2024 AFL Season Qualifying Final 1: Sydney v Greater Western Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 7 September 2024 between Sydney and Greater Western Sydney in the first qualifying final of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Greater Western Sydney at the SCG. Callum Mills captained the hosts. Toby Greene captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Adam Kingsley.

Sydney (13.10.88) defeated Greater Western Sydney (12.10.82).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: First Qualifying Final
Teams: Sydney v Greater Western Sydney
Date: Saturday 7 September 2024
Time: 3:20 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 43,189

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Greater Western Sydney
Score: 13.10.88 - 12.10.82

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	1	.	4	4	.	5	7	.	6	13	.	10	13	.	10	(88)
Greater Western Sydney	2	.	5	7	.	8	10	.	9	12	.	10	12	.	10	(82)
Margin	GWSY by 7			GWSY by 21			GWSY by 21			SYDN by 6			SYDN by 6
Duration	31:26			32:01			33:14			35:24			2:12:05

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 (Greater Western Sydney) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: Callum Mills
Coach: John Longmire

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: Toby Greene
Coach: Adam Kingsley

AFLCA Gary Ayres Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Isaac Heeney	SYDN	5	10	2	0	0	0	0
Tom Green	GWSY	12	5	0	?	?	?	?
Jake Lloyd	SYDN	44	5	0	?	?	?	?
Jack Buckley	GWSY	44	4	0	?	?	?	?
Josh Kelly	GWSY	22	4	0	?	?	?	?
Tom Papley	SYDN	11	2	0	0	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	76%	1	0	4	2	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Blakey, Nick	BPR	86%	0	0	15	7	8	2	0	2	1	1	1	1	2	1
16	Campbell, Braeden	SUB↑	31%	1	0	9	7	2	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	3
7	Cunningham, Harry	CHB	94%	0	0	15	9	6	6	0	7	0	0	1	0	2	1
13	Florent, Oliver	INT	81%	0	0	19	11	8	5	0	1	3	3	0	1	3	0
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	80%	0	0	17	8	9	2	38	3	6	4	3	1	1	5
21	Gulden, Errol	WR	89%	0	0	23	14	9	3	0	4	5	3	1	1	1	7
9	Hayward, Will	FPR	87%	2	0	11	6	5	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	RR	82%	3	0	30	16	14	6	0	5	7	5	3	3	1	5
17	Jordon, James	CHF	86%	0	1	12	8	4	4	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	4
44	Lloyd, Jake	WL	88%	1	2	32	23	9	14	0	3	0	4	0	0	4	5
30	McCartin, Tom	FB	97%	0	0	7	6	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
6	McDonald, Logan	HFFR	80%	1	1	11	7	4	4	0	1	2	2	2	1	2	1
27	McInerney, Justin	INT↓	53%	0	0	6	5	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	4
2	McLean, Hayden	INT	65%	0	0	8	4	4	3	6	1	1	2	1	2	1	1
43	Melican, Lewis	HBFR	88%	0	0	10	5	5	2	0	1	0	4	1	1	4	1
14	Mills, Callum (c)	HBFL	78%	0	0	19	13	6	7	0	2	2	3	1	2	4	0
11	Papley, Tom	FPL	77%	2	0	16	12	4	4	0	3	4	1	2	0	1	5
26	Parker, Luke	HFFL	71%	0	1	12	8	4	2	0	1	3	0	1	0	1	2
24	Rampe, Dane	BPL	77%	1	0	12	9	3	3	0	4	0	2	0	1	2	2
34	Roberts, Matt	INT	77%	0	1	15	11	4	1	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	1
8	Rowbottom, James	RO	80%	1	0	18	9	9	0	0	11	5	4	2	2	0	2
1	Warner, Chad	C	82%	0	1	27	19	8	5	0	2	7	4	1	2	6	3
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				13	10	348	219	129	85	44	69	48	47	21	18	39	54

B. Campbell replaced J. McInerney.

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Ash, Lachie	INT	77%	0	0	16	7	9	3	0	4	1	1	0	0	2	0
32	Briggs, Kieren	RU	73%	0	0	14	9	5	3	30	4	5	9	2	4	2	0
44	Buckley, Jack	CHB	92%	0	0	18	8	10	6	0	3	0	2	0	0	2	2
5	Cadman, Aaron	CHF	77%	3	0	7	5	2	2	0	7	0	0	3	0	0	2
17	Callaghan, Finn	WL	80%	0	1	25	13	12	9	0	1	1	6	0	3	3	6
3	Coniglio, Stephen	RR	78%	0	0	14	9	5	3	0	5	2	2	1	0	0	4
13	Cumming, Isaac	HFFR	79%	0	0	16	11	5	3	0	4	2	3	2	3	2	3
16	Daniels, Brent	HFFL	84%	0	0	11	7	4	1	0	7	2	2	0	0	0	3
12	Green, Tom	C	82%	0	0	32	18	14	1	0	0	10	2	0	0	7	4
4	Greene, Toby (c)	FPR	88%	0	2	12	8	4	2	0	2	1	3	2	1	0	2
27	Himmelberg, Harry	BPL	82%	0	0	15	9	6	5	0	5	2	1	0	1	3	2
23	Hogan, Jesse	FF	95%	3	0	12	10	2	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
39	Idun, Connor	BPR	91%	0	0	18	7	11	7	0	4	0	1	0	0	2	1
2	Jones, Darcy	FPL	70%	1	1	16	9	7	2	0	4	0	2	0	0	1	4
25	Keeffe, Lachie	INT	55%	1	2	10	7	3	3	12	1	4	1	2	1	0	1
22	Kelly, Josh	WR	85%	0	0	27	13	14	3	0	4	6	5	0	1	3	4
31	McMullin, Toby	INT↓	61%	1	0	7	4	3	1	0	0	0	2	2	2	1	0
33	O'Halloran, Xavier	SUB↑	27%	0	0	6	6	0	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	3
20	Peatling, James	RO	79%	1	1	15	10	5	2	0	12	3	1	2	0	0	3
36	Perryman, Harry	HBFR	77%	0	1	13	9	4	5	0	4	1	3	0	0	3	3
15	Taylor, Sam	FB	100%	0	0	12	5	7	3	0	3	0	3	0	2	2	0
8	Ward, Callan	INT	85%	2	0	20	8	12	4	0	2	3	2	0	0	1	2
6	Whitfield, Lachie	HBFL	82%	0	0	24	18	6	4	0	6	2	6	1	3	5	1
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				12	10	360	210	150	82	42	83	46	58	18	21	39	52

