2023 AFL Season Elimination Final 1: Carlton v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 8 September 2023 between Carlton and Sydney in the first elimination final of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. Carlton hosted Sydney at the MCG. Patrick Cripps captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Michael Voss and the visitors were coached by John Longmire.

Carlton (11.8.74) defeated Sydney (9.14.68).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: First Elimination Final
Teams: Carlton v Sydney
Date: Friday 8 September 2023
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 92,026

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Sydney
Score: 11.8.74 - 9.14.68

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Carlton	3	.	2	7	.	5	10	.	6	11	.	8	11	.	8	(74)
Sydney	1	.	5	2	.	6	7	.	9	9	.	14	9	.	14	(68)
Margin	CARL by 9			CARL by 29			CARL by 15			CARL by 6			CARL by 6
Duration	29:57			30:57			31:56			31:17			2:04:07

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Carlton

Captain: Patrick Cripps
Coach: Michael Voss

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: John Longmire

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Blake Acres	CARL	13	9	1	1	0	0	0
Sam Walsh	CARL	18	8	1	0	1	0	0
Tom McCartin	SYDN	30	5	0	0	1	1	0
Matt Cottrell	CARL	46	4	0	1	0	0	0
Errol Gulden	SYDN	21	2	0	0	0	1	0
Adam Cerra	CARL	5	1	0	0	0	0	1
Adam Saad	CARL	42	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Acres, Blake	WL	92%	1	1	26	17	9	4	0	1	5	8	0	0	0	7
5	Cerra, Adam	RR	73%	1	0	24	14	10	3	0	7	3	2	2	1	1	5
39	Cincotta, Alex	INT	78%	0	0	9	5	4	2	0	3	0	2	1	0	2	1
46	Cottrell, Matt	HFFR	95%	2	1	17	12	5	4	0	3	0	0	3	0	2	3
9	Cripps, Patrick (c)	C	78%	1	1	21	9	12	1	0	5	3	7	1	2	1	2
28	Cuningham, David	CHF	74%	1	1	9	4	5	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	1
30	Curnow, Charlie	FF	94%	1	0	15	10	5	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	5
12	De Koning, Tom	RU	71%	0	0	15	10	5	4	11	1	5	1	3	1	0	5
15	Docherty, Sam	WR	91%	1	1	21	16	5	6	0	3	2	2	1	1	1	2
8	Fogarty, Lachie	HFFL	85%	0	0	12	6	6	2	0	8	1	1	0	0	1	2
29	Hewett, George	INT	68%	0	0	25	12	13	4	0	5	5	5	1	3	1	4
17	Kemp, Brodie	FB	94%	0	0	13	7	6	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	3	1
22	Marchbank, Caleb	BPR	74%	0	0	16	10	6	6	0	4	0	2	1	1	2	0
21	Martin, Jack	FPL	78%	2	0	12	6	6	5	0	2	0	7	1	5	2	0
11	McGovern, Mitch	HBFL	82%	0	0	16	14	2	6	0	1	0	3	3	2	7	2
10	McKay, Harry	FPR↓	68%	0	2	11	6	5	5	1	1	1	3	0	0	0	1
3	Motlop, Jesse	SUB↑	25%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
24	Newman, Nic	CHB	92%	0	0	23	16	7	5	0	2	2	4	1	0	2	2
44	Owies, Matthew	INT	66%	1	0	5	2	3	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	1
27	Pittonet, Marc	INT	61%	0	0	14	9	5	0	24	2	4	1	1	1	0	0
42	Saad, Adam	HBFR	81%	0	0	23	21	2	7	0	3	1	1	0	0	8	2
18	Walsh, Sam	RO	81%	0	0	28	13	15	2	0	6	6	4	0	0	2	9
23	Weitering, Jacob	BPL	100%	0	0	15	12	3	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				11	8	370	231	139	85	36	66	38	62	19	19	36	56

J. Motlop replaced H. McKay.

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Amartey, Joel	FF↓	55%	1	2	7	4	3	5	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	2
22	Blakey, Nick	INT	63%	0	0	23	14	9	2	0	2	0	1	2	0	3	3
16	Campbell, Braeden	WL	86%	0	1	22	12	10	6	0	3	3	4	0	0	4	2
7	Cunningham, Harry	CHB	84%	0	0	11	8	3	3	0	4	1	1	0	0	4	0
13	Florent, Oliver	HBFL	85%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	1	2	5	0	1	6	0
42	Fox, Robbie	SUB↑	25%	0	0	6	1	5	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
21	Gulden, Errol	HFFL	98%	2	1	23	20	3	8	0	3	2	5	0	3	4	4
9	Hayward, Will	INT	74%	1	1	12	5	7	6	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	HFFR	82%	0	0	16	9	7	6	0	4	3	8	1	3	2	2
31	Hickey, Tom	RU	75%	0	0	10	1	9	2	24	1	2	2	1	2	0	2
44	Lloyd, Jake	HBFR	86%	0	0	27	19	8	10	0	1	0	3	0	1	7	4
30	McCartin, Tom	FB	94%	0	0	18	9	9	9	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1
6	McDonald, Logan	FPR	79%	2	0	10	7	3	3	0	4	0	4	1	2	0	0
27	McInerney, Justin	WR	80%	0	0	16	7	9	3	0	1	0	4	2	1	2	2
2	McLean, Hayden	INT	78%	1	1	17	12	5	12	11	4	1	3	0	2	0	5
43	Melican, Lewis	BPL	87%	0	0	9	8	1	3	0	2	0	1	2	0	2	0
14	Mills, Callum	RR	82%	0	1	21	13	8	3	0	5	2	1	3	0	3	1
11	Papley, Tom	CHF	79%	0	1	18	12	6	4	0	3	7	3	2	0	1	8
26	Parker, Luke	RO	81%	2	0	19	14	5	8	0	4	1	4	1	1	0	2
24	Rampe, Dane	BPR	93%	0	0	16	9	7	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	2	1
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	70%	0	0	12	6	6	0	0	5	3	2	0	0	0	1
1	Warner, Chad	C	84%	0	1	22	17	5	4	0	5	4	6	1	2	3	3
15	Wicks, Sam	FPL	81%	0	2	14	9	5	2	0	6	3	2	1	1	0	2
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				9	14	362	224	138	106	35	67	35	64	19	19	45	46

