2021 AFL Round 23: Geelong v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 21 August 2021 between Geelong and Melbourne during round 23 of the 2021 AFL season. Geelong hosted Melbourne at GMHBA Stadium. Joel Selwood captained the hosts. Max Gawn captained the visitors with Jack Viney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Geelong
Back: J. Henry, L. Henderson, J. Kolodjashnij
Half-back: M. O'Connor, M. Blicavs, T. Atkins
Centre: S. Menegola, C. Guthrie, I. Smith
Half-forward: L. Dahlhaus, J. Cameron, G. Rohan
Forward: B. Close, T. Hawkins, G. Miers
Follower: R. Stanley, J. Selwood (capt.), P. Dangerfield
Int.: J. Bews, M. Holmes, B. Parfitt, S. Simpson
Sub.: S. Higgins

Melbourne
Back: J. Smith, S. May, H. Petty
Half-back: J. Bowey, J. Lever, C. Salem
Centre: J. Harmes, 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, T. Sparrow
Sub.: J. Jordon

Geelong (12.5.77) were defeated by Melbourne (12.9.81).

Goalkickers
Geelong: T. Hawkins (4), J. Cameron (2), G. Rohan (2), B. Close, L. Dahlhaus, P. Dangerfield, J. Selwood
Melbourne: K. Pickett (3), B. Brown (2), C. Oliver (2), C. Spargo (2), B. Fritsch, M. Gawn, J. Viney

As a result of this match, Geelong were then 3rd on the ladder (down from 2nd) and Melbourne remained 1st on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 23
Teams: Geelong v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 21 August 2021
Time: 7:25 PM
Venue: GMHBA Stadium

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. by Melbourne
Score: 12.5.77 - 12.9.81

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Geelong 2 . 1 10 . 2 12 . 3 12 . 5 12 . 5 (77)
Melbourne 2 . 3 3 . 5 6 . 7 12 . 9 12 . 9 (81)
Margin MELB by 2 GEEL by 39 GEEL by 32 MELB by 4 MELB by 4
Duration 30:13 36:34 30:43 30:33 2:08:03

Honour Roll

Coaches: Chris Scott (Geelong), Simon Goodwin (Melbourne)
Captains: Joel Selwood (Geelong), Max Gawn (Melbourne)
Vice-Captains: unknown (Geelong), Jack Viney (Melbourne)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Fleer (#26), J. Mollison (#32), M. Stevic (#9), E: A. Whetton (#19)
Goal Umpire: D. Benwell, M. Dervan, E: C. Leonard
Boundary Umpire: I. Burrows, C. Gordon, B. MacDonald, M. Tomkins

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Clayton Oliver MELB 13 3
Joel Selwood GEEL 14 2
Max Gawn MELB 11 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Clayton Oliver MELB 13 10 2 0 0 0 0
Patrick Dangerfield GEEL 35 5 0 0 1 1 0
Christian Petracca MELB 5 4 0 1 0 0 0
Joel Selwood GEEL 14 4 0 1 0 0 0
Jake Lever MELB 8 3 0 0 1 0 0
Rhys Stanley GEEL 1 2 0 0 0 1 0
Max Gawn MELB 11 1 0 0 0 0 1
Tom Hawkins GEEL 26 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Geelong

