2023 AFL Season Qualifying Final 1: Collingwood v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 7 September 2023 between Collingwood and Melbourne in the first qualifying final of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. Collingwood hosted Melbourne at the MCG. Darcy Moore captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Craig McRae and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Collingwood (9.6.60) defeated Melbourne (7.11.53).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: First Qualifying Final
Teams: Collingwood v Melbourne
Date: Thursday 7 September 2023
Time: 7:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 92,636

Match Results

Outcome: Collingwood def. Melbourne
Score: 9.6.60 - 7.11.53

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Collingwood	4	.	2	5	.	3	9	.	4	9	.	6	9	.	6	(60)
Melbourne	1	.	0	2	.	4	4	.	9	7	.	11	7	.	11	(53)
Margin	COLL by 20			COLL by 17			COLL by 25			COLL by 7			COLL by 7
Duration	34:54			27:51			33:26			29:25			2:05:36

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Collingwood

Captain: Darcy Moore
Coach: Craig McRae

Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Simon Goodwin

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Max Gawn	MELB	11	8	?	?	?	0	0
Jack Crisp	COLL	25	6	?	?	?	?	?
Isaac Quaynor	COLL	3	6	?	?	?	?	?
Bobby Hill	COLL	23	4	0	?	?	?	?
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	3	0	0	?	?	?
Steele Sidebottom	COLL	22	2	0	0	0	1	0
Clayton Oliver	MELB	13	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Collingwood

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Adams, Taylor	C	73%	0	0	15	7	8	3	0	4	3	5	0	2	0	2
14	Cameron, Darcy	INT↓	52%	1	0	8	7	1	3	14	1	2	1	1	0	0	0
46	Cox, Mason	RU	67%	0	0	9	5	4	2	34	0	6	5	2	1	1	2
25	Crisp, Jack	RO	79%	1	0	23	14	9	3	0	2	5	6	0	1	3	4
7	Daicos, Josh	WR	84%	0	0	14	10	4	4	0	1	1	3	0	1	6	2
2	De Goey, Jordan	FPR	82%	1	0	19	13	6	0	0	0	4	6	1	2	2	1
5	Elliott, Jamie	FPL	91%	0	2	6	5	1	4	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	0
33	Ginnivan, Jack	SUB↑	13%	0	0	4	3	1	1	0	2	2	2	1	1	1	0
23	Hill, Bobby	HFFL	78%	3	1	13	11	2	5	0	4	0	2	1	1	1	1
32	Hoskin-Elliott, Will	CHB	84%	0	0	20	19	1	5	0	5	0	3	0	0	10	2
38	Howe, Jeremy	HFFR	90%	0	0	17	10	7	3	0	4	0	0	0	0	6	1
1	Lipinski, Patrick	INT	80%	0	0	13	5	8	1	0	3	3	4	0	1	0	2
37	Markov, Oleg	INT	76%	0	0	13	7	6	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	1	1
4	Maynard, Brayden	HBFL	87%	0	0	16	12	4	4	0	1	0	7	0	2	5	2
31	McCreery, Beau	RR	81%	0	1	10	9	1	3	0	4	1	5	1	2	0	4
11	McStay, Daniel	FF	88%	2	0	7	4	3	4	0	2	0	3	1	1	0	1
41	Mihocek, Brody	CHF	88%	1	1	15	10	5	6	0	4	1	3	2	2	0	4
6	Mitchell, Tom	INT	67%	0	0	21	8	13	2	0	4	4	4	1	0	4	2
30	Moore, Darcy (c)	FB	96%	0	0	16	12	4	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	8	0
28	Murphy, Nathan	BPL	100%	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	2	2	0
10	Pendlebury, Scott	HBFR	70%	0	0	15	9	6	1	0	4	4	2	2	0	0	0
3	Quaynor, Isaac	BPR	80%	0	0	17	11	6	6	0	1	0	2	1	0	4	2
22	Sidebottom, Steele	WL	95%	0	0	22	18	4	5	0	6	4	1	0	0	6	4
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				9	6	319	212	107	77	48	62	40	72	14	20	60	37

