2022 AFL Round 3: Western Bulldogs v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 31 March 2022 between Western Bulldogs and Sydney during round 3 of the 2022 AFL season. Western Bulldogs hosted Sydney at Marvel Stadium. Marcus Bontempelli captained the hosts. With the presence of multiple Sydney co-captains, namely Callum Mills, Luke Parker and Dane Rampe, playing for the side, it is not yet known who specifically captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Luke Beveridge and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

Western Bulldogs
Back: E. Richards, A. Keath, R. Smith
Half-back: C. Daniel, R. Gardner, B. Dale
Centre: J. Macrae, J. Dunkley, L. Hunter
Half-forward: L. Vandermeer, Z. Cordy, B. Smith
Forward: M. Hannan, A. Naughton, J. Ugle-Hagan
Follower: T. English, A. Treloar, M. Bontempelli (capt.)
Int.: T. Duryea, T. Liberatore, A. Scott, C. Weightman
Sub.: M. Wallis

Sydney
Back: H. Cunningham, D. Rampe, P. McCartin
Half-back: J. Lloyd, T. McCartin, J. Kennedy
Centre: N. Blakey, L. Parker, O. Florent
Half-forward: H. McLean, L. Franklin, W. Hayward
Forward: E. Gulden, I. Heeney, S. Wicks
Follower: T. Hickey, C. Mills, C. Warner
Int.: J. Amartey, B. Campbell, J. Rowbottom, D. Stephens
Sub.: B. Ronke

Western Bulldogs (9.17.71) defeated Sydney (9.6.60).

Goalkickers
Western Bulldogs: C. Weightman (3), M. Bontempelli, A. Keath, A. Naughton, J. Ugle-Hagan, L. Vandermeer, M. Wallis
Sydney: L. Franklin (2), W. Hayward (2), E. Gulden, I. Heeney, H. McLean, B. Ronke, S. Wicks

As a result of this match, Western Bulldogs were then 12th on the ladder (up from 13th) and Sydney were then 8th on the ladder (down from 3rd) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2022 AFL Season
Round: Round 3
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Sydney
Date: Thursday 31 March 2022
Time: 7:20 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 24,327

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. Sydney
Score: 9.17.71 - 9.6.60

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Western Bulldogs	3	.	3	4	.	10	6	.	15	9	.	17	9	.	17	(71)
Sydney	1	.	3	1	.	3	5	.	3	9	.	6	9	.	6	(60)
Margin	WBUL by 12			WBUL by 25			WBUL by 18			WBUL by 11			WBUL by 11
Duration	28:52			28:02			32:20			31:56			2:01:10

Honour Roll

Coaches: Luke Beveridge (Western Bulldogs), John Longmire (Sydney)
Captains: Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs), unknown (Sydney)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: J. Broadbent (#20), C. Fleer (#26), A. Gianfagna (#27)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tim English	WBUL	44	3
Josh Dunkley	WBUL	5	2
Bailey Smith	WBUL	6	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Tim English	WBUL	44	10	2	0	0	0	0
Bailey Smith	WBUL	6	7	0	1	1	0	0
Josh Dunkley	WBUL	5	6	0	1	0	1	0
Adam Treloar	WBUL	1	3	0	0	1	0	0
Ryan Gardner	WBUL	43	2	0	0	0	1	0
Bailey Dale	WBUL	31	1	0	0	0	0	1
Cody Weightman	WBUL	19	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
4	Bontempelli, Marcus (c)	RO	86%	1	0	21	13	8	6	0	5	1	4	1	0	0	3
12	Cordy, Zaine	CHF↓	15%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Dale, Bailey	HBFR	85%	0	0	27	20	7	4	0	0	2	8	1	2	8	3
35	Daniel, Caleb	HBFL	84%	0	0	19	15	4	4	0	1	0	2	2	1	5	0
5	Dunkley, Josh	C	84%	0	1	31	13	18	5	0	11	6	5	3	2	3	1
15	Duryea, Taylor	INT	74%	0	0	8	5	3	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0
44	English, Tim	RU	83%	0	1	24	16	8	8	28	5	8	1	4	1	3	7
43	Gardner, Ryan	CHB	100%	0	0	9	7	2	4	0	2	0	3	0	2	5	1
29	Hannan, Mitch	FPL	66%	0	0	4	3	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0
7	Hunter, Lachie	WR	86%	0	1	28	18	10	7	0	3	4	0	4	0	3	3
42	Keath, Alex	FB	100%	1	0	19	10	9	12	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	2
21	Liberatore, Tom	INT	79%	0	1	18	10	8	3	0	7	6	4	0	1	1	0
11	Macrae, Jack	WL	78%	0	0	24	10	14	2	0	3	6	2	2	1	1	6
33	Naughton, Aaron	FF	84%	1	2	8	4	4	3	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
20	Richards, Ed	BPL	82%	0	0	16	11	5	4	0	3	0	4	1	1	3	3
28	Scott, Anthony	INT	80%	0	0	11	7	4	5	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	3
6	Smith, Bailey	HFFR	97%	0	2	31	21	10	5	0	2	2	7	3	1	3	9
37	Smith, Roarke	BPR	80%	0	0	8	4	4	3	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	1
1	Treloar, Adam	RR	84%	0	0	27	13	14	4	0	3	1	1	0	1	1	3
2	Ugle-Hagan, Jamarra	FPR	80%	1	2	7	7	0	2	1	4	0	0	4	0	0	4
23	Vandermeer, Laitham	HFFL	74%	1	1	18	10	8	6	0	4	2	0	1	0	1	6
3	Wallis, Mitch	SUB↑	50%	1	1	6	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
19	Weightman, Cody	INT	69%	3	0	9	7	2	2	0	2	1	2	2	0	0	1
Rushed					5
Total (23 players)				9	17	373	227	146	96	30	65	41	51	31	14	40	59

