2023 AFL Round 1: Greater Western Sydney v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 19 March 2023 between Greater Western Sydney and Adelaide during round 1 of the 2023 AFL season. Greater Western Sydney hosted Adelaide at GIANTS Stadium. The hosts were coached by Adam Kingsley and the visitors were coached by Matthew Nicks.

Greater Western Sydney
Back: C. Idun, S. Taylor, I. Cumming
Half-back: L. Whitfield, N. Haynes, L. Ash
Centre: F. Callaghan, T. Green, J. Wehr
Half-forward: J. Peatling, H. Himmelberg, D. Lloyd
Forward: T. Greene, J. Hogan, B. Daniels
Follower: M. Flynn, J. Kelly, S. Coniglio
Int.: J. Buckley, H. Perryman, J. Riccardi, C. Ward
Sub.: A. Kennedy

Adelaide
Back: T. Doedee, J. Butts, N. Murray
Half-back: B. Smith, J. Dawson, M. Michalanney
Centre: J. Soligo, R. Laird, M. Hinge
Half-forward: J. Rachele, L. Pedlar, B. Keays
Forward: T. Walker, D. Fogarty, I. Rankine
Follower: R. O'Brien, R. Sloane, S. Berry
Int.: E. Himmelberg, S. McAdam, W. Milera, H. Schoenberg
Sub.: T. Brown

Greater Western Sydney (15.16.106) defeated Adelaide (12.18.90).

Goalkickers
Greater Western Sydney: T. Greene (4), J. Hogan (3), B. Daniels (2), S. Coniglio, M. Flynn, T. Green, N. Haynes, H. Himmelberg, C. Ward
Adelaide: J. Rachele (3), D. Fogarty (2), I. Rankine (2), E. Himmelberg, B. Keays, S. McAdam, L. Pedlar, T. Walker

As a result of this match, Greater Western Sydney were then 7th on the ladder and Adelaide were then 12th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Greater Western Sydney v Adelaide
Date: Sunday 19 March 2023
Time: 1:10 PM
Venue: GIANTS Stadium
Attendance: 8,169

Match Results

Outcome: Greater Western Sydney def. Adelaide
Score: 15.16.106 - 12.18.90

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Greater Western Sydney	2	.	2	4	.	8	10	.	11	15	.	16	15	.	16	(106)
Adelaide	4	.	9	8	.	12	10	.	16	12	.	18	12	.	18	(90)
Margin	ADEL by 19			ADEL by 28			ADEL by 5			GWSY by 16			GWSY by 16
Duration	32:49			31:47			35:18			33:44			2:13:38

Honour Roll

Coaches: Adam Kingsley (Greater Western Sydney), Matthew Nicks (Adelaide)
Captains: unknown (Greater Western Sydney), unknown (Adelaide)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tom Green	GWSY	12	3
Josh Kelly	GWSY	22	2
Stephen Coniglio	GWSY	3	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Toby Greene	GWSY	4	9	1	1	0	0	0
Stephen Coniglio	GWSY	3	8	1	0	1	0	0
Tom Green	GWSY	12	6	0	1	0	1	0
Izak Rankine	ADEL	22	3	0	0	1	0	0
Josh Rachele	ADEL	8	2	0	0	0	1	0
Josh Kelly	GWSY	22	1	0	0	0	0	1
Callan Ward	GWSY	8	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Ash, Lachie	HBFR	90%	0	0	21	11	10	1	0	1	1	6	1	2	2	1
44	Buckley, Jack	INT	86%	0	0	11	7	4	5	0	3	0	2	1	0	3	3
17	Callaghan, Finn	WL	84%	0	0	25	15	10	6	0	0	3	1	0	0	4	1
3	Coniglio, Stephen	RO	88%	1	1	32	20	12	3	0	1	8	2	0	0	1	9
13	Cumming, Isaac	BPR	87%	0	0	21	12	9	3	0	0	0	2	2	0	7	1
16	Daniels, Brent	FPR	82%	2	1	9	6	3	2	0	5	0	1	3	0	0	3
30	Flynn, Matt	RU	79%	1	1	8	3	5	1	25	3	2	5	0	3	0	0
12	Green, Tom	C	86%	1	0	37	19	18	6	0	4	8	5	1	2	3	4
4	Greene, Toby	FPL	91%	4	4	19	13	6	8	0	4	0	4	2	1	0	5
19	Haynes, Nick	CHB	74%	1	0	15	13	2	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2
27	Himmelberg, Harry	CHF	74%	1	0	7	7	0	5	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	2
23	Hogan, Jesse	FF	89%	3	1	13	7	6	4	2	1	0	3	0	1	0	2
39	Idun, Connor	BPL	89%	0	0	20	8	12	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
22	Kelly, Josh	RR	68%	0	0	26	12	14	7	0	2	7	7	1	1	2	5
40	Kennedy, Adam	SUB↑	77%	0	0	12	9	3	4	0	2	1	1	2	1	0	4
38	Lloyd, Daniel	HFFR	88%	0	1	10	4	6	2	0	4	0	2	0	1	0	2
20	Peatling, James	HFFL	82%	0	1	8	5	3	2	0	4	0	1	1	1	0	3
36	Perryman, Harry	INT↓	3%	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	Riccardi, Jake	INT	72%	0	1	10	6	4	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
15	Taylor, Sam	FB	93%	0	0	10	7	3	3	0	1	0	2	3	1	1	2
8	Ward, Callan	INT	79%	1	2	31	12	19	4	0	0	4	3	1	0	1	5
10	Wehr, Jacob	WR	88%	0	0	12	5	7	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	3	2
6	Whitfield, Lachie	HBFL	48%	0	0	17	7	10	2	0	0	1	3	1	0	4	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				15	16	375	208	167	88	28	40	35	53	20	15	38	60

