2024 AFL Season Round 25: Western Bulldogs v Greater Western Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 25 August 2024 between the Western Bulldogs and Greater Western Sydney during round twenty-five of the 2024 season of the Australian Football League. The Western Bulldogs hosted Greater Western Sydney at Mars Stadium. Marcus Bontempelli captained the hosts with Tom Liberatore as vice-captain. Toby Greene captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Luke Beveridge and the visitors were coached by Adam Kingsley.

The Western Bulldogs (14.14.98) defeated Greater Western Sydney (9.7.61).

Match Details

Season: 2024 AFL Season
Round: Round 25
Teams: Western Bulldogs v Greater Western Sydney
Date: Sunday 25 August 2024
Time: 12:30 PM
Venue: Mars Stadium
Attendance: 10,224

Match Results

Outcome: Western Bulldogs def. Greater Western Sydney
Score: 14.14.98 - 9.7.61

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Western Bulldogs	1	.	2	7	.	7	9	.	10	14	.	14	14	.	14	(98)
Greater Western Sydney	3	.	1	5	.	2	8	.	5	9	.	7	9	.	7	(61)
Margin	GWSY by 11			WBUL by 17			WBUL by 11			WBUL by 37			WBUL by 37
Duration	27:41			33:22			32:35			32:03			2:05:41

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Western Bulldogs

Captain: Marcus Bontempelli
Vice-Captain: Tom Liberatore
Coach: Luke Beveridge

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: Toby Greene
Coach: Adam Kingsley

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Ed Richards	WBUL	20	3
Bailey Dale	WBUL	31	2
Marcus Bontempelli	WBUL	4	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Ed Richards	WBUL	20	9	1	1	0	0	0
Bailey Dale	WBUL	31	7	?	?	?	?	0
Tom Liberatore	WBUL	21	5	?	0	?	?	0
Marcus Bontempelli	WBUL	4	4	0	?	0	?	0
Caleb Daniel	WBUL	35	3	0	0	1	0	0
Cody Weightman	WBUL	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
Lachie Whitfield	GWSY	6	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Western Bulldogs

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
4	Bontempelli, Marcus (c)	RR	84%	1	0	22	12	10	0	0	7	11	4	2	0	3	7
29	Bramble, Lachie	HBFL	82%	0	1	15	8	7	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	1
31	Dale, Bailey	HBFR	84%	1	0	27	18	9	3	0	2	3	2	2	0	7	4
35	Daniel, Caleb	HFFR	83%	1	0	23	11	12	4	0	3	3	2	1	0	3	2
10	Darcy, Sam	FF	73%	2	0	12	8	4	1	7	3	3	3	1	2	1	4
15	Duryea, Taylor	BPL	76%	0	0	18	10	8	3	0	2	2	3	0	1	3	2
44	English, Tim	RU	84%	0	0	17	9	8	7	18	2	4	6	0	1	2	5
27	Freijah, Joel	INT	72%	0	1	16	8	8	2	0	4	0	7	1	2	1	1
12	Gallagher, Harvey	INT	82%	1	1	13	9	4	3	0	9	1	4	1	3	1	4
32	Jones, Arthur	SUB↑	67%	1	1	8	5	3	4	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	4
19	Jones, Liam	FB	92%	0	0	5	3	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0
21	Liberatore, Tom (vc)	RO	82%	1	1	24	8	16	0	0	5	8	2	1	0	0	2
7	Lobb, Rory	CHB	100%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	2	0	1	1	0	3	1
11	Macrae, Jack	INT	79%	0	0	23	8	15	2	0	7	3	1	1	1	1	2
30	McNeil, Lachlan	INT	77%	0	1	9	5	4	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1
33	Naughton, Aaron	CHF	74%	2	0	10	6	4	4	0	2	0	6	0	2	0	0
18	O'Donnell, James	BPR	95%	0	0	11	9	2	2	0	2	0	5	2	2	2	2
20	Richards, Ed	WL	80%	2	1	29	15	14	3	0	4	4	8	0	2	2	8
1	Treloar, Adam	C	71%	0	0	24	11	13	3	0	6	6	4	1	1	0	5
2	Ugle-Hagan, Jamarra	HFFL	80%	0	1	13	12	1	4	0	4	1	7	0	3	0	8
23	Vandermeer, Laitham	FPR↓	13%	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
3	Weightman, Cody	FPL	81%	1	2	19	8	11	1	0	6	0	4	3	1	1	1
34	Williams, Bailey	WR	90%	1	0	22	13	9	6	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	4
Rushed					4
Total (23 players)				14	14	371	203	168	59	25	75	50	78	19	23	36	69

