2021 AFL Round 23: Sydney v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 21 August 2021 between Sydney and Gold Coast during round 23 of the 2021 AFL season. Sydney hosted Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium. David Swallow captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Stuart Dew.

Sydney
Back: J. Dawson, D. Rampe, L. Melican
Half-back: J. Lloyd, T. McCartin, H. Cunningham
Centre: J. McInerney, G. Hewett, B. Campbell
Half-forward: W. Hayward, I. Heeney, E. Gulden
Forward: H. McLean, L. Franklin, T. Papley
Follower: T. Hickey, L. Parker, C. Mills
Int.: O. Florent, C. O'Riordan, J. Rowbottom, S. Wicks
Sub.: R. Fox

Gold Coast
Back: W. Powell, S. Collins, S. Lemmens
Half-back: B. Fiorini, C. Ballard, D. Swallow (capt.)
Centre: M. Rowell, T. Miller, R. Atkins
Half-forward: C. Burgess, J. Lukosius, A. Sexton
Forward: J. Corbett, B. King, B. Ainsworth
Follower: Z. Smith, N. Anderson, J. Farrar
Int.: A. Davies, J. Harbrow, J. Jeffrey, D. MacPherson
Sub.: J. Sharp

Sydney (21.10.136) defeated Gold Coast (6.13.49).

Goalkickers
Sydney: L. Franklin (6), I. Heeney (3), T. Papley (3), H. McLean (2), S. Wicks (2), J. Dawson, E. Gulden, T. Hickey, C. Mills, J. Rowbottom
Gold Coast: B. King (4), J. Corbett, A. Sexton

As a result of this match, Sydney remained 6th on the ladder and Gold Coast were then 16th on the ladder (down from 15th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2021 AFL Season
Round: Round 23
Teams: Sydney v Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 21 August 2021
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Gold Coast
Score: 21.10.136 - 6.13.49

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	6	.	4	9	.	7	13	.	7	21	.	10	21	.	10	(136)
Gold Coast	0	.	4	3	.	8	5	.	9	6	.	13	6	.	13	(49)
Margin	SYDN by 36			SYDN by 35			SYDN by 46			SYDN by 87			SYDN by 87
Duration	29:12			30:34			31:23			30:35			2:01:44

Honour Roll

Coaches: John Longmire (Sydney), Stuart Dew (Gold Coast)
Captains: unknown (Sydney), David Swallow (Gold Coast)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: C. Donlon (#1), L. Haussen (#5), A. Heffernan (#29), E: C. Dore (#28)
Goal Umpire: M. Bridges, M. Maclure, E: S. Plumridge
Boundary Umpire: C. Delany, M. Le Fevre, J. Scully, D. Wood

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jordan Dawson	SYDN	34	3
Jake Lloyd	SYDN	44	2
Lance Franklin	SYDN	23	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Lance Franklin	SYDN	23	9	1	1	0	0	0
Jake Lloyd	SYDN	44	7	?	?	?	?	0
Jordan Dawson	SYDN	34	5	?	0	?	?	0
Isaac Heeney	SYDN	5	4	0	?	0	?	0
Luke Parker	SYDN	26	3	0	0	1	0	0
Touk Miller	GCST	11	1	0	0	0	0	1
Tom Papley	SYDN	11	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
16	Campbell, Braeden	WR	80%	0	1	8	5	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
7	Cunningham, Harry	HBFR	82%	0	0	14	10	4	3	0	1	0	2	2	1	3	0
34	Dawson, Jordan	BPL	81%	1	1	33	24	9	16	0	3	1	4	1	0	3	8
13	Florent, Oliver	INT	80%	0	0	21	14	7	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	3
42	Fox, Robbie	SUB↑	25%	0	0	7	4	3	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
23	Franklin, Lance	FF	75%	6	2	13	9	4	7	0	5	1	5	1	2	1	3
21	Gulden, Errol	HFFR	78%	1	0	19	16	3	9	0	4	1	1	1	0	4	5
9	Hayward, Will	HFFL	91%	0	2	12	10	2	5	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	4
5	Heeney, Isaac	CHF	83%	3	1	20	12	8	6	0	2	2	2	2	0	0	5
29	Hewett, George	C	86%	0	0	23	10	13	6	0	6	2	2	1	1	0	6
31	Hickey, Tom	RU	72%	1	0	18	9	9	2	25	7	4	4	4	0	1	6
44	Lloyd, Jake	HBFL	86%	0	0	36	22	14	8	0	0	0	2	1	1	8	2
30	McCartin, Tom	CHB	93%	0	0	12	8	4	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
27	McInerney, Justin	WL	83%	0	0	29	22	7	13	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	2
41	McLean, Hayden	FPL	86%	2	1	10	8	2	6	6	4	1	2	0	0	0	1
43	Melican, Lewis	BPR	82%	0	0	10	8	2	1	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	0
14	Mills, Callum	RO↓	51%	1	0	18	5	13	5	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	2
38	O'Riordan, Colin	INT	79%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	0
11	Papley, Tom	FPR	81%	3	1	15	13	2	7	0	0	2	3	1	1	0	3
26	Parker, Luke	RR	85%	0	0	23	11	12	3	0	5	9	3	4	1	1	3
24	Rampe, Dane	FB	90%	0	0	17	13	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	1	8	0
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	82%	1	0	18	9	9	5	0	1	2	5	0	3	0	1
45	Wicks, Sam	INT	69%	2	0	9	5	4	4	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				21	10	397	255	142	129	32	51	27	54	22	15	40	55

