2024 AFL Season Round 5: Adelaide v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 4 April 2024 between Adelaide and Melbourne during round five of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Adelaide hosted Melbourne at Adelaide Oval. Jordan Dawson captained the hosts. Max Gawn captained the visitors with Jack Viney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Matthew Nicks and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Adelaide (8.15.63) were defeated by Melbourne (10.18.78).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: Adelaide v Melbourne
Date: Thursday 4 April 2024
Time: 7:10 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 48,020

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. by Melbourne
Score: 8.15.63 - 10.18.78

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Adelaide	2	.	5	3	.	8	6	.	9	8	.	15	8	.	15	(63)
Melbourne	2	.	0	6	.	7	10	.	13	10	.	18	10	.	18	(78)
Margin	ADEL by 5			MELB by 17			MELB by 28			MELB by 15			MELB by 15
Duration	31:30			31:23			29:47			28:55			2:01:35

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Adelaide

Captain: Jordan Dawson
Coach: Matthew Nicks

Melbourne

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	3
Bayley Fritsch	MELB	31	2
Matt Crouch	ADEL	5	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Christian Petracca	MELB	5	10	2	0	0	0	0
Judd McVee	MELB	4	5	0	?	?	?	?
Jake Soligo	ADEL	14	5	0	?	?	?	?
Max Gawn	MELB	11	4	0	?	?	?	?
Jake Lever	MELB	8	3	0	0	?	?	?
Steven May	MELB	1	3	0	0	?	?	?

Player Statistics

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
3	Berry, Sam	SUB↑	33%	0	0	7	3	4	0	0	4	1	0	1	0	0	0
21	Burgess, Chris	INT↓	41%	0	1	4	1	3	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
41	Butts, Jordon	FB	88%	0	0	6	2	4	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	0
15	Cook, Brayden	INT	56%	0	1	8	6	2	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3
5	Crouch, Matt	INT	67%	0	1	30	10	20	4	0	5	5	3	3	0	1	2
12	Dawson, Jordan (c)	C	84%	1	1	23	15	8	8	0	5	2	1	0	0	2	3
32	Fogarty, Darcy	FF	84%	2	0	10	8	2	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	3
20	Hinge, Mitch	WL	80%	0	0	24	16	8	5	0	5	4	2	1	0	5	2
1	Jones, Chayce	WR	83%	0	0	15	7	8	1	0	5	3	1	1	0	2	0
48	Keane, Mark	CHB	95%	0	0	23	18	5	10	0	2	0	6	2	2	5	2
2	Keays, Ben	RO	85%	1	0	13	8	5	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3
29	Laird, Rory	RR	69%	1	0	24	11	13	4	0	6	3	1	2	0	1	5
25	McHenry, Ned	BPL	81%	0	0	10	7	3	7	0	2	0	2	0	0	2	3
16	Michalanney, Max	HBFR	92%	0	0	15	11	4	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	1
27	Nankervis, Luke	FPL	78%	0	0	17	9	8	4	0	1	1	1	1	1	0	2
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	87%	0	0	10	6	4	0	39	3	5	0	0	0	0	3
37	Parnell, Patrick	HBFL	76%	0	0	10	8	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
8	Rachele, Josh	HFFR	83%	1	2	14	7	7	3	0	2	0	3	1	1	0	2
23	Rankine, Izak	CHF	96%	1	3	18	12	6	4	0	2	3	3	0	2	0	5
33	Smith, Brodie	BPR	92%	0	0	27	18	9	8	0	2	1	1	1	0	8	4
14	Soligo, Jake	HFFL	83%	0	0	27	10	17	2	0	8	6	3	3	1	1	6
13	Walker, Taylor	FPR	91%	1	2	15	11	4	10	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	1
24	Worrell, Josh	INT	76%	0	0	19	14	5	5	0	1	0	1	3	1	3	3
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				8	15	369	218	151	97	44	58	37	36	21	9	38	54

S. Berry replaced C. Burgess.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Billings, Jack	INT	73%	0	3	14	7	7	3	0	1	0	2	1	1	1	2
50	Brown, Ben	INT↓	68%	0	0	5	3	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
37	Chandler, Kade	FPR	81%	1	1	10	6	4	3	0	7	3	1	1	1	0	2
31	Fritsch, Bayley	FF	86%	3	0	8	5	3	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	88%	0	1	15	9	6	6	39	3	5	1	0	0	1	2
22	Howes, Blake	INT	73%	0	0	9	6	3	1	0	1	0	2	2	1	1	0
15	Langdon, Ed	WL	93%	0	0	14	7	7	6	0	1	1	5	0	2	4	0
8	Lever, Jake	CHB	100%	0	0	10	5	5	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	0
1	May, Steven	FB	94%	0	0	19	16	3	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0
25	McDonald, Tom	BPR	97%	0	0	9	9	0	7	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	2
4	McVee, Judd	HBFR	75%	0	0	20	15	5	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	1
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	HFFL	84%	0	2	18	8	10	0	0	3	4	1	0	0	1	1
13	Oliver, Clayton	RO	75%	0	1	16	12	4	2	0	2	6	5	0	4	1	3
5	Petracca, Christian	C	81%	1	1	29	15	14	4	0	5	8	1	0	0	2	7
35	Petty, Harry	CHF	82%	1	3	10	8	2	5	0	3	0	2	2	2	1	2
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	HFFR	80%	2	1	11	6	5	1	0	7	1	4	0	2	0	2
24	Rivers, Trent	BPL	79%	0	0	14	11	3	4	0	2	2	1	1	0	4	2
3	Salem, Christian	HBFL	82%	0	0	16	11	5	7	0	3	2	3	0	3	6	0
32	Sparrow, Tom	INT	70%	0	1	20	14	6	3	0	3	5	0	0	0	3	5
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FPL	73%	2	0	10	7	3	4	4	5	0	4	1	2	0	4
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	RR	74%	0	1	19	10	9	3	0	8	3	3	0	0	1	4
6	Windsor, Caleb	WR	83%	0	0	16	11	5	2	0	3	1	4	0	0	2	4
40	Woewodin, Taj	SUB↑	10%	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				10	18	313	202	111	85	43	65	41	44	9	21	46	48