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
30 Atkins, Tom HBFR 78% 0 0 16 8 8 4 0 4 1 3 0 1 3 1
24 Bews, Jed INT 78% 0 0 15 8 7 6 0 2 2 3 0 1 1 0
46 Blicavs, Mark CHB 94% 0 0 14 8 6 4 5 5 2 1 4 1 2 0
5 Cameron, Jeremy CHF 90% 2 2 10 7 3 4 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 2
45 Close, Brad FPL 83% 1 0 13 7 6 5 0 2 0 1 0 0 2 1
40 Dahlhaus, Luke HFFL 74% 1 2 13 6 7 3 0 3 1 3 1 0 1 1
35 Dangerfield, Patrick RO 79% 1 0 23 8 15 3 0 3 6 6 0 1 0 5
29 Guthrie, Cameron C 72% 0 0 30 16 14 8 0 2 4 2 2 0 3 2
26 Hawkins, Tom FF 97% 4 0 12 9 3 5 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0
25 Henderson, Lachie FB 100% 0 0 24 21 3 15 0 1 0 3 1 1 8 1
38 Henry, Jack BPL 100% 0 0 14 8 6 6 0 4 0 2 1 0 1 1
4 Higgins, Shaun SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Holmes, Max INT 65% 0 0 18 4 14 2 0 7 5 2 0 0 3 3
8 Kolodjashnij, Jake BPR 83% 0 0 15 12 3 7 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 3
27 Menegola, Sam WL 84% 0 0 25 20 5 7 0 2 1 5 0 0 6 4
32 Miers, Gryan FPR 77% 0 0 13 8 5 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 2
42 O'Connor, Mark HBFL 87% 0 0 15 10 5 6 0 0 1 3 0 2 2 1
3 Parfitt, Brandan INT 68% 0 0 22 12 10 0 0 8 5 4 3 3 0 7
23 Rohan, Gary HFFR 88% 2 1 8 3 5 2 0 3 0 3 0 2 0 0
14 Selwood, Joel (c) RR 64% 1 0 28 17 11 4 0 6 6 5 5 2 0 3
37 Simpson, Sam INT 71% 0 0 12 8 4 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 3
7 Smith, Isaac WR 89% 0 0 24 20 4 11 0 1 0 1 1 0 5 5
1 Stanley, Rhys RU 80% 0 0 13 9 4 1 33 3 7 3 0 1 2 4
Rushed 0
Total (23 players) 12 5 377 229 148 106 39 61 41 58 23 17 42 49

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
17 Bowey, Jake HBFL 78% 0 0 16 7 9 4 0 0 3 3 0 2 1 1
10 Brayshaw, Angus HFFR 82% 0 0 18 13 5 5 0 4 1 6 1 2 1 4
50 Brown, Ben FF 79% 2 0 9 7 2 5 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 4
31 Fritsch, Bayley FPR 86% 1 2 7 6 1 2 0 4 0 1 1 1 0 2
11 Gawn, Max (c) RU 87% 1 0 25 17 8 6 39 3 7 3 0 1 2 5
4 Harmes, James WL 82% 0 0 26 10 16 2 0 3 5 3 1 0 4 5
6 Jackson, Luke INT 67% 0 0 7 1 6 1 7 2 0 2 0 1 0 0
23 Jordon, James SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Langdon, Ed WR 96% 0 0 19 12 7 3 0 2 1 4 0 1 0 4
8 Lever, Jake CHB 100% 0 0 22 11 11 8 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 2
1 May, Steven FB 100% 0 0 19 18 1 9 0 0 0 4 2 1 8 1
25 McDonald, Tom CHF 81% 0 0 6 4 2 2 3 2 1 2 0 1 0 2
30 Neal-Bullen, Alex FPL 79% 0 0 16 6 10 3 0 5 3 2 0 1 2 1
13 Oliver, Clayton RR 90% 2 1 37 17 20 2 0 7 9 6 4 3 1 7
5 Petracca, Christian C 89% 0 0 26 13 13 3 0 3 6 3 1 1 3 4
35 Petty, Harry BPR 97% 0 0 7 4 3 1 0 4 0 2 2 2 1 0
36 Pickett, Kysaiah HFFL 72% 3 1 14 12 2 4 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 5
24 Rivers, Trent INT 65% 0 0 12 5 7 3 0 3 0 2 0 1 3 1
3 Salem, Christian HBFR 85% 0 0 27 16 11 9 0 4 4 6 0 2 5 3
44 Smith, Joel BPL 76% 0 0 6 3 3 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Spargo, Charlie INT 74% 2 0 10 7 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
32 Sparrow, Tom INT 62% 0 0 12 10 2 6 0 5 0 3 2 0 1 2
7 Viney, Jack (vc) RO 73% 1 1 17 8 9 2 0 9 4 3 1 0 1 2
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 12 9 358 207 151 87 49 70 48 60 17 23 37 56

