2024 AFL Season Round 2: Gold Coast v Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 16 March 2024 between Gold Coast and Adelaide during round two of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Gold Coast hosted Adelaide at People First Stadium. With the presence of multiple Gold Coast co-captains, namely Touk Miller and Jarrod Witts, playing for the side, it is not yet known who specifically captained the hosts. Jordan Dawson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by Matthew Nicks.

Gold Coast (8.12.60) defeated Adelaide (8.6.54).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Gold Coast v Adelaide
Date: Saturday 16 March 2024
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: People First Stadium
Attendance: 11,466

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. Adelaide
Score: 8.12.60 - 8.6.54

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Gold Coast	3	.	2	5	.	4	7	.	9	8	.	12	8	.	12	(60)
Adelaide	1	.	1	1	.	2	3	.	4	8	.	6	8	.	6	(54)
Margin	GCST by 13			GCST by 26			GCST by 29			GCST by 6			GCST by 6
Duration	31:33			27:38			29:03			32:53			2:01:07

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Gold Coast) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Adelaide) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Gold Coast

Captain: unknown
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Adelaide

Captain: Jordan Dawson
Coach: Matthew Nicks

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Matt Rowell	GCST	18	3
Touk Miller	GCST	11	2
Charlie Ballard	GCST	10	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Noah Anderson	GCST	15	8	?	?	?	0	0
Touk Miller	GCST	11	8	?	?	?	0	0
Matt Rowell	GCST	18	8	?	?	?	0	0
Matt Crouch	ADEL	5	2	0	0	0	1	0
Sam Flanders	GCST	3	2	0	0	0	1	0
Wil Powell	GCST	27	1	0	0	0	0	1
Josh Rachele	ADEL	8	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	HFFL	86%	2	1	22	14	8	5	0	2	2	2	0	1	2	2
15	Anderson, Noah	RR	87%	1	0	35	20	15	3	0	5	8	8	1	0	3	8
10	Ballard, Charlie	FB	100%	0	0	19	13	6	3	0	0	0	3	2	0	4	0
16	Berry, Tom	HFFR	72%	1	0	17	10	7	3	0	7	0	2	3	2	2	1
35	Budarick, Connor	HBFL	86%	0	0	7	4	3	0	0	3	0	5	1	2	0	0
30	Casboult, Levi	INT	77%	0	0	10	7	3	4	1	1	1	2	2	0	0	3
25	Collins, Sam	BPR	98%	0	0	11	7	4	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	6	1
4	Ellis, Brandon	WR↓	69%	0	1	15	9	6	3	0	2	1	4	0	1	0	4
8	Fiorini, Brayden	WL	86%	0	0	24	15	9	8	0	3	1	1	1	0	1	3
3	Flanders, Sam	INT	77%	0	0	35	21	14	4	0	4	3	5	0	0	0	6
7	Holman, Nick	INT	73%	0	1	9	7	2	1	0	4	1	5	0	4	1	3
19	Humphrey, Bailey	CHF	75%	1	3	16	9	7	3	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	3
34	King, Ben	FPL	82%	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
13	Lukosius, Jack	HBFR	77%	0	1	9	7	2	1	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	3
44	MacPherson, Darcy	SUB↑	17%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
11	Miller, Touk	C	84%	0	0	29	9	20	2	0	9	10	6	0	3	2	3
27	Powell, Wil	CHB	77%	0	0	21	15	6	3	0	5	1	2	0	0	7	2
41	Rosas, Malcolm	FPR	76%	2	2	5	5	0	3	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	0
18	Rowell, Matt	RO	80%	1	0	29	16	13	1	0	10	9	5	4	4	5	2
6	Sexton, Alex	INT	76%	0	1	17	14	3	7	0	0	1	3	0	1	6	2
24	Swallow, David	FF	74%	0	0	14	12	2	5	0	0	0	3	2	1	2	2
32	Uwland, Bodhi	BPL	90%	0	0	8	6	2	2	0	3	0	1	1	0	3	1
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	82%	0	0	9	5	4	1	36	7	4	3	3	1	1	1
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				8	12	366	227	139	64	40	70	43	70	21	24	46	51

