2024 AFL Season Round 24: Gold Coast v Melbourne

This is the match report for the match played on 17 August 2024 between Gold Coast and Melbourne during round twenty-four of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. Gold Coast hosted Melbourne 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. Max Gawn captained the visitors with Jack Viney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Damien Hardwick and the visitors were coached by Simon Goodwin.

Gold Coast (9.9.63) were defeated by Melbourne (18.9.117).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 24
Teams: Gold Coast v Melbourne
Date: Saturday 17 August 2024
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: People First Stadium
Attendance: 13,026

Match Results

Outcome: Gold Coast def. by Melbourne
Score: 9.9.63 - 18.9.117

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Gold Coast	3	.	2	7	.	5	8	.	6	9	.	9	9	.	9	(63)
Melbourne	3	.	2	8	.	5	11	.	5	18	.	9	18	.	9	(117)
Margin	level			MELB by 6			MELB by 17			MELB by 54			MELB by 54
Duration	31:49			35:02			27:35			33:11			2:07:37

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 (Melbourne) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Gold Coast

Captain: unknown
Coach: Damien Hardwick

Melbourne

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Jack Viney	MELB	7	3
Ed Langdon	MELB	15	2
Trent Rivers	MELB	24	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Jack Viney	MELB	7	10	2	0	0	0	0
Ed Langdon	MELB	15	7	0	1	1	0	0
Daniel Turner	MELB	42	7	0	1	1	0	0
Marty Hore	MELB	27	2	0	0	0	1	0
Trent Rivers	MELB	24	2	0	0	0	1	0
Sam Flanders	GCST	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
Alex Neal-Bullen	MELB	30	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
15	Anderson, Noah	C	86%	0	1	33	18	15	8	0	3	5	1	0	1	5	8
31	Andrew, Mac	FF	83%	0	2	7	6	1	1	6	0	1	4	0	1	0	2
10	Ballard, Charlie	CHB	95%	0	0	11	8	3	6	0	0	0	3	1	1	4	0
35	Budarick, Connor	INT	82%	0	0	16	12	4	6	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	4
33	Clohesy, Sam	WR	84%	0	0	22	12	10	6	0	3	2	2	0	0	2	4
25	Collins, Sam	FB	97%	0	0	8	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
5	Davies, Alex	HFFL	74%	1	0	17	5	12	3	0	4	2	1	0	1	2	0
3	Flanders, Sam	RR	90%	2	0	28	14	14	5	0	0	4	4	1	1	1	7
26	Graham, Will	INT	77%	0	0	14	4	10	1	0	5	2	2	3	0	0	0
7	Holman, Nick	WL	83%	1	0	8	5	3	1	0	4	0	4	1	1	0	3
19	Humphrey, Bailey	HFFR	78%	0	1	8	4	4	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	0
34	King, Ben	FPR	85%	2	1	7	4	3	4	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1
23	Lemmens, Sean	BPL	76%	0	0	13	5	8	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	2
22	Long, Ben	CHF↓	58%	0	0	5	1	4	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
11	Miller, Touk	RO	82%	0	1	28	16	12	5	0	2	7	5	0	2	0	2
27	Powell, Wil	HBFR	84%	0	0	15	10	5	6	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2
29	Rogers, Jake	INT	68%	0	0	8	4	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
18	Rowell, Matt	FPL	85%	0	0	16	10	6	1	0	6	5	2	2	1	0	2
24	Swallow, David	SUB↑	23%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Uwland, Bodhi	HBFL	88%	0	0	23	12	11	7	0	0	1	3	0	0	7	1
17	Walter, Jed	INT	64%	0	2	7	6	1	6	1	1	0	2	1	1	0	2
14	Weller, Lachie	BPR	78%	1	0	21	12	9	0	0	1	4	5	1	0	6	4
28	Witts, Jarrod	RU	81%	2	0	8	6	2	1	27	4	3	2	2	0	1	2
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				9	9	327	180	147	81	34	47	36	46	15	11	35	49

D. Swallow replaced B. Long.

Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
14	Billings, Jack	HFFL	86%	0	0	21	9	12	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	6
17	Bowey, Jake	HBFL	79%	0	1	23	16	7	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	5	2
37	Chandler, Kade	HFFR	81%	0	0	17	8	9	4	0	3	1	3	0	2	2	3
31	Fritsch, Bayley	FF	79%	1	1	11	9	2	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
11	Gawn, Max (c)	RU	84%	0	1	16	6	10	4	33	3	6	5	0	4	1	2
27	Hore, Marty	INT	77%	0	0	18	16	2	9	0	2	1	0	0	0	4	2
22	Howes, Blake	HBFR	78%	0	0	22	12	10	10	0	2	1	2	1	0	1	1
15	Langdon, Ed	WL	95%	1	1	37	23	14	10	0	2	3	2	1	1	3	4
8	Lever, Jake	BPL	83%	0	0	7	5	2	4	0	2	0	3	1	3	2	1
25	McDonald, Tom	CHB	95%	0	0	16	12	4	8	0	2	0	2	1	0	6	1
4	McVee, Judd	BPR	71%	1	1	12	9	3	2	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	2
18	Melksham, Jake	SUB↑	54%	2	0	10	6	4	4	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	3
30	Neal-Bullen, Alex	WR	78%	0	0	22	15	7	7	0	7	3	1	0	1	2	5
35	Petty, Harry	CHF	81%	3	0	9	5	4	8	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
36	Pickett, Kysaiah	FPL	83%	0	0	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
24	Rivers, Trent	RO	79%	0	0	30	14	16	2	0	2	6	5	1	1	3	3
3	Salem, Christian	RR	89%	0	0	26	18	8	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	5	2
32	Sparrow, Tom	INT↓	16%	0	0	4	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
39	Tholstrup, Koltyn	INT	80%	1	1	18	10	8	4	0	5	2	4	1	0	1	3
20	Tomlinson, Adam	FB	100%	0	0	15	11	4	4	0	2	0	1	2	1	4	0
42	Turner, Daniel	INT	79%	4	2	11	8	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2	van Rooyen, Jacob	FPR	73%	3	0	11	6	5	2	7	2	1	2	1	0	0	1
7	Viney, Jack (vc)	C	82%	2	1	30	12	18	5	0	10	9	6	1	0	1	4
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				18	9	390	235	155	111	40	50	45	43	11	15	40	54

