2023 AFL Round 11: Melbourne v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 27 May 2023 between Melbourne and Fremantle during round 11 of the 2023 AFL season. Melbourne hosted Fremantle at MCG. The hosts were coached by Simon Goodwin and the visitors were coached by Justin Longmuir.

Melbourne
Back: M. Hibberd, S. May, J. McVee
Half-back: C. Salem, J. Lever, T. Rivers
Centre: E. Langdon, J. Viney, T. Sparrow
Half-forward: A. Brayshaw, T. McDonald, K. Pickett
Forward: K. Chandler, J. van Rooyen, B. Fritsch
Follower: M. Gawn, C. Petracca, A. Neal-Bullen
Int.: J. Bowey, B. Grundy, J. Harmes, C. Spargo
Sub.: J. Jordon

Fremantle
Back: B. Cox, A. Pearce, H. Young
Half-back: B. Walker, L. Ryan, J. Aish
Centre: J. Clark, C. Serong, N. O'Driscoll
Half-forward: J. Treacy, N. Fyfe, M. Frederick
Forward: S. Switkowski, J. Amiss, L. Schultz
Follower: S. Darcy, A. Brayshaw, L. Jackson
Int.: B. Banfield, E. Hughes, M. Johnson, J. O'Meara
Sub.: S. Sturt

Melbourne (10.12.72) were defeated by Fremantle (12.7.79).

Goalkickers
Melbourne: B. Fritsch (2), K. Pickett (2), B. Grundy, J. Harmes, T. McDonald, T. Sparrow, J. van Rooyen, J. Viney
Fremantle: J. Amiss (3), B. Banfield (2), J. Treacy (2), J. Aish, M. Frederick, L. Jackson, L. Schultz, C. Serong

As a result of this match, Melbourne remained 4th on the ladder and Fremantle were then 9th on the ladder (up from 10th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 11
Teams: Melbourne v Fremantle
Date: Saturday 27 May 2023
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 29,154

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Fremantle
Score: 10.12.72 - 12.7.79

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Melbourne 3 . 2 4 . 5 6 . 8 10 . 12 10 . 12 (72)
Fremantle 2 . 0 4 . 3 9 . 5 12 . 7 12 . 7 (79)
Margin MELB by 8 MELB by 2 FREM by 15 FREM by 7 FREM by 7
Duration 30:51 28:12 33:03 30:54 2:03:00

Honour Roll

Coaches: Simon Goodwin (Melbourne), Justin Longmuir (Fremantle)
Captains: unknown (Melbourne), unknown (Fremantle)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Luke Jackson FREM 9 3
Andrew Brayshaw FREM 8 2
Angus Brayshaw MELB 10 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Luke Jackson FREM 9 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Christian Petracca MELB 5 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Andrew Brayshaw FREM 8 6 1 0 0 0 1
Hayden Young FREM 26 3 0 0 1 0 0
Angus Brayshaw MELB 10 2 0 0 0 1 0
Max Gawn MELB 11 2 0 0 0 1 0
Jaeger O'Meara FREM 2 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
17 Bowey, Jake INT 72% 0 0 18 11 7 2 0 0 1 3 1 0 3 3
10 Brayshaw, Angus HFFL 88% 0 1 27 15 12 3 0 3 3 3 1 0 2 4
37 Chandler, Kade FPL↓ 67% 0 0 6 4 2 3 0 4 0 2 0 1 1 2
31 Fritsch, Bayley FPR 91% 2 2 12 8 4 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 2
11 Gawn, Max RU 87% 0 0 15 6 9 5 35 2 4 1 0 1 2 4
6 Grundy, Brodie INT 69% 1 2 19 8 11 4 20 3 2 6 0 1 1 3
4 Harmes, James INT 64% 1 2 14 7 7 2 0 7 1 3 3 1 0 3
14 Hibberd, Michael BPL 97% 0 0 11 6 5 2 0 1 0 3 1 1 5 0
23 Jordon, James SUB↑ 22% 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1
15 Langdon, Ed WL 89% 0 0 19 8 11 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 2
8 Lever, Jake CHB 100% 0 0 7 3 4 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 3 1
1 May, Steven FB 99% 0 0 8 6 2 3 0 7 0 1 0 0 3 3
25 McDonald, Tom CHF 80% 1 0 6 4 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
41 McVee, Judd BPR 68% 0 0 10 4 6 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 4 0
30 Neal-Bullen, Alex RO 72% 0 0 18 10 8 1 0 9 2 6 2 1 2 5
5 Petracca, Christian RR 90% 0 0 30 18 12 6 0 5 8 2 0 0 1 6
36 Pickett, Kysaiah HFFR 84% 2 1 11 9 2 5 0 4 0 3 1 1 0 4
24 Rivers, Trent HBFR 80% 0 0 13 8 5 3 0 3 1 5 0 3 5 0
3 Salem, Christian HBFL 85% 0 0 19 8 11 2 0 7 0 3 1 1 3 3
9 Spargo, Charlie INT 82% 0 1 15 8 7 2 0 2 0 1 2 0 1 0
32 Sparrow, Tom WR 73% 1 0 18 10 8 5 0 6 5 0 1 0 1 3
2 van Rooyen, Jacob FF 73% 1 1 8 5 3 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 Viney, Jack C 70% 1 0 16 9 7 1 0 3 5 5 1 1 2 7
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 10 12 323 177 146 63 56 75 37 55 15 13 39 58