R. Fox replaced C. Mills.

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ainsworth, Ben	FPR	86%	0	2	21	15	6	5	0	0	1	6	1	1	0	6
15	Anderson, Noah	RR	83%	0	0	28	16	12	5	0	4	5	5	1	3	2	5
2	Atkins, Rory	WR	81%	0	1	18	6	12	3	0	0	4	1	0	0	1	3
10	Ballard, Charlie	CHB	88%	0	0	9	4	5	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	Burgess, Chris	HFFL	85%	0	0	6	4	2	2	9	5	1	1	0	0	0	1
25	Collins, Sam	FB	83%	0	0	11	8	3	7	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	2
19	Corbett, Josh	FPL	80%	1	1	9	4	5	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0
30	Davies, Alex	INT	65%	0	2	16	5	11	2	0	6	2	4	0	2	0	3
50	Farrar, Jy	RO	87%	0	0	15	8	7	6	0	2	0	4	1	2	1	2
8	Fiorini, Brayden	HBFL	86%	0	1	20	12	8	3	0	3	6	2	0	1	1	4
5	Harbrow, Jarrod	INT↓	77%	0	1	21	16	5	8	0	2	0	5	1	1	5	1
40	Jeffrey, Joel	INT	69%	0	0	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	0	1
34	King, Ben	FF	95%	4	1	8	7	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	2
23	Lemmens, Sean	BPR	90%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
13	Lukosius, Jack	CHF	76%	0	0	16	14	2	6	0	1	0	2	2	0	6	1
44	MacPherson, Darcy	INT	76%	0	1	15	11	4	5	0	4	1	5	0	3	1	3
11	Miller, Touk	C	86%	0	1	37	14	23	3	0	9	4	2	2	1	4	4
27	Powell, Wil	BPL	81%	0	0	13	8	5	4	0	4	1	4	0	1	4	0
18	Rowell, Matt	WL	73%	0	0	17	10	7	3	0	4	5	3	2	1	0	4
6	Sexton, Alex	HFFR	77%	1	0	8	6	2	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2
37	Sharp, Jeremy	SUB↑	8%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
32	Smith, Zac	RU	76%	0	0	8	3	5	2	25	5	2	3	1	2	0	0
24	Swallow, David (c)	HBFR	89%	0	0	20	11	9	4	0	2	3	1	0	0	2	2
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				6	13	335	195	140	86	34	55	36	60	15	22	34	47

