2024 AFL Season Round 1: Sydney v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 7 March 2024 between Sydney and Melbourne during round one of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Sydney hosted Melbourne at the SCG. Max Gawn captained the visitors with Jack Viney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by John Longmire and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Sydney (12.14.86) defeated Melbourne (9.10.64).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 1
Teams: Sydney v Melbourne
Date: Thursday 7 March 2024
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: SCG
Attendance: 40,012

Match Results

Outcome: Sydney def. Melbourne
Score: 12.14.86 - 9.10.64

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Sydney	3	.	3	4	.	3	7	.	10	12	.	14	12	.	14	(86)
Melbourne	1	.	6	2	.	8	7	.	8	9	.	10	9	.	10	(64)
Margin	SYDN by 9			SYDN by 7			SYDN by 2			SYDN by 22			SYDN by 22
Duration	29:30			30:09			36:18			35:31			2:11:28

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 (Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: John Longmire

Melbourne

Captain: Max Gawn
Vice-Captain: Jack Viney
Coach: Simon Goodwin

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	3
Jack Viney	MELB	7	2
Nick Blakey	SYDN	22	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Brodie Grundy	SYDN	4	9	1	1	0	0	0
Isaac Heeney	SYDN	5	9	1	1	0	0	0
Nick Blakey	SYDN	22	5	0	0	1	1	0
Jack Viney	MELB	7	5	0	0	1	1	0
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	2	0	0	0	0	2

Player Statistics

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
36	Amartey, Joel	HFFR↓	43%	0	1	3	3	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
22	Blakey, Nick	HBFL	78%	0	0	26	18	8	9	0	0	0	2	2	0	7	6
16	Campbell, Braeden	INT	68%	0	0	16	12	4	7	0	2	1	2	1	0	2	5
7	Cunningham, Harry	INT	83%	0	0	18	14	4	10	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	2
13	Florent, Oliver	CHB	91%	1	0	18	10	8	3	0	2	3	1	0	0	7	2
42	Fox, Robbie	FF	91%	1	1	9	6	3	2	0	6	1	4	2	2	0	0
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	78%	0	0	23	12	11	4	33	6	9	9	3	4	1	5
21	Gulden, Errol	WR	89%	0	1	20	16	4	2	0	2	2	4	1	1	2	5
9	Hayward, Will	FPR	83%	2	0	10	8	2	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0
5	Heeney, Isaac	HFFL	79%	1	1	26	17	9	5	0	7	13	2	2	0	2	8
17	Jordon, James	RR	71%	0	0	18	8	10	3	0	7	2	3	1	2	2	4
44	Lloyd, Jake	HBFR	83%	0	0	13	8	5	5	0	2	0	2	2	1	1	1
30	McCartin, Tom	FB	97%	0	0	9	7	2	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0
6	McDonald, Logan	CHF	83%	1	0	8	5	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	2
27	McInerney, Justin	INT	86%	1	0	20	7	13	6	1	4	1	4	0	3	2	1
2	McLean, Hayden	INT	76%	2	2	5	4	1	2	10	2	0	5	0	4	0	1
43	Melican, Lewis	BPL	80%	0	0	5	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
11	Papley, Tom	FPL	81%	1	1	20	15	5	4	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	4
24	Rampe, Dane	BPR	87%	0	0	19	13	6	6	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	1
34	Roberts, Matt	WL	84%	0	0	19	16	3	8	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	1
8	Rowbottom, James	RO	79%	0	2	21	12	9	0	0	7	6	4	2	3	2	5
1	Warner, Chad	C	81%	1	1	26	17	9	4	0	1	2	7	2	2	1	12
15	Wicks, Sam	SUB↑	30%	1	0	5	2	3	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				12	14	357	234	123	99	46	63	45	63	21	24	42	65

S. Wicks replaced J. Amartey.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Billings, Jack	SUB↑	38%	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0
17	Bowey, Jake	HBFR	48%	0	0	14	13	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	6	0
37	Chandler, Kade	INT	82%	0	0	11	4	7	2	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	3
31	Fritsch, Bayley	FF	92%	4	1	6	6	0	2	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	0
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	82%	0	1	14	8	6	1	37	4	2	6	6	4	2	0
22	Howes, Blake	INT	74%	0	0	17	9	8	7	0	3	0	3	1	1	5	1
15	Langdon, Ed	WL	90%	1	0	19	10	9	4	0	3	0	4	1	0	3	5
16	Laurie, Bailey	FPR↓	42%	0	0	8	3	5	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	3
8	Lever, Jake	BPR	100%	0	0	12	9	3	6	0	0	0	3	0	1	3	2
1	May, Steven	FB	90%	0	0	21	14	7	5	0	2	0	1	2	0	7	2
4	McVee, Judd	HBFL	78%	0	0	20	14	6	6	0	0	3	2	1	0	9	1
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	FPL	83%	0	1	15	6	9	2	0	6	3	2	1	0	1	2
13	Oliver, Clayton	RO	82%	0	0	30	18	12	2	0	2	6	3	0	1	0	6
5	Petracca, Christian	C	84%	1	2	26	11	15	1	0	3	3	3	1	0	0	3
24	Rivers, Trent	BPL	80%	0	0	17	10	7	4	0	0	1	4	0	1	2	3
3	Salem, Christian	RR	80%	0	0	27	20	7	5	0	3	5	6	0	2	4	5
19	Schache, Josh	CHF	76%	0	2	4	3	1	2	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	0
9	Spargo, Charlie	INT	77%	0	1	12	5	7	1	0	2	0	3	1	2	0	3
32	Sparrow, Tom	INT	80%	0	0	13	3	10	2	0	9	3	6	1	3	1	2
20	Tomlinson, Adam	CHB	100%	0	0	12	10	2	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	7	0
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	HFFR	83%	1	0	10	3	7	2	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	1
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	HFFL	79%	2	0	30	19	11	2	0	7	7	7	4	2	1	9
6	Windsor, Caleb	WR	81%	0	0	13	6	7	0	0	4	1	2	0	1	0	0
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				9	10	353	205	148	63	38	65	34	67	24	21	52	51

