2023 AFL Season Round 22: Sydney v Gold Coast

This is the match report for the match played on 12 August 2023 between Sydney and Gold Coast during round twenty-two of the 2023 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Gold Coast at the SCG. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Steven King.

Sydney (18.6.114) defeated Gold Coast (13.12.90).

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 22
Teams: Sydney v Gold Coast
Date: Saturday 12 August 2023
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 33,911

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Gold Coast
Score: 18.6.114 - 13.12.90

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	3	.	2	9	.	2	15	.	4	18	.	6	18	.	6	(114)
Gold Coast	4	.	1	9	.	4	11	.	6	13	.	12	13	.	12	(90)
Margin	GCST by 5			GCST by 2			SYDN by 22			SYDN by 24			SYDN by 24
Duration	31:38			33:55			35:28			29:45			2:10:46

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 (Gold Coast) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: John Longmire

Gold Coast

Captain: unknown
Coach: Steven King (caretaker)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	3
Luke Parker	SYDN	26	2
Will Hayward	SYDN	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Will Hayward	SYDN	9	7	?	?	?	?	0
Matt Rowell	GCST	18	7	?	?	?	?	0
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	7	?	?	?	?	0
Nick Blakey	SYDN	22	5	?	?	?	?	?
Tom Papley	SYDN	11	4	0	?	?	?	?

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Amartey, Joel	FF↓	62%	1	1	8	5	3	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
22	Blakey, Nick	INT	85%	0	0	24	17	7	8	0	1	0	2	2	0	10	3
4	Clarke, Ryan	SUB↑	8%	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Cunningham, Harry	HBFL	89%	1	0	9	6	3	5	0	2	2	1	0	0	2	1
13	Florent, Oliver	CHB	81%	0	0	15	12	3	3	0	3	1	3	1	0	5	2
42	Fox, Robbie	BPR	83%	0	0	12	8	4	3	0	1	1	5	0	2	2	2
10	Francis, Aaron	FB	89%	0	0	11	6	5	5	0	3	0	1	1	0	2	0
21	Gulden, Errol	HFFL	93%	0	0	19	12	7	3	0	8	3	4	0	1	3	6
9	Hayward, Will	FPL	91%	4	0	16	8	8	3	0	5	0	3	2	0	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	HFFR	80%	2	0	17	9	8	6	0	3	2	3	1	1	0	3
31	Hickey, Tom	RU	67%	0	0	6	4	2	1	22	3	4	3	3	2	0	3
44	Lloyd, Jake	HBFR	79%	0	0	23	21	2	7	0	4	1	2	1	0	5	5
30	McCartin, Tom	BPL	93%	0	0	11	6	5	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
6	McDonald, Logan	INT	89%	3	0	9	5	4	4	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	1
2	McLean, Hayden	CHF	77%	2	0	15	11	4	5	6	5	4	1	4	1	1	4
14	Mills, Callum	RR	85%	0	1	16	7	9	1	0	6	2	2	2	0	2	3
11	Papley, Tom	FPR	87%	1	1	24	17	7	2	0	3	5	3	1	0	0	5
26	Parker, Luke	RO	86%	0	0	20	7	13	0	0	7	7	0	0	0	0	3
34	Roberts, Matt	INT	61%	1	0	9	7	2	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
8	Rowbottom, James	C	65%	1	0	18	11	7	1	0	8	4	0	1	0	2	1
3	Stephens, Dylan	WR	85%	0	0	16	7	9	4	0	6	2	3	2	0	1	1
1	Warner, Chad	WL	85%	2	0	28	16	12	2	0	4	7	12	0	4	2	7
15	Wicks, Sam	INT	79%	0	2	11	9	2	3	0	8	1	2	0	0	0	0
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				18	6	338	211	127	78	29	85	47	51	23	11	40	52

R. Clarke replaced J. Amartey.

Gold Coast

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Ainsworth, Ben	HFFR	79%	0	2	17	12	5	4	0	3	2	5	1	1	2	5
15	Anderson, Noah	HBFL	84%	1	0	22	17	5	3	0	5	4	4	1	1	1	4
31	Andrew, Mac	BPR	88%	0	0	8	6	2	4	0	3	1	4	1	2	1	1
2	Atkins, Rory	CHB	79%	0	0	22	14	8	2	0	1	1	2	0	1	6	2
10	Ballard, Charlie	BPL	97%	0	0	7	5	2	4	0	2	0	3	0	2	0	0
30	Casboult, Levi	FPR	90%	2	2	12	10	2	6	7	3	1	4	0	2	1	1
25	Collins, Sam	FB	93%	0	0	8	4	4	2	0	2	0	3	1	1	2	2
12	Day, Sam	FF	77%	0	0	7	4	3	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1
4	Ellis, Brandon	WR	87%	1	0	23	19	4	8	0	5	1	3	0	0	2	3
50	Farrar, Jy	FPL	74%	0	0	11	8	3	3	0	1	0	3	2	2	4	1
3	Flanders, Sam	C	75%	1	0	23	16	7	3	0	3	4	3	1	0	3	2
36	Hollands, Elijah	INT↓	50%	0	0	8	2	6	0	0	4	1	2	0	0	0	2
7	Holman, Nick	CHF	66%	1	1	6	3	3	1	0	6	2	1	1	1	0	1
19	Humphrey, Bailey	INT	72%	0	0	16	7	9	1	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	5
23	Lemmens, Sean	INT	75%	0	0	10	9	1	2	0	2	1	3	2	1	4	0
13	Lukosius, Jack	WL	84%	2	1	14	13	1	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	7
44	MacPherson, Darcy	HBFR	97%	0	0	17	9	8	5	0	2	1	4	0	0	2	1
11	Miller, Touk	RO	91%	1	0	22	12	10	3	0	2	3	5	0	0	1	5
41	Rosas, Malcolm	HFFL	71%	3	1	11	7	4	2	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	0
18	Rowell, Matt	RR	85%	0	0	25	9	16	3	0	6	9	2	0	1	1	4
24	Swallow, David	INT	67%	0	0	16	9	7	5	0	7	2	2	0	0	1	4
21	Tsitas, James	SUB↑	30%	1	0	8	4	4	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	89%	0	0	17	9	8	3	47	2	8	9	1	5	1	1
Rushed					5
Total (23 players)				13	12	330	208	122	80	54	66	43	71	11	22	33	54

