2023 AFL Round 16: Sydney v Geelong

This is the match report for the match played on 30 June 2023 between Sydney and Geelong during round 16 of the 2023 AFL season. Sydney hosted Geelong at SCG. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Chris Scott.

Sydney
Back: H. Cunningham, D. Rampe, L. Melican
Half-back: O. Florent, N. Blakey, J. Lloyd
Centre: B. Campbell, J. Rowbottom, J. McInerney
Half-forward: C. Mills, W. Hayward, T. Papley
Forward: H. McLean, J. Amartey, I. Heeney
Follower: T. Hickey, L. Parker, E. Gulden
Int.: R. Fox, A. Francis, L. McDonald, A. Sheldrick
Sub.: R. Clarke

Geelong
Back: J. Kolodjashnij, S. De Koning, Z. Guthrie
Half-back: J. Henry, E. Ratugolea, T. Stewart
Centre: I. Smith, P. Dangerfield, M. Duncan
Half-forward: O. Henry, G. Rohan, T. Stengle
Forward: M. Holmes, T. Hawkins, B. Close
Follower: R. Stanley, M. Blicavs, Z. Tuohy
Int.: T. Atkins, J. Bews, T. Bruhn, G. Miers
Sub.: J. Bowes

Sydney (6.18.54) drew with Geelong (7.12.54).

Goalkickers
Sydney: B. Campbell (2), L. McDonald (2), T. Papley, L. Parker
Geelong: T. Hawkins (2), O. Henry (2), M. Blicavs, G. Miers, T. Stengle

As a result of this match, Sydney remained 13th on the ladder and Geelong remained 9th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 16
Teams: Sydney v Geelong
Date: Friday 30 June 2023
Time: 7:50 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 32,098

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney drew with Geelong
Score: 6.18.54 - 7.12.54

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Sydney 1 . 6 4 . 12 5 . 15 6 . 18 6 . 18 (54)
Geelong 3 . 3 4 . 4 6 . 8 7 . 12 7 . 12 (54)
Margin GEEL by 9 SYDN by 8 SYDN by 1 level drawn
Duration 28:08 29:28 28:00 27:15 1:52:51

Honour Roll

Coaches: John Longmire (Sydney), Chris Scott (Geelong)
Captains: unknown (Sydney), unknown (Geelong)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Errol Gulden SYDN 21 3
Tom Stewart GEEL 44 2
Mark Blicavs GEEL 46 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Errol Gulden SYDN 21 8 1 0 1 0 0
Nick Blakey SYDN 22 7 1 0 0 1 0
Braeden Campbell SYDN 16 4 0 1 0 0 0
Gryan Miers GEEL 32 4 0 1 0 0 0
Zach Tuohy GEEL 2 3 0 0 1 0 0
Callum Mills SYDN 14 2 0 0 0 1 0
Tom Atkins GEEL 30 1 0 0 0 0 1
Luke Parker SYDN 26 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Sydney

