2025 AFL Season Round 2: Geelong v Fremantle

This is the match report for the match played on 15 March 2025 between Geelong and Fremantle during round two of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Geelong hosted Fremantle at GMHBA Stadium. Patrick Dangerfield captained the hosts with Tom Stewart as vice-captain. Alex Pearce captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Chris Scott and the visitors were coached by Justin Longmuir.

Geelong (23.9.147) defeated Fremantle (10.9.69).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Geelong v Fremantle
Date: Saturday 15 March 2025
Time: 1:20 PM
Venue: GMHBA Stadium
Attendance: 25,372

Match Results

Outcome: Geelong def. Fremantle
Score: 23.9.147 - 10.9.69

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Geelong	5	.	4	12	.	4	13	.	6	23	.	9	23	.	9	(147)
Fremantle	1	.	1	3	.	4	9	.	9	10	.	9	10	.	9	(69)
Margin	GEEL by 27			GEEL by 54			GEEL by 21			GEEL by 78			GEEL by 78
Duration	33:55			34:47			32:13			34:41			2:15:36

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Geelong

Captain: Patrick Dangerfield
Vice-Captain: Tom Stewart
Coach: Chris Scott

Fremantle

Captain: Alex Pearce
Coach: Justin Longmuir

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Bailey Smith	GEEL	3	3
Sam De Koning	GEEL	16	2
Max Holmes	GEEL	9	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Geelong

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Atkins, Tom	RR	80%	1	0	10	5	5	1	0	12	2	2	1	1	0	2
46	Blicavs, Mark	CHB	80%	0	0	12	9	3	4	10	3	3	1	1	0	0	3
12	Bowes, Jack	INT	80%	1	0	9	6	3	2	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	2
5	Cameron, Jeremy	FF	89%	4	1	15	12	3	8	0	3	2	3	1	1	0	3
13	Clark, Jhye	SUB↑	14%	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2
45	Close, Brad	HFFL	75%	1	0	15	9	6	1	0	3	0	3	1	0	1	1
35	Dangerfield, Patrick (c)	FPR	70%	2	2	12	6	6	0	1	3	1	1	2	0	0	1
16	De Koning, Sam	RU	78%	1	0	25	15	10	6	18	4	3	5	4	1	0	6
28	Dempsey, Oliver	WR	88%	2	1	15	8	7	4	0	5	0	2	1	1	0	3
39	Guthrie, Zach	HBFL	80%	0	0	21	19	2	9	0	1	0	1	1	0	5	1
38	Henry, Jack	FB	95%	0	0	24	20	4	14	0	1	0	6	3	0	3	0
36	Henry, Ollie	INT	85%	3	0	9	6	3	2	0	2	1	4	0	0	0	1
9	Holmes, Max	C	74%	2	0	24	16	8	4	0	5	7	3	1	1	3	3
17	Humphries, Lawson	BPR	83%	0	1	23	18	5	7	0	1	2	0	1	0	6	6
10	Knevitt, Mitch	INT	68%	0	0	21	9	12	2	0	11	4	3	2	0	2	6
32	Miers, Gryan	CHF	89%	1	1	14	14	0	8	0	6	2	2	0	1	3	2
34	Mullin, Oisin	INT	88%	0	0	6	5	1	4	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	0
33	Neale, Shannon	FPL	84%	1	1	9	7	2	5	6	3	0	3	1	3	0	4
42	O'Connor, Mark	RO↓	73%	0	0	13	9	4	3	0	1	2	1	1	0	2	0
14	O'Sullivan, Connor	BPL	91%	0	0	11	6	5	7	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	0
3	Smith, Bailey	WL	80%	1	1	32	19	13	5	0	5	7	3	1	0	1	6
18	Stengle, Tyson	HFFR	79%	3	0	12	7	5	3	0	5	1	5	1	4	0	1
44	Stewart, Tom (vc)	HBFR	77%	0	0	23	20	3	11	0	1	0	4	1	3	5	2
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				23	9	360	247	113	110	35	89	39	56	24	18	32	55

