2023 AFL Season Round 22: Carlton v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 12 August 2023 between Carlton and Melbourne during round twenty-two of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. Carlton "hosted" Melbourne at the MCG. Patrick Cripps captained the hosts. The hosts were coached by Michael Voss and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Carlton (9.6.60) defeated Melbourne (8.8.56).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 22
Teams: Carlton v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 12 August 2023
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 68,577

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Melbourne
Score: 9.6.60 - 8.8.56

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Carlton	1	.	3	3	.	5	6	.	6	9	.	6	9	.	6	(60)
Melbourne	1	.	0	3	.	3	6	.	6	8	.	8	8	.	8	(56)
Margin	CARL by 3			CARL by 2			level			CARL by 4			CARL by 4
Duration	27:58			29:11			32:41			32:17			2:02:07

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Carlton

Captain: Patrick Cripps
Coach: Michael Voss

Melbourne

Captain: unknown
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Patrick Cripps	CARL	9	3
Blake Acres	CARL	13	2
Jack Viney	MELB	7	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
George Hewett	CARL	29	9	1	1	0	0	0
Patrick Cripps	CARL	9	7	?	?	?	?	0
Nic Newman	CARL	24	7	?	?	?	?	0
Jack Viney	MELB	7	3	0	0	1	0	0
Angus Brayshaw	MELB	10	2	0	0	0	1	0
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	1	0	0	0	0	1
Jacob Weitering	CARL	23	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Acres, Blake	WR	81%	1	0	25	14	11	6	0	4	3	7	0	3	5	4
39	Cincotta, Alex	HBFL	87%	0	0	11	8	3	4	0	4	0	1	1	0	3	2
46	Cottrell, Matt	HFFL	94%	0	0	13	9	4	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	4
9	Cripps, Patrick (c)	C	79%	1	0	29	13	16	3	0	9	5	3	1	1	1	3
28	Cuningham, David	INT	67%	0	1	13	6	7	1	0	7	0	5	1	1	0	3
30	Curnow, Charlie	FF	100%	2	0	10	10	0	7	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	3
35	Curnow, Ed	SUB↑	17%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
12	De Koning, Tom	FPR	84%	1	0	17	7	10	2	15	1	4	8	2	3	1	2
15	Docherty, Sam	RR↓	59%	1	1	22	13	9	4	0	4	5	2	0	0	3	2
2	Dow, Paddy	INT	65%	0	0	20	12	8	2	0	7	4	1	1	0	0	5
25	Fisher, Zac	CHB	81%	0	0	24	14	10	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	1
8	Fogarty, Lachie	CHF	85%	0	0	18	11	7	3	0	7	2	2	1	0	0	3
29	Hewett, George	RO	81%	0	1	33	16	17	1	0	6	8	2	1	0	2	4
14	Hollands, Oliver	WL	76%	0	0	10	4	6	1	0	4	2	1	0	1	1	2
17	Kemp, Brodie	FB	88%	0	0	19	12	7	8	0	3	1	1	1	1	4	1
22	Marchbank, Caleb	INT	77%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	3	1
21	Martin, Jack	FPL	84%	1	0	15	6	9	3	0	4	2	1	2	0	0	1
3	Motlop, Jesse	HFFR	77%	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3
24	Newman, Nic	BPR	84%	0	0	33	27	6	9	0	4	3	4	2	0	3	1
44	Owies, Matthew	INT	83%	2	1	8	6	2	2	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	1
27	Pittonet, Marc	RU	66%	0	0	6	2	4	0	14	4	2	2	0	1	0	0
42	Saad, Adam	HBFR	87%	0	0	25	19	6	5	0	5	0	1	0	0	6	3
23	Weitering, Jacob	BPL	100%	0	0	17	17	0	8	0	1	1	5	1	2	4	4
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				9	6	386	236	150	79	29	87	43	59	17	17	40	53

