2024 AFL Preliminary Final 2: Geelong v Brisbane Lions

This is the match report for the match played on 21 September 2024 between Geelong and Brisbane Lions in the second preliminary final of the 2024 AFL season. Geelong hosted Brisbane Lions at MCG. Patrick Dangerfield captained the hosts with Tom Stewart as vice-captain. With the presence of multiple Brisbane Lions co-captains, namely Harris Andrews and Lachie Neale, playing for the side, it is not yet known who specifically captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by Chris Fagan.

Geelong
Back: J. Bews, J. Henry, J. Kolodjashnij
Half-back: J. Bowes, M. Blicavs, Z. Guthrie
Centre: M. Holmes, P. Dangerfield (capt.), O. Dempsey
Half-forward: T. Stengle, S. Neale, S. Mannagh
Forward: G. Miers, J. Cameron, O. Henry
Follower: R. Stanley, T. Atkins, T. Stewart (vice-capt.)
Int.: T. Bruhn, B. Close, L. Humphries, O. Mullin
Sub.: M. Duncan

Brisbane Lions
Back: D. Zorko, H. Andrews, N. Answerth
Half-back: B. Starcevich, J. Payne, R. Lester
Centre: J. Fletcher, W. Ashcroft, H. McCluggage
Half-forward: C. Rayner, J. Daniher, J. Berry
Forward: C. Cameron, E. Hipwood, C. Ah Chee
Follower: O. McInerney, J. Dunkley, L. Neale
Int.: Z. Bailey, K. Lohmann, L. Morris, D. Wilmot
Sub.: C. McKenna

Geelong (12.13.85) were defeated by Brisbane Lions (14.11.95).

Goalkickers
Geelong: O. Henry (4), J. Cameron (2), G. Miers (2), M. Blicavs, P. Dangerfield, O. Dempsey, S. Mannagh
Brisbane Lions: C. Ah Chee (3), Z. Bailey (2), C. Cameron (2), L. Morris (2), C. Rayner (2), E. Hipwood, K. Lohmann, H. McCluggage

As a result of this match, Brisbane Lions faced Sydney in the grand final and Geelong were eliminated (finishing 4th overall).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Preliminary Final 2
Teams: Geelong v Brisbane Lions
Date: Saturday 21 September 2024
Time: 5:15 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 93,066

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. by Brisbane Lions
Score: 12.13.85 - 14.11.95

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	1	.	5	8	.	7	10	.	8	12	.	13	12	.	13	(85)
Brisbane Lions	3	.	2	5	.	6	10	.	10	14	.	11	14	.	11	(95)
Margin	BRIL by 9			GEEL by 19			BRIL by 2			BRIL by 10			BRIL by 10
Duration	31:07			36:27			31:50			29:41			2:09:05

Honour Roll

Coaches: Chris Scott (Geelong), Chris Fagan (Brisbane Lions)
Captains: Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong), unknown (Brisbane Lions)
Vice-Captains: Tom Stewart (Geelong), unknown (Brisbane Lions)

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Lachie Neale	BRIL	9	9	1	1	0	0	0
Ryan Lester	BRIL	35	5	1	0	0	0	0
Zac Bailey	BRIL	33	4	0	?	0	?	0
Ollie Henry	GEEL	36	4	0	?	0	?	0
Josh Dunkley	BRIL	5	3	0	0	1	0	0
Gryan Miers	GEEL	32	3	0	0	1	0	0
Hugh McCluggage	BRIL	6	1	0	0	0	0	1
Dayne Zorko	BRIL	15	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	RR	73%	0	1	12	5	7	1	0	6	3	4	0	1	0	1
24	Bews, Jed	BPL	82%	0	0	9	4	5	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0
46	Blicavs, Mark	CHB	85%	1	0	9	8	1	2	12	2	2	1	1	0	1	1
12	Bowes, Jack	HBFL	82%	0	0	13	8	5	2	0	4	1	4	1	2	2	3
4	Bruhn, Tanner	INT	60%	0	0	10	4	6	2	0	4	4	3	0	3	1	1
5	Cameron, Jeremy	FF	97%	2	3	17	12	5	3	0	1	1	5	2	0	2	5
45	Close, Brad	INT	82%	0	0	19	8	11	2	0	2	0	4	2	0	2	2
35	Dangerfield, Patrick (c)	C	76%	1	0	24	9	15	2	0	4	5	9	0	5	1	3
28	Dempsey, Oliver	WR	90%	1	1	15	9	6	4	0	2	1	4	0	0	0	1
22	Duncan, Mitch	SUB↑	16%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
39	Guthrie, Zach	HBFR	79%	0	1	18	16	2	7	0	3	0	2	3	0	5	1
38	Henry, Jack	FB	86%	0	0	10	7	3	3	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	1
36	Henry, Ollie	FPR	92%	4	1	15	12	3	3	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	6
9	Holmes, Max	WL↓	53%	0	1	20	16	4	4	0	2	4	4	1	2	1	9
17	Humphries, Lawson	INT	84%	0	0	18	13	5	4	0	6	1	1	1	0	7	2
8	Kolodjashnij, Jake	BPR	89%	0	0	10	5	5	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3
7	Mannagh, Shaun	HFFR	81%	1	2	15	12	3	1	0	3	2	5	0	0	1	5
32	Miers, Gryan	FPL	81%	2	0	20	14	6	4	0	5	2	5	0	0	0	3
34	Mullin, Oisin	INT	74%	0	0	10	4	6	0	0	5	1	2	1	0	0	2
33	Neale, Shannon	CHF	93%	0	0	9	5	4	4	0	0	0	6	0	1	0	2
1	Stanley, Rhys	RU	82%	0	1	10	7	3	3	45	3	4	0	1	0	2	2
18	Stengle, Tyson	HFFL	82%	0	1	11	8	3	2	0	2	1	5	0	2	0	4
44	Stewart, Tom (vc)	RO	79%	0	0	22	18	4	5	0	2	1	4	2	1	8	2
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				12	13	319	205	114	64	57	57	33	78	19	20	36	59