R. Fox replaced J. Amartey.

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

Carlton							Coach: Michael Voss
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	43	L. Melican	30	T. McCartin	24	D. Rampe	12	T. De Koning	39	A. Cincotta
	10	H. McKay	30	C. Curnow	21	J. Martin	5	A. Cerra	29	G. Hewett
FORWARD							18	S. Walsh	44	M. Owies
HALF-BACK									27	M. Pittonet
	13	O. Florent	7	H. Cunningham	44	J. Lloyd			3	J. Motlop
	46	M. Cottrell	28	D. Cuningham	8	L. Fogarty
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	16	B. Campbell	1	C. Warner	27	J. McInerney
	15	S. Docherty	9	P. Cripps (c)	13	B. Acres	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							31	T. Hickey	22	N. Blakey
HALF-FORWARD							14	C. Mills	9	W. Hayward
	21	E. Gulden	11	T. Papley	5	I. Heeney	26	L. Parker	2	H. McLean
	42	A. Saad	24	N. Newman	11	M. McGovern			8	J. Rowbottom
HALF-BACK									42	R. Fox
FORWARD
	15	S. Wicks	36	J. Amartey	6	L. McDonald
	22	C. Marchbank	17	B. Kemp	23	J. Weitering
BACK
Sydney							Coach: John Longmire

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	CARL	Sam Docherty goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:50
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	03:04
	CARL	Blake Acres behind	2.1.13	-	0.0.0	04:38
	SYDN	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	10:39
	SYDN	Errol Gulden goal	2.1.13	-	1.1.7	11:26
	SYDN	Callum Mills behind	2.1.13	-	1.2.8	17:18
	SYDN	Sam Wicks behind	2.1.13	-	1.3.9	19:03
	SYDN	Joel Amartey behind	2.1.13	-	1.4.10	20:44
	CARL	Harry McKay behind	2.2.14	-	1.4.10	21:26
	CARL	Matt Cottrell goal	3.2.20	-	1.4.10	26:29
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	3.2.20	-	1.5.11	29:52
Q2	CARL	Sam Docherty behind	3.3.21	-	1.5.11	01:02
	CARL	David Cuningham behind	3.4.22	-	1.5.11	02:57
	CARL	Matthew Owies goal	4.4.28	-	1.5.11	06:17
	CARL	Matt Cottrell behind	4.5.29	-	1.5.11	07:32
	CARL	Matt Cottrell goal	5.5.35	-	1.5.11	10:17
	CARL	Jack Martin goal	6.5.41	-	1.5.11	21:16
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	6.5.41	-	1.6.12	25:14
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	6.5.41	-	2.6.18	26:57
	CARL	David Cuningham goal	7.5.47	-	2.6.18	29:54
Q3	CARL	Harry McKay behind	7.6.48	-	2.6.18	02:06
	SYDN	Joel Amartey behind	7.6.48	-	2.7.19	05:10
	SYDN	Errol Gulden goal	7.6.48	-	3.7.25	05:38
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	7.6.48	-	4.7.31	07:58
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	7.6.48	-	5.7.37	09:13
	CARL	Jack Martin goal	8.6.54	-	5.7.37	12:33
	CARL	Adam Cerra goal	9.6.60	-	5.7.37	14:41
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	9.6.60	-	5.8.38	19:28
	CARL	Patrick Cripps goal	10.6.66	-	5.8.38	21:28
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	10.6.66	-	5.9.39	24:31
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	10.6.66	-	6.9.45	25:00
	SYDN	Luke Parker goal	10.6.66	-	7.9.51	28:49
Q4	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	10.6.66	-	7.10.52	01:15
	CARL	Patrick Cripps behind	10.7.67	-	7.10.52	04:01
	SYDN	Luke Parker goal	10.7.67	-	8.10.58	05:45
	SYDN	Errol Gulden behind	10.7.67	-	8.11.59	13:48
	CARL	Rushed behind	10.8.68	-	8.11.59	17:31
	SYDN	Rushed behind	10.8.68	-	8.12.60	18:19
	CARL	Blake Acres goal	11.8.74	-	8.12.60	22:07
	SYDN	Sam Wicks behind	11.8.74	-	8.13.61	23:26
	SYDN	Rushed behind	11.8.74	-	8.14.62	24:38
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	11.8.74	-	9.14.68	29:32

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