J. Jordon replaced K. Chandler.

Fremantle

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
11 Aish, James HBFR 82% 1 0 24 13 11 6 0 3 3 0 0 0 4 1
24 Amiss, Jye FF 78% 3 0 14 9 5 1 0 3 0 2 3 1 0 3
41 Banfield, Bailey INT 80% 2 0 14 8 6 4 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1
8 Brayshaw, Andrew RR 85% 0 1 29 10 19 3 0 6 7 1 1 0 2 3
6 Clark, Jordan WL 87% 0 0 14 9 5 4 0 5 1 4 0 1 1 1
36 Cox, Brennan BPL 98% 0 0 20 14 6 12 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0
4 Darcy, Sean RU↓ 25% 0 0 6 1 5 1 10 2 1 0 0 0 0 1
32 Frederick, Michael HFFR 83% 1 0 13 5 8 5 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 6
7 Fyfe, Nat CHF 80% 0 0 20 4 16 2 0 2 3 2 0 1 0 3
15 Hughes, Ethan INT 77% 0 0 17 11 6 8 0 3 1 3 1 1 2 0
9 Jackson, Luke RO 88% 1 1 19 14 5 4 15 6 8 4 1 1 0 5
44 Johnson, Matthew INT 73% 0 0 20 12 8 1 0 4 0 3 0 1 2 6
30 O'Driscoll, Nathan WR 83% 0 0 15 11 4 4 0 4 0 3 1 1 0 3
2 O'Meara, Jaeger INT 74% 0 0 24 16 8 2 0 7 6 5 1 1 2 8
25 Pearce, Alex FB 94% 0 0 11 6 5 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 4 0
13 Ryan, Luke CHB 75% 0 0 22 21 1 11 0 1 0 1 0 0 9 3
5 Schultz, Lachie FPR 85% 1 1 10 7 3 3 0 7 0 2 0 1 1 2
3 Serong, Caleb C 83% 1 0 26 13 13 5 0 5 5 5 1 1 4 2
1 Sturt, Sam SUB↑ 43% 0 0 5 1 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1
39 Switkowski, Sam FPL 77% 0 3 18 8 10 1 0 3 3 2 2 1 0 1
35 Treacy, Josh HFFL 81% 2 0 9 5 4 2 3 2 1 2 0 0 1 1
31 Walker, Brandon HBFL 90% 0 0 8 7 1 5 0 1 0 6 0 4 0 1
26 Young, Hayden BPR 79% 0 0 27 20 7 4 0 3 0 3 0 0 10 0
Rushed 1
Total (23 players) 12 7 385 225 160 92 28 73 39 58 13 15 47 52

S. Sturt replaced S. Darcy.

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

Melbourne Coach: Simon Goodwin
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
36 B. Cox 25 A. Pearce 26 H. Young 11 M. Gawn 17 J. Bowey
31 B. Fritsch 2 J. van Rooyen 37 K. Chandler 5 C. Petracca 6 B. Grundy
FORWARD 30 A. Neal-Bullen 4 J. Harmes
HALF-BACK