M. Wallis replaced Z. Cordy during the first quarter.

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Amartey, Joel	INT	67%	0	0	10	8	2	0	8	2	5	5	0	2	0	5
22	Blakey, Nick	WL	85%	0	0	25	22	3	8	0	2	0	5	2	0	8	5
16	Campbell, Braeden	INT	76%	0	0	13	10	3	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	1	1
7	Cunningham, Harry	BPL	86%	0	0	16	8	8	5	0	3	0	3	0	2	3	1
13	Florent, Oliver	WR	69%	0	0	13	6	7	4	0	3	0	3	1	0	2	0
23	Franklin, Lance	CHF	96%	2	1	19	15	4	7	0	3	1	4	2	2	1	5
21	Gulden, Errol	FPL	86%	1	0	20	14	6	6	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	7
9	Hayward, Will	HFFR	83%	2	2	13	9	4	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
5	Heeney, Isaac	FF	87%	1	0	18	8	10	8	0	6	3	4	0	1	1	2
31	Hickey, Tom	RU↓	49%	0	0	18	6	12	3	21	0	6	2	0	2	2	3
12	Kennedy, Josh	HBFR	79%	0	0	17	9	8	6	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	2
44	Lloyd, Jake	HBFL	85%	0	0	29	21	8	4	0	1	1	2	1	1	10	2
39	McCartin, Paddy	BPR	83%	0	0	12	7	5	5	0	1	1	4	0	3	1	0
30	McCartin, Tom	CHB	88%	0	0	14	10	4	10	0	1	0	4	0	1	1	1
2	McLean, Hayden	HFFL	71%	1	0	9	5	4	3	6	1	2	1	1	0	1	3
14	Mills, Callum	RR	80%	0	0	20	13	7	6	0	2	1	1	2	1	2	1
26	Parker, Luke	C	88%	0	1	22	12	10	4	0	2	6	5	1	1	2	4
24	Rampe, Dane	FB	93%	0	0	17	9	8	7	0	0	0	2	0	1	5	0
25	Ronke, Ben	SUB↑	31%	1	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	75%	0	0	13	10	3	2	0	4	2	3	1	2	1	3
3	Stephens, Dylan	INT	69%	0	0	10	8	2	5	0	1	0	3	0	3	3	1
1	Warner, Chad	RO	83%	0	0	20	7	13	4	0	7	2	5	1	3	2	3
15	Wicks, Sam	FPR	90%	1	0	9	4	5	2	0	4	0	4	1	3	0	0
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				9	6	360	222	138	107	35	49	32	66	14	31	48	49

