2023 AFL Season Round 18: Sydney v Western Bulldogs

This is the match report for the match played on 13 July 2023 between Sydney and the Western Bulldogs during round eighteen of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted the Western Bulldogs at the SCG. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Luke Beveridge.

Sydney (11.12.78) defeated the Western Bulldogs (11.10.76).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 18
Teams: Sydney v Western Bulldogs
Date: Thursday 13 July 2023
Time: 7:20 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 26,221

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Western Bulldogs
Score: 11.12.78 - 11.10.76

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	2	.	3	6	.	7	8	.	9	11	.	12	11	.	12	(78)
Western Bulldogs	5	.	4	6	.	4	9	.	6	11	.	10	11	.	10	(76)
Margin	WBUL by 19			SYDN by 3			WBUL by 3			SYDN by 2			SYDN by 2
Duration	34:27			31:20			30:05			30:14			2:06:06

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: John Longmire

Western Bulldogs

Captain: unknown
Coach: Luke Beveridge

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Errol Gulden	SYDN	21	3
Marcus Bontempelli	WBUL	4	2
Tom Papley	SYDN	11	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Marcus Bontempelli	WBUL	4	10	2	0	0	0	0
Errol Gulden	SYDN	21	8	0	2	0	0	0
Tim English	WBUL	44	4	0	0	?	?	?
Tom Papley	SYDN	11	4	0	0	?	?	?
Tom Liberatore	WBUL	21	3	0	0	?	?	?
Aaron Naughton	WBUL	33	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	FPL	72%	1	1	8	6	2	5	6	8	0	1	1	1	0	3
22	Blakey, Nick	INT	74%	0	0	23	11	12	3	0	0	1	2	0	1	5	3
16	Campbell, Braeden	WL	74%	0	1	12	7	5	4	0	1	1	2	0	1	3	2
4	Clarke, Ryan	SUB↑	23%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
7	Cunningham, Harry	HBFR	88%	0	0	18	14	4	8	0	6	1	3	0	1	3	0
13	Florent, Oliver	HBFL	87%	2	0	23	20	3	4	0	3	3	3	1	0	3	3
42	Fox, Robbie	CHB	86%	0	0	11	6	5	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	4	0
23	Franklin, Lance	FF	87%	2	2	12	9	3	3	0	5	1	2	3	0	0	1
21	Gulden, Errol	RR	90%	0	0	30	21	9	5	0	7	5	4	2	0	2	11
9	Hayward, Will	INT	82%	0	2	9	5	4	2	0	6	0	1	4	1	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	HFFR	81%	1	1	14	8	6	1	0	8	4	1	1	0	1	2
30	McCartin, Tom	BPR	89%	0	0	15	8	7	7	0	2	0	1	0	0	7	0
6	McDonald, Logan	CHF	72%	0	0	4	2	2	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
27	McInerney, Justin	WR	82%	0	1	23	15	8	5	0	6	1	4	2	2	3	1
2	McLean, Hayden	RU	87%	0	0	14	10	4	4	25	2	2	5	1	3	3	4
43	Melican, Lewis	FB↓	61%	0	0	5	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	0
14	Mills, Callum	RO	80%	0	0	15	8	7	4	0	5	2	1	1	0	0	2
11	Papley, Tom	FPR	83%	4	2	14	12	2	2	0	1	4	3	1	0	0	4
26	Parker, Luke	C	79%	0	0	23	15	8	3	0	3	4	3	1	0	1	4
24	Rampe, Dane	BPL	90%	0	0	16	11	5	4	0	3	0	2	1	1	4	1
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	74%	1	0	17	10	7	1	0	10	2	2	0	0	1	2
37	Warner, Corey	INT	71%	0	0	3	3	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	1
15	Wicks, Sam	HFFL	88%	0	0	10	4	6	1	0	8	1	2	1	2	0	4
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				11	12	321	210	111	74	34	90	34	44	22	13	45	51

R. Clarke replaced L. Melican.

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
4	Bontempelli, Marcus	C	89%	2	1	31	22	9	6	0	8	6	7	1	2	1	9
31	Dale, Bailey	HBFL	85%	0	0	22	16	6	2	0	1	0	3	1	1	3	1
35	Daniel, Caleb	INT	81%	0	0	20	9	11	3	0	3	2	4	0	1	3	4
10	Darcy, Sam	INT	30%	0	1	2	1	1	0	7	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
15	Duryea, Taylor	INT	73%	0	0	14	6	8	2	0	1	0	2	2	1	2	0
44	English, Tim	RU	93%	0	0	22	17	5	4	60	1	10	2	3	0	3	6
38	Garcia, Riley	SUB↑	37%	0	0	9	3	6	1	0	1	2	3	0	1	0	1
43	Gardner, Ryan	FB	100%	0	0	6	6	0	2	0	1	1	4	0	3	1	0
42	Keath, Alex	CHB	100%	0	0	12	8	4	4	0	1	0	2	1	1	1	1
21	Liberatore, Tom	RO	78%	1	0	31	13	18	4	0	7	11	3	0	1	4	5
11	Macrae, Jack	HFFL	86%	0	1	24	10	14	2	0	2	4	3	1	1	0	4
30	McNeil, Lachlan	FPR	71%	0	0	10	3	7	0	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	1
33	Naughton, Aaron	CHF	91%	3	1	15	12	3	7	1	4	0	2	3	1	1	1
18	O'Donnell, James	BPR↓	33%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Poulter, Caleb	WL	83%	1	0	15	9	6	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	2
20	Richards, Ed	HBFR	89%	0	1	28	18	10	11	0	2	0	5	1	3	10	2
28	Scott, Anthony	INT	76%	1	0	8	6	2	1	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	2
1	Treloar, Adam	HFFR	81%	0	0	33	17	16	1	0	4	7	7	0	1	3	7
2	Ugle-Hagan, Jamarra	FF	95%	1	2	11	6	5	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1
23	Vandermeer, Laitham	BPL	71%	1	1	13	11	2	2	0	3	0	4	0	2	2	4
3	Weightman, Cody	FPL	85%	1	1	9	3	6	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
14	West, Rhylee	RR	83%	0	1	11	7	4	3	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	1
34	Williams, Bailey	WR	89%	0	0	21	12	9	8	0	3	2	6	0	1	5	4
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				11	10	372	217	155	72	68	62	52	63	13	22	40	57