A. Jones replaced L. Vandermeer.

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
32	Briggs, Kieren	RU	66%	0	0	14	5	9	3	32	4	2	5	2	1	1	1
46	Brown, Callum	SUB↑	36%	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1
44	Buckley, Jack	CHB	100%	0	0	14	8	6	6	0	4	0	0	0	0	4	0
5	Cadman, Aaron	CHF	76%	2	0	9	4	5	2	0	1	0	5	1	3	1	1
17	Callaghan, Finn	RO	87%	0	0	26	10	16	3	0	2	5	2	0	1	5	5
3	Coniglio, Stephen	WR	78%	0	0	19	8	11	0	0	0	4	5	2	1	1	2
12	Green, Tom	C	82%	1	0	37	11	26	2	0	0	7	7	0	1	1	1
4	Greene, Toby (c)	FPR	90%	2	3	11	10	1	3	0	5	1	4	2	1	0	5
19	Haynes, Nick	INT	71%	0	0	14	10	4	2	0	1	0	10	0	1	3	3
27	Himmelberg, Harry	BPL	83%	0	0	22	17	5	8	0	1	0	4	3	1	10	0
23	Hogan, Jesse	FF	86%	2	2	12	8	4	6	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1
39	Idun, Connor	BPR	86%	0	0	19	8	11	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	4	2
2	Jones, Darcy	FPL	78%	0	0	7	2	5	0	0	3	2	5	0	2	2	3
25	Keeffe, Lachie	INT	68%	0	0	6	1	5	0	21	5	1	0	1	0	0	1
22	Kelly, Josh	RR	94%	1	0	26	18	8	3	0	3	5	6	0	2	3	6
31	McMullin, Toby	HFFR	80%	1	0	10	5	5	3	0	6	2	2	2	0	1	0
33	O'Halloran, Xavier	INT	74%	0	0	8	3	5	0	0	3	0	2	1	1	0	3
20	Peatling, James	INT	65%	0	0	15	9	6	1	0	9	3	4	4	0	1	3
36	Perryman, Harry	HBFR	76%	0	0	18	8	10	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	3
15	Taylor, Sam	FB	99%	0	0	15	5	10	5	0	5	0	3	3	1	3	0
28	Thomas, Harvey	HFFL↓	49%	0	0	3	1	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
8	Ward, Callan	WL	91%	0	1	17	6	11	5	0	2	2	2	0	1	0	1
6	Whitfield, Lachie	HBFL	85%	0	0	42	29	13	9	0	3	1	4	1	2	9	3
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				9	7	367	188	179	68	53	64	35	77	23	19	53	45

C. Brown replaced H. Thomas.

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

Western Bulldogs							Coach: Luke Beveridge
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	H. Himmelberg	15	S. Taylor	39	C. Idun	44	T. English	27	J. Freijah
	23	L. Vandermeer	10	S. Darcy	3	C. Weightman	4	M. Bontempelli (c)	12	H. Gallagher
FORWARD							21	T. Liberatore (vc)	11	J. Macrae
HALF-BACK									30	L. McNeil
	6	L. Whitfield	44	J. Buckley	36	H. Perryman			32	A. Jones
	35	C. Daniel	33	A. Naughton	2	J. Ugle-Hagan
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	8	C. Ward	12	T. Green	3	S. Coniglio
	34	B. Williams	1	A. Treloar	20	E. Richards	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							32	K. Briggs	19	N. Haynes
HALF-FORWARD							22	J. Kelly	25	L. Keeffe
	28	H. Thomas	5	A. Cadman	31	T. McMullin	17	F. Callaghan	33	X. O'Halloran
	31	B. Dale	7	R. Lobb	29	L. Bramble			20	J. Peatling
HALF-BACK									46	C. Brown
FORWARD
	2	D. Jones	23	J. Hogan	4	T. Greene (c)
	18	J. O'Donnell	19	L. Jones	15	T. Duryea
BACK
Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Adam Kingsley