J. Melksham replaced T. Sparrow.

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
	8	J. Lever	20	A. Tomlinson	4	J. McVee	28	J. Witts	35	C. Budarick
	34	B. King	31	M. Andrew	18	M. Rowell	3	S. Flanders	26	W. Graham
FORWARD							11	T. Miller	29	J. Rogers
HALF-BACK									17	J. Walter
	17	J. Bowey	25	T. McDonald	22	B. Howes			24	D. Swallow
	19	B. Humphrey	22	B. Long	5	A. Davies
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	15	E. Langdon	7	J. Viney (vc)	30	A. Neal-Bullen
	33	S. Clohesy	15	N. Anderson	7	N. Holman	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							11	M. Gawn (c)	27	M. Hore
HALF-FORWARD							3	C. Salem	32	T. Sparrow
	14	J. Billings	35	H. Petty	37	K. Chandler	24	T. Rivers	39	K. Tholstrup
	27	W. Powell	10	C. Ballard	32	B. Uwland			42	D. Turner
HALF-BACK									18	J. Melksham
FORWARD
	36	K. Pickett	31	B. Fritsch	2	J. van Rooyen
	14	L. Weller	25	S. Collins	23	S. Lemmens
BACK
Melbourne							Coach: Simon Goodwin

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GCST	Noah Anderson behind	0.1.1	-	0.0.0	06:17
	GCST	Nick Holman goal	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	08:57
	GCST	Touk Miller behind	1.2.8	-	0.0.0	13:09
	GCST	Sam Flanders goal	2.2.14	-	0.0.0	15:16
	MELB	Jack Viney behind	2.2.14	-	0.1.1	16:27
	MELB	Daniel Turner behind	2.2.14	-	0.2.2	19:27
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	2.2.14	-	1.2.8	22:20
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	2.2.14	-	2.2.14	24:04
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	2.2.14	-	3.2.20	25:36
	GCST	Alex Davies goal	3.2.20	-	3.2.20	31:47
Q2	MELB	Harry Petty goal	3.2.20	-	4.2.26	01:35
	GCST	Ben King behind	3.3.21	-	4.2.26	03:10
	GCST	Jarrod Witts goal	4.3.27	-	4.2.26	06:05
	MELB	Jack Viney goal	4.3.27	-	5.2.32	08:55
	MELB	Ed Langdon goal	4.3.27	-	6.2.38	11:11
	GCST	Sam Flanders goal	5.3.33	-	6.2.38	12:22
	GCST	Lachie Weller goal	6.3.39	-	6.2.38	13:46
	MELB	Daniel Turner behind	6.3.39	-	6.3.39	17:02
	MELB	Jake Bowey behind	6.3.39	-	6.4.40	19:39
	GCST	Mac Andrew behind	6.4.40	-	6.4.40	20:51
	MELB	Max Gawn behind	6.4.40	-	6.5.41	23:09
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch goal	6.4.40	-	7.5.47	24:12
	GCST	Jarrod Witts goal	7.4.46	-	7.5.47	27:14
	GCST	Jed Walter behind	7.5.47	-	7.5.47	29:26
	MELB	Harry Petty goal	7.5.47	-	8.5.53	32:38
Q3	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	7.5.47	-	9.5.59	01:18
	MELB	Koltyn Tholstrup goal	7.5.47	-	10.5.65	05:52
	MELB	Harry Petty goal	7.5.47	-	11.5.71	07:37
	GCST	Ben King goal	8.5.53	-	11.5.71	14:29
	GCST	Jed Walter behind	8.6.54	-	11.5.71	23:30
Q4	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	8.6.54	-	12.5.77	01:44
	GCST	Mac Andrew behind	8.7.55	-	12.5.77	04:11
	MELB	Jack Viney goal	8.7.55	-	13.5.83	05:15
	MELB	Judd McVee behind	8.7.55	-	13.6.84	06:45
	MELB	Ed Langdon behind	8.7.55	-	13.7.85	08:23
	MELB	Bayley Fritsch behind	8.7.55	-	13.8.86	09:27
	MELB	Jake Melksham goal	8.7.55	-	14.8.92	12:12
	GCST	Bailey Humphrey behind	8.8.56	-	14.8.92	16:13
	MELB	Judd McVee goal	8.8.56	-	15.8.98	19:56
	MELB	Koltyn Tholstrup behind	8.8.56	-	15.9.99	23:13
	GCST	Ben King goal	9.8.62	-	15.9.99	24:37
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	9.8.62	-	16.9.105	27:00
	MELB	Jacob van Rooyen goal	9.8.62	-	17.9.111	28:39
	MELB	Daniel Turner goal	9.8.62	-	18.9.117	30:22
	GCST	Rushed behind	9.9.63	-	18.9.117	31:47

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