J. Sharp replaced J. Harbrow during the fourth quarter.

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

Sydney							Coach: John Longmire
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	W. Powell	25	S. Collins	23	S. Lemmens	31	T. Hickey	13	O. Florent
	11	T. Papley	23	L. Franklin	41	H. McLean	26	L. Parker	38	C. O'Riordan
FORWARD							14	C. Mills	8	J. Rowbottom
HALF-BACK									45	S. Wicks
	8	B. Fiorini	10	C. Ballard	24	D. Swallow (c)			42	R. Fox
	21	E. Gulden	5	I. Heeney	9	W. Hayward
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	18	M. Rowell	11	T. Miller	2	R. Atkins
	16	B. Campbell	29	G. Hewett	27	J. McInerney	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							32	Z. Smith	30	A. Davies
HALF-FORWARD							15	N. Anderson	5	J. Harbrow
	29	C. Burgess	13	J. Lukosius	6	A. Sexton	50	J. Farrar	40	J. Jeffrey
	7	H. Cunningham	30	T. McCartin	44	J. Lloyd			44	D. MacPherson
HALF-BACK									37	J. Sharp
FORWARD
	19	J. Corbett	34	B. King	9	B. Ainsworth
	43	L. Melican	24	D. Rampe	34	J. Dawson
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Stuart Dew

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	00:23
	GCST	Brayden Fiorini behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	01:47
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	03:10
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	1.2.8	-	0.1.1	03:59
	SYDN	Callum Mills goal	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	05:16
	SYDN	Jordan Dawson behind	2.3.15	-	0.1.1	10:46
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	2.4.16	-	0.1.1	12:03
	GCST	Ben King behind	2.4.16	-	0.2.2	13:16
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	3.4.22	-	0.2.2	14:08
	SYDN	Jordan Dawson goal	4.4.28	-	0.2.2	18:00
	GCST	Jarrod Harbrow behind	4.4.28	-	0.3.3	20:28
	SYDN	Errol Gulden goal	5.4.34	-	0.3.3	21:39
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	6.4.40	-	0.3.3	23:38
	GCST	Alex Davies behind	6.4.40	-	0.4.4	28:42
Q2	GCST	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	0.5.5	01:08
	GCST	Touk Miller behind	6.4.40	-	0.6.6	02:57
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	6.5.41	-	0.6.6	04:23
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	7.5.47	-	0.6.6	06:01
	GCST	Rory Atkins behind	7.5.47	-	0.7.7	07:50
	GCST	Josh Corbett goal	7.5.47	-	1.7.13	09:50
	GCST	Ben King goal	7.5.47	-	2.7.19	11:04
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	8.5.53	-	2.7.19	14:12
	SYDN	Sam Wicks goal	9.5.59	-	2.7.19	16:05
	GCST	Ben King goal	9.5.59	-	3.7.25	18:19
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	9.6.60	-	3.7.25	20:18
	GCST	Josh Corbett behind	9.6.60	-	3.8.26	27:52
	SYDN	Rushed behind	9.7.61	-	3.8.26	29:43
Q3	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	10.7.67	-	3.8.26	00:51
	GCST	Ben King goal	10.7.67	-	4.8.32	08:21
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	10.7.67	-	4.9.33	11:01
	SYDN	Tom Hickey goal	11.7.73	-	4.9.33	12:11
	SYDN	Sam Wicks goal	12.7.79	-	4.9.33	15:40
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	13.7.85	-	4.9.33	20:08
	GCST	Alex Sexton goal	13.7.85	-	5.9.39	24:19
Q4	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	13.8.86	-	5.9.39	00:24
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	14.8.92	-	5.9.39	01:47
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	15.8.98	-	5.9.39	02:58
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	16.8.104	-	5.9.39	04:23
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	16.9.105	-	5.9.39	06:23
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	17.9.111	-	5.9.39	08:21
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	18.9.117	-	5.9.39	10:32
	GCST	Rushed behind	18.9.117	-	5.10.40	13:54
	GCST	Ben King goal	18.9.117	-	6.10.46	15:20
	GCST	Alex Davies behind	18.9.117	-	6.11.47	17:12
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	18.9.117	-	6.12.48	18:46
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	19.9.123	-	6.12.48	20:41
	GCST	Darcy MacPherson behind	19.9.123	-	6.13.49	23:56
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	19.10.124	-	6.13.49	25:38
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	20.10.130	-	6.13.49	27:57
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	21.10.136	-	6.13.49	30:32

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