2023 AFL Round 23: Gold Coast v Carlton

This is the match report for the match played on 19 August 2023 between Gold Coast and Carlton during round 23 of the 2023 AFL season. Gold Coast hosted Carlton at Heritage Bank Stadium. Patrick Cripps captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Steven King and the visitors were coached by Michael Voss.

Gold Coast
Back: C. Ballard, S. Collins, M. Andrew
Half-back: N. Anderson, R. Atkins, B. Ellis
Centre: L. Johnston, S. Flanders, S. Lemmens
Half-forward: M. Rosas, J. Lukosius, D. Swallow
Forward: A. Sexton, M. Chol, L. Casboult
Follower: J. Witts, M. Rowell, T. Miller
Int.: B. Ainsworth, C. Budarick, B. Fiorini, B. Humphrey
Sub.: D. MacPherson

Carlton
Back: J. Weitering, B. Kemp, A. Saad
Half-back: C. Marchbank, N. Newman, Z. Fisher
Centre: B. Acres, P. Cripps (capt.), O. Hollands
Half-forward: M. Cottrell, J. Martin, M. Owies
Forward: T. De Koning, C. Curnow, H. McKay
Follower: M. Pittonet, S. Docherty, G. Hewett
Int.: A. Cincotta, D. Cuningham, P. Dow, J. Motlop
Sub.: E. Curnow

Gold Coast (13.9.87) were defeated by Carlton (13.13.91).

Goalkickers
Gold Coast: D. Swallow (4), B. Ainsworth (2), A. Sexton (2), M. Chol, B. Ellis, J. Lukosius, T. Miller, M. Rosas
Carlton: C. Curnow (5), J. Martin (2), J. Motlop (2), M. Owies (2), M. Cottrell, H. McKay

As a result of this match, Gold Coast remained 15th on the ladder and Carlton remained 5th on the ladder by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2023 AFL Season
Round: Round 23
Teams: Gold Coast v Carlton
Date: Saturday 19 August 2023
Time: 2:10 PM
Venue: Heritage Bank Stadium
Attendance: 19,253

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. by Carlton
Score: 13.9.87 - 13.13.91

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Gold Coast 6 . 5 7 . 7 9 . 7 13 . 9 13 . 9 (87)
Carlton 1 . 2 7 . 5 8 . 12 13 . 13 13 . 13 (91)
Margin GCST by 33 GCST by 2 GCST by 1 CARL by 4 CARL by 4
Duration 31:02 30:56 28:28 33:16 2:03:42

Honour Roll

Coaches: Steven King (Gold Coast), Michael Voss (Carlton)
Captains: unknown (Gold Coast), Patrick Cripps (Carlton)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Charlie Curnow CARL 30 3
Sam Docherty CARL 15 2
Matt Rowell GCST 18 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Charlie Curnow CARL 30 10 2 0 0 0 0
David Swallow GCST 24 7 0 1 1 0 0
Sam Flanders GCST 3 5 0 ? ? ? ?
Jacob Weitering CARL 23 5 0 ? ? ? ?
Nic Newman CARL 24 2 0 0 0 1 0
Touk Miller GCST 11 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Gold Coast

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
9 Ainsworth, Ben INT 83% 2 0 27 16 11 7 0 1 3 2 0 0 7 3
15 Anderson, Noah HBFL 81% 0 1 24 12 12 3 0 3 9 3 2 0 4 5
31 Andrew, Mac BPR 99% 0 0 15 11 4 8 0 0 1 5 0 3 4 3
2 Atkins, Rory CHB 76% 0 0 23 13 10 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 0
10 Ballard, Charlie BPL 100% 0 0 7 5 2 2 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 3
35 Budarick, Connor INT 77% 0 0 16 13 3 4 0 2 0 2 2 1 3 3
30 Casboult, Levi FPR 84% 0 0 5 4 1 4 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 2
1 Chol, Mabior FF 73% 1 0 11 7 4 7 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 5
25 Collins, Sam FB 96% 0 0 14 5 9 2 0 0 0 1 3 0 2 0
4 Ellis, Brandon HBFR 87% 1 0 12 6 6 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 2
8 Fiorini, Brayden INT 67% 0 0 22 9 13 5 0 4 5 3 2 0 1 3
3 Flanders, Sam C 82% 0 0 36 20 16 5 0 5 5 3 1 1 1 6
19 Humphrey, Bailey INT 74% 0 0 8 4 4 1 0 3 0 2 1 1 0 2
38 Johnston, Lloyd WL↓ 57% 0 0 8 6 2 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 1
23 Lemmens, Sean WR 71% 0 0 13 10 3 2 0 3 0 3 1 1 2 1
13 Lukosius, Jack CHF 83% 1 0 15 10 5 5 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 3
44 MacPherson, Darcy SUB↑ 24% 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
11 Miller, Touk RO 85% 1 0 29 15 14 3 0 8 3 5 1 1 1 6
41 Rosas, Malcolm HFFL 81% 1 0 11 7 4 3 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 0
18 Rowell, Matt RR 81% 0 0 20 13 7 1 0 9 8 6 2 2 1 8
6 Sexton, Alex FPL 78% 2 1 14 9 5 3 0 0 0 4 1 4 3 1
24 Swallow, David HFFR 76% 4 3 16 12 4 8 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 2
28 Witts, Jarrod RU 85% 0 0 12 5 7 1 38 4 3 1 1 0 1 4
Rushed 4
Total (23 players) 13 9 362 215 147 82 40 57 42 58 19 18 38 64