J. Billings replaced B. Laurie.

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
	24	T. Rivers	1	S. May	8	J. Lever	4	B. Grundy	16	B. Campbell
	9	W. Hayward	42	R. Fox	11	T. Papley	17	J. Jordon	7	H. Cunningham
FORWARD							8	J. Rowbottom	27	J. McInerney
HALF-BACK									2	H. McLean
	4	J. McVee	20	A. Tomlinson	17	J. Bowey			15	S. Wicks
	36	J. Amartey	6	L. McDonald	5	I. Heeney
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	15	E. Langdon	5	C. Petracca	6	C. Windsor
	21	E. Gulden	1	C. Warner	34	M. Roberts	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	37	K. Chandler
HALF-FORWARD							3	C. Salem	22	B. Howes
	7	J. Viney (vc)	19	J. Schache	2	J. van Rooyen	13	C. Oliver	9	C. Spargo
	44	J. Lloyd	13	O. Florent	22	N. Blakey			32	T. Sparrow
HALF-BACK									14	J. Billings
FORWARD
	30	A. Neal-Bullen	31	B. Fritsch	16	B. Laurie
	24	D. Rampe	30	T. McCartin	43	L. Melican
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Max Gawn behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	02:53
	SYDN	Oliver Florent goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	05:16
	MELB	Jack Viney goal	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	07:09
	MELB	Charlie Spargo behind	1.0.6	-	1.2.8	09:26
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.1.7	-	1.2.8	11:18
	SYDN	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	1.2.8	14:12
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	17:17
	MELB	Josh Schache behind	2.2.14	-	1.3.9	18:25
	SYDN	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	1.3.9	20:33
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	2.3.15	-	1.4.10	21:39
	MELB	Rushed behind	2.3.15	-	1.5.11	23:28
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	3.3.21	-	1.5.11	25:30
	MELB	Josh Schache behind	3.3.21	-	1.6.12	28:15
Q2	SYDN	Justin McInerney goal	4.3.27	-	1.6.12	06:47
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen behind	4.3.27	-	1.7.13	14:52
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	4.3.27	-	1.8.14	20:45
	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	4.3.27	-	2.8.20	30:07
Q3	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	4.3.27	-	3.8.26	01:17
	SYDN	Robbie Fox behind	4.4.28	-	3.8.26	04:26
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	4.5.29	-	3.8.26	05:08
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	4.6.30	-	3.8.26	10:09
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	5.6.36	-	3.8.26	13:18
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	5.6.36	-	4.8.32	17:01
	SYDN	Joel Amartey behind	5.7.37	-	4.8.32	18:21
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	5.7.37	-	5.8.38	19:16
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	6.7.43	-	5.8.38	22:53
	SYDN	James Rowbottom behind	6.8.44	-	5.8.38	24:29
	MELB	Jack Viney goal	6.8.44	-	6.8.44	28:03
	SYDN	James Rowbottom behind	6.9.45	-	6.8.44	29:17
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	7.9.51	-	6.8.44	30:50
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	7.9.51	-	7.8.50	32:02
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	7.10.52	-	7.8.50	36:14
Q4	SYDN	Errol Gulden behind	7.11.53	-	7.8.50	03:09
	SYDN	Rushed behind	7.12.54	-	7.8.50	04:33
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	8.12.60	-	7.8.50	06:08
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	9.12.66	-	7.8.50	07:57
	SYDN	Sam Wicks goal	10.12.72	-	7.8.50	11:11
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	10.13.73	-	7.8.50	12:35
	SYDN	Robbie Fox goal	11.13.79	-	7.8.50	13:54
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	11.13.79	-	8.8.56	15:49
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	11.14.80	-	8.8.56	21:31
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	12.14.86	-	8.8.56	25:57
	MELB	Rushed behind	12.14.86	-	8.9.57	28:27
	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	12.14.86	-	8.10.58	30:06
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	12.14.86	-	9.10.64	33:32

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