R. Garcia replaced J. O'Donnell.

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
	23	L. Vandermeer	43	R. Gardner	18	J. O'Donnell	2	H. McLean	22	N. Blakey
	11	T. Papley	23	L. Franklin	36	J. Amartey	21	E. Gulden	9	W. Hayward
FORWARD							14	C. Mills	8	J. Rowbottom
HALF-BACK									37	C. Warner
	31	B. Dale	42	A. Keath	20	E. Richards			4	R. Clarke
	5	I. Heeney	6	L. McDonald	15	S. Wicks
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	25	C. Poulter	4	M. Bontempelli	34	B. Williams
	27	J. McInerney	26	L. Parker	16	B. Campbell	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							44	T. English	35	C. Daniel
HALF-FORWARD							14	R. West	10	S. Darcy
	11	J. Macrae	33	A. Naughton	1	A. Treloar	21	T. Liberatore	15	T. Duryea
	7	H. Cunningham	42	R. Fox	13	O. Florent			28	A. Scott
HALF-BACK									38	R. Garcia
FORWARD
	3	C. Weightman	2	J. Ugle-Hagan	30	L. McNeil
	30	T. McCartin	43	L. Melican	24	D. Rampe
BACK
Western Bulldogs							Coach: Luke Beveridge

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	WBUL	Tom Liberatore goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:45
	WBUL	Laitham Vandermeer goal	0.0.0	-	2.0.12	04:53
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	1.0.6	-	2.0.12	09:16
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton goal	1.0.6	-	3.0.18	10:57
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	1.1.7	-	3.0.18	13:14
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	2.1.13	-	3.0.18	14:47
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	2.2.14	-	3.0.18	16:49
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	2.3.15	-	3.0.18	19:13
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton behind	2.3.15	-	3.1.19	23:09
	WBUL	Caleb Poulter goal	2.3.15	-	4.1.25	25:13
	WBUL	Jamarra Ugle-Hagan behind	2.3.15	-	4.2.26	27:28
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton goal	2.3.15	-	5.2.32	28:43
	WBUL	Sam Darcy behind	2.3.15	-	5.3.33	30:32
	WBUL	Jack Macrae behind	2.3.15	-	5.4.34	33:16
Q2	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	3.3.21	-	5.4.34	00:53
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	3.4.22	-	5.4.34	02:46
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	4.4.28	-	5.4.34	08:13
	WBUL	Marcus Bontempelli goal	4.4.28	-	6.4.40	10:28
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	5.4.34	-	6.4.40	12:39
	SYDN	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	6.4.40	16:30
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	5.6.36	-	6.4.40	21:44
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	5.7.37	-	6.4.40	28:47
	SYDN	Lance Franklin goal	6.7.43	-	6.4.40	31:14
Q3	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	7.7.49	-	6.4.40	02:19
	WBUL	Jamarra Ugle-Hagan behind	7.7.49	-	6.5.41	04:06
	SYDN	Oliver Florent goal	8.7.55	-	6.5.41	06:22
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	8.8.56	-	6.5.41	07:51
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton goal	8.8.56	-	7.5.47	11:16
	WBUL	Marcus Bontempelli behind	8.8.56	-	7.6.48	14:13
	WBUL	Cody Weightman goal	8.8.56	-	8.6.54	14:37
	SYDN	Joel Amartey behind	8.9.57	-	8.6.54	18:27
	WBUL	Marcus Bontempelli goal	8.9.57	-	9.6.60	24:31
Q4	SYDN	Oliver Florent goal	9.9.63	-	9.6.60	02:16
	WBUL	Laitham Vandermeer behind	9.9.63	-	9.7.61	05:06
	WBUL	Anthony Scott goal	9.9.63	-	10.7.67	05:45
	WBUL	Rhylee West behind	9.9.63	-	10.8.68	07:05
	WBUL	Cody Weightman behind	9.9.63	-	10.9.69	09:56
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	10.9.69	-	10.9.69	14:36
	SYDN	Lance Franklin behind	10.10.70	-	10.9.69	17:20
	WBUL	Jamarra Ugle-Hagan goal	10.10.70	-	11.9.75	20:16
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	11.10.76	-	11.9.75	21:48
	SYDN	Rushed behind	11.11.77	-	11.9.75	23:04
	WBUL	Ed Richards behind	11.11.77	-	11.10.76	26:20
	SYDN	Justin McInerney behind	11.12.78	-	11.10.76	28:05

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