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
36 Amartey, Joel FF 74% 0 1 9 4 5 4 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 1
22 Blakey, Nick CHB 81% 0 0 29 14 15 4 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 4
16 Campbell, Braeden WL 75% 2 2 14 9 5 7 0 4 0 1 0 1 1 3
4 Clarke, Ryan SUB 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Cunningham, Harry BPL 96% 0 0 19 12 7 1 0 5 3 3 1 1 6 1
13 Florent, Oliver HBFL 80% 0 0 17 10 7 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 2
42 Fox, Robbie INT 79% 0 3 17 9 8 3 0 2 1 2 0 1 1 1
10 Francis, Aaron INT 81% 0 0 12 4 8 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0
21 Gulden, Errol RO 95% 0 2 26 20 6 6 0 9 5 4 3 1 3 6
9 Hayward, Will CHF 84% 0 0 11 8 3 6 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
5 Heeney, Isaac FPR 87% 0 2 15 12 3 5 0 3 3 7 0 1 0 3
31 Hickey, Tom RU 77% 0 2 10 6 4 2 27 4 3 4 1 1 0 2
44 Lloyd, Jake HBFR 80% 0 0 20 10 10 3 0 5 1 2 0 0 1 0
6 McDonald, Logan INT 86% 2 2 10 8 2 7 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 3
27 McInerney, Justin WR 90% 0 0 22 11 11 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 6
2 McLean, Hayden FPL 67% 0 1 7 4 3 4 6 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
43 Melican, Lewis BPR 93% 0 0 15 10 5 4 0 2 1 4 1 2 5 2
14 Mills, Callum HFFL 76% 0 0 24 7 17 2 0 6 2 2 0 0 1 2
11 Papley, Tom HFFR 85% 1 1 15 10 5 4 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 3
26 Parker, Luke RR 82% 1 0 27 13 14 8 0 4 4 5 0 2 4 1
24 Rampe, Dane FB 90% 0 0 15 10 5 6 0 4 0 1 0 0 4 1
8 Rowbottom, James C 70% 0 0 14 9 5 0 0 5 5 7 0 4 1 5
29 Sheldrick, Angus INT 71% 0 0 21 10 11 6 0 6 3 1 2 1 2 3
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 6 18 369 210 159 92 33 72 32 60 9 17 42 50

Geelong

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
30 Atkins, Tom INT 74% 0 0 18 7 11 0 0 11 6 5 3 1 2 2
24 Bews, Jed INT 83% 0 0 6 2 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0
46 Blicavs, Mark RR 80% 1 1 16 9 7 2 6 7 7 4 1 2 0 3
12 Bowes, Jack SUB↑ 19% 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
4 Bruhn, Tanner INT 61% 0 0 18 9 9 1 0 4 3 2 0 0 1 4
45 Close, Brad FPR 87% 0 0 16 6 10 0 0 3 1 3 1 1 0 3
35 Dangerfield, Patrick C 75% 0 1 15 9 6 3 0 1 5 8 0 2 0 2
16 De Koning, Sam FB 89% 0 0 14 7 7 5 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0
22 Duncan, Mitch WR 82% 0 1 25 11 14 5 0 2 0 2 1 0 4 3
39 Guthrie, Zach BPR 78% 0 0 10 7 3 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1
26 Hawkins, Tom FF 92% 2 2 9 5 4 4 4 4 1 2 0 0 0 1
38 Henry, Jack HBFL 100% 0 0 13 9 4 6 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 2
36 Henry, Ollie HFFL 84% 2 0 5 5 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3
9 Holmes, Max FPL 75% 0 1 8 5 3 1 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 2
8 Kolodjashnij, Jake BPL 85% 0 0 9 8 1 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1
32 Miers, Gryan INT 87% 1 0 27 20 7 3 0 2 3 4 1 0 0 6
17 Ratugolea, Esava CHB↓ 67% 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0
23 Rohan, Gary CHF 74% 0 1 8 6 2 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
7 Smith, Isaac WL 88% 0 0 18 11 7 7 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 4
1 Stanley, Rhys RU 79% 0 0 9 5 4 3 25 1 2 1 2 0 1 3
18 Stengle, Tyson HFFR 84% 1 0 11 9 2 5 0 2 0 3 1 0 0 4
44 Stewart, Tom HBFR 78% 0 0 25 20 5 6 0 4 0 0 1 0 12 0
2 Tuohy, Zach RO 79% 0 1 28 19 9 5 0 3 0 3 0 2 8 5
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 7 12 315 194 121 73 35 55 31 50 17 9 43 50

J. Bowes replaced E. Ratugolea.

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

Sydney Coach: John Longmire
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
8 J. Kolodjashnij 16 S. De Koning 39 Z. Guthrie 31 T. Hickey 42 R. Fox
5 I. Heeney 36 J. Amartey 2 H. McLean 26 L. Parker 10 A. Francis
FORWARD 21 E. Gulden 6 L. McDonald
HALF-BACK

