2021 AFL Round 18: Melbourne v Hawthorn

This is the match report for the match played on 17 July 2021 between Melbourne and Hawthorn during round 18 of the 2021 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Hawthorn at MCG. Max Gawn captained the hosts with Jack Viney as vice-captain. Ben McEvoy captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Simon Goodwin and the visitors were coached by Alastair Clarkson.

Melbourne
Back: J. Hunt, S. May, J. Lever
Half-back: M. Hibberd, H. Petty, C. Salem
Centre: J. Jordon, C. Petracca, E. Langdon
Half-forward: K. Pickett, T. McDonald, A. Brayshaw
Forward: A. Neal-Bullen, B. Brown, B. Fritsch
Follower: M. Gawn (capt.), C. Oliver, J. Viney (vice-capt.)
Int.: L. Jackson, T. Rivers, C. Spargo, A. vandenBerg
Sub.: T. Sparrow

Hawthorn
Back: D. Grainger-Barras, K. Hartigan, D. Howe
Half-back: S. Burgoyne, S. Frost, L. Bramble
Centre: D. Moore, J. Worpel, J. Cousins
Half-forward: E. Jeka, L. Breust, J. O'Meara
Forward: J. Koschitzke, T. O'Brien, M. Lewis
Follower: B. McEvoy (capt.), T. Mitchell, L. Shiels
Int.: T. Brockman, D. Greaves, T. Phillips, N. Reeves
Sub.: J. Newcombe

Melbourne (11.13.79) drew with Hawthorn (12.7.79).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: B. Fritsch (3), K. Pickett (2), A. Brayshaw, B. Brown, J. Hunt, T. McDonald, A. Neal-Bullen, C. Spargo
Hawthorn: L. Breust (3), M. Lewis (2), D. Howe, J. Koschitzke, B. McEvoy, T. Mitchell, D. Moore, T. Phillips, J. Worpel

As a result of this match, Melbourne remained 1st on the ladder and Hawthorn remained 17th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Melbourne v Hawthorn
Date: Saturday 17 July 2021
Time: 7:25 PM
Venue: MCG

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne drew with Hawthorn
Score: 11.13.79 - 12.7.79

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	4	.	4	6	.	7	9	.	10	11	.	13	11	.	13	(79)
Hawthorn	1	.	2	5	.	2	10	.	3	12	.	7	12	.	7	(79)
Margin	MELB by 20			MELB by 11			MELB by 1			level			drawn
Duration	28:55			32:27			33:20			28:42			2:03:24

Honour Roll

Coaches: Simon Goodwin (Melbourne), Alastair Clarkson (Hawthorn)
Captains: Max Gawn (Melbourne), Ben McEvoy (Hawthorn)
Vice-Captains: Jack Viney (Melbourne), unknown (Hawthorn)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: J. Power (#4), A. Stephens (#12), M. Stevic (#9), E: M. Rodger (#43)
Goal Umpire: M. Maclure, C. Roffey, E: C. Leonard
Boundary Umpire: K. Ferguson, P. Jackson, M. Le Fevre, M. Tomkins