A. Kennedy replaced H. Perryman.

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Berry, Sam	RO	79%	0	1	12	9	3	0	0	1	4	2	1	1	1	3
21	Brown, Tyler	SUB↑	29%	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	0
41	Butts, Jordon	FB	87%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1
12	Dawson, Jordan	CHB	85%	0	1	23	19	4	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	9	3
39	Doedee, Tom	BPL	95%	0	0	20	12	8	5	0	4	0	2	2	2	4	0
32	Fogarty, Darcy	FF	83%	2	0	14	8	6	5	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	3
34	Himmelberg, Elliott	INT	72%	1	0	12	8	4	5	4	1	1	1	1	0	0	4
20	Hinge, Mitch	WR	90%	0	0	15	11	4	6	0	2	1	2	1	1	2	3
2	Keays, Ben	HFFR	86%	1	1	21	10	11	8	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	5
29	Laird, Rory	C	77%	0	2	18	8	10	2	0	2	4	3	0	1	1	3
23	McAdam, Shane	INT	57%	1	1	7	5	2	4	0	1	0	3	0	3	0	0
16	Michalanney, Max	HBFR	79%	0	0	12	9	3	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	1
30	Milera, Wayne	INT	85%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	1	0	2	0	1	6	0
28	Murray, Nick	BPR↓	50%	0	0	5	4	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	79%	0	1	12	7	5	4	33	3	5	4	2	0	0	2
10	Pedlar, Luke	CHF	78%	1	0	13	11	2	6	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	4
8	Rachele, Josh	HFFL	83%	3	1	18	14	4	6	0	4	3	3	2	0	2	3
22	Rankine, Izak	FPR	90%	2	5	18	15	3	6	0	1	3	4	0	1	1	2
26	Schoenberg, Harry	INT	75%	0	0	16	11	5	6	0	2	2	3	1	0	2	3
9	Sloane, Rory	RR	87%	0	0	18	12	6	7	0	2	0	6	0	3	2	2
33	Smith, Brodie	HBFL	85%	0	0	16	14	2	5	0	2	1	4	0	1	6	4
14	Soligo, Jake	WL	87%	0	1	16	10	6	2	0	2	4	6	1	1	1	4
13	Walker, Taylor	FPL	82%	1	2	7	6	1	3	3	0	1	4	0	2	0	2
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				12	18	318	217	101	102	40	40	33	54	15	20	44	52

