2021 AFL Round 17: Greater Western Sydney v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 11 July 2021 between Greater Western Sydney and Gold Coast during round 17 of the 2021 AFL season. Greater Western Sydney hosted Gold Coast at Mars Stadium. David Swallow captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Leon Cameron and the visitors were coached by Stuart Dew.

Greater Western Sydney
Back: S. Taylor, P. Davis, S. Reid
Half-back: H. Perryman, N. Haynes, I. Cumming
Centre: J. Kelly, C. Ward, A. Kennedy
Half-forward: B. Daniels, T. Greene, L. Whitfield
Forward: B. Hill, H. Himmelberg, J. Hogan
Follower: S. Mumford, T. Taranto, J. Hopper
Int.: L. Ash, T. Green, C. Idun, D. Lloyd
Sub.: J. Finlayson

Gold Coast
Back: W. Powell, S. Collins, S. Lemmens
Half-back: J. Lukosius, C. Ballard, J. Bowes
Centre: B. Ellis, T. Miller, J. Sharp
Half-forward: A. Sexton, S. Day, N. Holman
Forward: I. Rankine, B. King, B. Ainsworth
Follower: C. Burgess, M. Rowell, D. Swallow (capt.)
Int.: B. Fiorini, S. Flanders, H. Greenwood, O. Markov
Sub.: R. Atkins

Greater Western Sydney (9.10.64) were defeated by Gold Coast (10.5.65).

Goalkickers
Greater Western Sydney: T. Greene (3), H. Himmelberg (2), J. Finlayson, B. Hill, D. Lloyd, L. Whitfield
Gold Coast: S. Day (2), T. Miller (2), A. Sexton (2), R. Atkins, C. Burgess, M. Rowell, D. Swallow

As a result of this match, Greater Western Sydney were then 10th on the ladder (down from 8th) and Gold Coast remained 14th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 17
Teams: Greater Western Sydney v Gold Coast
Date: Sunday 11 July 2021
Time: 12:40 PM
Venue: Mars Stadium
Attendance: 2,952

Match Results

Outcome: Greater Western Sydney def. by Gold Coast
Score: 9.10.64 - 10.5.65

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Greater Western Sydney	2	.	4	3	.	4	8	.	10	9	.	10	9	.	10	(64)
Gold Coast	1	.	1	5	.	3	7	.	3	10	.	5	10	.	5	(65)
Margin	GWSY by 9			GCST by 11			GWSY by 13			GCST by 1			GCST by 1
Duration	29:07			32:49			34:38			31:57			2:08:31

Honour Roll

Coaches: Leon Cameron (Greater Western Sydney), Stuart Dew (Gold Coast)
Captains: unknown (Greater Western Sydney), David Swallow (Gold Coast)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: E. Glouftsis (#34), M. Nicholls (#15), N. Williamson (#22), E: N. Jankovskis (#48)
Goal Umpire: D. Benwell, D. Rodan, E: D. Wilson
Boundary Umpire: K. Ferguson, P. Jackson, T. Lougoon, B. MacDonald

