2024 AFL Season Round 21: Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 27 July 2024 between Melbourne and Greater Western Sydney during round twenty-one of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Melbourne hosted Greater Western Sydney at the MCG. Max Gawn captained the hosts with Jack Viney as vice-captain. Toby Greene captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Simon Goodwin and the visitors were coached by Adam Kingsley.

Melbourne (12.11.83) were defeated by Greater Western Sydney (13.7.85).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney
Date: Saturday 27 July 2024
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 16,246

Match Results

Outcome: Melbourne def. by Greater Western Sydney
Score: 12.11.83 - 13.7.85

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Melbourne	5	.	5	6	.	7	8	.	9	12	.	11	12	.	11	(83)
Greater Western Sydney	1	.	2	6	.	4	9	.	6	13	.	7	13	.	7	(85)
Margin	MELB by 27			MELB by 3			GWSY by 3			GWSY by 2			GWSY by 2
Duration	31:26			30:17			29:29			32:18			2:03:30

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Melbourne

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

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: Toby Greene
Coach: Adam Kingsley

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Finn Callaghan	GWSY	17	3
Jesse Hogan	GWSY	23	2
James Peatling	GWSY	20	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Finn Callaghan	GWSY	17	9	1	1	0	0	0
James Peatling	GWSY	20	6	0	?	?	?	0
Lachie Whitfield	GWSY	6	6	0	?	?	?	0
Tom Green	GWSY	12	5	1	0	0	0	0
Brent Daniels	GWSY	16	2	0	0	0	1	0
Toby Greene	GWSY	4	1	0	0	0	0	1
Clayton Oliver	MELB	13	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Billings, Jack	INT↓	54%	0	0	12	7	5	3	0	1	2	3	0	1	0	1
17	Bowey, Jake	HBFL	78%	0	0	16	13	3	8	0	1	0	4	0	1	3	0
37	Chandler, Kade	FPL	84%	2	1	13	10	3	3	0	3	2	1	1	1	3	3
31	Fritsch, Bayley	INT	78%	2	0	8	6	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	84%	1	0	16	9	7	3	24	0	4	6	2	1	2	0
15	Langdon, Ed	HFFR	100%	1	0	21	16	5	6	0	1	1	7	0	1	3	3
16	Laurie, Bailey	INT	70%	0	0	19	6	13	4	0	3	3	2	1	0	0	4
8	Lever, Jake	CHB	100%	0	0	18	10	8	7	0	1	1	2	0	0	3	3
1	May, Steven	FB	93%	0	0	19	17	2	5	0	2	0	2	1	0	7	3
25	McDonald, Tom	BPL	94%	0	0	13	11	2	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	0
4	McVee, Judd	BPR	88%	0	0	19	16	3	7	0	1	0	2	1	1	3	1
18	Melksham, Jake	FPR	82%	1	1	11	7	4	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
45	Moniz-Wakefield, Andy	HBFR	71%	0	0	12	8	4	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	4
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	WL	84%	1	0	15	5	10	2	0	11	3	2	0	1	0	1
13	Oliver, Clayton	C	83%	0	0	26	18	8	4	0	5	6	4	1	1	4	8
35	Petty, Harry	FF	74%	1	1	10	7	3	6	0	3	0	2	2	1	0	1
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	RR	84%	1	2	8	5	3	2	0	8	1	1	2	0	0	2
24	Rivers, Trent	RO	72%	0	0	25	16	9	5	0	2	7	2	0	0	2	6
42	Turner, Daniel	SUB↑	26%	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	CHF	73%	1	1	9	3	6	1	4	2	1	1	0	1	0	0
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	HFFL	78%	1	0	23	9	14	1	0	5	3	4	0	2	0	1
6	Windsor, Caleb	WR	80%	0	1	6	6	0	4	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	1
40	Woewodin, Taj	INT	69%	0	0	9	5	4	3	0	1	2	2	0	1	1	1
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				12	11	330	212	118	89	28	57	36	53	13	15	39	49

D. Turner replaced J. Billings.

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
7	Ash, Lachie	INT	74%	0	0	22	12	10	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	4	0
14	Bedford, Toby	RO	90%	1	0	17	7	10	3	0	6	0	1	1	0	0	6
32	Briggs, Kieren	RU	77%	0	1	17	8	9	3	36	4	6	5	1	2	2	1
44	Buckley, Jack	CHB	98%	0	0	16	11	5	6	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	1
5	Cadman, Aaron	INT	64%	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1
17	Callaghan, Finn	RR	86%	0	1	36	17	19	6	0	3	5	1	1	0	2	4
16	Daniels, Brent	HFFL	85%	2	0	17	14	3	8	0	8	0	4	0	0	0	5
37	Fonti, Joe	SUB	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Green, Tom	C	85%	1	0	33	17	16	5	0	1	9	5	0	1	1	5
4	Greene, Toby (c)	FPR	88%	3	2	16	14	2	6	0	4	1	1	3	0	0	1
27	Himmelberg, Harry	BPL	85%	0	0	21	15	6	7	0	4	0	1	1	0	3	2
23	Hogan, Jesse	FF	88%	4	0	11	6	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
39	Idun, Connor	BPR	100%	0	0	15	7	8	6	0	4	0	1	0	0	3	0
2	Jones, Darcy	FPL	78%	0	0	12	6	6	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	2
31	McMullin, Toby	INT	73%	1	0	11	6	5	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2
33	O'Halloran, Xavier	WR	84%	0	0	12	10	2	1	0	1	1	4	1	2	3	5
20	Peatling, James	INT	71%	0	0	28	18	10	5	0	11	8	6	3	1	0	5
36	Perryman, Harry	HBFR	73%	0	0	17	9	8	5	0	1	3	3	0	0	5	1
26	Riccardi, Jake	CHF	72%	0	1	9	5	4	4	2	2	0	3	0	1	1	1
15	Taylor, Sam	FB	94%	0	0	11	7	4	0	0	1	0	4	2	0	5	0
28	Thomas, Harvey	HFFR	75%	0	0	14	7	7	3	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	4
8	Ward, Callan	WL	83%	1	0	23	13	10	5	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	3
6	Whitfield, Lachie	HBFL	76%	0	0	35	25	10	6	0	5	2	4	0	2	4	4
Rushed					2
Total (23 players)				13	7	396	236	160	93	38	63	38	58	15	13	37	53