T. Woewodin replaced B. Brown.

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

Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	24	T. Rivers	1	S. May	25	T. McDonald	43	R. O'Brien	21	C. Burgess
	13	T. Walker	32	D. Fogarty	27	L. Nankervis	29	R. Laird	15	B. Cook
FORWARD							2	B. Keays	5	M. Crouch
HALF-BACK									24	J. Worrell
	3	C. Salem	8	J. Lever	4	J. McVee			3	S. Berry
	8	J. Rachele	23	I. Rankine	14	J. Soligo
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	15	E. Langdon	5	C. Petracca	6	C. Windsor
	1	C. Jones	12	J. Dawson (c)	20	M. Hinge	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	14	J. Billings
HALF-FORWARD							7	J. Viney (vc)	50	B. Brown
	30	A. Neal-Bullen	35	H. Petty	36	K. Pickett	13	C. Oliver	22	B. Howes
	16	M. Michalanney	48	M. Keane	37	P. Parnell			32	T. Sparrow
HALF-BACK									40	T. Woewodin
FORWARD
	2	J. van Rooyen	31	B. Fritsch	37	K. Chandler
	33	B. Smith	41	J. Butts	25	N. McHenry
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Harry Petty goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	03:55
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	05:57
	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	0.2.2	-	1.0.6	07:36
	ADEL	Izak Rankine goal	1.2.8	-	1.0.6	14:50
	ADEL	Rushed behind	1.3.9	-	1.0.6	16:19
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	1.3.9	-	2.0.12	17:26
	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	1.4.10	-	2.0.12	20:16
	ADEL	Rushed behind	1.5.11	-	2.0.12	25:44
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	2.5.17	-	2.0.12	30:26
Q2	MELB	Christian Petracca behind	2.5.17	-	2.1.13	01:15
	MELB	Tom Sparrow behind	2.5.17	-	2.2.14	02:42
	MELB	Jack Billings behind	2.5.17	-	2.3.15	03:25
	MELB	Kade Chandler behind	2.5.17	-	2.4.16	04:29
	MELB	Rushed behind	2.5.17	-	2.5.17	06:21
	MELB	Christian Petracca goal	2.5.17	-	3.5.23	09:23
	ADEL	Josh Rachele behind	2.6.18	-	3.5.23	12:07
	ADEL	Rory Laird goal	3.6.24	-	3.5.23	14:59
	ADEL	Matt Crouch behind	3.7.25	-	3.5.23	18:10
	MELB	Harry Petty behind	3.7.25	-	3.6.24	19:31
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	3.7.25	-	4.6.30	22:53
	ADEL	Chris Burgess behind	3.8.26	-	4.6.30	24:56
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	3.8.26	-	5.6.36	26:31
	MELB	Jack Billings behind	3.8.26	-	5.7.37	27:51
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	3.8.26	-	6.7.43	29:56
Q3	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	3.8.26	-	7.7.49	02:37
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.8.26	-	7.8.50	04:48
	MELB	Rushed behind	3.8.26	-	7.9.51	05:37
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	4.8.32	-	7.9.51	07:11
	MELB	Harry Petty behind	4.8.32	-	7.10.52	08:58
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	4.8.32	-	8.10.58	10:50
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	4.8.32	-	9.10.64	14:26
	MELB	Jack Viney behind	4.8.32	-	9.11.65	15:40
	ADEL	Ben Keays goal	5.8.38	-	9.11.65	18:01
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	5.8.38	-	10.11.71	21:57
	ADEL	Darcy Fogarty goal	6.8.44	-	10.11.71	23:53
	MELB	Max Gawn behind	6.8.44	-	10.12.72	25:44
	ADEL	Jordan Dawson behind	6.9.45	-	10.12.72	26:58
	MELB	Jack Billings behind	6.9.45	-	10.13.73	29:32
Q4	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	6.10.46	-	10.13.73	01:52
	ADEL	Izak Rankine behind	6.11.47	-	10.13.73	02:59
	MELB	Harry Petty behind	6.11.47	-	10.14.74	04:14
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen behind	6.11.47	-	10.15.75	06:00
	ADEL	Jordan Dawson goal	7.11.53	-	10.15.75	12:51
	ADEL	Brayden Cook behind	7.12.54	-	10.15.75	14:13
	ADEL	Josh Rachele goal	8.12.60	-	10.15.75	17:01
	ADEL	Rushed behind	8.13.61	-	10.15.75	18:39
	ADEL	Josh Rachele behind	8.14.62	-	10.15.75	19:57
	MELB	Clayton Oliver behind	8.14.62	-	10.16.76	21:28
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen behind	8.14.62	-	10.17.77	22:31
	ADEL	Rushed behind	8.15.63	-	10.17.77	23:51
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	8.15.63	-	10.18.78	26:49

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