J. Clark replaced M. O'Connor.

Fremantle

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
24	Amiss, Jye	FPR	86%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	2	0	3	1	1	0	0
41	Banfield, Bailey	INT	79%	1	1	11	6	5	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0
8	Brayshaw, Andrew	RO	85%	1	1	26	8	18	1	0	6	6	3	1	0	0	5
5	Chapman, Heath	SUB↑	41%	0	0	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
6	Clark, Jordan	HBFR	87%	0	0	23	11	12	5	0	2	1	1	1	0	3	1
36	Cox, Brennan	INT	74%	1	0	9	7	2	3	0	1	1	6	0	3	2	0
37	Draper, Josh	BPR	74%	0	0	9	5	4	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	0
32	Frederick, Michael	CHF	81%	2	0	13	10	3	4	0	4	0	3	0	0	0	5
9	Jackson, Luke	FPL	86%	0	0	16	7	9	2	39	3	4	3	3	2	1	4
44	Johnson, Matthew	WL	80%	0	0	27	12	15	3	0	4	3	4	1	1	2	4
30	O'Driscoll, Nathan	INT	76%	0	0	25	11	14	2	0	4	2	3	2	0	0	3
2	O'Meara, Jaeger	C	82%	0	1	31	9	22	6	0	3	6	5	0	1	0	4
25	Pearce, Alex (c)	FB	93%	0	0	11	9	2	4	0	2	0	3	3	2	3	1
16	Reid, Murphy	HFFL	79%	4	0	13	10	3	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	1
18	Reidy, Liam	RU	75%	0	0	6	4	2	1	18	2	1	3	1	3	0	1
13	Ryan, Luke	HBFL	88%	0	0	18	13	5	4	0	2	1	1	0	1	5	0
3	Serong, Caleb	RR	77%	0	0	27	14	13	1	0	3	11	2	2	0	1	7
14	Sharp, Jeremy	WR	92%	0	0	19	8	11	3	0	3	4	4	0	2	2	1
39	Switkowski, Sam	HFFR↓	42%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
35	Treacy, Josh	FF	90%	1	1	9	5	4	3	0	1	0	7	0	5	0	0
34	Wagner, Corey	BPL	85%	0	0	24	12	12	1	0	2	0	4	0	0	7	0
31	Walker, Brandon	CHB	77%	0	0	13	7	6	1	0	5	1	3	3	1	2	0
23	Worner, Karl	INT	71%	0	0	11	4	7	0	0	5	0	2	1	1	0	1
Rushed					5
Total (23 players)				10	9	361	183	178	55	57	59	41	69	19	24	32	43

H. Chapman replaced S. Switkowski.

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

Geelong							Coach: Chris Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	34	C. Wagner	25	A. Pearce (c)	37	J. Draper	16	S. De Koning	12	J. Bowes
	35	P. Dangerfield (c)	5	J. Cameron	33	S. Neale	30	T. Atkins	36	O. Henry
FORWARD							42	M. O'Connor	10	M. Knevitt
HALF-BACK									34	O. Mullin
	13	L. Ryan	31	B. Walker	6	J. Clark			13	J. Clark
	18	T. Stengle	32	G. Miers	45	B. Close
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	44	M. Johnson	2	J. O'Meara	14	J. Sharp
	28	O. Dempsey	9	M. Holmes	3	B. Smith	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							18	L. Reidy	41	B. Banfield
HALF-FORWARD							3	C. Serong	36	B. Cox
	16	M. Reid	32	M. Frederick	39	S. Switkowski	8	A. Brayshaw	30	N. O'Driscoll
	44	T. Stewart (vc)	46	M. Blicavs	39	Z. Guthrie			23	K. Worner
HALF-BACK									5	H. Chapman
FORWARD
	9	L. Jackson	35	J. Treacy	24	J. Amiss
	17	L. Humphries	38	J. Henry	14	C. O'Sullivan
BACK
Fremantle							Coach: Justin Longmuir

