2023 AFL Season Round 15: Geelong v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 22 June 2023 between Geelong and Melbourne during round fifteen of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong hosted Melbourne at GMHBA Stadium. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Geelong (11.12.78) defeated Melbourne (8.15.63).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 15
Teams: Geelong v Melbourne
Date: Thursday 22 June 2023
Time: 7:20 PM
Venue: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 19,617

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Melbourne
Score: 11.12.78 - 8.15.63

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	3	.	4	4	.	7	5	.	10	11	.	12	11	.	12	(78)
Melbourne	2	.	1	4	.	8	6	.	11	8	.	15	8	.	15	(63)
Margin	GEEL by 9			MELB by 1			MELB by 7			GEEL by 15			GEEL by 15
Duration	37:26			30:49			28:25			33:31			2:10:11

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: unknown
Coach: Chris Scott

Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tom Stewart	GEEL	44	3
Jack Viney	MELB	7	2
Gary Rohan	GEEL	23	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Gary Rohan	GEEL	23	10	2	0	0	0	0
Tom Stewart	GEEL	44	6	0	?	?	?	0
Brad Close	GEEL	45	5	0	?	?	?	?
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	5	0	?	?	?	?
Jack Viney	MELB	7	3	0	0	?	?	?
Jake Lever	MELB	8	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	HBFR	76%	0	0	19	11	8	0	0	9	4	4	0	0	3	2
24	Bews, Jed	BPL	78%	0	0	15	11	4	2	0	4	0	4	1	0	2	1
46	Blicavs, Mark	RR	82%	1	0	19	15	4	6	3	5	5	6	0	3	2	4
12	Bowes, Jack	SUB↑	49%	0	0	12	11	1	1	0	5	4	6	2	2	1	6
4	Bruhn, Tanner	INT	62%	2	1	19	13	6	4	0	2	6	2	1	1	1	3
5	Cameron, Jeremy	CHF↓	12%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
45	Close, Brad	FPR	84%	0	0	24	11	13	1	0	4	3	2	4	0	2	2
16	De Koning, Sam	FB	87%	0	0	15	9	6	3	0	3	1	2	2	1	4	1
22	Duncan, Mitch	C	86%	1	1	22	19	3	6	0	8	1	5	0	0	5	5
39	Guthrie, Zach	INT	71%	1	0	12	9	3	5	0	2	0	2	0	1	3	0
26	Hawkins, Tom	FF	97%	1	1	13	8	5	2	2	1	0	2	1	2	0	2
38	Henry, Jack	HBFL	100%	0	0	16	12	4	7	0	1	0	5	3	2	3	0
36	Henry, Ollie	INT	83%	1	2	7	4	3	2	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
9	Holmes, Max	WR	78%	0	0	17	12	5	0	0	6	2	3	0	0	1	5
8	Kolodjashnij, Jake	HFFL	88%	0	0	12	10	2	4	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	2
32	Miers, Gryan	INT	82%	0	0	15	7	8	3	0	2	4	3	0	2	0	1
42	O'Connor, Mark	RO	73%	0	0	13	5	8	2	0	5	1	5	2	0	2	1
23	Rohan, Gary	FPL	86%	3	2	16	12	4	7	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	4
7	Smith, Isaac	WL	85%	0	1	17	13	4	3	0	2	0	4	0	0	3	3
1	Stanley, Rhys	RU	76%	0	1	9	6	3	1	26	1	2	4	1	4	1	1
18	Stengle, Tyson	HFFR	84%	1	0	10	7	3	1	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	3
44	Stewart, Tom	CHB	92%	0	0	22	20	2	9	0	2	0	3	1	0	8	2
2	Tuohy, Zach	BPR	89%	0	1	18	12	6	2	0	0	1	7	0	2	2	5
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				11	12	342	237	105	71	31	70	35	75	21	22	44	53

J. Bowes replaced J. Cameron.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
10	Brayshaw, Angus	INT	78%	0	0	25	15	10	4	0	2	6	4	0	0	4	3
37	Chandler, Kade	INT	66%	0	2	12	3	9	2	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	1
31	Fritsch, Bayley	FPR	88%	2	1	9	5	4	2	0	3	0	3	0	3	0	1
11	Gawn, Max	RU	79%	0	0	15	10	5	1	23	4	5	3	2	0	2	1
6	Grundy, Brodie	INT	63%	0	0	13	6	7	5	19	1	2	2	3	2	0	4
14	Hibberd, Michael	BPR	91%	0	0	15	10	5	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	5	1
12	Hunter, Lachie	RO	94%	0	0	23	11	12	3	0	4	3	5	0	0	3	5
23	Jordon, James	HBFL↓	51%	0	0	9	4	5	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	1	1
15	Langdon, Ed	WR	91%	0	0	21	14	7	5	0	3	1	3	1	0	2	3
8	Lever, Jake	CHB	100%	0	0	15	6	9	5	0	0	1	4	1	2	2	1
1	May, Steven	FB	100%	0	0	16	15	1	1	0	3	1	2	2	0	10	2
41	McVee, Judd	INT	84%	0	0	15	10	5	3	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	3
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	WL	75%	0	0	16	7	9	4	0	4	1	4	1	2	0	4
5	Petracca, Christian	RR	83%	1	2	33	18	15	3	0	6	10	6	3	1	3	5
35	Petty, Harry	CHF	84%	0	0	5	2	3	1	0	3	0	3	1	2	1	0
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	HFFL	89%	2	2	12	8	4	1	0	5	3	3	0	0	0	1
24	Rivers, Trent	BPL	74%	0	1	25	12	13	6	0	3	0	2	2	0	2	3
3	Salem, Christian	HBFR	81%	0	0	22	15	7	1	0	3	2	2	1	0	3	4
29	Smith, Joel	FPL	85%	2	1	11	6	5	3	0	5	0	2	1	2	0	0
9	Spargo, Charlie	SUB↑	21%	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
32	Sparrow, Tom	HFFR	69%	0	0	19	13	6	4	0	4	4	5	1	1	2	3
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	79%	1	0	7	3	4	3	5	3	0	2	2	2	0	1
7	Viney, Jack	C	75%	0	0	25	13	12	1	0	8	6	6	0	1	0	5
Rushed					5
Total (23 players)				8	15	365	207	158	63	47	75	47	67	22	21	41	52