J. Ginnivan replaced D. Cameron.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	INT	76%	0	0	19	15	4	8	0	2	1	1	1	0	2	2
10	Brayshaw, Angus	FPR↓	7%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1
37	Chandler, Kade	INT	70%	0	0	11	6	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
31	Fritsch, Bayley	CHF	85%	2	2	7	6	1	4	0	4	0	1	1	0	0	1
11	Gawn, Max	RU	90%	0	0	27	17	10	7	31	3	10	10	0	3	2	10
14	Hibberd, Michael	BPL	93%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	1
12	Hunter, Lachie	HFFL	91%	0	0	18	10	8	2	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	2
15	Langdon, Ed	WR	92%	0	1	16	7	9	3	0	1	2	3	0	1	2	3
16	Laurie, Bailey	SUB↑	54%	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	0
8	Lever, Jake	CHB	100%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	0	0	4	0	1	1	4
1	May, Steven	FB	100%	0	0	17	12	5	4	0	3	0	3	2	0	5	4
25	McDonald, Tom	INT	76%	1	1	7	3	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
41	McVee, Judd	HBFL	77%	0	0	11	7	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	HFFR	82%	1	0	17	11	6	1	0	5	3	5	2	0	2	2
13	Oliver, Clayton	RR	84%	0	0	31	21	10	5	0	10	11	5	3	3	2	10
5	Petracca, Christian	RO	82%	0	1	29	13	16	2	0	4	6	6	3	1	2	6
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	FPL	94%	1	3	13	10	3	3	0	4	0	6	0	2	1	3
24	Rivers, Trent	WL	75%	0	0	12	11	1	4	0	3	0	4	1	1	3	3
3	Salem, Christian	HBFR	79%	0	0	11	8	3	2	0	5	1	1	0	1	2	4
29	Smith, Joel	BPR	75%	1	0	11	7	4	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
32	Sparrow, Tom	INT	69%	1	0	14	10	4	1	0	5	6	3	0	1	1	2
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	71%	0	0	6	4	2	2	1	3	0	3	2	0	0	1
7	Viney, Jack	C	79%	0	0	20	12	8	2	0	1	0	5	0	0	1	6
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				7	11	325	205	120	68	33	61	44	67	20	14	28	69

B. Laurie replaced A. Brayshaw.

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

Collingwood							Coach: Craig McRae
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	14	M. Hibberd	1	S. May	29	J. Smith	46	M. Cox	14	D. Cameron
	2	J. De Goey	11	D. McStay	5	J. Elliott	31	B. McCreery	1	P. Lipinski
FORWARD							25	J. Crisp	37	O. Markov
HALF-BACK									6	T. Mitchell
	41	J. McVee	8	J. Lever	3	C. Salem			33	J. Ginnivan
	38	J. Howe	41	B. Mihocek	23	B. Hill
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	24	T. Rivers	7	J. Viney	15	E. Langdon
	7	J. Daicos	13	T. Adams	22	S. Sidebottom	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn	17	J. Bowey
HALF-FORWARD							13	C. Oliver	37	K. Chandler
	12	L. Hunter	31	B. Fritsch	30	A. Neal-Bullen	5	C. Petracca	25	T. McDonald
	10	S. Pendlebury	32	W. Hoskin-Elliott	4	B. Maynard			32	T. Sparrow
HALF-BACK									16	B. Laurie
FORWARD
	36	K. Pickett	2	J. van Rooyen	10	A. Brayshaw
	3	I. Quaynor	30	D. Moore (c)	28	N. Murphy
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	COLL	Bobby Hill goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	04:08
	COLL	Bobby Hill goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	05:18
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	2.0.12	-	1.0.6	07:02
	COLL	Jamie Elliott behind	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	14:34
	COLL	Jamie Elliott behind	2.2.14	-	1.0.6	22:44
	COLL	Jack Crisp goal	3.2.20	-	1.0.6	29:23
	COLL	Darcy Cameron goal	4.2.26	-	1.0.6	32:57
Q2	COLL	Brody Mihocek behind	4.3.27	-	1.0.6	03:34
	COLL	Brody Mihocek goal	5.3.33	-	1.0.6	06:54
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	5.3.33	-	1.1.7	10:38
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	5.3.33	-	1.2.8	14:11
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	5.3.33	-	2.2.14	15:09
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	5.3.33	-	2.3.15	23:43
	MELB	Rushed behind	5.3.33	-	2.4.16	25:45
Q3	MELB	Rushed behind	5.3.33	-	2.5.17	00:49
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	5.3.33	-	2.6.18	06:48
	COLL	Bobby Hill goal	6.3.39	-	2.6.18	10:50
	COLL	Daniel McStay goal	7.3.45	-	2.6.18	13:30
	MELB	Tom Sparrow goal	7.3.45	-	3.6.24	17:44
	COLL	Daniel McStay goal	8.3.51	-	3.6.24	19:38
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen goal	8.3.51	-	4.6.30	21:18
	COLL	Jordan De Goey goal	9.3.57	-	4.6.30	22:27
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	9.3.57	-	4.7.31	24:18
	COLL	Rushed behind	9.4.58	-	4.7.31	27:01
	MELB	Ed Langdon behind	9.4.58	-	4.8.32	27:51
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	9.4.58	-	4.9.33	32:25
Q4	MELB	Tom McDonald goal	9.4.58	-	5.9.39	02:51
	MELB	Joel Smith goal	9.4.58	-	6.9.45	05:10
	COLL	Beau McCreery behind	9.5.59	-	6.9.45	07:08
	COLL	Bobby Hill behind	9.6.60	-	6.9.45	07:50
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.6.60	-	6.10.46	09:37
	MELB	Tom McDonald behind	9.6.60	-	6.11.47	11:01
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	9.6.60	-	7.11.53	24:54

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