D. MacPherson replaced L. Johnston.

Carlton

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
13 Acres, Blake WL 95% 0 0 23 15 8 2 0 3 2 2 3 0 4 7
39 Cincotta, Alex INT 75% 0 0 9 5 4 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 0
46 Cottrell, Matt HFFL 93% 1 0 11 7 4 2 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 2
9 Cripps, Patrick (c) C 77% 0 1 14 7 7 0 0 8 3 3 0 2 1 2
28 Cuningham, David INT↓ 50% 0 0 12 2 10 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 1
30 Curnow, Charlie FF 96% 5 1 18 14 4 6 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 4
35 Curnow, Ed SUB↑ 27% 0 0 7 4 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0
12 De Koning, Tom FPL 85% 0 0 6 1 5 1 16 1 2 2 0 1 1 2
15 Docherty, Sam RR 79% 0 0 25 19 6 2 0 2 1 4 0 1 3 7
2 Dow, Paddy INT 72% 0 1 24 15 9 6 0 4 7 1 0 1 3 5
25 Fisher, Zac HBFR 80% 0 1 28 14 14 5 0 4 1 3 1 0 4 2
29 Hewett, George RO 70% 0 0 23 14 9 2 0 10 4 1 3 1 3 5
14 Hollands, Oliver WR 78% 0 0 11 6 5 4 0 5 0 3 0 3 3 1
17 Kemp, Brodie FB 95% 0 0 18 9 9 4 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 3
22 Marchbank, Caleb HBFL 85% 0 0 15 10 5 7 0 4 0 3 0 1 2 1
21 Martin, Jack CHF 77% 2 2 14 10 4 6 0 4 0 1 1 0 1 0
10 McKay, Harry FPR 82% 1 1 10 4 6 5 1 0 1 3 1 3 0 0
3 Motlop, Jesse INT 81% 2 2 17 11 6 2 0 5 0 3 1 2 1 4
24 Newman, Nic CHB 84% 0 0 31 17 14 9 0 4 2 2 3 0 1 2
44 Owies, Matthew HFFR 70% 2 2 10 9 1 5 0 3 0 2 1 2 0 2
27 Pittonet, Marc RU 70% 0 0 10 6 4 0 17 2 5 1 0 0 1 1
42 Saad, Adam BPR 80% 0 0 22 16 6 5 0 2 3 4 0 1 10 0
23 Weitering, Jacob BPL 100% 0 0 16 13 3 8 0 1 0 1 1 0 4 0
Rushed 2
Total (23 players) 13 13 374 228 146 84 34 68 35 49 18 19 50 51

E. Curnow replaced D. Cuningham.

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

Gold Coast Coach: Steven King
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
23 J. Weitering 17 B. Kemp 42 A. Saad 28 J. Witts 9 B. Ainsworth
30 L. Casboult 1 M. Chol 6 A. Sexton 18 M. Rowell 35 C. Budarick
FORWARD 11 T. Miller 8 B. Fiorini
HALF-BACK