C. Spargo replaced J. Jordon.

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

Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	24	T. Rivers	1	S. May	14	M. Hibberd	1	R. Stanley	4	T. Bruhn
	45	B. Close	26	T. Hawkins	23	G. Rohan	46	M. Blicavs	39	Z. Guthrie
FORWARD							42	M. O'Connor	36	O. Henry
HALF-BACK									32	G. Miers
	23	J. Jordon	8	J. Lever	3	C. Salem			12	J. Bowes
	18	T. Stengle	5	J. Cameron	8	J. Kolodjashnij
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	30	A. Neal-Bullen	7	J. Viney	15	E. Langdon
	9	M. Holmes	22	M. Duncan	7	I. Smith	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn	10	A. Brayshaw
HALF-FORWARD							5	C. Petracca	37	K. Chandler
	36	K. Pickett	35	H. Petty	32	T. Sparrow	12	L. Hunter	6	B. Grundy
	30	T. Atkins	44	T. Stewart	38	J. Henry			41	J. McVee
HALF-BACK									9	C. Spargo
FORWARD
	29	J. Smith	2	J. van Rooyen	31	B. Fritsch
	2	Z. Tuohy	16	S. De Koning	24	J. Bews
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Tom Hawkins behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	01:05
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	02:01
	MELB	Joel Smith behind	1.1.7	-	0.1.1	03:26
	GEEL	Tanner Bruhn goal	2.1.13	-	0.1.1	09:17
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan behind	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	12:13
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	2.2.14	-	1.1.7	23:28
	GEEL	Isaac Smith behind	2.3.15	-	1.1.7	24:39
	GEEL	Zach Tuohy behind	2.4.16	-	1.1.7	27:16
	GEEL	Gary Rohan goal	3.4.22	-	1.1.7	32:06
	MELB	Joel Smith goal	3.4.22	-	2.1.13	35:38
Q2	MELB	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	2.2.14	01:52
	MELB	Kade Chandler behind	3.4.22	-	2.3.15	05:08
	MELB	Trent Rivers behind	3.4.22	-	2.4.16	06:08
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	2.5.17	07:17
	GEEL	Gary Rohan behind	3.5.23	-	2.5.17	09:24
	GEEL	Ollie Henry behind	3.6.24	-	2.5.17	09:41
	GEEL	Gary Rohan behind	3.7.25	-	2.5.17	11:28
	GEEL	Tom Hawkins goal	4.7.31	-	2.5.17	12:34
	MELB	Joel Smith goal	4.7.31	-	3.5.23	15:20
	MELB	Rushed behind	4.7.31	-	3.6.24	19:10
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	4.7.31	-	4.6.30	20:39
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	4.7.31	-	4.7.31	29:17
	MELB	Rushed behind	4.7.31	-	4.8.32	29:50
Q3	MELB	Kade Chandler behind	4.7.31	-	4.9.33	01:55
	GEEL	Gary Rohan goal	5.7.37	-	4.9.33	03:26
	GEEL	Rhys Stanley behind	5.8.38	-	4.9.33	05:39
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	5.8.38	-	4.10.34	11:58
	GEEL	Rushed behind	5.9.39	-	4.10.34	13:15
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	5.9.39	-	5.10.40	16:49
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	5.9.39	-	6.10.46	20:34
	GEEL	Ollie Henry behind	5.10.40	-	6.10.46	22:47
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	5.10.40	-	6.11.47	26:43
Q4	GEEL	Tanner Bruhn behind	5.11.41	-	6.11.47	00:16
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	6.11.47	-	6.11.47	02:17
	GEEL	Zach Guthrie goal	7.11.53	-	6.11.47	03:58
	MELB	Charlie Spargo behind	7.11.53	-	6.12.48	05:44
	GEEL	Rushed behind	7.12.54	-	6.12.48	09:55
	GEEL	Mark Blicavs goal	8.12.60	-	6.12.48	12:11
	GEEL	Gary Rohan goal	9.12.66	-	6.12.48	14:01
	GEEL	Mitch Duncan goal	10.12.72	-	6.12.48	15:47
	MELB	Rushed behind	10.12.72	-	6.13.49	17:22
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	10.12.72	-	6.14.50	18:53
	GEEL	Tanner Bruhn goal	11.12.78	-	6.14.50	21:16
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	11.12.78	-	7.14.56	23:23
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	11.12.78	-	7.15.57	28:41
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	11.12.78	-	8.15.63	31:08

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