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tom Mitchell	HWTH	3	3
Clayton Oliver	MELB	13	2
Jack Viney	MELB	7	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Tom Mitchell	HWTH	3	10	2	0	0	0	0
Luke Breust	HWTH	22	6	0	?	?	?	0
Clayton Oliver	MELB	13	6	0	?	?	?	0
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	4	0	?	0	?	0
Jack Viney	MELB	7	2	0	0	0	1	0
Tom Phillips	HWTH	21	1	0	0	0	0	1
James Worpel	HWTH	5	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Brayshaw, Angus	HFFR	84%	1	1	19	7	12	3	0	4	1	2	0	1	1	4
50	Brown, Ben	FF	86%	1	2	12	6	6	6	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
31	Fritsch, Bayley	FPR	76%	3	1	13	11	2	6	0	3	0	4	1	2	0	2
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	83%	0	0	15	14	1	4	28	4	4	4	1	2	1	3
14	Hibberd, Michael	HBFL	88%	0	0	18	10	8	3	0	3	1	4	1	0	6	2
29	Hunt, Jayden	BPL	72%	1	1	16	12	4	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	3	3
6	Jackson, Luke	INT	76%	0	1	7	1	6	1	9	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
23	Jordon, James	WL	82%	0	0	20	11	9	4	0	2	3	4	1	1	1	1
15	Langdon, Ed	WR	94%	0	1	21	10	11	4	0	2	3	3	0	0	2	2
8	Lever, Jake	BPR	100%	0	0	17	10	7	6	0	1	0	1	1	0	7	1
1	May, Steven	FB	100%	0	0	13	12	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	7	0
25	McDonald, Tom	CHF	79%	1	0	10	9	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	FPL	76%	1	0	13	10	3	3	0	4	1	2	0	1	0	3
13	Oliver, Clayton	RR	88%	0	0	35	19	16	6	0	6	9	6	1	2	0	6
5	Petracca, Christian	C	90%	0	1	33	10	23	1	0	3	9	1	1	1	0	8
35	Petty, Harry	CHB	82%	0	0	9	8	1	5	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	HFFL	80%	2	1	14	6	8	3	0	3	1	3	0	1	1	1
24	Rivers, Trent	INT	73%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	1	1	2	0	0	3	2
3	Salem, Christian	HBFR	85%	0	0	25	13	12	4	0	2	0	4	2	1	3	3
9	Spargo, Charlie	INT	64%	1	1	11	10	1	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	3
32	Sparrow, Tom	SUB	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	vandenBerg, Aaron	INT	65%	0	0	16	10	6	2	0	4	1	3	0	2	3	4
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	RO	78%	0	0	32	14	18	1	0	11	6	9	5	3	0	5
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				11	13	381	221	160	80	38	60	41	61	15	22	38	58

Hawthorn

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
16	Bramble, Lachie	HBFR	88%	0	0	18	10	8	2	0	5	2	1	1	0	4	2
22	Breust, Luke	CHF	82%	3	1	14	9	5	3	0	5	0	1	1	0	0	5
42	Brockman, Tyler	INT	81%	0	1	7	5	2	0	0	4	0	3	0	1	0	1
9	Burgoyne, Shaun	HBFL	83%	0	0	13	10	3	2	0	9	0	0	0	0	3	0
24	Cousins, James	WR	78%	0	0	20	13	7	1	0	5	3	4	0	0	0	7
8	Frost, Sam	CHB	86%	0	0	14	12	2	4	0	5	0	6	1	0	6	0
38	Grainger-Barras, Denver	BPL	76%	0	0	10	8	2	6	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	0
30	Greaves, Damon	INT	77%	0	0	12	11	1	3	0	3	1	1	3	0	4	2
28	Hartigan, Kyle	FB	100%	0	0	10	7	3	3	0	3	1	2	1	1	3	1
17	Howe, Daniel	BPR	81%	1	0	14	9	5	2	0	3	2	5	1	2	2	0
39	Jeka, Emerson	HFFL	72%	0	0	6	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
34	Koschitzke, Jacob	FPL	88%	1	2	5	3	2	2	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	1
2	Lewis, Mitch	FPR	83%	2	0	12	7	5	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	3
7	McEvoy, Ben (c)	RU	85%	1	0	13	7	6	4	14	3	0	5	1	1	1	3
3	Mitchell, Tom	RR	85%	1	1	39	22	17	6	0	6	6	4	1	2	6	5
36	Moore, Dylan	WL	76%	1	0	12	4	8	1	0	6	1	1	1	0	1	3
44	Newcombe, Jai	SUB	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	O'Brien, Tim	FF	90%	0	0	11	9	2	2	0	2	0	3	1	0	4	0
10	O'Meara, Jaeger	HFFR	81%	0	1	25	13	12	1	0	6	5	4	1	0	1	3
21	Phillips, Tom	INT	89%	1	0	25	13	12	5	0	3	1	2	2	0	1	0
37	Reeves, Ned	INT	63%	0	0	9	6	3	0	19	1	3	1	2	0	1	0
26	Shiels, Liam	RO	76%	0	0	24	18	6	3	0	6	4	9	3	6	3	8
5	Worpel, James	C	79%	1	0	29	16	13	3	0	1	5	3	0	1	4	5
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				12	7	342	213	129	57	34	81	34	60	22	15	46	50

