5 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 2
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 13 9 339 211 128 96 38 46 27 57 15 16 44 46

T. Sparrow replaced E. Langdon.

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

Western Bulldogs Coach: Luke Beveridge
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
14 M. Hibberd 1 S. May 8 J. Lever 41 J. Sweet 15 T. Duryea
4 M. Bontempelli (c) 33 A. Naughton 44 T. English 11 J. Macrae 38 R. Garcia
FORWARD 6 B. Smith 27 P. Lipinski
HALF-BACK

37 R. Smith
3 C. Salem 35 H. Petty 29 J. Hunt

18 L. Butler
19 C. Weightman 17 J. Bruce 7 L. Hunter



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



10 A. Brayshaw 5 C. Petracca 15 E. Langdon



30 L. McNeil 21 T. Liberatore 31 B. Dale FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 11 M. Gawn (c) 6 L. Jackson
HALF-FORWARD 13 C. Oliver 23 J. Jordon
36 K. Pickett 25 T. McDonald 9 C. Spargo 4 J. Harmes 18 J. Melksham
35 C. Daniel 12 Z. Cordy 34 B. Williams

24 T. Rivers
HALF-BACK

32 T. Sparrow
FORWARD



31 B. Fritsch 26 S. Weideman 30 A. Neal-Bullen



9 H. Crozier 42 A. Keath 39 J. Johannisen



BACK



Melbourne Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB James Harmes goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 00:21
WBUL Rushed behind 0.1.1 - 1.0.6 03:12
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 0.1.1 - 1.1.7 05:46
MELB Christian Petracca goal 0.1.1 - 2.1.13 06:20
WBUL Cody Weightman goal 1.1.7 - 2.1.13 07:31
MELB Max Gawn behind 1.1.7 - 2.2.14 08:42
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 1.1.7 - 3.2.20 09:36
WBUL Lachlan McNeil behind 1.2.8 - 3.2.20 13:23
MELB Charlie Spargo behind 1.2.8 - 3.3.21 15:19
WBUL Aaron Naughton goal 2.2.14 - 3.3.21 17:49
MELB Rushed behind 2.2.14 - 3.4.22 19:01
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 2.2.14 - 4.4.28 22:06
MELB James Jordon goal 2.2.14 - 5.4.34 24:12
MELB Charlie Spargo behind 2.2.14 - 5.5.35 26:50
MELB Max Gawn goal 2.2.14 - 6.5.41 29:05
Q2 WBUL Josh Bruce goal 3.2.20 - 6.5.41 00:57
MELB Kysaiah Pickett behind 3.2.20 - 6.6.42 02:46
WBUL Rushed behind 3.3.21 - 6.6.42 03:37
WBUL Tim English goal 4.3.27 - 6.6.42 05:22
MELB Tom McDonald goal 4.3.27 - 7.6.48 07:21
MELB Tom McDonald goal 4.3.27 - 8.6.54 10:23
WBUL Cody Weightman behind 4.4.28 - 8.6.54 13:02
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 4.4.28 - 9.6.60 20:46
WBUL Caleb Daniel goal 5.4.34 - 9.6.60 24:33
WBUL Rushed behind 5.5.35 - 9.6.60 26:34
WBUL Tim English goal 6.5.41 - 9.6.60 27:52
Q3 WBUL Josh Bruce behind 6.6.42 - 9.6.60 05:24
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 6.6.42 - 10.6.66 10:04
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 6.6.42 - 10.7.67 13:11
WBUL Rushed behind 6.7.43 - 10.7.67 14:25
WBUL Aaron Naughton behind 6.8.44 - 10.7.67 16:33
MELB Sam Weideman goal 6.8.44 - 11.7.73 20:57
MELB Sam Weideman goal 6.8.44 - 12.7.79 22:46
MELB Rushed behind 6.8.44 - 12.8.80 23:54
Q4 WBUL Rushed behind 6.9.45 - 12.8.80 02:07
MELB Tom McDonald goal 6.9.45 - 13.8.86 04:28
WBUL Josh Bruce goal 7.9.51 - 13.8.86 10:05
WBUL Marcus Bontempelli behind 7.10.52 - 13.8.86 17:06
MELB Sam Weideman behind 7.10.52 - 13.9.87 18:29
WBUL Josh Bruce goal 8.10.58 - 13.9.87 19:45
WBUL Rushed behind 8.11.59 - 13.9.87 23:11