E. Curnow replaced S. Docherty.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
17	Bowey, Jake	INT	71%	0	0	10	6	4	1	0	4	0	3	1	1	2	0
10	Brayshaw, Angus	RO	84%	0	0	31	12	19	4	0	9	6	3	0	0	4	3
37	Chandler, Kade	INT	66%	1	1	8	2	6	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
11	Gawn, Max	RU	82%	0	0	11	7	4	2	47	1	1	5	4	2	2	2
6	Grundy, Brodie	CHF	60%	0	0	9	4	5	1	11	2	0	4	1	3	0	3
14	Hibberd, Michael	SUB↑	36%	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Hunter, Lachie	WL	93%	0	0	27	12	15	4	0	5	5	7	1	0	2	3
23	Jordon, James	FPR↓	46%	0	0	11	4	7	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	2
15	Langdon, Ed	WR	97%	1	0	22	16	6	3	0	3	2	4	0	0	2	6
8	Lever, Jake	HBFR	100%	0	0	16	7	9	4	0	0	0	1	1	1	7	1
1	May, Steven	FB	100%	0	0	15	13	2	3	0	1	0	4	2	1	7	2
41	McVee, Judd	HBFL	78%	0	0	13	10	3	2	0	2	0	3	0	1	4	2
18	Melksham, Jake	INT	80%	0	0	6	5	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	HFFR	71%	1	1	13	10	3	3	0	4	1	2	0	1	0	0
13	Oliver, Clayton	RR	81%	0	0	27	14	13	3	0	13	10	5	0	1	1	4
5	Petracca, Christian	HFFL	92%	2	2	24	10	14	4	0	3	4	1	0	0	0	5
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	FPL	78%	1	0	11	7	4	3	0	7	0	2	1	0	0	1
24	Rivers, Trent	BPR	71%	0	0	20	13	7	6	0	2	4	1	1	1	4	4
3	Salem, Christian	BPL	89%	0	0	24	16	8	1	0	6	4	5	0	1	5	2
29	Smith, Joel	CHB	85%	1	0	5	3	2	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0
32	Sparrow, Tom	INT	79%	1	1	12	9	3	4	0	4	1	5	1	2	1	3
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FF	80%	0	2	7	4	3	3	1	3	0	1	1	1	0	2
7	Viney, Jack	C	82%	0	0	31	18	13	5	0	11	5	12	3	0	2	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				8	8	355	203	152	60	59	88	45	74	17	17	44	48

M. Hibberd 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

Carlton							Coach: Michael Voss
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	3	C. Salem	1	S. May	24	T. Rivers	27	M. Pittonet	28	D. Cuningham
	12	T. De Koning	30	C. Curnow	21	J. Martin	15	S. Docherty	2	P. Dow
FORWARD							29	G. Hewett	22	C. Marchbank
HALF-BACK									44	M. Owies
	41	J. McVee	29	J. Smith	8	J. Lever			35	E. Curnow
	3	J. Motlop	8	L. Fogarty	46	M. Cottrell
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	12	L. Hunter	7	J. Viney	15	E. Langdon
	13	B. Acres	9	P. Cripps (c)	14	O. Hollands	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn	17	J. Bowey
HALF-FORWARD							13	C. Oliver	37	K. Chandler
	5	C. Petracca	6	B. Grundy	30	A. Neal-Bullen	10	A. Brayshaw	18	J. Melksham
	42	A. Saad	25	Z. Fisher	39	A. Cincotta			32	T. Sparrow
HALF-BACK									14	M. Hibberd
FORWARD
	36	K. Pickett	2	J. van Rooyen	23	J. Jordon
	24	N. Newman	17	B. Kemp	23	J. Weitering
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	CARL	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	12:54
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	16:00
	CARL	George Hewett behind	1.2.8	-	0.0.0	23:56
	CARL	Matthew Owies behind	1.3.9	-	0.0.0	24:49
	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	1.3.9	-	1.0.6	25:58
Q2	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	1.3.9	-	2.0.12	03:02
	CARL	Sam Docherty behind	1.4.10	-	2.0.12	04:13
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen behind	1.4.10	-	2.1.13	09:23
	CARL	David Cuningham behind	1.5.11	-	2.1.13	14:02
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	1.5.11	-	3.1.19	16:15
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen behind	1.5.11	-	3.2.20	18:05
	CARL	Jack Martin goal	2.5.17	-	3.2.20	19:22
	CARL	Blake Acres goal	3.5.23	-	3.2.20	25:17
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.5.23	-	3.3.21	28:43
Q3	CARL	Rushed behind	3.6.24	-	3.3.21	00:58
	CARL	Patrick Cripps goal	4.6.30	-	3.3.21	03:14
	MELB	Kade Chandler behind	4.6.30	-	3.4.22	06:55
	CARL	Matthew Owies goal	5.6.36	-	3.4.22	08:14
	MELB	Tom Sparrow goal	5.6.36	-	4.4.28	09:22
	CARL	Sam Docherty goal	6.6.42	-	4.4.28	10:54
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	6.6.42	-	5.4.34	14:59
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen goal	6.6.42	-	6.4.40	20:38
	MELB	Tom Sparrow behind	6.6.42	-	6.5.41	23:50
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	6.6.42	-	6.6.42	28:51
Q4	CARL	Matthew Owies goal	7.6.48	-	6.6.42	00:28
	CARL	Tom De Koning goal	8.6.54	-	6.6.42	01:56
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	9.6.60	-	6.6.42	06:53
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	9.6.60	-	7.6.48	10:05
	MELB	Joel Smith goal	9.6.60	-	8.6.54	14:23
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen behind	9.6.60	-	8.7.55	17:34
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	9.6.60	-	8.8.56	31:14

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