B. Ronke replaced T. Hickey during the third 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

Western Bulldogs							Coach: Luke Beveridge
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	7	H. Cunningham	24	D. Rampe	39	P. McCartin	44	T. English	15	T. Duryea
	2	J. Ugle-Hagan	33	A. Naughton	29	M. Hannan	1	A. Treloar	21	T. Liberatore
FORWARD							4	M. Bontempelli (c)	28	A. Scott
HALF-BACK									19	C. Weightman
	44	J. Lloyd	30	T. McCartin	12	J. Kennedy			3	M. Wallis
	6	B. Smith	12	Z. Cordy	23	L. Vandermeer
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	22	N. Blakey	26	L. Parker	13	O. Florent
	7	L. Hunter	5	J. Dunkley	11	J. Macrae	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							31	T. Hickey	36	J. Amartey
HALF-FORWARD							14	C. Mills	16	B. Campbell
	2	H. McLean	23	L. Franklin	9	W. Hayward	1	C. Warner	8	J. Rowbottom
	31	B. Dale	43	R. Gardner	35	C. Daniel			3	D. Stephens
HALF-BACK									25	B. Ronke
FORWARD
	21	E. Gulden	5	I. Heeney	15	S. Wicks
	37	R. Smith	42	A. Keath	20	E. Richards
BACK
Sydney							Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WBUL	Jamarra Ugle-Hagan goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:17
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	03:40
	WBUL	Tim English behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	05:22
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	1.1.7	-	0.2.2	09:26
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	0.3.3	10:22
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton goal	2.1.13	-	0.3.3	12:01
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton behind	2.2.14	-	0.3.3	14:43
	WBUL	Cody Weightman goal	3.2.20	-	0.3.3	17:51
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	3.2.20	-	1.3.9	19:04
	WBUL	Laitham Vandermeer behind	3.3.21	-	1.3.9	21:48
Q2	WBUL	Aaron Naughton behind	3.4.22	-	1.3.9	00:54
	WBUL	Josh Dunkley behind	3.5.23	-	1.3.9	01:57
	WBUL	Jamarra Ugle-Hagan behind	3.6.24	-	1.3.9	08:08
	WBUL	Rushed behind	3.7.25	-	1.3.9	13:54
	WBUL	Jamarra Ugle-Hagan behind	3.8.26	-	1.3.9	20:08
	WBUL	Laitham Vandermeer goal	4.8.32	-	1.3.9	24:11
	WBUL	Rushed behind	4.9.33	-	1.3.9	26:38
	WBUL	Lachie Hunter behind	4.10.34	-	1.3.9	27:58
Q3	WBUL	Bailey Smith behind	4.11.35	-	1.3.9	00:59
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	4.11.35	-	2.3.15	01:39
	WBUL	Tom Liberatore behind	4.12.36	-	2.3.15	05:47
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	4.12.36	-	3.3.21	08:15
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	4.12.36	-	4.3.27	12:10
	WBUL	Mitch Wallis behind	4.13.37	-	4.3.27	15:25
	WBUL	Cody Weightman goal	5.13.43	-	4.3.27	16:40
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	5.13.43	-	5.3.33	19:23
	WBUL	Rushed behind	5.14.44	-	5.3.33	24:18
	WBUL	Cody Weightman goal	6.14.50	-	5.3.33	26:47
	WBUL	Rushed behind	6.15.51	-	5.3.33	28:36
Q4	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	6.15.51	-	6.3.39	00:55
	SYDN	Luke Parker behind	6.15.51	-	6.4.40	02:39
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	6.15.51	-	6.5.41	03:30
	WBUL	Mitch Wallis goal	7.15.57	-	6.5.41	05:09
	WBUL	Bailey Smith behind	7.16.58	-	6.5.41	09:32
	SYDN	Sam Wicks goal	7.16.58	-	7.5.47	11:11
	WBUL	Alex Keath goal	8.16.64	-	7.5.47	16:36
	WBUL	Rushed behind	8.17.65	-	7.5.47	18:02
	SYDN	Ben Ronke goal	8.17.65	-	8.5.53	20:58
	SYDN	Rushed behind	8.17.65	-	8.6.54	22:19
	SYDN	Errol Gulden goal	8.17.65	-	9.6.60	28:29
	WBUL	Marcus Bontempelli goal	9.17.71	-	9.6.60	30:17

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