2021 AFL Season Round 18: Melbourne v Hawthorn

This is the match report for the match played on 17 July 2021 between Melbourne and Hawthorn during round eighteen of the 2021 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Hawthorn at the 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 (11.13.79) drew with Hawthorn (12.7.79).

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

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Melbourne

Captain: Max Gawn
Vice-Captain: Jack Viney
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Hawthorn

Captain: Ben McEvoy
Coach: Alastair Clarkson

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

J. Power (#4)
A. Stephens (#12)
M. Stevic (#9)
E: M. Rodger (#43)

Goal Umpires

M. Maclure
C. Roffey
E: C. Leonard

Boundary Umpires

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