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Touk Miller	GCST	11	3
Jacob Hopper	GWSY	2	2
Charlie Ballard	GCST	10	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Touk Miller	GCST	11	10	2	0	0	0	0
Jacob Hopper	GWSY	2	8	0	2	0	0	0
Brandon Ellis	GCST	4	5	0	0	1	1	0
Toby Greene	GWSY	4	5	0	0	1	1	0
Charlie Ballard	GCST	10	1	0	0	0	0	1
Chris Burgess	GCST	29	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
7	Ash, Lachie	INT	78%	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	5	1	1	1	0	1	2
13	Cumming, Isaac	HBFR	81%	0	0	17	10	7	4	0	1	0	4	0	2	5	3
16	Daniels, Brent	HFFL	74%	0	0	20	9	11	1	0	6	3	4	1	1	0	6
1	Davis, Phil	FB	82%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	3	0	5	0	1	4	1
31	Finlayson, Jeremy	SUB↑	45%	1	1	9	3	6	0	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	0
12	Green, Tom	INT	72%	0	0	25	5	20	2	0	6	6	3	1	1	0	1
4	Greene, Toby	CHF	98%	3	2	21	14	7	2	0	4	4	5	0	1	0	4
19	Haynes, Nick	CHB	85%	0	0	21	13	8	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	2
37	Hill, Bobby	FPL	67%	1	0	7	5	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
27	Himmelberg, Harry	FF	89%	2	1	19	10	9	5	0	4	0	5	1	1	0	2
23	Hogan, Jesse	FPR	87%	0	2	17	8	9	8	0	2	0	7	0	2	0	2
2	Hopper, Jacob	RO	83%	0	0	41	27	14	3	0	5	11	9	1	2	2	12
39	Idun, Connor	INT	87%	0	0	10	3	7	1	0	0	0	3	0	3	2	0
22	Kelly, Josh	WL	81%	0	0	27	15	12	1	0	9	7	6	0	0	5	4
40	Kennedy, Adam	WR	83%	0	0	16	11	5	1	0	1	3	1	1	0	2	2
38	Lloyd, Daniel	INT	80%	1	0	14	8	6	3	0	4	1	3	0	0	0	1
41	Mumford, Shane	RU	78%	0	0	7	1	6	0	53	6	3	1	2	1	3	1
36	Perryman, Harry	HBFL	86%	0	0	26	15	11	3	0	4	1	5	0	0	9	2
50	Reid, Sam	BPR	83%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	2	1	3	0	2	1	1
14	Taranto, Tim	RR	82%	0	0	18	10	8	2	0	12	2	6	2	1	1	2
15	Taylor, Sam	BPL	96%	0	0	14	10	4	2	0	2	0	3	1	1	6	2
8	Ward, Callan	C	74%	0	1	21	12	9	1	4	4	8	3	0	1	1	2
6	Whitfield, Lachie	HFFR↓	29%	1	0	3	3	0	1	0	3	1	1	1	1	1	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				9	10	377	207	170	52	57	84	53	86	12	22	48	53

J. Finlayson replaced L. Whitfield.

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ainsworth, Ben	FPR	76%	0	1	16	7	9	4	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	2
2	Atkins, Rory	SUB↑	57%	1	0	9	3	6	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
10	Ballard, Charlie	CHB	91%	0	0	19	18	1	9	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	2
3	Bowes, Jack	HBFR	73%	0	0	26	20	6	6	0	1	0	8	2	1	7	6
29	Burgess, Chris	RU	82%	1	0	17	16	1	4	38	4	7	4	4	1	0	7
25	Collins, Sam	FB	99%	0	0	9	6	3	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
12	Day, Sam	CHF	74%	2	1	6	5	1	5	12	7	0	1	0	1	0	2
4	Ellis, Brandon	WL	96%	0	0	41	12	29	6	0	4	4	6	0	1	6	2
8	Fiorini, Brayden	INT	70%	0	1	25	17	8	3	0	9	6	7	0	0	3	5
26	Flanders, Sam	INT	72%	0	0	10	8	2	1	0	6	0	3	1	1	0	4
1	Greenwood, Hugh	INT↓	2%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	Holman, Nick	HFFR	88%	0	0	11	6	5	5	0	12	0	0	1	0	0	2
34	King, Ben	FF	84%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	1
23	Lemmens, Sean	BPR	89%	0	0	7	7	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	3
13	Lukosius, Jack	HBFL	95%	0	0	24	22	2	8	0	3	0	4	0	0	11	3
17	Markov, Oleg	INT	70%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3
11	Miller, Touk	C	88%	2	0	35	13	22	2	0	14	11	4	1	1	3	4
27	Powell, Wil	BPL	89%	0	0	17	9	8	7	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2
22	Rankine, Izak	FPL	85%	0	1	11	5	6	2	0	3	1	3	1	1	1	1
18	Rowell, Matt	RR	73%	1	0	7	3	4	0	0	9	2	1	1	1	0	0
6	Sexton, Alex	HFFL	83%	2	1	16	13	3	5	0	2	1	3	3	0	0	3
37	Sharp, Jeremy	WR	79%	0	0	20	11	9	4	0	0	3	2	1	1	2	2
24	Swallow, David (c)	RO	82%	1	0	27	14	13	4	0	9	3	7	2	1	1	5
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				10	5	369	224	145	86	50	92	38	64	22	12	42	59