J. Tsitas replaced E. Hollands.

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
	10	C. Ballard	25	S. Collins	31	M. Andrew	31	T. Hickey	22	N. Blakey
	11	T. Papley	36	J. Amartey	9	W. Hayward	14	C. Mills	6	L. McDonald
FORWARD							26	L. Parker	34	M. Roberts
HALF-BACK									15	S. Wicks
	15	N. Anderson	2	R. Atkins	44	D. MacPherson			4	R. Clarke
	5	I. Heeney	2	H. McLean	21	E. Gulden
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	J. Lukosius	3	S. Flanders	4	B. Ellis
	3	D. Stephens	8	J. Rowbottom	1	C. Warner	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							28	J. Witts	36	E. Hollands
HALF-FORWARD							18	M. Rowell	19	B. Humphrey
	41	M. Rosas	7	N. Holman	9	B. Ainsworth	11	T. Miller	23	S. Lemmens
	44	J. Lloyd	13	O. Florent	7	H. Cunningham			24	D. Swallow
HALF-BACK									21	J. Tsitas
FORWARD
	50	J. Farrar	12	S. Day	30	L. Casboult
	42	R. Fox	10	A. Francis	30	T. McCartin
BACK
Gold Coast							Coach: Steven King

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Jack Lukosius goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	01:22
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	03:46
	GCST	Levi Casboult behind	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	06:31
	GCST	Sam Flanders goal	1.0.6	-	2.1.13	09:00
	GCST	Brandon Ellis goal	1.0.6	-	3.1.19	13:44
	SYDN	Sam Wicks behind	1.1.7	-	3.1.19	16:07
	SYDN	Sam Wicks behind	1.2.8	-	3.1.19	19:29
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	2.2.14	-	3.1.19	23:20
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	3.2.20	-	3.1.19	25:51
	GCST	Nick Holman goal	3.2.20	-	4.1.25	28:17
Q2	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	4.2.26	-	4.1.25	00:38
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	5.2.32	-	4.1.25	01:55
	GCST	Levi Casboult goal	5.2.32	-	5.1.31	03:33
	GCST	Rushed behind	5.2.32	-	5.2.32	05:41
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	5.2.32	-	5.3.33	11:07
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas behind	5.2.32	-	5.4.34	12:13
	GCST	Touk Miller goal	5.2.32	-	6.4.40	13:39
	GCST	Jack Lukosius goal	5.2.32	-	7.4.46	17:28
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	6.2.38	-	7.4.46	20:09
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	7.2.44	-	7.4.46	23:55
	GCST	Noah Anderson goal	7.2.44	-	8.4.52	26:03
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas goal	7.2.44	-	9.4.58	28:21
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	8.2.50	-	9.4.58	30:08
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	9.2.56	-	9.4.58	33:50
Q3	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	10.2.62	-	9.4.58	01:14
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas goal	10.2.62	-	10.4.64	02:28
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	11.2.68	-	10.4.64	05:42
	GCST	Nick Holman behind	11.2.68	-	10.5.65	08:20
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	12.2.74	-	10.5.65	13:22
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas goal	12.2.74	-	11.5.71	16:39
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	13.2.80	-	11.5.71	18:14
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	14.2.86	-	11.5.71	20:05
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	15.2.92	-	11.5.71	25:11
	GCST	Rushed behind	15.2.92	-	11.6.72	26:47
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	15.3.93	-	11.6.72	29:42
	SYDN	Callum Mills behind	15.4.94	-	11.6.72	31:22
Q4	GCST	Rushed behind	15.4.94	-	11.7.73	03:02
	GCST	Rushed behind	15.4.94	-	11.8.74	05:25
	GCST	Levi Casboult behind	15.4.94	-	11.9.75	09:33
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	15.4.94	-	11.10.76	10:44
	SYDN	Joel Amartey behind	15.5.95	-	11.10.76	12:10
	GCST	Jack Lukosius behind	15.5.95	-	11.11.77	13:10
	SYDN	Rushed behind	15.6.96	-	11.11.77	15:44
	SYDN	Matt Roberts goal	16.6.102	-	11.11.77	16:34
	SYDN	Harry Cunningham goal	17.6.108	-	11.11.77	19:43
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	18.6.114	-	11.11.77	22:28
	GCST	Rushed behind	18.6.114	-	11.12.78	24:09
	GCST	Levi Casboult goal	18.6.114	-	12.12.84	26:29
	GCST	James Tsitas goal	18.6.114	-	13.12.90	28:12

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