9 C. Spargo
31 B. Walker 13 L. Ryan 11 J. Aish

23 J. Jordon
36 K. Pickett 25 T. McDonald 10 A. Brayshaw



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



6 J. Clark 3 C. Serong 30 N. O'Driscoll



32 T. Sparrow 7 J. Viney 15 E. Langdon FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 4 S. Darcy 41 B. Banfield
HALF-FORWARD 8 A. Brayshaw 15 E. Hughes
35 J. Treacy 7 N. Fyfe 32 M. Frederick 9 L. Jackson 44 M. Johnson
24 T. Rivers 8 J. Lever 3 C. Salem

2 J. O'Meara
HALF-BACK

1 S. Sturt
FORWARD



39 S. Switkowski 24 J. Amiss 5 L. Schultz



41 J. McVee 1 S. May 14 M. Hibberd



BACK



Fremantle Coach: Justin Longmuir

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 03:18
FREM Bailey Banfield goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 12:24
FREM Jye Amiss goal 1.0.6 - 2.0.12 14:11
MELB Brodie Grundy behind 1.1.7 - 2.0.12 16:20
MELB James Harmes behind 1.2.8 - 2.0.12 21:57
MELB Tom McDonald goal 2.2.14 - 2.0.12 28:11
MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 3.2.20 - 2.0.12 29:22
Q2 FREM Andrew Brayshaw behind 3.2.20 - 2.1.13 00:27
FREM James Aish goal 3.2.20 - 3.1.19 04:09
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 3.3.21 - 3.1.19 07:50
FREM Sam Switkowski behind 3.3.21 - 3.2.20 14:11
FREM Luke Jackson behind 3.3.21 - 3.3.21 16:16
FREM Josh Treacy goal 3.3.21 - 4.3.27 18:13
MELB James Harmes behind 3.4.22 - 4.3.27 20:38
MELB James Harmes goal 4.4.28 - 4.3.27 22:09
MELB Brodie Grundy behind 4.5.29 - 4.3.27 23:18
Q3 FREM Jye Amiss goal 4.5.29 - 5.3.33 01:04
MELB Jack Viney goal 5.5.35 - 5.3.33 02:14
FREM Rushed behind 5.5.35 - 5.4.34 08:26
MELB Rushed behind 5.6.36 - 5.4.34 09:52
FREM Michael Frederick goal 5.6.36 - 6.4.40 13:34
MELB Brodie Grundy goal 6.6.42 - 6.4.40 15:14
FREM Josh Treacy goal 6.6.42 - 7.4.46 20:25
FREM Sam Switkowski behind 6.6.42 - 7.5.47 21:43
MELB Bayley Fritsch behind 6.7.43 - 7.5.47 25:11
FREM Luke Jackson goal 6.7.43 - 8.5.53 26:41
MELB Charlie Spargo behind 6.8.44 - 8.5.53 28:49
FREM Caleb Serong goal 6.8.44 - 9.5.59 30:22
Q4 MELB Bayley Fritsch goal 7.8.50 - 9.5.59 02:47
FREM Lachie Schultz behind 7.8.50 - 9.6.60 06:02
MELB Rushed behind 7.9.51 - 9.6.60 09:11
FREM Lachie Schultz goal 7.9.51 - 10.6.66 09:48
MELB Jacob van Rooyen goal 8.9.57 - 10.6.66 11:26
MELB Tom Sparrow goal 9.9.63 - 10.6.66 13:06
FREM Jye Amiss goal 9.9.63 - 11.6.72 15:37
FREM Sam Switkowski behind 9.9.63 - 11.7.73 18:01
MELB Kysaiah Pickett behind 9.10.64 - 11.7.73 19:26
MELB Jacob van Rooyen behind 9.11.65 - 11.7.73 23:00
MELB Kysaiah Pickett goal 10.11.71 - 11.7.73 24:28
FREM Bailey Banfield goal 10.11.71 - 12.7.79 26:29
MELB Angus Brayshaw behind 10.12.72 - 12.7.79 29:14