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:56
	WBUL	Cody Weightman goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	02:59
	WBUL	Cody Weightman behind	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	06:56
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	1.1.7	-	2.0.12	08:29
	WBUL	Rushed behind	1.2.8	-	2.0.12	23:53
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	1.2.8	-	2.1.13	26:08
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	1.2.8	-	3.1.19	27:37
Q2	WBUL	Ed Richards behind	1.3.9	-	3.1.19	00:22
	WBUL	Sam Darcy goal	2.3.15	-	3.1.19	01:42
	WBUL	Lachie Bramble behind	2.4.16	-	3.1.19	03:00
	WBUL	Bailey Dale goal	3.4.22	-	3.1.19	04:54
	WBUL	Rushed behind	3.5.23	-	3.1.19	07:21
	WBUL	Ed Richards goal	4.5.29	-	3.1.19	09:14
	WBUL	Bailey Williams goal	5.5.35	-	3.1.19	11:01
	WBUL	Sam Darcy goal	6.5.41	-	3.1.19	12:29
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	6.5.41	-	3.2.20	14:28
	GWSY	Tom Green goal	6.5.41	-	4.2.26	16:53
	GWSY	Josh Kelly goal	6.5.41	-	5.2.32	17:56
	WBUL	Harvey Gallagher behind	6.6.42	-	5.2.32	24:52
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton goal	7.6.48	-	5.2.32	27:46
	WBUL	Joel Freijah behind	7.7.49	-	5.2.32	33:18
Q3	WBUL	Cody Weightman behind	7.8.50	-	5.2.32	00:46
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan behind	7.8.50	-	5.3.33	03:45
	GWSY	Toby Greene behind	7.8.50	-	5.4.34	06:39
	WBUL	Marcus Bontempelli goal	8.8.56	-	5.4.34	08:17
	WBUL	Jamarra Ugle-Hagan behind	8.9.57	-	5.4.34	10:54
	GWSY	Toby McMullin goal	8.9.57	-	6.4.40	13:39
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan behind	8.9.57	-	6.5.41	17:50
	WBUL	Rushed behind	8.10.58	-	6.5.41	19:51
	WBUL	Harvey Gallagher goal	9.10.64	-	6.5.41	25:05
	GWSY	Jesse Hogan goal	9.10.64	-	7.5.47	27:03
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	9.10.64	-	8.5.53	32:32
Q4	WBUL	Ed Richards goal	10.10.70	-	8.5.53	00:20
	WBUL	Lachlan McNeil behind	10.11.71	-	8.5.53	01:29
	GWSY	Callan Ward behind	10.11.71	-	8.6.54	03:04
	GWSY	Toby Greene goal	10.11.71	-	9.6.60	05:10
	WBUL	Tom Liberatore behind	10.12.72	-	9.6.60	09:20
	GWSY	Rushed behind	10.12.72	-	9.7.61	14:27
	WBUL	Aaron Naughton goal	11.12.78	-	9.7.61	15:08
	WBUL	Arthur Jones goal	12.12.84	-	9.7.61	18:25
	WBUL	Tom Liberatore goal	13.12.90	-	9.7.61	20:34
	WBUL	Caleb Daniel goal	14.12.96	-	9.7.61	22:46
	WBUL	Arthur Jones behind	14.13.97	-	9.7.61	24:34
	WBUL	Rushed behind	14.14.98	-	9.7.61	26:15

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