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

Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	H. Himmelberg	15	S. Taylor	39	C. Idun	11	M. Gawn (c)	14	J. Billings
	18	J. Melksham	35	H. Petty	37	K. Chandler	36	K. Pickett	31	B. Fritsch
FORWARD							24	T. Rivers	16	B. Laurie
HALF-BACK									40	T. Woewodin
	6	L. Whitfield	44	J. Buckley	36	H. Perryman			42	D. Turner
	15	E. Langdon	2	J. van Rooyen	7	J. Viney (vc)
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	8	C. Ward	12	T. Green	33	X. O'Halloran
	6	C. Windsor	13	C. Oliver	30	A. Neal-Bullen	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							32	K. Briggs	7	L. Ash
HALF-FORWARD							17	F. Callaghan	5	A. Cadman
	16	B. Daniels	26	J. Riccardi	28	H. Thomas	14	T. Bedford	31	T. McMullin
	45	A. Moniz-Wakefield	8	J. Lever	17	J. Bowey			20	J. Peatling
HALF-BACK									37	J. Fonti
FORWARD
	2	D. Jones	23	J. Hogan	4	T. Greene (c)
	4	J. McVee	1	S. May	25	T. McDonald
BACK
Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Adam Kingsley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	MELB	Jake Melksham behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	00:55
	MELB	Kade Chandler behind	0.2.2	-	0.0.0	02:40
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	1.2.8	-	0.0.0	04:16
	MELB	Caleb Windsor behind	1.3.9	-	0.0.0	08:42
	GWSY	Tom Green goal	1.3.9	-	1.0.6	09:43
	MELB	Rushed behind	1.4.10	-	1.0.6	13:38
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	1.4.10	-	1.1.7	15:00
	GWSY	Rushed behind	1.4.10	-	1.2.8	15:56
	MELB	Harry Petty goal	2.4.16	-	1.2.8	17:43
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	3.4.22	-	1.2.8	20:30
	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	4.4.28	-	1.2.8	23:25
	MELB	Rushed behind	4.5.29	-	1.2.8	25:45
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	5.5.35	-	1.2.8	28:55
Q2	GWSY	Toby Bedford goal	5.5.35	-	2.2.14	02:52
	GWSY	Brent Daniels goal	5.5.35	-	3.2.20	05:26
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	6.5.41	-	3.2.20	08:04
	GWSY	Toby McMullin goal	6.5.41	-	4.2.26	11:06
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen behind	6.6.42	-	4.2.26	14:32
	GWSY	Jake Riccardi behind	6.6.42	-	4.3.27	16:36
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	6.6.42	-	5.3.33	18:13
	GWSY	Kieren Briggs behind	6.6.42	-	5.4.34	20:47
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	6.6.42	-	6.4.40	25:33
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	6.7.43	-	6.4.40	29:10
Q3	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett behind	6.8.44	-	6.4.40	01:27
	MELB	Max Gawn goal	7.8.50	-	6.4.40	02:31
	MELB	Rushed behind	7.9.51	-	6.4.40	12:10
	GWSY	Rushed behind	7.9.51	-	6.5.41	18:20
	GWSY	Finn Callaghan behind	7.9.51	-	6.6.42	19:24
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	7.9.51	-	7.6.48	21:26
	GWSY	Callan Ward goal	7.9.51	-	8.6.54	23:38
	MELB	Jack Viney goal	8.9.57	-	8.6.54	25:38
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	8.9.57	-	9.6.60	28:11
Q4	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	8.9.57	-	10.6.66	02:13
	GWSY	Brent Daniels goal	8.9.57	-	11.6.72	03:34
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	8.9.57	-	12.6.78	05:22
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	8.9.57	-	13.6.84	07:16
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	9.9.63	-	13.6.84	12:12
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	9.9.63	-	13.7.85	13:52
	MELB	Rushed behind	9.10.64	-	13.7.85	16:58
	MELB	Harry Petty behind	9.11.65	-	13.7.85	18:37
	MELB	Kade Chandler goal	10.11.71	-	13.7.85	20:24
	MELB	Kysaiah Pickett goal	11.11.77	-	13.7.85	24:24
	MELB	Alex Neal-Bullen goal	12.11.83	-	13.7.85	29:34

Links

2024 AFL Season

The information provided on this site does not necessarily align with the official record. The purpose of this site is to present its author's attempt to amalgamate a variety of sources of information on the VFL/AFL, VFA/VFL, SANFL, WAFL, TSL and other competitions to provide its users a unified view of the people (e.g. players, coaches, draftees and umpires), places, events (e.g. matches, drafts and awards) and other entities that have contributed to the rich history of Australian rules football.