X. O'Halloran replaced T. McMullin.

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
	27	H. Himmelberg	15	S. Taylor	39	C. Idun	4	B. Grundy	13	O. Florent
	9	W. Hayward	36	J. Amartey	11	T. Papley	5	I. Heeney	27	J. McInerney
FORWARD							8	J. Rowbottom	2	H. McLean
HALF-BACK									34	M. Roberts
	6	L. Whitfield	44	J. Buckley	36	H. Perryman			16	B. Campbell
	6	L. McDonald	17	J. Jordon	26	L. Parker
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	17	F. Callaghan	12	T. Green	22	J. Kelly
	21	E. Gulden	1	C. Warner	44	J. Lloyd	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							32	K. Briggs	7	L. Ash
HALF-FORWARD							3	S. Coniglio	25	L. Keeffe
	16	B. Daniels	5	A. Cadman	13	I. Cumming	20	J. Peatling	31	T. McMullin
	43	L. Melican	7	H. Cunningham	14	C. Mills (c)			8	C. Ward
HALF-BACK									33	X. O'Halloran
FORWARD
	2	D. Jones	23	J. Hogan	4	T. Greene (c)
	22	N. Blakey	30	T. McCartin	24	D. Rampe
BACK
Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Adam Kingsley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	02:55
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	04:31
	SYDN	James Jordon behind	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	08:20
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	0.2.2	-	1.1.7	12:11
	GWSY	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	1.2.8	15:03
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	0.2.2	-	2.2.14	17:44
	GWSY	Finn Callaghan behind	0.2.2	-	2.3.15	19:20
	SYDN	Matt Roberts behind	0.3.3	-	2.3.15	22:19
	SYDN	Rushed behind	0.4.4	-	2.3.15	24:05
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	0.4.4	-	2.4.16	25:34
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	1.4.10	-	2.4.16	26:30
	GWSY	James Peatling behind	1.4.10	-	2.5.17	29:01
Q2	GWSY	Toby McMullin goal	1.4.10	-	3.5.23	00:56
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	2.4.16	-	3.5.23	03:48
	GWSY	Callan Ward goal	2.4.16	-	4.5.29	05:21
	GWSY	Lachie Keeffe goal	2.4.16	-	5.5.35	09:46
	GWSY	Harry Perryman behind	2.4.16	-	5.6.36	11:22
	GWSY	Lachie Keeffe behind	2.4.16	-	5.7.37	14:08
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	2.4.16	-	6.7.43	15:53
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	3.4.22	-	6.7.43	17:22
	GWSY	Rushed behind	3.4.22	-	6.8.44	19:53
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	3.4.22	-	7.8.50	22:57
	SYDN	Rushed behind	3.5.23	-	7.8.50	26:54
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	4.5.29	-	7.8.50	28:15
Q3	SYDN	Dane Rampe goal	5.5.35	-	7.8.50	02:55
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	6.5.41	-	7.8.50	05:03
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd behind	6.6.42	-	7.8.50	07:29
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	6.6.42	-	8.8.56	10:37
	GWSY	Darcy Jones goal	6.6.42	-	9.8.62	11:47
	GWSY	Darcy Jones behind	6.6.42	-	9.9.63	18:54
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	6.6.42	-	10.9.69	24:28
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	7.6.48	-	10.9.69	27:57
Q4	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	7.7.49	-	10.9.69	01:06
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	8.7.55	-	10.9.69	02:14
	GWSY	James Peatling goal	8.7.55	-	11.9.75	05:26
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	9.7.61	-	11.9.75	07:37
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd goal	10.7.67	-	11.9.75	09:59
	GWSY	Lachie Keeffe behind	10.7.67	-	11.10.76	14:12
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd behind	10.8.68	-	11.10.76	15:27
	SYDN	Luke Parker behind	10.9.69	-	11.10.76	17:02
	GWSY	Callan Ward goal	10.9.69	-	12.10.82	20:41
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell goal	11.9.75	-	12.10.82	23:06
	SYDN	Logan McDonald behind	11.10.76	-	12.10.82	25:22
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	12.10.82	-	12.10.82	28:54
	SYDN	Joel Amartey goal	13.10.88	-	12.10.82	31:16

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