19 B. Humphrey
22 C. Marchbank 24 N. Newman 25 Z. Fisher

44 D. MacPherson
24 D. Swallow 13 J. Lukosius 41 M. Rosas



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



13 B. Acres 9 P. Cripps (c) 14 O. Hollands



23 S. Lemmens 3 S. Flanders 38 L. Johnston FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 27 M. Pittonet 39 A. Cincotta
HALF-FORWARD 15 S. Docherty 28 D. Cuningham
46 M. Cottrell 21 J. Martin 44 M. Owies 29 G. Hewett 2 P. Dow
4 B. Ellis 2 R. Atkins 15 N. Anderson

3 J. Motlop
HALF-BACK

35 E. Curnow
FORWARD



12 T. De Koning 30 C. Curnow 10 H. McKay



31 M. Andrew 25 S. Collins 10 C. Ballard



BACK



Carlton Coach: Michael Voss

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 GCST Malcolm Rosas goal 1.0.6 - 0.0.0 02:12
GCST Rushed behind 1.1.7 - 0.0.0 04:00
GCST Rushed behind 1.2.8 - 0.0.0 06:19
CARL Patrick Cripps behind 1.2.8 - 0.1.1 07:58
GCST Alex Sexton goal 2.2.14 - 0.1.1 08:44
GCST Alex Sexton goal 3.2.20 - 0.1.1 11:01
CARL Jack Martin behind 3.2.20 - 0.2.2 14:31
GCST Ben Ainsworth goal 4.2.26 - 0.2.2 17:45
GCST David Swallow goal 5.2.32 - 0.2.2 19:37
GCST David Swallow behind 5.3.33 - 0.2.2 22:03
GCST Rushed behind 5.4.34 - 0.2.2 26:58
GCST David Swallow behind 5.5.35 - 0.2.2 28:33
CARL Matt Cottrell goal 5.5.35 - 1.2.8 29:20
GCST David Swallow goal 6.5.41 - 1.2.8 30:58
Q2 GCST David Swallow behind 6.6.42 - 1.2.8 03:35
GCST Jack Lukosius goal 7.6.48 - 1.2.8 06:00
CARL Charlie Curnow goal 7.6.48 - 2.2.14 07:41
CARL Jesse Motlop behind 7.6.48 - 2.3.15 13:02
GCST Alex Sexton behind 7.7.49 - 2.3.15 13:59
CARL Paddy Dow behind 7.7.49 - 2.4.16 14:39
CARL Charlie Curnow goal 7.7.49 - 3.4.22 15:35
CARL Charlie Curnow goal 7.7.49 - 4.4.28 17:36
CARL Matthew Owies behind 7.7.49 - 4.5.29 19:17
CARL Matthew Owies goal 7.7.49 - 5.5.35 23:24
CARL Jack Martin goal 7.7.49 - 6.5.41 25:31
CARL Charlie Curnow goal 7.7.49 - 7.5.47 27:02
Q3 CARL Jesse Motlop goal 7.7.49 - 8.5.53 02:12
CARL Rushed behind 7.7.49 - 8.6.54 05:07
CARL Rushed behind 7.7.49 - 8.7.55 06:13
GCST Ben Ainsworth goal 8.7.55 - 8.7.55 11:29
CARL Jack Martin behind 8.7.55 - 8.8.56 12:31
CARL Matthew Owies behind 8.7.55 - 8.9.57 17:26
CARL Jesse Motlop behind 8.7.55 - 8.10.58 18:25
CARL Charlie Curnow behind 8.7.55 - 8.11.59 18:57
CARL Harry McKay behind 8.7.55 - 8.12.60 20:33
GCST David Swallow goal 9.7.61 - 8.12.60 27:04
Q4 GCST Touk Miller goal 10.7.67 - 8.12.60 02:35
GCST David Swallow goal 11.7.73 - 8.12.60 05:18
CARL Jesse Motlop goal 11.7.73 - 9.12.66 06:33
GCST Mabior Chol goal 12.7.79 - 9.12.66 11:09
CARL Jack Martin goal 12.7.79 - 10.12.72 13:23
CARL Charlie Curnow goal 12.7.79 - 11.12.78 17:46
GCST Rushed behind 12.8.80 - 11.12.78 19:47
CARL Harry McKay goal 12.8.80 - 12.12.84 20:18
CARL Zac Fisher behind 12.8.80 - 12.13.85 23:12
CARL Matthew Owies goal 12.8.80 - 13.13.91 25:03
GCST Brandon Ellis goal 13.8.86 - 13.13.91 27:08
GCST Noah Anderson behind 13.9.87 - 13.13.91 32:13