M. Duncan replaced M. Holmes.

Brisbane Lions

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
4	Ah Chee, Callum	FPR	88%	3	0	11	5	6	3	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	0
31	Andrews, Harris	FB	91%	0	0	12	8	4	5	0	1	0	4	1	2	3	0
43	Answerth, Noah	BPR	86%	0	0	20	14	6	8	0	8	1	5	0	2	1	3
8	Ashcroft, Will	C	84%	0	1	22	10	12	3	0	1	3	3	2	0	1	2
33	Bailey, Zac	INT	79%	2	2	19	13	6	3	0	2	2	1	1	1	2	5
7	Berry, Jarrod	HFFR	74%	0	0	20	7	13	2	0	4	4	1	1	0	2	2
23	Cameron, Charlie	FPL	85%	2	0	12	10	2	6	0	3	2	2	1	1	0	4
3	Daniher, Joe	CHF	100%	0	0	13	11	2	6	9	1	3	6	1	1	1	2
5	Dunkley, Josh	RR	88%	0	0	28	18	10	6	0	4	1	3	2	0	2	2
28	Fletcher, Jaspa	WL	68%	0	1	17	13	4	7	0	1	2	1	0	1	3	3
30	Hipwood, Eric	FF	74%	1	0	10	7	3	5	0	1	0	5	0	3	0	3
35	Lester, Ryan	HBFR	90%	0	0	20	13	7	5	0	3	0	3	1	1	8	2
1	Lohmann, Kai	INT	78%	1	3	16	13	3	4	0	3	2	4	1	2	0	2
6	McCluggage, Hugh	WR	79%	1	0	27	7	20	5	0	7	6	3	2	1	2	3
46	McInerney, Oscar	RU↓	44%	0	0	4	4	0	0	18	0	2	1	1	0	0	1
26	McKenna, Conor	SUB↑	21%	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Morris, Logan	INT	64%	2	0	6	6	0	5	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	2
9	Neale, Lachie	RO	87%	0	0	31	17	14	6	0	5	12	6	2	0	2	3
40	Payne, Jack	CHB	89%	0	0	11	8	3	4	0	2	1	1	2	0	2	0
16	Rayner, Cam	HFFL	88%	2	2	18	14	4	5	0	5	2	6	0	1	1	5
37	Starcevich, Brandon	HBFL	87%	0	0	15	10	5	7	0	1	0	3	1	0	3	1
44	Wilmot, Darcy	INT	71%	0	0	24	14	10	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	4
15	Zorko, Dayne	BPL	87%	0	0	32	25	7	8	0	3	0	6	1	0	10	3
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				14	11	391	249	142	111	27	57	43	71	20	19	46	52