R. Atkins replaced H. Greenwood.

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
	27	W. Powell	25	S. Collins	23	S. Lemmens	41	S. Mumford	7	L. Ash
	23	J. Hogan	27	H. Himmelberg	37	B. Hill	14	T. Taranto	12	T. Green
FORWARD							2	J. Hopper	39	C. Idun
HALF-BACK									38	D. Lloyd
	13	J. Lukosius	10	C. Ballard	3	J. Bowes			31	J. Finlayson
	6	L. Whitfield	4	T. Greene	16	B. Daniels
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	4	B. Ellis	11	T. Miller	37	J. Sharp
	40	A. Kennedy	8	C. Ward	22	J. Kelly	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							29	C. Burgess	8	B. Fiorini
HALF-FORWARD							18	M. Rowell	26	S. Flanders
	6	A. Sexton	12	S. Day	39	N. Holman	24	D. Swallow (c)	1	H. Greenwood
	13	I. Cumming	19	N. Haynes	36	H. Perryman			17	O. Markov
HALF-BACK									2	R. Atkins
FORWARD
	22	I. Rankine	34	B. King	9	B. Ainsworth
	50	S. Reid	1	P. Davis	15	S. Taylor
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Stuart Dew

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GWSY	Callan Ward behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	04:42
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	06:59
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	1.2.8	-	0.0.0	08:38
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan behind	1.3.9	-	0.0.0	11:53
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	1.3.9	-	1.0.6	15:32
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg goal	2.3.15	-	1.0.6	23:33
	GWSY	Rushed behind	2.4.16	-	1.0.6	26:11
	GCST	Sam Day behind	2.4.16	-	1.1.7	28:32
Q2	GWSY	Lachie Whitfield goal	3.4.22	-	1.1.7	09:12
	GCST	Alex Sexton behind	3.4.22	-	1.2.8	12:46
	GCST	Alex Sexton goal	3.4.22	-	2.2.14	13:37
	GCST	Rory Atkins goal	3.4.22	-	3.2.20	19:17
	GCST	Alex Sexton goal	3.4.22	-	4.2.26	25:28
	GCST	Brayden Fiorini behind	3.4.22	-	4.3.27	27:58
	GCST	Sam Day goal	3.4.22	-	5.3.33	30:51
Q3	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson behind	3.5.23	-	5.3.33	02:47
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg goal	4.5.29	-	5.3.33	06:01
	GCST	Chris Burgess goal	4.5.29	-	6.3.39	08:26
	GCST	Sam Day goal	4.5.29	-	7.3.45	13:22
	GWSY	Rushed behind	4.6.30	-	7.3.45	14:38
	GWSY	Bobby Hill goal	5.6.36	-	7.3.45	16:05
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	5.7.37	-	7.3.45	18:55
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan behind	5.8.38	-	7.3.45	20:49
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg behind	5.9.39	-	7.3.45	21:30
	GWSY	Daniel Lloyd goal	6.9.45	-	7.3.45	22:34
	GWSY	Rushed behind	6.10.46	-	7.3.45	23:59
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	7.10.52	-	7.3.45	27:53
	GWSY	Jeremy Finlayson goal	8.10.58	-	7.3.45	30:46
Q4	GCST	Touk Miller goal	8.10.58	-	8.3.51	02:17
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	8.10.58	-	8.4.52	08:32
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	9.10.64	-	8.4.52	13:41
	GCST	Izak Rankine behind	9.10.64	-	8.5.53	16:12
	GCST	Matt Rowell goal	9.10.64	-	9.5.59	24:32
	GCST	David Swallow goal	9.10.64	-	10.5.65	27:10

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