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

Geelong Coach: Chris Scott
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
44 J. Smith 1 S. May 35 H. Petty 1 R. Stanley 24 J. Bews
32 G. Miers 26 T. Hawkins 45 B. Close 14 J. Selwood (c) 9 M. Holmes
FORWARD 35 P. Dangerfield 3 B. Parfitt
HALF-BACK

37 S. Simpson
17 J. Bowey 8 J. Lever 3 C. Salem

4 S. Higgins
23 G. Rohan 5 J. Cameron 40 L. Dahlhaus



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



4 J. Harmes 5 C. Petracca 15 E. Langdon



7 I. Smith 29 C. Guthrie 27 S. Menegola FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 11 M. Gawn (c) 6 L. Jackson
HALF-FORWARD 13 C. Oliver 24 T. Rivers
36 K. Pickett 25 T. McDonald 10 A. Brayshaw 7 J. Viney (vc) 9 C. Spargo
30 T. Atkins 46 M. Blicavs 42 M. O'Connor

32 T. Sparrow
HALF-BACK

23 J. Jordon
FORWARD



30 A. Neal-Bullen 50 B. Brown 31 B. Fritsch



8 J. Kolodjashnij 25 L. Henderson 38 J. Henry



BACK



Melbourne Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 04:51
MELB Clayton Oliver behind 0.0.0 - 1.1.7 10:05
GEEL Luke Dahlhaus goal 1.0.6 - 1.1.7 11:28
MELB Jack Viney behind 1.0.6 - 1.2.8 13:53
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 1.0.6 - 1.3.9 16:01
GEEL Joel Selwood goal 2.0.12 - 1.3.9 17:58
GEEL Luke Dahlhaus behind 2.1.13 - 1.3.9 20:22
MELB Ben Brown goal 2.1.13 - 2.3.15 22:23
Q2 MELB Jack Viney goal 2.1.13 - 3.3.21 01:20
MELB Rushed behind 2.1.13 - 3.4.22 02:39
GEEL Jeremy Cameron goal 3.1.19 - 3.4.22 07:15
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 4.1.25 - 3.4.22 12:18
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 5.1.31 - 3.4.22 19:59
GEEL Gary Rohan behind 5.2.32 - 3.4.22 22:35
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 6.2.38 - 3.4.22 23:55
GEEL Patrick Dangerfield goal 7.2.44 - 3.4.22 25:15
GEEL Brad Close goal 8.2.50 - 3.4.22 26:25
GEEL Gary Rohan goal 9.2.56 - 3.4.22 28:12
MELB Rushed behind 9.2.56 - 3.5.23 31:55
GEEL Jeremy Cameron goal 10.2.62 - 3.5.23 33:53
Q3 MELB Rushed behind 10.2.62 - 3.6.24 02:57
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 11.2.68 - 3.6.24 08:20
MELB Clayton Oliver goal 11.2.68 - 4.6.30 14:40
GEEL Gary Rohan goal 12.2.74 - 4.6.30 18:42
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 12.2.74 - 5.6.36 20:18
GEEL Jeremy Cameron behind 12.3.75 - 5.6.36 21:58
MELB Ben Brown goal 12.3.75 - 6.6.42 26:01
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 12.3.75 - 6.7.43 29:31
Q4 MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 12.3.75 - 7.7.49 00:46
MELB Charlie Spargo goal 12.3.75 - 8.7.55 03:09
MELB Kysaiah Pickett behind 12.3.75 - 8.8.56 06:30
MELB Clayton Oliver goal 12.3.75 - 9.8.62 07:42
MELB Charlie Spargo goal 12.3.75 - 10.8.68 09:03
GEEL Jeremy Cameron behind 12.4.76 - 10.8.68 14:59
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 12.4.76 - 11.8.74 16:19
GEEL Luke Dahlhaus behind 12.5.77 - 11.8.74 17:32
MELB Rushed behind 12.5.77 - 11.9.75 22:37
MELB Max Gawn goal 12.5.77 - 12.9.81 30:29