C. McKenna replaced O. McInerney.

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

Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	15	D. Zorko	31	H. Andrews	43	N. Answerth	1	R. Stanley	4	T. Bruhn
	36	O. Henry	5	J. Cameron	32	G. Miers	30	T. Atkins	45	B. Close
FORWARD							44	T. Stewart (vc)	17	L. Humphries
HALF-BACK									34	O. Mullin
	37	B. Starcevich	40	J. Payne	35	R. Lester			22	M. Duncan
	7	S. Mannagh	33	S. Neale	18	T. Stengle
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	28	J. Fletcher	8	W. Ashcroft	6	H. McCluggage
	28	O. Dempsey	35	P. Dangerfield (c)	9	M. Holmes	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							46	O. McInerney	33	Z. Bailey
HALF-FORWARD							5	J. Dunkley	1	K. Lohmann
	16	C. Rayner	3	J. Daniher	7	J. Berry	9	L. Neale	13	L. Morris
	39	Z. Guthrie	46	M. Blicavs	12	J. Bowes			44	D. Wilmot
HALF-BACK									26	C. McKenna
FORWARD
	23	C. Cameron	30	E. Hipwood	4	C. Ah Chee
	8	J. Kolodjashnij	38	J. Henry	24	J. Bews
BACK
Brisbane Lions							Coach: Chris Fagan

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Zach Guthrie behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	04:38
	GEEL	Tom Atkins behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	05:25
	GEEL	Max Holmes behind	0.3.3	-	0.0.0	06:33
	GEEL	Ollie Henry behind	0.4.4	-	0.0.0	08:17
	BRIL	Jaspa Fletcher behind	0.4.4	-	0.1.1	10:01
	BRIL	Kai Lohmann behind	0.4.4	-	0.2.2	17:06
	BRIL	Charlie Cameron goal	0.4.4	-	1.2.8	18:56
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	1.4.10	-	1.2.8	20:32
	BRIL	Zac Bailey goal	1.4.10	-	2.2.14	21:46
	BRIL	Eric Hipwood goal	1.4.10	-	3.2.20	23:16
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	1.5.11	-	3.2.20	29:27
Q2	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	2.5.17	-	3.2.20	01:38
	BRIL	Will Ashcroft behind	2.5.17	-	3.3.21	03:36
	BRIL	Logan Morris goal	2.5.17	-	4.3.27	04:34
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh goal	3.5.23	-	4.3.27	05:39
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	4.5.29	-	4.3.27	08:57
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	5.5.35	-	4.3.27	12:49
	BRIL	Hugh McCluggage goal	5.5.35	-	5.3.33	17:37
	BRIL	Zac Bailey behind	5.5.35	-	5.4.34	18:50
	BRIL	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	5.5.35	20:46
	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	6.5.41	-	5.5.35	21:45
	BRIL	Zac Bailey behind	6.5.41	-	5.6.36	23:02
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	7.5.47	-	5.6.36	25:10
	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	8.5.53	-	5.6.36	26:46
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey behind	8.6.54	-	5.6.36	28:26
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle behind	8.7.55	-	5.6.36	34:57
Q3	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	9.7.61	-	5.6.36	02:26
	BRIL	Callum Ah Chee goal	9.7.61	-	6.6.42	04:24
	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh behind	9.8.62	-	6.6.42	06:42
	BRIL	Charlie Cameron goal	9.8.62	-	7.6.48	07:51
	BRIL	Kai Lohmann goal	9.8.62	-	8.6.54	10:55
	GEEL	Mark Blicavs goal	10.8.68	-	8.6.54	14:29
	BRIL	Cam Rayner goal	10.8.68	-	9.6.60	16:31
	BRIL	Cam Rayner behind	10.8.68	-	9.7.61	19:24
	BRIL	Zac Bailey goal	10.8.68	-	10.7.67	23:21
	BRIL	Rushed behind	10.8.68	-	10.8.68	25:09
	BRIL	Kai Lohmann behind	10.8.68	-	10.9.69	26:46
	BRIL	Cam Rayner behind	10.8.68	-	10.10.70	29:11
Q4	GEEL	Shaun Mannagh behind	10.9.69	-	10.10.70	00:16
	GEEL	Rushed behind	10.10.70	-	10.10.70	06:52
	BRIL	Callum Ah Chee goal	10.10.70	-	11.10.76	09:36
	BRIL	Logan Morris goal	10.10.70	-	12.10.82	11:35
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	10.11.71	-	12.10.82	13:58
	BRIL	Kai Lohmann behind	10.11.71	-	12.11.83	16:39
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	11.11.77	-	12.11.83	17:40
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	11.12.78	-	12.11.83	20:05
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	12.12.84	-	12.11.83	23:28
	BRIL	Callum Ah Chee goal	12.12.84	-	13.11.89	25:17
	BRIL	Cam Rayner goal	12.12.84	-	14.11.95	26:36
	GEEL	Rhys Stanley behind	12.13.85	-	14.11.95	29:04

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