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	GEEL	Gryan Miers goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	03:14
	GEEL	Bailey Smith behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	07:00
	FREM	Andrew Brayshaw goal	1.1.7	-	1.0.6	08:05
	GEEL	Jack Bowes goal	2.1.13	-	1.0.6	10:17
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	2.2.14	-	1.0.6	12:22
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	3.2.20	-	1.0.6	17:33
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey behind	3.3.21	-	1.0.6	22:21
	FREM	Andrew Brayshaw behind	3.3.21	-	1.1.7	26:55
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	4.3.27	-	1.1.7	28:37
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield behind	4.4.28	-	1.1.7	30:56
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	5.4.34	-	1.1.7	32:28
Q2	FREM	Rushed behind	5.4.34	-	1.2.8	00:53
	GEEL	Brad Close goal	6.4.40	-	1.2.8	01:37
	GEEL	Max Holmes goal	7.4.46	-	1.2.8	04:54
	FREM	Josh Treacy goal	7.4.46	-	2.2.14	08:35
	FREM	Jaeger O'Meara behind	7.4.46	-	2.3.15	09:52
	GEEL	Max Holmes goal	8.4.52	-	2.3.15	16:06
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	9.4.58	-	2.3.15	18:47
	FREM	Bailey Banfield behind	9.4.58	-	2.4.16	24:59
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	10.4.64	-	2.4.16	26:49
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	11.4.70	-	2.4.16	29:31
	GEEL	Patrick Dangerfield goal	12.4.76	-	2.4.16	32:14
	FREM	Michael Frederick goal	12.4.76	-	3.4.22	34:45
Q3	FREM	Michael Frederick goal	12.4.76	-	4.4.28	00:21
	FREM	Bailey Banfield goal	12.4.76	-	5.4.34	02:05
	GEEL	Shannon Neale behind	12.5.77	-	5.4.34	04:39
	FREM	Rushed behind	12.5.77	-	5.5.35	06:52
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron behind	12.6.78	-	5.5.35	09:39
	FREM	Josh Treacy behind	12.6.78	-	5.6.36	15:40
	FREM	Rushed behind	12.6.78	-	5.7.37	17:23
	GEEL	Oliver Dempsey goal	13.6.84	-	5.7.37	19:51
	FREM	Murphy Reid goal	13.6.84	-	6.7.43	22:29
	FREM	Rushed behind	13.6.84	-	6.8.44	24:09
	FREM	Murphy Reid goal	13.6.84	-	7.8.50	25:47
	FREM	Murphy Reid goal	13.6.84	-	8.8.56	27:09
	FREM	Murphy Reid goal	13.6.84	-	9.8.62	28:36
	FREM	Rushed behind	13.6.84	-	9.9.63	30:38
Q4	GEEL	Tom Atkins goal	14.6.90	-	9.9.63	08:09
	GEEL	Shannon Neale goal	15.6.96	-	9.9.63	09:54
	GEEL	Rushed behind	15.7.97	-	9.9.63	11:32
	GEEL	Tyson Stengle goal	16.7.103	-	9.9.63	12:17
	GEEL	Lawson Humphries behind	16.8.104	-	9.9.63	15:02
	FREM	Brennan Cox goal	16.8.104	-	10.9.69	16:36
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	17.8.110	-	10.9.69	18:35
	GEEL	Gryan Miers behind	17.9.111	-	10.9.69	20:22
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	18.9.117	-	10.9.69	21:18
	GEEL	Bailey Smith goal	19.9.123	-	10.9.69	25:27
	GEEL	Sam De Koning goal	20.9.129	-	10.9.69	27:55
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	21.9.135	-	10.9.69	30:25
	GEEL	Ollie Henry goal	22.9.141	-	10.9.69	32:09
	GEEL	Jeremy Cameron goal	23.9.147	-	10.9.69	34:35

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