T. Brown replaced N. Murray.

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

Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Adam Kingsley
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	39	T. Doedee	41	J. Butts	28	N. Murray	30	M. Flynn	44	J. Buckley
	16	B. Daniels	23	J. Hogan	4	T. Greene	22	J. Kelly	36	H. Perryman
FORWARD							3	S. Coniglio	26	J. Riccardi
HALF-BACK									8	C. Ward
	33	B. Smith	12	J. Dawson	16	M. Michalanney			40	A. Kennedy
	38	D. Lloyd	27	H. Himmelberg	20	J. Peatling
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	14	J. Soligo	29	R. Laird	20	M. Hinge
	10	J. Wehr	12	T. Green	17	F. Callaghan	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							43	R. O'Brien	34	E. Himmelberg
HALF-FORWARD							9	R. Sloane	23	S. McAdam
	8	J. Rachele	10	L. Pedlar	2	B. Keays	3	S. Berry	30	W. Milera
	7	L. Ash	19	N. Haynes	6	L. Whitfield			26	H. Schoenberg
HALF-BACK									21	T. Brown
FORWARD
	13	T. Walker	32	D. Fogarty	22	I. Rankine
	13	I. Cumming	15	S. Taylor	39	C. Idun
BACK
Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:29
	GWSY	Matt Flynn goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	03:21
	ADEL	Sam Berry behind	1.0.6	-	0.2.2	05:34
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	06:48
	ADEL	Shane McAdam goal	1.0.6	-	2.2.14	10:03
	ADEL	Rushed behind	1.0.6	-	2.3.15	12:13
	ADEL	Rory Laird behind	1.0.6	-	2.4.16	12:51
	ADEL	Jordan Dawson behind	1.0.6	-	2.5.17	14:12
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	1.1.7	-	2.5.17	16:04
	ADEL	Shane McAdam behind	1.1.7	-	2.6.18	18:11
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio behind	1.2.8	-	2.6.18	20:39
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	1.2.8	-	3.6.24	22:26
	ADEL	Rory Laird behind	1.2.8	-	3.7.25	23:51
	ADEL	Izak Rankine goal	1.2.8	-	4.7.31	26:48
	GWSY	Brent Daniels goal	2.2.14	-	4.7.31	28:15
	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	2.2.14	-	4.8.32	30:04
	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	2.2.14	-	4.9.33	32:45
Q2	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	2.2.14	-	4.10.34	01:15
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	2.3.15	-	4.10.34	05:38
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	2.3.15	-	5.10.40	07:51
	GWSY	Callan Ward behind	2.4.16	-	5.10.40	10:20
	GWSY	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	5.10.40	12:11
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	3.5.23	-	5.10.40	14:33
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	3.5.23	-	6.10.46	16:23
	ADEL	Izak Rankine goal	3.5.23	-	7.10.52	17:34
	ADEL	Josh Rachele behind	3.5.23	-	7.11.53	18:53
	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	3.5.23	-	7.12.54	20:38
	GWSY	Jake Riccardi behind	3.6.24	-	7.12.54	21:48
	GWSY	Callan Ward behind	3.7.25	-	7.12.54	24:10
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	4.7.31	-	7.12.54	24:35
	GWSY	Brent Daniels behind	4.8.32	-	7.12.54	26:16
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	4.8.32	-	8.12.60	30:09
Q3	GWSY	Jesse Hogan behind	4.9.33	-	8.12.60	02:50
	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	4.9.33	-	8.13.61	03:42
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	5.9.39	-	8.13.61	04:51
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	6.9.45	-	8.13.61	06:56
	GWSY	Callan Ward goal	7.9.51	-	8.13.61	09:15
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	8.9.57	-	8.13.61	12:01
	ADEL	Elliott Himmelberg goal	8.9.57	-	9.13.67	16:17
	GWSY	Harry Himmelberg goal	9.9.63	-	9.13.67	19:37
	GWSY	Daniel Lloyd behind	9.10.64	-	9.13.67	21:19
	GWSY	Rushed behind	9.11.65	-	9.13.67	22:20
	ADEL	Reilly O'Brien behind	9.11.65	-	9.14.68	23:53
	GWSY	Tom Green goal	10.11.71	-	9.14.68	26:21
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	10.11.71	-	9.15.69	29:46
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	10.11.71	-	10.15.75	31:24
	ADEL	Jake Soligo behind	10.11.71	-	10.16.76	32:38
Q4	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	11.11.77	-	10.16.76	00:22
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	12.11.83	-	10.16.76	02:12
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	12.12.84	-	10.16.76	05:56
	GWSY	Matt Flynn behind	12.13.85	-	10.16.76	07:56
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	12.13.85	-	11.16.82	18:24
	GWSY	Nick Haynes goal	13.13.91	-	11.16.82	21:00
	GWSY	James Peatling behind	13.14.92	-	11.16.82	22:11
	GWSY	Rushed behind	13.15.93	-	11.16.82	23:32
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	13.16.94	-	11.16.82	24:58
	ADEL	Rushed behind	13.16.94	-	11.17.83	26:06
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	14.16.100	-	11.17.83	27:38
	ADEL	Luke Pedlar goal	14.16.100	-	12.17.89	29:13
	GWSY	Brent Daniels goal	15.16.106	-	12.17.89	31:17
	ADEL	Ben Keays behind	15.16.106	-	12.18.90	32:57

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