D. MacPherson replaced B. Ellis.

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Berry, Sam	RO	71%	1	0	13	9	4	1	0	4	4	3	4	1	2	2
35	Borlase, James	CHB	95%	0	0	12	7	5	2	0	1	0	1	2	1	2	0
21	Burgess, Chris	FPL	81%	0	0	9	3	6	1	5	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
41	Butts, Jordon	FB	70%	0	0	10	5	5	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0
5	Crouch, Matt	INT	73%	0	0	33	13	20	3	0	6	7	6	1	0	1	3
12	Dawson, Jordan (c)	C	86%	0	0	26	18	8	2	0	6	5	9	1	4	0	4
32	Fogarty, Darcy	FF	90%	0	0	9	5	4	2	0	2	1	2	0	1	1	2
44	Gollant, Lachlan	FPR↓	46%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
20	Hinge, Mitch	INT	80%	0	0	19	14	5	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	4	6
1	Jones, Chayce	WR	84%	0	0	15	8	7	1	0	2	0	5	0	2	2	3
2	Keays, Ben	HFFL	82%	2	0	9	8	1	2	0	4	0	2	1	1	0	6
29	Laird, Rory	RR	74%	0	2	30	12	18	2	0	10	6	2	2	1	1	1
16	Michalanney, Max	HBFR	90%	0	0	16	13	3	5	0	6	0	4	2	0	5	1
30	Milera, Wayne	HBFL	80%	0	0	19	12	7	5	0	3	3	2	0	1	5	1
4	Murphy, Lachlan	INT	76%	0	0	11	7	4	1	0	2	3	3	4	1	1	2
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	89%	0	0	10	9	1	1	45	3	4	2	0	1	0	3
10	Pedlar, Luke	INT	64%	0	1	8	7	1	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	3
8	Rachele, Josh	HFFR	76%	3	0	17	10	7	2	0	3	1	3	1	1	0	1
23	Rankine, Izak	CHF	94%	2	0	19	11	8	1	0	6	4	7	0	1	1	7
38	Sholl, Lachlan	WL	93%	0	0	21	15	6	6	0	2	1	4	0	2	1	3
33	Smith, Brodie	BPR	75%	0	0	20	16	4	2	0	4	1	3	1	0	4	3
14	Soligo, Jake	SUB↑	38%	0	0	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	2
24	Worrell, Josh	BPL	95%	0	0	22	10	12	3	0	2	1	1	3	0	7	1
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				8	6	359	220	139	50	50	72	43	66	24	20	43	54

J. Soligo replaced L. Gollant.

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: Damien Hardwick
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	24	J. Worrell	41	J. Butts	33	B. Smith	28	J. Witts	30	L. Casboult
	41	M. Rosas	24	D. Swallow	34	B. King	15	N. Anderson	3	S. Flanders
FORWARD							18	M. Rowell	7	N. Holman
HALF-BACK									6	A. Sexton
	30	W. Milera	35	J. Borlase	16	M. Michalanney			44	D. MacPherson
	16	T. Berry	19	B. Humphrey	9	B. Ainsworth
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	38	L. Sholl	12	J. Dawson (c)	1	C. Jones
	4	B. Ellis	11	T. Miller	8	B. Fiorini	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							43	R. O'Brien	5	M. Crouch
HALF-FORWARD							29	R. Laird	20	M. Hinge
	2	B. Keays	23	I. Rankine	8	J. Rachele	3	S. Berry	4	L. Murphy
	13	J. Lukosius	27	W. Powell	35	C. Budarick			10	L. Pedlar
HALF-BACK									14	J. Soligo
FORWARD
	21	C. Burgess	32	D. Fogarty	44	L. Gollant
	25	S. Collins	10	C. Ballard	32	B. Uwland
BACK
Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Ben Ainsworth goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	02:20
	GCST	Noah Anderson goal	2.0.12	-	0.0.0	10:46
	GCST	Alex Sexton behind	2.1.13	-	0.0.0	13:17
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	15:38
	GCST	Rushed behind	2.2.14	-	1.0.6	23:15
	ADEL	Rory Laird behind	2.2.14	-	1.1.7	25:43
	GCST	Tom Berry goal	3.2.20	-	1.1.7	26:58
Q2	GCST	Brandon Ellis behind	3.3.21	-	1.1.7	02:25
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth goal	4.3.27	-	1.1.7	07:48
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas behind	4.4.28	-	1.1.7	09:59
	ADEL	Luke Pedlar behind	4.4.28	-	1.2.8	16:37
	GCST	Matt Rowell goal	5.4.34	-	1.2.8	23:51
Q3	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	5.5.35	-	1.2.8	05:39
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey goal	6.5.41	-	1.2.8	06:27
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas behind	6.6.42	-	1.2.8	08:06
	ADEL	Izak Rankine goal	6.6.42	-	2.2.14	09:28
	GCST	Rushed behind	6.7.43	-	2.2.14	10:46
	ADEL	Rory Laird behind	6.7.43	-	2.3.15	11:51
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas goal	7.7.49	-	2.3.15	12:56
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	7.8.50	-	2.3.15	15:08
	ADEL	Rushed behind	7.8.50	-	2.4.16	20:51
	GCST	Jack Lukosius behind	7.9.51	-	2.4.16	27:49
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	7.9.51	-	3.4.22	28:59
Q4	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	7.10.52	-	3.4.22	04:57
	GCST	Malcolm Rosas goal	8.10.58	-	3.4.22	06:00
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	8.10.58	-	4.4.28	07:49
	GCST	Nick Holman behind	8.11.59	-	4.4.28	09:18
	ADEL	Sam Berry goal	8.11.59	-	5.4.34	15:06
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	8.11.59	-	6.4.40	17:43
	GCST	Ben Ainsworth behind	8.12.60	-	6.4.40	20:54
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	8.12.60	-	7.4.46	24:54
	ADEL	Izak Rankine goal	8.12.60	-	8.4.52	26:04
	ADEL	Rushed behind	8.12.60	-	8.5.53	28:08
	ADEL	Rushed behind	8.12.60	-	8.6.54	29:55

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