29 A. Sheldrick
38 J. Henry 17 E. Ratugolea 44 T. Stewart

4 R. Clarke
11 T. Papley 9 W. Hayward 14 C. Mills



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



7 I. Smith 35 P. Dangerfield 22 M. Duncan



27 J. McInerney 8 J. Rowbottom 16 B. Campbell FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 1 R. Stanley 30 T. Atkins
HALF-FORWARD 46 M. Blicavs 24 J. Bews
36 O. Henry 23 G. Rohan 18 T. Stengle 2 Z. Tuohy 4 T. Bruhn
44 J. Lloyd 22 N. Blakey 13 O. Florent

32 G. Miers
HALF-BACK

12 J. Bowes
FORWARD



9 M. Holmes 26 T. Hawkins 45 B. Close



43 L. Melican 24 D. Rampe 7 H. Cunningham



BACK



Geelong Coach: Chris Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 SYDN Tom Papley behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 03:05
SYDN Braeden Campbell goal 1.1.7 - 0.0.0 04:30
GEEL Tom Hawkins behind 1.1.7 - 0.1.1 06:32
SYDN Errol Gulden behind 1.2.8 - 0.1.1 09:35
SYDN Logan McDonald behind 1.3.9 - 0.1.1 14:21
GEEL Rushed behind 1.3.9 - 0.2.2 15:02
GEEL Ollie Henry goal 1.3.9 - 1.2.8 16:37
GEEL Tyson Stengle goal 1.3.9 - 2.2.14 18:25
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 1.3.9 - 3.2.20 20:30
SYDN Errol Gulden behind 1.4.10 - 3.2.20 22:41
SYDN Braeden Campbell behind 1.5.11 - 3.2.20 24:11
SYDN Braeden Campbell behind 1.6.12 - 3.2.20 25:53
GEEL Rushed behind 1.6.12 - 3.3.21 27:28
Q2 GEEL Mitch Duncan behind 1.6.12 - 3.4.22 01:15
SYDN Tom Papley goal 2.6.18 - 3.4.22 03:14
GEEL Ollie Henry goal 2.6.18 - 4.4.28 06:06
SYDN Rushed behind 2.7.19 - 4.4.28 10:17
SYDN Logan McDonald goal 3.7.25 - 4.4.28 13:55
SYDN Logan McDonald goal 4.7.31 - 4.4.28 16:23
SYDN Robbie Fox behind 4.8.32 - 4.4.28 18:14
SYDN Joel Amartey behind 4.9.33 - 4.4.28 20:25
SYDN Robbie Fox behind 4.10.34 - 4.4.28 21:47
SYDN Isaac Heeney behind 4.11.35 - 4.4.28 23:15
SYDN Tom Hickey behind 4.12.36 - 4.4.28 24:44
Q3 SYDN Luke Parker goal 5.12.42 - 4.4.28 03:02
GEEL Mark Blicavs goal 5.12.42 - 5.4.34 05:08
GEEL Rushed behind 5.12.42 - 5.5.35 06:18
GEEL Tom Hawkins behind 5.12.42 - 5.6.36 10:32
SYDN Hayden McLean behind 5.13.43 - 5.6.36 12:18
GEEL Patrick Dangerfield behind 5.13.43 - 5.7.37 14:31
SYDN Tom Hickey behind 5.14.44 - 5.7.37 19:40
SYDN Logan McDonald behind 5.15.45 - 5.7.37 22:35
GEEL Mark Blicavs behind 5.15.45 - 5.8.38 24:51
GEEL Gryan Miers goal 5.15.45 - 6.8.44 26:28
Q4 SYDN Rushed behind 5.16.46 - 6.8.44 03:18
GEEL Tom Hawkins goal 5.16.46 - 7.8.50 05:40
GEEL Gary Rohan behind 5.16.46 - 7.9.51 08:14
GEEL Max Holmes behind 5.16.46 - 7.10.52 11:46
GEEL Zach Tuohy behind 5.16.46 - 7.11.53 14:53
GEEL Rushed behind 5.16.46 - 7.12.54 16:10
SYDN Braeden Campbell goal 6.16.52 - 7.12.54 18:10
SYDN Robbie Fox behind 6.17.53 - 7.12.54 23:29
SYDN Isaac Heeney behind 6.18.54 - 7.12.54 26:04