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

Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	38	D. Grainger-Barras	28	K. Hartigan	17	D. Howe	11	M. Gawn (c)	6	L. Jackson
	31	B. Fritsch	50	B. Brown	30	A. Neal-Bullen	13	C. Oliver	24	T. Rivers
FORWARD							7	J. Viney (vc)	9	C. Spargo
HALF-BACK									22	A. vandenBerg
	9	S. Burgoyne	8	S. Frost	16	L. Bramble			32	T. Sparrow
	10	A. Brayshaw	25	T. McDonald	36	K. Pickett
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	36	D. Moore	5	J. Worpel	24	J. Cousins
	15	E. Langdon	5	C. Petracca	23	J. Jordon	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							7	B. McEvoy (c)	42	T. Brockman
HALF-FORWARD							3	T. Mitchell	30	D. Greaves
	39	E. Jeka	22	L. Breust	10	J. O'Meara	26	L. Shiels	21	T. Phillips
	3	C. Salem	35	H. Petty	14	M. Hibberd			37	N. Reeves
HALF-BACK									44	J. Newcombe
FORWARD
	34	J. Koschitzke	23	T. O'Brien	2	M. Lewis
	8	J. Lever	1	S. May	29	J. Hunt
BACK
Hawthorn							Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:34
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	02:41
	MELB	Ed Langdon behind	0.3.3	-	0.0.0	03:11
	MELB	Jayden Hunt goal	1.3.9	-	0.0.0	04:50
	HWTH	Daniel Howe goal	1.3.9	-	1.0.6	06:40
	HWTH	Luke Breust behind	1.3.9	-	1.1.7	07:53
	HWTH	Jaeger O'Meara behind	1.3.9	-	1.2.8	12:16
	MELB	Charlie Spargo goal	2.3.15	-	1.2.8	13:44
	MELB	Ben Brown behind	2.4.16	-	1.2.8	16:30
	MELB	Ben Brown goal	3.4.22	-	1.2.8	18:04
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen goal	4.4.28	-	1.2.8	19:53
Q2	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	5.4.34	-	1.2.8	06:23
	HWTH	Ben McEvoy goal	5.4.34	-	2.2.14	14:22
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	6.4.40	-	2.2.14	16:14
	MELB	Jayden Hunt behind	6.5.41	-	2.2.14	20:08
	HWTH	Jacob Koschitzke goal	6.5.41	-	3.2.20	23:56
	HWTH	Tom Phillips goal	6.5.41	-	4.2.26	26:55
	HWTH	Luke Breust goal	6.5.41	-	5.2.32	28:24
	MELB	Charlie Spargo behind	6.6.42	-	5.2.32	29:33
	MELB	Ben Brown behind	6.7.43	-	5.2.32	30:29
Q3	HWTH	James Worpel goal	6.7.43	-	6.2.38	01:09
	MELB	Tom McDonald goal	7.7.49	-	6.2.38	02:19
	HWTH	Luke Breust goal	7.7.49	-	7.2.44	04:17
	MELB	Angus Brayshaw goal	8.7.55	-	7.2.44	13:57
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	9.7.61	-	7.2.44	16:25
	HWTH	Dylan Moore goal	9.7.61	-	8.2.50	20:22
	HWTH	Mitch Lewis goal	9.7.61	-	9.2.56	22:22
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.8.62	-	9.2.56	24:47
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.9.63	-	9.2.56	26:28
	HWTH	Jacob Koschitzke behind	9.9.63	-	9.3.57	28:16
	MELB	Luke Jackson behind	9.10.64	-	9.3.57	30:03
	HWTH	Tom Mitchell goal	9.10.64	-	10.3.63	31:37
Q4	HWTH	Mitch Lewis goal	9.10.64	-	11.3.69	00:50
	HWTH	Tyler Brockman behind	9.10.64	-	11.4.70	03:51
	HWTH	Jacob Koschitzke behind	9.10.64	-	11.5.71	05:51
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	10.10.70	-	11.5.71	07:41
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	11.10.76	-	11.5.71	11:27
	HWTH	Rushed behind	11.10.76	-	11.6.72	15:50
	MELB	Rushed behind	11.11.77	-	11.6.72	17:15
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	11.12.78	-	11.6.72	19:22
	HWTH	Tom Mitchell behind	11.12.78	-	11.7.73	20:31
	MELB	Angus Brayshaw behind	11.13.79	-	11.7.73	24:41
	HWTH	Luke Breust goal	11.13.79	-	12.7.79	27:02

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